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Daily State of the Markets Wednesday Morning – July 7, 2010   By most counts, the bulls should have run the table on Tuesday. There was some good news to work with, some bad news that seemed to be ignored, and...

Daily State of the Markets Tuesday Morning – July 6, 2010   With the S&P having fallen nearly -16% on a closing basis from its April 23rd high, the bulls will argue that the decline, which has taken on a...

Daily State of the Markets Friday Morning – July 2, 2010   Stocks fell again on Thursday as traders were treated to bad news early and often. The negative news flow started in China, flowed through Europe, and...

Daily State of the Markets Thursday Morning – July 1, 2010   With the month of June going out on a sour note (can you say window “undressing”?), investors are basically left with more questions than...

Daily State of the Markets Wednesday Morning – June 30, 2010   The change to China’s LEI caused investors to hit the sell button early and often Tuesday. It was as if a siren had gone off at the corner of...

Daily State of the Markets Tuesday Morning – June 29, 2010   Coming into yesterday’s session, it was fairly easy to be optimistic about the prospects for a rally in the stock market. The indices were...

Daily State of the Markets Monday Morning – June 28, 2010   From mid-February until the latter part of April, investors could be accused of hoping for the best as they bid stock prices higher on a daily basis....

Daily State of the Markets Friday Morning – June 25, 2010   The debate over whether or not the U.S. economy (or any other economy of the world for that matter) will dip back into recession seems to be the focal...

Daily State of the Markets Thursday Morning – June 24, 2010   Perhaps the most significant aspect of Wednesday’s session was that stocks didn’t crater on either the report that New Homes Sales hit a...

Daily State of the Markets Wednesday Morning – June 23, 2010   One of my favorite rules in the stock market is as follows: Things don’t matter until they do – and then they matter a lot! As a matter...