The Big Picture

. Ugh. Early Monday appearance on Bloomberg TV (US) — 7:10am, which means my morning routine gets disrupted. I’m at 5...

Barron’s ran with Monday’s "Five for ’05" Having spent the weekend reading a lot of other people’s...

Okay, here’s something kinda amusing: Punch the following phrases into Google, and The Big Picture is the top hit: • NASD Margin...

Each year, fund manager Doug Kass steals (Morgan Stanley’s) Byron Wien’s list of unlikely events — 25 possible...

Asset allocators will be sorely tested in the coming year, says a skilled practitioner of the art: Duck and cover. That about sums up...

The S&P 500, even with the recent more aggressive selling, has not scored any structural breakdowns in trend. This suggests the...

The 2004 numbers are now out for CD sales in the U.S., and they are rather interesting: U.S. CD sales rose by 2.3% in 2004; It was the...

I keep getting asked what I expect the number to be tomorrow; Quite frankly, I haven’t the slightest idea what it will be —...

The year end numbers are now out for both Film and Music sales in the US, and they are rather interesting. Each data point contains both...

Rob Fraim‘s contributions to these pages are always welcome. Today’s comments are so amusing I felt they deserved a wider...