Where Have S&P500 Returns Come From?
Our colleagues over at Plexus Asset management in South Africa put out a fascinating study of the history of S&P500 returns. Prieur...
Commerce Retail Sales Data: Beware Gas Inflation
Yesterday, we looked at the abysmal Same Store Sales data (Retail Sales = Hard Landing ?) Today, we will get the Commerce...
Why Are Stocks Falling?
Yesterday morning, Doug Kass gives us his short list of why stocks ought to take a stumble: 1. The price of gasoline rises to a new high,...
Retail Sales = Hard Landing ?
How bad were April Retail Sales today? • Wal-Mart posted its deepest monthly decline in at least 28 years. • The UBS-International...
Forget Murdoch: Yahoo! Should Buy Dow Jones
My Real Money YAHOO/DJ column is now on (free) TheStreet.com site: "If Yahoo! grabs Dow Jones, (pardon the dirty word) the synergies...
Broken Fiber Line
Aaccck! No internet access since midnight last night — Cablevision claims a broken Fiber Optic line. I need to catch up on...
FOMC: Nothing Done
The Federal Open Market Committee unanimously agreed to keep the federal funds rate at 5.25% — that’s exactly where its been...
Word of the Day: Slowflation
While we await today’s FOMC non-action, let’s edumacate ourselves as to a new definition, via Wordspy, we get today’s...