Markets

Mar 21, 2008 at 00:00

Prospective Credit and financial flows will prove insufficient for scores of companies, as well as for state and local governments and various entities all along the economic food chain. Enormous…

Mar 21, 2008 at 00:00

First let's talk about the Fed and the hostile takeover or perhaps one should say take-away of Bear Stearns. We have often mentioned that one of the "warning" signs to…

Mar 21, 2008 at 00:00

Buy and hold is dead! The extreme market volatility over the last decade should make this abundantly clear to even casual market watchers, but it is something that good traders…

Mar 21, 2008 at 00:00

Turning to the domestic stock market, the amount of "cash on the sidelines" waiting to be invested has increased again from last week and is now very close to a…

Mar 21, 2008 at 00:00

For the bulls, the events of the past several days have marked a major turning point for the U.S. equity market. Share prices staged their first weekly gain in a…

Mar 21, 2008 at 00:00

The further we get into this developing quagmire, the more people (or their lenders) will find themselves forced to sell whatever they have to try to keep afloat. This includes…

Mar 21, 2008 at 00:00

After an incredibly volatile week for the precious metals, PM-stock traders are very worried. Despite Bernanke's Fed forcing real interest rates even more massively negative, gold plunged. The PM-stock traders,…

Mar 21, 2008 at 00:00

...If the Queen never carries any cash, what does she keep in that stout little handbag...?

Mar 20, 2008 at 00:00

Tell me. On what basis did "analysts" have to predict what the Philly Fed March factory activity headline would be? For that matter, on what basis do "analysts" have for…

Mar 20, 2008 at 00:00

I have been, and still am, a long time fan of John Mauldin (JM). I enjoy his take on the bigger picture, even if there are areas I disagree with,…