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MARKET UPDATE Stocks are flat and taking a breather.  Be advised that today is a quadruple-witching day for options expiration, and to throw a wrench in the machine this is also the start of Rosh…

MARKET UPDATE Stocks are mostly positive… again. The DJIA futures are up almost 0.1% and S&P500 futures are up 0.1%.  Late morning in Europe: FTSE was +0.8%, CAC was +0.6%, and DAX was +0.7%. Asia…

MARKET UPDATE Stocks are positive again this morning on the heels of Bernanke declaring the recession over.  The DJIA futures are up almost 1% and S&P500 futures are up 0.5%.  Late morning in Europe:…

MARKET UPDATE Stocks are mixed today ahead of retail sales data and CPI. The DJIA futures are up 0.4% and S&P500 futures are down about 0.2%.  Late morning in Europe: FTSE was flat, CAC was -0.1%,…

The other day I dropped my five-year-old son Max off for his first day of Kindergarten at our local public school. I must say it was a really emotional moment for me. Watching him stand in line,…

MARKET UPDATE Stocks are down on some fears about an Asian Trade War with China after the Obama administration implemented tariffs against tires made in China.  The DJIA and S&P500 futures are down…

MARKET UPDATE Stocks are flat this morning after five straight days of trading higher.  The DJIA and S&P500 futures are trading flat, while Europe was higher with the FTSE up 0.7%, the DAX up 0.6%…

Stocks are basically flat after the Bank of England kept rates steady at 0.5%.  Both the DJIA and S&P futures are effectively flat.  Nikkei was +1.95%, Hang Seng was +1.05%, and Shanghai was down…

MARKET UPDATE Stocks are trading higher in the US, but only by the hair on the chin.  S&P futures were up 1 point while the DJIA futures were up a whole 5 points.  Be advised that this is an…

MARKET UPDATE Stocks are firm after a long 3-day weekend.  DJIA futures are indicated up 80 points while S&P futures are indicated up about 7 points.  Germany’s DAX rose 0.4%, Britain’s FTSE 100 rose…

MARKET UPDATE Stocks are firm ahead of the umeployment and non-farm payrolls data, but this number is going to be the entire direction-maker of the day.   Today’s volume will also peter out shortly…

Bank stocks surged last week led by huge trading volume of four big banks— Fannie Mae , Freddy Mac , Citigroup and Bank of America . In fact, on Tuesday of last week, these four behemoths made up 40%…

PRE-MARKET UPDATE Stocks have firmed with DJIA futures up 40 points and S&P futures up 5 points.  This is on the heels of a firming overseas.  Asia was mixed with Japan down 0.6% and Hong Kong up…

PRE-MARKET UPDATE Stocks are indicated lower all over again…. DJIA and S&P futures are down over 0.5% after European markets took a tumble in excess of 1% in late-morning European trading…

MARKET UPDATE Stocks are stabilized this morning, alkthough without any serious bounce after two days of selling. In early trading we have both S&P and DJIA futures indicated down about 0.1%.  This…