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Today was very confusing for traders.  You had a housing number that may have incorrectly gave a feeling that housing is about to rapidly get back on its feet and we had a tame retail inflation...
We are getting more and more caution from technicians and fundamental analysts that bring back the notion and fears of another market correction.  Some are expecting far worse than just a...
The big technical level in the S&P 500 Index was 1,085, but that feels like some time ago.  There is no magic trick on a technical level of 10,000 on the Dow Jones Industrial Average.  But...
Friday marked month-end for January in the financial markets.  There have been many efforts out there to discuss the market’s direction, but perhaps the one issue that traders will be using to...
Qualcomm Inc. (NASDAQ: QCOM) is falling into the category of the stocks we wanted to avoid this earnings season.  That category is companies with mediocre or poor earnings reports after shares have...
We have seen what appears to be a mixed bag of shares listed in the short interest of the most active NASDAQ tech stocks traded day in and day out.  Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL), Amazon.com, Inc....
It is the weekend, albeit a long three-day weekend for Labor Day.  Earnings season is done, gone, bye-bye, but this coming week there are going to be some key events and key stocks to watch...
What happens when you get a pullback after the markets have rallied some 50% from the lows of the year?  Technicians key in with the charts, and much of the market bullishness suddenly disappears. ...
While a market can go from a mega-bear market to a mega-bull market, steady rises become the usual.  But when you see an 11 day consecutive rise and then a gain ‘again’ that would make a twelfth...
Yesterday’s major rally may have brought on more than just the garden variety panic buying seen in prior panic buying waves.  So far we have profit taking being seen early on, but the DJIA and the...
There is a disturbing event happening, and it is one which if gets much worse will take out much of the feeling that the markets have bottomed out.  Today the market index readings are challenging...
Today, Bernanke & Co at the FOMC gave us their rate decision.  The FOMC has decided to the Fed Funds Rate 0.25% to 2% and the Discount Rate by 0.25% to 2.25%. As far as we were concerned, the...
Go back just one-month ago right after all the market malaise.  It was a fairly small crowd that would expect the stock market to be back at record highs in only a four to six week period. Today the...
Heavy construction and engineering giant Foster Wheeler (NASDAQ:FWLT) got some bad news today: it was beaten out by KBR, Inc. (NYSE:KBR) for a project management and front-end engineering and design...
This week there has been more talk of the ongoing attempts of NASDAQ (NDAQ-NASDAQ) trying to win more of the ETF markets by making new listings cheaper.  On Monday, the exchange announced it was...