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From Barron's (subscription required) There will be a lot of statistics going in both directions amid weak economic growth, says Bob Dol...

From CBS Marketwatch American Home Mortgage Investment Corp. cut its first-quarter and full-year profit forecast by more than 25% Friday aft...

From IBD: Analysts see S&P 500 firms posting mid-single-digit gains for the first quarter, ending a run of 18 straight quarters of doubl...

The Dallas Fed has released a report called National Economic Update. I think it's a very good piece on the economy's current stat...

From Bloomberg: Hiring in the U.S. rose more than forecast and the jobless rate unexpectedly dropped, giving the economy a spark as it strug...

The British prisoner deal is over. Oil prices are now above resistance.

Today is technically Friday because the markets are closed tomorrow. The markets are trying to break through resistance. The QQQQs and SPYs...

From CBS Marketwatch: "Just as the market was trying to digest exactly what this love-fest meant for the energy complex, the Department...

From Ticker Sense: Besides the higher than expected prices paid index in this morning's ISM report, another aspect of the report shows t...

The daily and weekly dollar charts are still weak. Both have the same common bearish indicators: 1.) All the simple moving averages are tre...

It appears the Iranian hostage crisis is over. This event led to a spike in oil prices, which rose above the technically important $64/bbl....

From Bloomberg: Housing is in recession, a factory downturn lingers and companies are cutting investment. Even so, buoyant American consume...

From the WSJ: Western leaders have long had to contend with OPEC, which leveraged control of a large share of world oil trade into geopoliti...

From the WSJ: Euro-zone inflation risks "have not diminished" in recent months and the European Central Bank hasn't signaled t...

From the WSJ: The number of homes listed for sale in 18 major U.S. metropolitan areas at the end of March increased 6.5% from a month earlie...

I was in court all day, so I'm a bit behind on the news. Here are the highlights: Gas prices increase again: Gasoline prices saw another...

Here are the copper and gold charts, respectively.

From IBD: May crude fell $1.30 to $64.64 a barrel on easing U.K.-Iran tensions. That's still up $2.95 from March 22, the day before Iran...

From the WSJ (subscription required): The First American data show that in January payments were at least 60 days late on 14.3% of "sub...

Here is a 4 year chart of Treasury Yields from Incredible Charts Here is some interesting commentary from last week's Barron's (subs...