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Happy Friday for Micron Technology Inc.(NYSE:MU) shareholders as they watched their holdings plunge 8% to just under $8 a share.  After a recent run up this month from $7.40 to $8.90 investors are locking in profits to avoid being stuck with the Gollum of the Semiconductors.

How will the reception of MSFT's release of Windows 7 next week? Figures released by Amazon.co.uk in the UK show that pre-orders of Windows 7 in the first eight hours of its availability surpassed the demand for Windows Vista in its first 17 weeks.

Here are some of the new features (from Wikipedia)

Desktop Slideshow
Windows Explorer includes a desktop slideshow that changes the

Bank of America Corp. (NYSE:BAC) may rock the market for the good or bad this Friday, Oct 16th and seeing how the U.S. taxpayer has coughed up $45 billion in TARP funds ($1.83 billion paid back thus far) we all have a vested interest in the outcome of BofA's Q3 earnings report.

Traders just can't get enough of the United States Natural Gas (NYSE:UNG), be it speculation, contango, and most important -- clocking much dollars thanks to natural gas. The Masters turn to H.T. Love (who has a killer headset) and get the latest concerns with investing in the UNG.

Daniel Gross at Slate has written a good article here:

Are private equity firms looking for a quick exit?

The stock market has rallied impressively since this spring and closed above 10,000 for the first time in about a year. The S&P 500 is up 60 percent since the sages were declaring an Obama bear market in March. (In fact, the bottom came precisely when the Wall Street Journal editorial page published economist Michael Boskin's piece "Obama's Radicalism is Killing the Dow.") Even so, investors should be worrying. The rally has occurred as

Crocs Inc. (NASDAQ:CROX) is a momentum stock, its been called a 'fad', labeled a 'growth stock' in 2008 that bit back, but at a time when the market is firing on all cylinders and you can't stop it you have to revisit ol' Croxie.  If you believe the Bull Rally will keep running, buy the ultimate swing stock -- CROX.

Interactive Intelligence, Inc.(NasdaqGM: ININ) is so far overbought, it seems that the Bulls have completely lost their mind.

On Tuesday shares rose 20%, jumping from $19.07 to $22.81 on no news whatsoever.

Yes, Tech may be bullish with the earnings news coming out from Intel yesterday. In spite of that, I can't find any reason that ININ would go up more than it already has. Let's take a look at the fundamentals.

ININ has posted some big numbers as far as earnings growth. Approximately 148% yoy. That's great until you look at their top line Quarterly Revenue

Ford Motor Company (NYSE:F) unlike its rivals is TARP free and its company stock has gone from $1.50 this year to the current $7.70 range and the future is looking strong, or should I say 'Ford Tough'. 
FACT: Ford Shares have Gained back 234% YTD with No Bailout Funds.

Regulators are now honing in on David Lightman and his friends, the bad guys that use high-frequency trading known as naked access, which allows large traders to trade directly on exchanges using their broker's "market participant ID," leaving exchanges in the dark as to their identity. While "flash orders" raised concerns over fairness, here regulators are worried cascading rapid-fire orders could destabilize markets.

According to several sources on the internets right now, Intel is about to report some surprisingly good numbers on Tuesday.

In theory, this should provide a boost to the whole sector. Why not buy AMD on Tuesday and sell before they report their sub-par numbers on Thursday?

Craig Berger, an analyst with FBR Capital Markets, predicted that Intel would report third quarter revenue Tuesday (Oct. 13) of between $9.7 billion and $10.3 billion, better than consensus analyst expectations of about $9.5 billion and above Intel's own revised target of between $8.8 billion and $9.2 billion.