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From Bloomberg: From Cairo to New Delhi to Shanghai, the run on rice is threatening to disrupt worldwide food supplies as much as the scarci...

From the WSJ Private-equity firm TPG and other investors are close to a deal to invest $5 billion in Washington Mutual Inc., people familiar...

It's that time of the week. It's time to stop thinking about the economy and markets and think about anything else. For me, I'...

From the BLS: The unemployment rate rose from 4.8 to 5.1 percent in March, and nonfarm payroll employment continued to trend down (-80,000)...

The Transportation average is a very important market. When the economy is expanding we need to ship more and more stiff from point A to po...

From Bloomberg: India's inflation accelerated at the fastest pace in more than three years in the week ended March 22. Philippine inflat...

Not a good day for economic news. Although the heads of JPM and the NY Fed came out swinging to defend the Fed's help with the Bear St...

Yesterday, Bernanke testified on capital hill. His testimony, which is available on the Federal Reserve's website, offers a good overv...

The markets sold off today, probably for a few reasons. First, Bernanke said there is a possibility of a recession. Crude oil spiked. I...

Continuing with an in-depth look at the averages, here is a look at the NASDAQ 100 On the 14 year chart, notice how far below the late 2000s...

The commodities markets are correcting right now, which means my concern about agricultural and energy based inflation my be easing. Let...

So -- why was the market rallying today? I think Briefing.com summed it up best: The mostly negative news has caused a surge of buying inte...

As I write this the market is rallying hard. Go figure. Up is down, left is right, East is West. Here is another sign of how strong the e...

Over at the Huffington Post, Kevin Phillips has a great piece that shows the length, width and depth of finance in the US economy. Conside...

Every day when I wake up I always ask myself, "what am I going to write about today?" I have no idea why, but for some reason I t...

With the SPYs, notice the following: -- The market was in an upward sloping channel until a bit after lunch. -- The market broke the upward ...

One of the main reasons I have been concerned about inflation is the incredible price spike across a variety of commodities. However, accor...

From Bloomberg: European inflation accelerated to the fastest in almost 16 years in March, heightening the European Central Bank's quand...