The link between stock prices and oil has been especially high of late, and that has left quite a few traders and experts stumped. For a good long while any impact from oil was den...
With every positive invention, scams invented by unscrupulous operators follow. Here is a story about how one scam came across my desk for two different clients in the same week! T...
How Did the Stock Market Do Today? Dow Jones: 16,014.38; -12.67; -0.08% S&P 500: 1,852.21; -1.23; -0.07% Nasdaq: 4,268.76; -14.99; -0.35% The Dow Jones Industrial Average...
There’s something worse than giving up at the bottom… There’s something worse than watching prices fall as you continue to add on the way down… It’s g...
In what will undoubtedly shape up as the year of Financial Unicorns, Pinterest is among the most likely IPO candidates. Investors should keep close watch on the company, which...
With the “generals” finally meeting their reality-maker, investors appear to be questioning the DotCom bubble-like highs as momentum collapses. “Exuberance has tu...
With the S&P 500 down by 9% on the year by February 10th, we’re off to the worst start since the recessionary year of 2008 (at least on the Gregorian calendar); it’s too ea...
What is “the gold standard?” Many readers would consider this a simple question and perhaps even an obsolete one. It is for precisely this reason that a mere definition is inad...
The story of the post-crisis economic period is simple: The housing boom left the household sector mired in a deep debt hole. This was further exacerbated by the leverage Wall Stre...
The Stock market is at do or die support. With the S&P 500 right at do-or-die support per this chart (absolutely critical, but not particularly strong support), I have done mor...