Tomorrow, I will write a more detailed explanation of what happened yesterday as things sort out a bit, but for today, I have to write the...
As announced yesterday, new U.S. housing starts surprisingly surged just over 22%. According to the Commerce Department, the jump in housing...
This past Monday (March 9), something occurred which had not been present in a very long time- a bit of Monday merger mania. The terms of the Dow...
What occurred on Friday is one of the primary reasons I get into the office so very early. Besides the everyday things I do (this commentary,...
The American Association of Individual Investors (AAII) focuses on the individual investor rather than professional traders or institutional...
OK. Please do not think I am going for a hysteria angle here, but in line with the whole mark-to-market piece I wrote the other day, my mind is on...
For those not familiar with it, the uptick rule was a feature present in the stock market for many years. The rule calls for a short sale to only...
Mark-to-market accounting utilizes a principle in which a value is assigned to a position held in a financial instrument based on the current...
As we gear up for what promises to be a very busy day of trading today, letâs take a break for a couple of minutes and discuss a side effect of...
On Tuesday September 30, 2008, I wrote this: â It is indisputable simply by studying the numbers that a bank run at Wachovia (WB) as a simple...
Once upon a time not very long ago, the term âsector rotationâ meant something entirely different than it did now. It used to mean a simple...
Letâs take a second out away from the banking crisis and political dominos falling to discuss something near and dear to all of us- why if oil...
On Friday, after many reiterations that it was not going to happen from CEO Jeff Immelt, General Electric (GE) cut its dividend on Friday...
Early Friday morning, the U.S. government announced that it is going to boost its ownership of Citicorp to as much as 36% which would allow the...
(I apologize this is going out now rather than an hour ago...my Microsoft Word went haywire for G-d knows what reason) The best performing...
Yesterday, stocks took a big dip followed by a sharp upturn following the news of regulators setting a six-month deadline for the largest 19 banks...
In this era of negativity, particularly amidst the gains of yesterday, here are a few positive signs which hopefully maybe perhaps indicate that...
I was utterly completely wrong yesterday at the conclusion of the blog piece (or at least, I hope I was simply early). The market had an amazingly...
An article on Forbes.Com penned by economist Nouriel Roubini aka âDr. Doomâ posits an idea that few of us dare mention. Is it possible that...
One of the top questions people ask me is this: âwhen you look at charts, do you start the intra-day action for technical purposes at the 9:30AM...
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