Follow Analysts at Your Own Financial Risk
One of our major themes around here is that investors need to learn to think for themselves. That may be obvious, but...
Barron’s Asks: Bear Market Rally?
In Barron’s The Trader column, Kopin Tan asks: "Is the Stock Market’s recent resurgence just an ephemeral, bear-market...
Financial Sector: Beware LEH, CIT
Every day, we run a series of screens, large and midcap, buys & sells, breakouts and breakdowns. Today, our Large Cap Sell Screen...
Boone Pickens: Speculation a ‘Scapegoat’ for Oil...
Billionaire Boone Pickens, founder and chairman of BP Capital LLC, talks about his investment in wind power, the impact of speculation...
NYMEX Raises Margin Requirements for Crude
Hefty increase in margin rules from the NYMEX, effective earlier this week: The New York Mercantile Exchange said on Tuesday it will...
The Fall of Bear Stearns
If you haven’t read the Kate Kelly’s fantastic 3 part WSJ series about the Fall of Bear Stearns, you are missing out. (I...
Speculators & Oil Price Spikes, Part II
Why is it that market-worshipers claim fundamentals are responsible for equity prices, but speculators are to blame for Oil prices? Bill...
John Authers: Speculators & Oil Price Spikes
"Speculation appears to be changing the way commodity markets work. A debate is needed and changes to regulations may be justified....
Confessions of a Short Seller
Nice Interview with my pal Doug Kass, the "anti-Cramer" in this week’s Barron’s, called " Confessions of a...
Policy Shift: Can the Fed Identify & Pop Asset Bubbles?
Interesting discussion in the FT Wednesday about a potential major shift in Fed philosophy: Maybe its a bad idea for Central Banks to...