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David Gillie: I started learning about the stock market by building and launching model rockets with my older brother. No matter what the shape and size of the rocket or how big the engine was, we knew it was going to come down. We hoped the parachute would open and it would have a soft landing Read more…
Sy Harding: As I have often written over the last 25 years, the Federal Reserve has a lousy record of almost always being woefully behind the reality curve at important turning points in economic Read more…
Stoyan Bojinov: Wall Street was fairly flat yesterday as euro zone euphoria tapered off after the Slovak government fell short on votes needed to approve the region’s $600 billion bailout fund. Chris Walker, strategist at UBS, added, “Overall, we believe the vote will eventually pass, probably now later in the week Read more…
Richard Rittorno: Economic data in the U.S., and financial/political machinations in Europe are likely to drive stock-market performance this week.
Among the statistics traders Read more…
Sara Nunnally: I just put the finishing touches on my presentation for our Money Crisis Survival Summit in Las Vegas next weekend. I hope to see some of you there, because the clock is ticking… Read more…
Corey Rosenbloom: Well, here we are at the well-known Make or Break chart support at Dow 12,000. This is what I mean when I say refer to critical chart reference levels to make objective sense of all the good and bad – often confusing – economic/political headlines affecting the market Read more…
Bryan Rich: Just months ago, Wall Streeters and politicians were cheering that a recovery was well underway. Many forecasters were projecting 2011 to be a big year, with growth to be better than 5 percent — the kind of “snap-back” you might expect following a typical recession. Read more…
Sy Harding: My weekend column ‘The Summer Rally Arrived On Schedule’ was a brief recounting of why the rally was predictable. Is what will follow also predictable? Read more…
Mike Larson: The United States emerged from a grueling 18-month recession just two short years ago, according to the business cycle arbiters at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Yet for many Americans, the “recovery” felt like anything but a rebound. And now, it looks like it’s already Read more…
Mike Larson: Football teams that use the same playbook year after year are virtually guaranteed to lose. Their opponents figure out what their game plan is, they adapt to it, and they shut them down. Read more…
Thomas Carreno: I am switching back to BOT short on the S&P 500 at 1266 for possibly a very long time (ie. most of the rest of this year). The barrage of whipsaw signals during the last several weeks has been somewhat frustrating, but if that was the price to finally get it right with today’s signal then Read more…
Toby Connor: Make no mistake, the four-day rally we just saw was nothing more than short covering in front of the Fed meeting just in case Bernanke surprised us with QE3. As expected he confirmed that QE2 would end on schedule. The dollar (NYSE:UUP) rallied and the market sold off Read more…
Sy Harding: After six straight down weeks the S&P 500 (NYSE:SPY) is down only 6% from its April peak. That’s not near enough to factor all the negatives into stock prices. Those negatives include the rapidly slowing U.S. economy, sharply rising global inflation, plunging global markets as Read more…
Claus Vogt: Four weeks ago I discussed the quickly deteriorating macroeconomic picture, both in the U.S. and internationally. Since then the outlook has corroded more. Read more…
Martin D. Weiss: Major stock sectors are now in a race for the bottom. These are stocks on a rendezvous with their lowest lows reached in the debt crisis of 2008-2009 … sinking back into the danger zone that came with red ink, bankruptcy, and financial ruin for millions of investors. Read more…
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