Andrew Bary at Barrons.com on the “dividend dearth” and a call for managements to shift away from share buybacks.

Eddy Elfenbein at Crossing Wall Street with a great post on the use (and abuse) of market ratios.

Brett Steenbarger at TraderFeed on the importance of inter-market analysis.

Barry Ritholtz at the Big Picture on why the dollar’s weakness is “both significant and ongoing.”

David Merkel at the Aleph Blog on the risks of much higher inflation down the road.

Laura Mandaro at Marketwatch.com on how it is both Warren Buffett and Carl Icahn came to invest in the railroad sector.

Rick Popely in the Chicago Tribune on why Cerberus Capital Management thinks Chrysler is a “diamond in the rough.”

Bespoke Investment Group on the disparate performance among major financial stocks.

Economist.com reports on competition coming to the ETF marketplace…in London.

Rob Carrick at the ReportonBusiness.com looks at the challenge of ETF selection, this time north of the border.

Mebane Faber at World Beta on the (literal) hunt for gold via Wall Street.

Om Malik at GigaOm.com examines the odds of a purchase of blog-favorite Feedburner.

Roger Ehrenberg at Information Arbitrage on the phenomenal “early success” of Nintendo’s Wii.

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