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Daily State of the Markets Friday Morning – November 5, 2010   After a brief hiatus filled with lots of intraday volatility but virtually no price progress, traders could be heard yelling “game back on” yesterday in...

Daily State of the Markets Thursday Morning – November 4, 2010   After all the endless discussion, analysis, and hand wringing over both the mid-term elections and the size and duration of the Fed’s latest plan to pick up...

Daily State of the Markets Monday Morning – November 1, 2010   Publishing Note: I am traveling on Tuesday morning and will not publish an early report. Daily State of the Markets reports will return on Wednesday. Good morning....

Daily State of the Markets Friday Morning – October 29, 2010   In case all of the up-down, down-up, and then back down (or up) action hasn’t tipped you off already, we’re going to suggest that traders are now engaged...

Daily State of the Markets Thursday Morning – October 28, 2010   Although there seems to be some question as to whether or not Senator Everett Dirksen ever actually spoke the words, “A billion here, a billion there, and...

Daily State of the Markets Tuesday Morning – October 26, 2010   Stocks rallied out of the gate again Monday morning for the usual reasons – good earnings, good data, a falling dollar, and oh, I almost forgot, the fact that...

Daily State of the Markets Monday Morning – October 25, 2010   On one hand, days in which data input is limited or nonexistent can be viewed as a waste of time as these sessions are about as interesting as watching paint dry. On...

Daily State of the Markets Friday Morning – October 22, 2010   Sorry to complain on a Friday morning, but one of my biggest pet peeves with the popular market media is their inability to explain why things happen in the stock...

Daily State of the Markets Thursday Morning – October 21, 2010   If you classify yourself as a bear these days, you probably found yourself cursing, pounding the table, and throwing things at your screen by the time the lunch...

Daily State of the Markets Wednesday Morning – October 20, 2010   In case you haven’t noticed, I find that there is usually a well worn Wall Street cliché available to fit just about every situation. But the trouble this...