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Daily State of the Markets Monday Morning – January 31, 2011   The question I heard over and over again on Friday was if Egypt is likely to be the next big problem for the markets. It seems that the national pastime of...

Daily State of the Markets Thursday Morning – January 27, 2011   A colleague pinged me yesterday afternoon with what he believed to be an interesting factoid. He wanted to know if I was aware that the S&P 500 had...

Daily State of the Markets Wednesday Morning – January 26, 2011   If you find yourself wondering what to make of the current stock market action, you are probably not alone. The leaders have been smacked around pretty good...

Daily State of the Markets Tuesday Morning – January 25, 2011   It is said that Ms. Market can and will do whatever it takes in order to make the largest number of people possible look foolish. In short, this was...

Daily State of the Markets Monday Morning – January 24, 2011   Although the DJIA powered on to its 8th straight weekly gain (thanks primarily to IBM, GE, HD, and WMT), the rest of the market indices went the other way with...

Daily State of the Markets Friday Morning – January 21, 2011   Good morning. After the last two sessions, during which time the stock market has moved in a southerly direction (something it hasn’t done in quite some...

Daily State of the Markets Thursday Morning – January 20, 2011   The popular press was all over Wednesday’s decline as the U.S. stock market put up its biggest one-day decline in nearly two months. Although I am not...

Daily State of the Markets Wednesday Morning – January 19, 2011   Yesterday, we wondered if the news of Steve Jobs’ medical leave from the maker of all things cool might be ‘that something’ the bears have...

Daily State of the Markets Tuesday Morning – January 18, 2011   Having been at this game for some time now, I always get concerned when the masses are ALL singing the same song at the same time. And the bottom line is if...

Daily State of the Markets Friday Morning – January 14, 2011   Good morning. With about an hour to go in yesterday’s trading session and the Dow off about 50 points or so, I took a call from a colleague who sounded...