Author: Robert W. Colby

S&P 500 Composite (SPX, 1,313.80) rose 4.14 points or 0.32% on Friday. SPX rose above the highs of the previous 11 trading days. Trading volume declined to its lowest level of the year on Friday, possibly reflecting trader...

S&P 500 Composite (SPX, 1,309.66) rose 12.12 points or 0.93% on Thursday. SPX rose above 9-day highs and rose above its 20-day and 50-day simple moving averages. SPX 20-day simple moving average (SMA) remains below the...

S&P 500 Composite (SPX, 1,297.54) rose 3.77 points or 0.29% on Wednesday, recovering nearly all of its loss on Tuesday. Stock prices opened lower, broke down below 2-day lows in the first 43 minutes, but then spent most of...

S&P 500 Composite (SPX, 1,293.77) fell 4.61 points or 0.36% on Tuesday. Trading volume declined on both Monday and Tuesday, possibly indicating trader reluctance to chase prices higher in the face of major global...

S&P 500 Composite (SPX, 1,298.38) rose 19.18 points or 1.50% on Monday. Early strength dissipated in the afternoon. Trading volume declined, possibly indicating reluctance to chase prices higher. SPX has retraced a little...

S&P 500 Composite (SPX, 1,279.20) rose 5.48 points or 0.43% on Friday. SPX has retraced less than one-third of its 7.07% intraday decline from its 1,344.07 peak set on 2/18/11. Charles Dow and his followers considered...

“Japanese engineers raced to restore a power cable to a quake-ravaged nuclear power plant on Friday in the hope of restarting pumps needed to pour cold water on overheating fuel rods and avert a catastrophic release of...

“Markets were unsettled by comments from European Union and U.S. officials which indicated that they believe the crisis is worse than previously thought.” —...

“Conditions at a stricken nuclear power plant in Japan have deteriorated so much that there is a growing consensus the crisis is greater than the Three Mile Island accident in 1979, and there are fears that it could get...