Stocks Higher into Final Hour on China Trade Deal Hopes, Technical Buying, Bargain-Hunting, Biotech/Gaming Sector Strength

  Broad Equity Market Tone: Advance/Decline Line: Slightly Higher Sector Performance: Mixed Volume: Below Average Market Leading...

Bear Radar

Style Underperformer: Mid-Cap Growth -.3% Sector Underperformers: 1) Tobacco -1.9 % 2) Oil Service -1.2% 3) Homebuilding -1.0% Sto...

Bull Radar

Style Outperformer: Large-Cap Growth +.9% Sector Outperformers: 1) Medical Equipment +1.4 % 2) Biotech +1.3% 3) Networking +1.2% ...

Morning Market Internals

NYSE Composite Index: Volume Running -18.7% Below 100-Day Average 5 Sectors Rising, 6 Sectors Declining 46.0% of Issues Advancing, 52....

Joan Robinson on Poets, Mathematicians, Economists, and Adam Smith

Joan Robinson, in her book   Economic Philosophy (1962, pp. 26-28), offers a meditation on how Adam Smith perceived poets and mathematician...

Jim Rickards: The Fed is Triple Tightening Into Crisis

I’m in Dublin, Ireland, today, where I was honored and humbled to receive a writing award from Trinity College. It’s my job to continue po...

A History of Washington's Debt Ceiling

Monday Watch

Weekly Outlook

Wall St. Week Ahead by Reuters.  Weekly Economic Calendar by Briefing.com. BOTTOM LINE: I expect US stocks to finish the wee k mixe...

29/12/18: It pains me to no end to see America being reduced to this...

I am not a psychologist or psychiatrist. I am not even a sociologist. So my comments below are based simply on my observations as a human b...

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