While everyone is stuck talking about the one year anniversary of the Lehman implosion and the real start of the next-to-last big leg down in the financial sector, there is a significant development…
Everyone has figured out that the Dow Jones Industrial Average is a more difficult yardstick for the overall stock market because its price-weighted rather than market-weighted. But the S&P 500 Index, and…
Douglas A. McIntyre 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’…
Douglas A. McIntyre Alcoa, Inc. (NYSE: AA) is one of the first stocks that kicks off earnings season every quarter. Today is its actual earnings report after the closing bell. What is interesting is that…
ProShares already has double leverage ETFs for investors and traders alike. It now has launched two new Triple-Leverage ETFs. The UltraPro S&P500 (NYSE: UPRO) is meant to offer 300% of the daily…
We have been large fans of exchange-traded funds, exchange-traded notes, and other exchange-traded instruments which are open for trade throughout the day that are allowed to be invested in just like a…
We won’t go as far as to say that the DJIA and the S&P 500 are directly correlated even after the recent rebalance. However, there is one common notion on today’s weakness…
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 Dow Jones industrial average, or DJIA, is perhaps the mostly widely recognized index in the world. When people talk about “The Market” in cabs and in bars, and on the phone,…
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…
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%.…
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…
DJIA 13,553.73; +71.38 (0.53%)….DIAMONDS Trust (DIA) +0.67%S&P500 1,522.97; +7.30 (0.48%)…SPDRs ‘Spyders’ (SPY) +0.64%NASDAQ 2,599.41; +17.10 (0.66%)….NASDAQ 100 PowerShares…
