What's Hot On TheStreet

Here's what Benzinga's reading on our friend,

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Oracle's

got its man: Mark V. Hurd, the ethics-tainted, staff slasher who was recently drummed out of Hewlett-Packard

. And here's the good part -- Wall Street could hardly be happier.

There's been a lot of talk lately about bedbugs. It seems that they are swarming over the nation. My research indicates that there are two distinct species of bedbugs: the kind that inhabits mattresses and the suitus gluttonus, commonly known as the "overpaid CEO." Like their more diminutive cousins, corporate moochers have been pervasive, much-discussed, but rarely successfully fumigated.

Google's

homepage features its logo made of animated, interactive dots today. When a cursor is moved over the logo, the classic Google colored balls scatter and swirl around the page and then regroup once the cursor is still.

Investors willing to build portfolios at the sector and industry level should study and understand their cyclical nature. Some serve as leading indicators -- outperforming early and lagging late in a stock market cycle. Narrow-based exchange traded funds offer the chance to watch this effect and take advantage of it.