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Financials lift stocks but, was the bounce a massive head fake?

Its all about the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), financials lifted the indicies with hope of a FOMC target rate cut by years end.  Volume soared as the beaten down financials came off their lows and led this market.  In the meantime, oil related stocks took a beating as crude oil slid more than 2 […]

Subprime continues to Haunt Wall Street.

Best to step aside and let the market follow-through before you test the waters.
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Victor Davis Hanson - has hit the nail on the head

Carbon Offsets: Paid Penance For Hypocrites
Read on and you’ll see that these Global Warming activists are do as I say not as I do.  If they were so worried about the Earth warming by carbon, they’d cut their consumptions…but they don’t.
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All aboard

No idea why I did this, trying to see how long this train can get!  Read on.
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Earnings Monday

Can the stock market focus on earnings?

Beating the market

10 Fast-Growing, Large-Cap Stocks
Donald H. Gold
Investor’s Business Daily
Where do you stand on the trade-off between a small, fast-growing company and a huge, well-established Goliath? The former offers far more upside but subjects the investor to more risk. Can a young IPO fall to zero? Sure, look at Refco. The commodities brokerage went public in 2005 […]

Years ending with the number 7, interesting results

I picked this off the IBD Forums. 
Interesting, coincedence or not??? Market average returns on years ending in 7. Some of these don’t seem right?? I know that almost all the corrections in the email said they happened in late summer to fall.
  1917  –>  -40.1%
  1927  –>  -10.2%
  1937  –>  -49.1%
  1947  –>  -24.0%
  1957  –>  -19.4%
  1967  –>  -25.2%
  1977  –>  -26.9%
  1987  –>  -35.1%
  1997  –>  -13.2%
This is not a prediction, just a history lesson.  Although we could end lower […]

Another Attempted Rally Bites the dust

We can kiss the second attempted rally good bye!  Brokers are getting walloped from the sub-prime mess.  The market is quite close to MAX FEAR, a credit crunch for individuals and massive losses for holders of these loans is like jet fuel.  This fear is much like the Long Term Capital debacle in the late […]

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