Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) and gold have both been major gainers this year. Â That makes it hard to ignore the notion that the gold trade may have become almost the same as…
QE2, manufactured inflation, pumping more air into the economy… you get it. While stocks are higher this morning, the Dow Jones Industrial Average is hitting a 2010 high. The high back in…
The elections are over and the Republicans took over the House but not the Senate as expected. Today is D-Day for Quantitative Easing or QE2… Decision Day. Now it is time to…
It is no secret that the elections are Tuesday, November 2, and it is no secret that the FOMC under Ben Bernanke will begin the November FOMC starting November 2 and a…
Quantitative easing, or QE2, is coming to a head. What we will see depends upon whom you ask, and the verdict seems to depend on the direction of the wind each day. …
Conglomerates have enjoyed solid performance in 2010 and General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE) is set to report earnings on Friday morning. A market concern and a sector concern so far is that…
Yesterday we gave a straddle and strangle options trading volatility strategy for options traders to play around the unemployment report and around the notion of DJIA 11,000. The market just missed 11,000…
The Dow Jones Industrial Average was all set to see an 11,000 print this morning. After the strongest September gains in most of our lives, the psychological level would have been a…
The S&P 500 and the SPDRs (NYSE: SPY) as the key tracking ETF may have just found trouble on the charts this Wednesday as the DJIA is down over 200 points and…
2010 may be a directionless year for the stock markets so far, but shares of conglomerates are outperforming and more upside is expected. The five largest conglomerates we follow are all higher…
The S&P 500 may be stuck. We’d call it a technical no-man’s land on a longer-term basis. Rather than using the S&P 500 Index, we look at the trading in the SPDRs…
Jon C. Ogg Maybe the markets felt directionless for most of Friday ahead of earnings season, but the trading action of this week might make some wonder if a Double-Dip Recession is less likely. The…
The calls for another crash are becoming more and more resounding. The double-dip recession, depending upon its severity, would certainly help the arguments for a potential new market crash… Imagine the DIAMONDS…
Updated throughout the day. Twitter has, by most estimates, 100 million members, which makes it one of the largest social networks in the world. All major media companies are on Twitter and…
Twitter has, by most estimates, 100 million members, which makes it one of the largest social networks in the world. All major media companies are on Twitter and some have more than…
