I caught Larry Kudlow's CNBC show Friday evening, which included Gary Shilling on the show's roundtable. Shilling said we'll NOT see a pick up in the...

Every so often I try to put a collection of thoughts together as a big picture view of where things will be headed in the next 6, 12, 18 months. While...

Here is a list of sectors ranked according to "percent of 52 week high". Most sectors on this list will...

Oil continued to surge higher this week, but it was a different story for the overall market as traders began to lock in profits following an impressive...

Australia’s Westpac Banking Corporation is in talks to buy smaller domestic rival St George in a move that would create the country’s largest bank with...

Very few people drive down the miles-long highways and dirt roads in the middle of the country to see combines cut grain and fertilizer trucks spread chemicals....

Economic Times: How derivatives were sold and bought Banks made unsolicited offers to their clients and corporates eagerly bought these products with...

The US FRED system has monthly data for imports by the US from China. The graph above shows year-on-year growth rates. NBER-defined recessions are...

Introduction: We al know of the current tragedy normal Burmese citizens are subjected to. Perhaps because we curre... read more ...

Hard Assets Investor submits: By Brad Zigler I should have seen this coming. Feedback from the " Making Sense of Commodity Products " article...

All those cards, flowers and assorted other gifts you picked up for your mom might benefit retail exchange traded funds (ETFs) when the numbers come out....

Few ETFs have been as sickly as the Vanguard Health Care Fund (VHT). It has negative performance returns for 1 week, 1 month, 3 months, 6 months and 1...

Last week we discussed some key concepts in personal portfolio management. The three most important metrics to track for your personal portfolio are:...

As I mentioned in my article "Major Test for the XLF ETF" , the fate of the financial sector would in large part determine whether the market...

As you already know, the market has been in a steep decline since last October. During this time we have managed risk by reducing our exposure to underperforming...

Yesterday's market sell off walked and talked a little like the fear trading that dominated the first quarter of 2008. Particularly the sudden drop in...

From the people who brought you the ABX, now comes the MCDX , a basket of municipal credit default swaps (CDS). The index will begin trading on May 6...

My last post created a fair amount of e-mail response (for some reason not much in the comments), but one Anonymous poster did some work based on Moody's...

I mentioned last week Briefing runs lists of options that deviate importantly from their historical volatility. What I was trying to say is highlighting...

Last Friday our short October USD 25.00 puts on ENERGY CONVERSION DEVICES (ENER / USD   25.59 / YTD – 8,4 %) expired worthless.  ...

It's all about my child... Julian Clary is admiring his new silver deck shoes, a pair of pumps so shiny he can almost see his still-sharp, all my child,...

In the impoverished Ferghana Valley in Kyrgyzstan, illegal coal mining is a dirty, dangerous part of the underground economy. Excerpted from:In impoverished...

Event On May 6th /08 Citigroup analyst Alexander Hacking initiated coverage on Vale/CVRD’s common (ordinary) shares with a US$48/sh target. Company...

Gold is down trending and aiming to break support at first April low (876.5$ for GCM8). The price of gold failed to penetrate the 50% Fibonacci resistance...

Power Marketing Tips : 03 - Write your Top Ten List Why should prospects buy from you? Create a top ten list to answer this question. Print...

As a follow-up to my recent post on the “Best & Worst Airlines: 2008,” I wanted to provide an update on my rant about American Airlines....

Kingdom of Redonda One of the most unusual guests for my radio show, Business in Motion , was the King of Redonda. The bearer of the Crown...

I believe we will continue to find direction in the market with the news due out next week. The Federal Budget is due out on May 12th, posed to reveal...

Steel pennies, really? Ten WORST GAMES. Budget tightening. Photo Story. Negative comments! Symbiosis. Planned Obsolescence in investing? I ENCOURAGE you...

A must read for everyone - this book is a core reading to establish how to invest your money as a laymen. It is divided into 4 sections,...

If you are looking for bigger pockets RIGHT NOW, your concentration should be focused on wholesaling real estate deals to buyers who are looking...

We both have names that are hard to pronounce in Spanish, so in Mexico or Spain we usually go by the names we used in high school Spanish classes: Diego...

Most people in real estate like to think of themselves as visionaries. We tend to have positive expectations and believe that good things will happen....

My daughter Emily was passed down the iPhone I bought when it first came out. It didn't work for me so I gave it to her. That phone developed a small crack...

Great interview on energy markets with T. Boone Pickens from last week's Milken Global conference in L.A. I attended this one, and enjoyed it immensely....

Yeah - that was one of my favorite movies of my youth - I've always loved Mork.  I guess that's part of the reason I moved to Boulder.  The...