Markets

Mar 28, 2012 at 15:15

Last year, "they" were wringing their hands and tearing their hair about soaring food prices and pending shortages. The chart of the FAO Food Price Index is shown below. It…

Mar 28, 2012 at 14:28

UniFirst Corporation (UNF) is one of the nation's largest providers of uniforms and accessory products to businesses of all types. Today the stock is up strongly because the company beat…

Mar 28, 2012 at 14:17

Exchange-traded funds have been all the rage in recent years - they are easy to buy, easy to sell, and often have lower expense ratios than index mutual funds. But…

Mar 28, 2012 at 12:00

PIMCO founder and co-CIO Bill Gross spoke with Bloomberg Television's Margaret Brennan today, telling Bloomberg TV that the Fed will likely shift focus to mortgage securities to keep borrowing rates…

Mar 28, 2012 at 08:33

There is a simplistic old saying in the Financial Markets: "The market is driven by just two emotions - fear and greed" - or is it 'greed and fear'. If…

Mar 28, 2012 at 08:18

Don't understand economics? And the thought of even trying makes your eyes cross? That's what they want. Government, which is an artificial, unnecessary construct has made a concerted effort to…

Mar 28, 2012 at 08:05

The past two months we have seen all the focus from traders and investors be on the equities market. And rightly so and stocks run higher and higher. But there…

Mar 28, 2012 at 07:54

The prevailing notion among the main stream media and economists is that interest rates are rising because of improving economic growth. But like many of the readily accepted tenets of…

Mar 28, 2012 at 06:47

Due to Monday's rally induced by Bernanke, the SPX impulsive up leg off the November lows which was at risk of being completed; the door has been reopened for another…

Mar 28, 2012 at 06:16

USD/JPY's latest bearish reversal is resuming the recent pullback, triggered by a DeMark exhaustion signal, back into support at 82.00 Only a decisive confirmation above 83.40 and 84.18 will extend…