USA Equity Futures: Look Out Below!
Holy Snikes! Dow Jones Industrial Average futures contract are off 520 points at 11,586;Nasdaq futures were at 1773.25, down 76.25....
12 Investment Principles
Here are a dozen guidelines from Doug Kass. These were developed, according to Doug, regardless of market conditions, as sound investing...
Open Thread: Beginning or the End?
Markets have been in what I call the "orderly whackage phase" over the past few weeks. Off of the top, there’s been some...
How Rational Are Markets?
Rational or Irrational? Efficient or Inefficient? Those are questions that academics wrestle with, and individual investors need to come...
Baltic Dry Shipping Index
Ouch! > chart courtesy of Investment Tools > The Baltic Dry Shipping Index (BDI) is the key gauge of shipping rates for the...
The Apple MacWorld Trade
With Macworld set to rile up the faithful tomorrow, you may be interested in how Apple’s (AAPL) stock has done this week. Is it...
BoA in Talks to Buy CountryWide Financial
>Bank of America (BAC) is reportedly in advanced talks to by Countrywide Financial (CFC). This is in direct contradiction to Dennis...
Stock Trader’s Alamanac: Uh-Oh
Dow is off another 180 as I type this, ostensibly on rumors of Countrywide Financial (CFC) bankruptcy. As I noted in May 2005, while...
Volatility 2008
Giant graphic in the Sunday NYT Biz section on Volatility: You can click thru to see the full article . . . > Source:The Pulse of...