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A busy trading week kicks off with Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) posting its fiscal-first-quarter results. Apple routinely tops Wall Street guesstimates, so even though analysts are banking on a 16% rise in earnings, to $2.07 a share, it's likely that the actual numbers will be even higher.

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Do you know what still gets me about the 2008 stock market crash?

Will the recent rally continue? Or is the stock market overheated after a 65% surge?

London -- A British consulting company named Jan. 18 Blue Monday, the most depressing day of the year for workers with Christmas debt, cold weather and far-off paydays.

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Recently, something heartbreaking happened to me: While crammed into a middle seat on a flight from Denver to D.C., I realized that I may neverbecome a great investor.

Stop me if you've heard this one. But the onestock you mustbuy is ... the next Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL), Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN), eBay (Nasdaq: EBAY), and Baidu.com (Nasdaq: BIDU), all rolled into one.