The Big Picture

Yesterday, Piper Jaffray raised its price target on shares of Google yesterday to $600 from $445 — that’s a 35 percent...

The Fed announced their plans today to “only invert the Yield Curve somewhat,” rather than the deeper and more extensive inversions...

Great column this morn by the NYT’s Floyd Norris: The Wisdom of Wall St.? Sometimes It’s Wrong. Its almost funny that someone...

A belated entry: "Even last year’s lackluster stock-market gains encouraged investors to borrow money to trade stocks,...

Lately, we’ve been discussing the Yield Curve, its flattening and inversion and how its different this time (not). This has...

This can’t be good: WSJ: "Wal-Mart Stores Inc. expects December same-store sales at its U.S. locations to show growth of 2.2%,...

Last week, I showed a 50 year chart of the S&P500, focusing on the P/E over that time period. Today’s chart covers the same...

We previously mentioned how Bullish the Pros were; What about the investing public — how Bullish are they? At least when measurd by...

"Although conventional estimates of the budgetary effect of tax policies incorporate a variety of behavioral effects, they are,...

Terrifically amusing take on Gold, via RaJa’s Jeff Saut: "We thought a lot about gold over the holiday as we watched “The...