Author: Michael Kahn

Well, I had two topics that I’ve covered before hence the Talking Heads album title from 1978. Now I lament about doing trade shows and flying to get there. Not that I follow the fundamentals but here is some Peter Lynch...

Blame it on Cain. Don’t blame it on me. Oh, oh, it’s nobody’s fault, but we need somebody to burn. – Elvis Costello ( 1977) – hat tip Imus in the Morning Without diminishing the seriousness of...

Getting nothing but static, getting nothing but static Static in my attic from Channel Z – B-52s (1989) No confidence in Greece over the weekend. No confidence in Italy today. It’s all Europe all the time and nothing...

Johnson & Johnson is a widely held stock and an institutional favorite. It pays a nice dividend and likely will be around for a long, long time. So investors should be comfortable with it, rightTake a look at this chart....

The following was featured in the “Today’s Lesson” section of Quick Takes Pro yesterday. This is where we take a look at a topic in technical analysis relevant to what is happening in the market right now. What...

Whole Foods disappoints and craters after hours while Qualcomm delivers and soars. This condition has been in place all earnings season so far and like the Hindenburg Omen it smells of a fractured market. Fractured markets, or...

Saw this quote on CNBC.com today. The names are withheld to protect the speaker – because the market will punish him/her enough.Analyst X of Y-based financial advisory firm ZZZ says markets have “got it wrong”...

October was hot, hot, hot (but don’t tell that to us here in the Northeast where it is snowing). Was it a bear market rally, the start of something bigger or just more noise in a range that began in the summertime Take the...

In a change of pace from the financial markets I was thinking about the postal service. First, I like my mail carrier and just about everyone in the two local post offices is rather helpful and nice (I said almost all). I even...