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The markets are actually holding up pretty well. Notice they all opened lower, but have since been moving up. We may be looking at a bunch...

We're about 5 minutes from the market open. There could by some ugliness or not today. Once the opening bell sounds it's off to th...

There were some fast moving developments in the Bear Stearns situation. Pushed to the brink of collapse by the mortgage crisis, Bear Stearns...

Dear God, people are giving this guy a forum. This time it's the Financial Times: The crisis will leave many casualties. Particularly h...

You'd think that health care would be doing at least reasonable well in a troubled and turbulent market. After all, people are always g...

From the AP If you think the cost of gassing up your car is outrageous, wait until you need to restock your pantry. The price of wheat has m...

I'm posting this a bit early, but I'm off to get my engagement picture taken with the future Mr$. Bonddad. I also have an announcem...

From Bloomberg: Bear Stearns Cos. shares plummeted a record 53 percent after the New York Federal Reserve and JPMorgan Chase & Co. stepp...

Below are three 10-day charts of the averages in 5-minute increments. Notice that all three appear to be consolidating. In addition, consid...

From the WSJ: Retail sales decreased by 0.6%, the Commerce Department said Thursday. Sales went up a revised 0.4% in January. Sales that mon...

From yesterday's import prices news release: Import prices ticked up 0.2 percent in February following a 1.6 percent increase in January...

From Marketwatch: Gold futures broke above the psychologically key level of $1,000 an ounce Thursday, propelled by ongoing dollar weakness a...

One heck of a turnaround in the market today. The SPYs gapped lower at the open, but spent most of the day rallying back. In all, the marke...

From CNBC: Standard & Poor's helped stocks rebound by saying that an end to subprime mortgage writedowns is in sight for large finan...

From IBD: Analysts name the weak dollar as one of the reasons for the hot money that has flooded commodities this year. Since raw materials ...

From the WSJ: For a second straight day, the Fed's plan to allow banks and bond dealers to swap mortgage-backed securities that they can...

From the WSJ: The dollar plummeted to below ¥100 for the first time since 1995 and hit record lows versus the euro and the Swiss franc in As...

I haven't talked about Dow Theory in awhile. Dow theory is one of those really, common sense theories. It goes like this. If the econ...

How quickly the market forgets.... The SPYs rose through the early morning, but retreated before lunch and continued correcting until the cl...

From Marketwatch: There is a marked difference between economic growth and debt-induced demand. Instead of letting the market take its medi...