Hunting for the next iPod
If you didn’t get to go to Las Vegas for the Consumer Electronics Show, you can still see the latest and greatest gadgetry at the...
PMI Peak versus SPX Earnings Top
Chart of the Day illustrates the principle of a market indicator generating a possible sell signal long in advance of the actual market...
Long Chaos
A friend writes: The QQQQ have had a 4% drop from the previous day’s high 259 times in the last five years. The next day, 142 were...
Dividend Math
. Floyd Norris reports “good news for shareholders: the number of negative dividend actions hit a record low of just 64. The previous...
Gift-card effect? Not so much . . .
The $17 billion gift card addendum –about 8% of holiday sales — turns out not to cause a "January effect" as...
Five for ‘05
‘Tis the season for lists, predictions and “best of ‘04” type commentary. . This won’t be one of those. Instead, I hope to...
Chart of the Week: 10 Day Moving Average Equity Put/Call Ratio
With the internals of the market looking so healthy, youmay be wondering what might derail the rally. Technimental’s Chief Market...
Actual US Deficit: $615 Billion
Welcome to the start of the New Year. Lets start off on the right foot, with something incendiary and infuriating: The terrific John...
The Economic Crystal Ball: Cloudy, or Clearing?
.Interesting discussion between John Irons and Andrew Samwick over at WSJ (free) The Economic Crystal Ball: Cloudy, or Clearing?...
New Column up at Real Money (12/31/04)
…My latest Street.com column, "Five Under-the-Radar Trends for 2005" is up at RM. These five are significant issues which...