The stock market continued its bull charge this week trampling some of the big hedge funds and anyone crazy enough to be short based on economic fundamentals. Even with an anemic job growth number reported last Friday morning, the market …
The big news this week was the Greeks (for now) agreed to austerity measures in order to get bailout loans, saving the country from default and keeping it in the European Union. Also helping to cap off a rare 5% …
To the surprise of many and under the influence of bad economic reports, 28 countries led the US to agree to release oil from their rainy day (strategic reserves) stash of crude oil to ease the economic suffering around the …
The markets teetered and then stabiized as Germany finally coughed up a few bucks (with a little help from France) to keep Greec part of the EU. Another too big to fail scenario as many European and US banks are …
While the Media and Capitol Hill hyper-focused on Weiner's wiener, the stock market continued to falter at an accelerated rate. With QE2 coming to it end and the economy stalling, the stock market has fallen for 6 weeks straight. Adding …
Consumer Confidence rose in May as the US consumer said "never mind" about the housing mess. Last month's cheaper gas prices left many feeling better about driving from their foreclosed homes to the mall.
By the week's end, the market …
Please excuse the delay in getting our weekly commentary to you but I was in a bit of a quandary. Spend my last day on earth writing commentary to potentially non-existent readers or spend my last day on earth at …
Please excuse the delay in getting our weekly commentary to you but I was in a bit of a quandary. Spend my last day on earth writing commentary to potentially non-existent readers or spend my last day on earth at …
This week's notable event was that Galleon Hedge Fund founder, Raj Rajaratnam was convicted on all 14 counts of insider trading. One of the richest people on earth and certainly the richest Sri Lankan was educated at Wharton Business School. …
There were many conflicting reports about Osama bin Laden, the world's most feared terrorist and his death/whereabouts. First, the Colbert Report stated that as a result of his burial at sea, he was promptly eaten by a radioactive great white …