The Big Picture

Markets historically do well during presidential election years. In the event an incumbent loses, we tend to see a post election rally,...

Google priced 24.6 million shares of its IPO at the astounding level of $100+ dollars. That’s $3.3 billion worth of stock —...

CBS MarketWatch has a terrific round up of all the political activity at the Democratic Convention in Boston this week, specifically...

As the Democratic convention gets underway this week, the WSJ raises what may be a crucial issue for the Presidential challenger in the...

Ren Bucholz is a San Franciscan who works for the Electronic Frontier Foundation. His recent graphic on VCL’s (Voluntary Collective...

Nothing like a little political discussion to spice things up on a rainy Saturday morning. In an attempt to add some empirical facts to a...

Yesterday’s technical talk got picked up by Dow Jones Market Talk right at the Bell: 07/22 4:00P (DJ) DJ MARKET TALK: Equity...

Despite the industry’s stalking horse obsession with P2P — the technology they both fear and fail to understand — the...

A quick heads up: I just got tagged for Kudlow & Cramer tonite, 5:10 pm, CNBC. We will be 2nd up on the show. The subjects will be...

We use technicals as a key component of our market timing model. Although the charts very much color our thinking about where the markets...