The Big Picture

.A heads up: I’ll be appearing on Fox today: Cavuto on Business @ 4:10pm EST. The topics include merger mania, The Fed, and...

We have previously described the Fed as having painted themselves into a corner. Their desire has been to avoid smothering the nascent...

Technimental’s Doug Lomma notes that the weakened internal picture and various broken support levels on the major indices makes it...

Merging these two firms together makes very little sense to me. Why? They are 2 players in a commodity business, engaged in a 5-way price...

This chart is from CNN’s website. Gas prices around the world (in US dollars per gallon). Pretty astonishing collection of...

Here are a few items from earlier this week worth following up on: • The latest "Apprentice Investor" column is up, and it...

We’ve had a few cynical comments on the GM / Kerkorian affaire. John Mauldin has an interesting and opposing take. Its worth seeing...

Interesting Bullish chart from Helene Meisler: Click for larger chart Helene writes: "And now we have yet another ‘there are...

We last looked at what Charlie Minter and Marty Weiner had to say in Risk is on the Rise. Long Term Investors Can...

The Stock Trader’s Almanac: MARKET TALK: A Little Something For The Bears… The Stock Trader’s Almanac has issued an...