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From the WSJ: China's consumer prices surged by 7.1% in January, exacerbating the dilemma for policymakers who face both weakening globa...

I've written this title a bunch over the last few months, largely in response to a story of a few commodities hitting new highs. Howeve...

The markets are closed today. I'm going to catch-up and hopefully get a bit ahead on school work. Or I'll get sucked into the Law ...

From an information perspective, we really don't get that much. First, the markets are closed on Monday for President's day. Wednesd...

For the last week I used longer charts to clear out the noise and show the market was consolidating for the week. That's what I'm g...

The markets will soon be closed. So that means its time to stop thinking about the economy and the markets for now. Usually I have picture...

I've done a great deal of complaining about the overall conditions in the financial markets but I haven't offered any solutions. So...

From the BLS: The U.S. Import Price Index increased 1.7 percent in January, the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor r...

Bernanke spoke to Congress yesterday. Here are some key points from his speech. As the concerns of investors increased, money center banks...

Greenspan is in the news again. Now he thinks the US is almost in a recession. From now on all news reports that even mention Greenspan...

The markets resumed their up/down I have no idea where I'm going pattern again today. The SPYS consolidated a bit at the opening, but th...

From Marketwatch: Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said Thursday the central bank was ready to cut interest rates further if fresh sign...

I am not a big fan of line charts. I think candlestick charts give us far more useful information. But sometimes you need to use a differe...

From the WSJ: The banking industry, struggling to contain the fallout from the mortgage debacle, is urgently shopping proposals to Congress ...

From Marketwatch: Chocolate makers, already beset by escalating dairy prices, are likely to encounter a bittersweet Valentine's Day. The...

As I've done all week, I want to back up use a longer time frame to show the market. The bottom line is I'm just not happy with the...

From the Census Bureau: The U.S. Census Bureau announced today that advance estimates of U.S. retail and food services sales for January, ad...

From Bloomberg: The Federal Reserve's interest-rate cuts last month have failed to lower borrowing costs for many companies and househol...

From Bloomberg: The Bank of England raised its inflation forecast and signaled policy makers may need to keep interest rates higher than inv...

Let's take a look at the Treasury market to see what the charts say. But first, here are the main events that move the Treasury market: ...