If you like the car, will you love the company?

When it comes to Ford Motor Co. (F), a Canadian car dealer bet a month’s sales on that premise.

Rose City Ford dealership owner John Chisholm offered 100 shares of Ford stock to anyone who bought a new or used vehicle from the dealership during the month of November, the Windsor Star newspaper reported. Chisholm, the president and general manager of Rose City, said he got the idea from a General Motors Co. (GM) dealership in Texas that offered GM shares for each vehicle sold. So Chisholm opted to try it in Windsor, the Ontario, Canada city where Ford has both a long history and deep community roots.

“What a great way to show our confidence in the company,” Chisholm, who employs 80 at a

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[“Hot Stocks” is a new Money Morning feature that analyzes the investment outlook of global companies that are in the news. This is the eighth installment of this ongoing investment series.] Money Morning Staff Reports If you like the car, will you love the company? When it comes to Ford Motor Co. (F), a Canadian car dealer bet a month’s sales on that premise. Rose City Ford dealership owner John Chisholm offered 100 shares of Ford stock to anyone who bought a new or used vehicle from the dealership during the month of November, the Windsor Star newspaper reported. Chisholm, the president and general manager of Rose City, said he got the idea from a General Motors Co. (GM) dealership in Texas that offered GM shares for ...

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The FBI is investigating FRE, FNM and AIG. It wouldn’t take a genius to figure out that they’re looking for--fraud and massive cover-ups. While the scope of all this is unknown I feel like I’m back in 2003 waiting for executives at Enron, WorldCom and Tyco, to name a few, get carted off to the hoosegow. Greed has a short memory. The inbox is full of mail from yesterday’s posting and basically everyone is of the same mind--this proposed bailout deal has a lack of disclosure. The president speaks tonight and perhaps he’ll clue us all in. The big news initially today was another slick Warren Buffett deal whereby he gets a stake in Goldman Sachs and a 10% preferred dividend with warrants attached to convert to equity. Is this a good thing? It is for him period. ...

We were all misled by the assurances of 'experts' over this crisis, says Gary North in The Daily Reckoning. The $700 billion Paulson plan will not be the last bailout. And the ever-growing national debt will never be paid off with the US dollar at its present value. Gary says it is time to name and shame those who tried to deceive us...

It's raining locusts and fire today, as the Republicans bail out another financial giant. Will ETFs bear the brunt of this socialism?

There you go...I'm just doing my best to duplicate Hougan's sham headline on a SUREFIRE WAY TO MAKE TONS OF MONEY in this market. And then he goes and writes a lamo tax-loss-harvesting article.

First of all can I get in a "What's good for AIG is good for America!" here just to get that out of my system?  Congratulations American taxpayers, you are all now proud shareholders in AIG.  They don't call it AMERICAN International Group for nothing. 

Second - IS it lights outs for ETFs and ETNs? It appears not.  But there IS one big potential lesson to be gleaned from the last week's insanity.  And that lesson is one about...sector exposure.

You'd have trouble convincing me that the stock market is driven by ivory tower concepts

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This post is a guest contribution by Bennet Sedacca*, President of Atlantic Advisors Asset Management

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It was another ugly day yesterday. While a test of S&P 1400 looms, something blogged about over the weekend, and may come as early as tomorrow morning; an oversold bounce is not out of the question, BUT that will largely depend upon the news of the coming days and how open interest looks on indexes going into expiration Friday. Interestingly, the market is also on the verge of another dubious milestone - a 10% decline, or the first 10% correction in the 4 year old bull market which could happen tomorrow.