A Keen Eye for the Obvious

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The silver lining for Monday is that some order is returning to the stock market. Declines aren’t triggering stop-losses and margin calls that send stock prices … Read more

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Performance Review

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When there’s a lot of uncertainty in the financial markets, traders don’t like to hold positions over the weekend. Too much can happen that might lead to losses. So… Read more

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Election Opportunities

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Looking back, investors should feel pretty good about the stock market’s performance last week. We saw: a massive 890 point rally, two consecutive up days to end the week,… Read more

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Earnings Risk

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How high do we think the Dow can run? I’m sure we’d all like to see recent losses reversed. But that fact is, our banking system has changed in… Read more

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Argentina’s Potential Default

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I know it may seem like a horrible Halloween prank, but stocks may stay volatile for another 2 weeks.

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9% Unemployment Coming?

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Like many of you, I was around for the bear market of 2001-2002. The summer of 2002 was unlike any sell-off I’d ever seen. I thought the 1,944 point… Read more

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Daily News Links: October 15, 2008

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A round-up of the news that’s moving the market.

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Fear and Greed

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The fact that it wouldn’t be good for my blood pressure aside, do we really think that stocks can simply move back to their prices of a few weeks… Read more

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Global Recession?

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Now that was a good old-fashioned rebound. The Dow Industrials jumped a record 936 points, or 11%. The NASDAQ was up 195 points.  Of course, with the bond market… Read more

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