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Equities: As I mentioned this morning, watch the rebound from the lows to see where stocks hit resistance. Then see if they retest lows or ...

From the NY Fed: The August Empire State Manufacturing Survey indicates that conditions for New York manufacturers continued to worsen...

Consumer Spending: There were two news releases in this area of the economy. First, retail sales surprised to the upside , printing a .5% in...

Last week, I wrote the following about the markets: The volume, price action and confluence of price action with fundamental events is a ...

- by New Deal democrat Usually this blog goes quiet over the weekend. Bonddad and I were talking last night, however, and among other...

- by New Deal democrat From this morning's NY Times article : "Administration officials, frustrated by the intransigence of ...

- by New Deal democrat Within the last week there has been some discussion as to whether Europe is on the verge of a massive bank fail...

- by New Deal democrat With consumer confidence plummeting, several bloggers have pointed out that such a plunge usually coincides wit...

- by New Deal democrat There was little monthly data released this week, but there were two very big numbers - in opposite directions. ...

The above chart is a 10-day, 5-minute chart of the SPYs. Notice that from Monday through Thursday we have a rounding bottom. Now we...

Earlier this year, NDD noted that Washington was a big negative wild card for the economy. Not being that politically astute I read over th...

Last week I didn't write on the dollar, instead focusing on the turmoil in the market. Since the last time I wrote about the dollar we...

Earlier today I looked at the stock market. Let's look at the other, more conservative side of the investment coin -- the bond market. ...

- by New Deal democrat I've had drafts of several lengthy pieces prepared discussing the fundamentals of the US economy, but inste...

The above chart is a weekly chart of the SPYs with two sets of Fibinacci levels. But use the early 2009 lows but one top is from late...

Last week, I wrote the following about the oil market: The next key level of support is 90/bbl. Should prices move lower, we'll have ...

From the WSJ: Can China rebalance away from investment and toward domestic consumption as the main engine of growth? Yes, but with grea...

From the Financial Times: “The US electrical grid has been plagued by ever more and ever worse blackouts over the past 15 years,’’ accor...

- by New Deal democrat Both the King of All Doomers and the Pied Piper of Doom have triumphalist pieces up this morning. If their p...

Let's take an in-depth look at gold to get a better idea for the safety bid in the market. Above is a three year chart of the GLD...