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Daily State of the Markets Monday Morning – June 7, 2010   If someone walked up to you on the street and told you that the economy had created a total of 431,000 jobs in the month of May, you couldn’t really be blamed for...

Daily State of the Markets Friday Morning – June 4, 2010   After spending nearly every waking moment since April 26th focused on the macroeconomic issues relating to the debt mess in Europe, it appears that traders may be...

Daily State of the Markets Thursday Morning – June 3, 2010   The only problem with a day like Wednesday is everyone knows that while the computers giveth, they can also taketh away. So, after three weeks of intense volatility,...

Daily State of the Markets Wednesday Morning – June 2, 2010   One of my more cynical colleagues called me just after the close on Tuesday and wanted to know what I had heard about the latest late-day plunge in the market. He...

Daily State of the Markets Tuesday Morning – June 1, 2010   From where I sit, perhaps the most important question stock market investors need to ask on a day like Friday is if the action really counts. The question becomes even...

Daily State of the Markets Friday Morning – May 28, 2010   There are times when it is indeed difficult to see the forest for the trees. In short, with the high frequency trading games being played over the past couple of weeks,...

Daily State of the Markets Thursday Morning – May 27, 2010   Yesterday morning, we talked about the concept of asking the right questions when trying to determine the driving forces behind the stock markets movements. So with...

Daily State of the Markets Wednesday Morning – May 26, 2010   When in the midst of a waterfall decline such as we’ve seen over the past month, it is easy to become disengaged from the bigger picture environment and to...

Daily State of the Markets Tuesday Morning – May 25, 2010   Is it just me, or is anybody else beginning to get annoyed by the triple-digit moves in the last fifteen minutes of the day? For those of you keeping score at home, the...

Daily State of the Markets Monday Morning – May 24, 2010   It’s time to take sides, to pick your team, and to commit to a game plan. In short, investors must make a decision and make it fast: Are you a chartist looking for...