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Daily State of the Markets Thursday Morning – January 21, 2010   Good morning. Stocks struggled through their roughest outing of the year on Wednesday in response to worries about the Chinese putting the clamps on lending, more...

Daily State of the Markets Wednesday Morning – January 20, 2010   Good morning. Stocks rallied unexpectedly on Tuesday in response to the possibility that Republican Scott Brown could win the special Senate election in...

Daily State of the Markets Tuesday Morning – January 19, 2010   Good morning. There are really two ways to look at the first triple-digit decline of the year that occurred on Friday. First, the bulls will argue that after an...

Daily State of the Markets Friday Morning – January 15, 2010   Good morning. As a long-time baseball and softball coach, I have probably yelled the words “creep step” to the team’s infielders tens of thousands of times over the...

Daily State of the Markets Thursday Morning – January 14, 2010   Good morning. Yes, the nation’s investment bankers took a beating yesterday in front of the new Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission. And yes, the President is...

Daily State of the Markets Wednesday Morning – January 13, 2010   The bears were finally able to gain some traction yesterday as the move out of China, some weak earnings news, and the President’s latest tax idea converged to...

Daily State of the Markets Tuesday Morning – January 12, 2010   By most accounts, Monday’s round probably should have gone to our friends in fur. After running higher since the middle of December, stocks have become overbought,...

Daily State of the Markets Monday Morning – January 11, 2010   Good morning. According to the old Wall Street saw, “As the first five days go, so goes January.” Then when you combine that with, “As January goes, so goes the...

Daily State of the Markets Friday Morning – January 8, 2010   Good morning. Yesterday morning we opined that the market felt like it wanted to go higher. And after opening lower and waffling for much of the day, higher is where...

Daily State of the Markets Thursday Morning – January 7, 2010   Good morning. Trying to interpret the message the market may or may not be sending on any given day can be a very tricky business – especially when the markets...