Wal-Mart dumps cold water on U.S. economic bulls
Wal-Mart to Mega Bulls: Umm, sit down a moment — can we talk? The retailing giant not only missed the Street’s third-quarter...
Momentum, Value, Stimulus & Earnings
After 3 lackluster days of modest selling, the Bulls reasserted themselves yesterday. The markets’ strong up day was on moderate volume...
Insider trading & Martha
Corp Law Prof Bainbridge has a rant about why Martha Stewart has not committed insider trading. Its a good piece, filled with solid...
Oil Prices Approaching Resisitance
Crude prices are approaching a critical level; NYMEX Crude has — quietly — risen 15% since its early Autumn price of $27. Its...
Digestion or Indigestion?
After a healthy run up in the indices, the markets have been churning, unable to make much upwards progress. This lack of progress has...
Charts of the Week: Payroll vs GDP
Payrolls rise for the 3rd consecutive month; Net job creation will start occurring when the change in payrolls is plus 200,000. Change in...
Striking Oil: Another Puzzle
Last week, I referenced an article — “Need a New Barometer for Stocks? Try the Price of Oil” — which discussed...
Lies, Errors, Statistics
Barrons Gene Epstein makes an interesting observation regarding the recent jobless stats. He notes that extrapolating these numbers from...
Follow Up to Forbes on Fox
Forbes on Fox went pretty well — too short to intelligently discuss equities — and they came in way too close — so I...
Forbes on Fox
I will be appearing this weekend on Forbes on Fox. 11:00am – 11:30am Saturday Morning November 8, 2003. Its on right after Cavuto...