Author: Michael Kahn

“Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.”- John Lennon I was surprised to see such a high percentage of people voting that the correction was over last week and it was time to...

Fed frees the financials to raise dividends and buy back shares. Stocks go up…..and then give most of it up. And today, when the entire market gapped up, banks were right in there……for a while. Today’s...

I am not smart enough to know all the ways that meddling in the market fails so I am not going to comment on the G-7 and their attempt to stifle the yen’s rise. However, sticking purely with the charts, you would expect a...

Still more time to take the one question survey.  I understand the bias will match mine otherwise you would not be reading this blog but take it anyway —-> Also, if you have not “liked” the Facebook...

survey –> A 10-11% correction takes the market to the November low. If you have a different scenario, please let us know by commenting on this blog...

Some of the news stories in the wake of the Japan earthquake/tsunami were about other markets besides oil, stocks and bonds. How about rubber? The TOCOM (Tokyo Commodities Exchange) is a rather active place and one of its big...

Uber bond fund manager Bill Gross made the headlines this week as he supposedly dumped all his Treasury holdings. Given the importance of Treasuries to all other US debt, it is a bit like running a zoo and removing all the...

The title is more sensational than it probably should be but since I don;t have tiger blood and Adonis DNA I have to try harder.This is the Total Market ETF (a change of pace brought to my attention by Matt Blackman). Big price...

Last summer, when it looked like the market was rolling over in the wake of the flash crash, I was watching the Four Horsemen of the Market – XLK, XLF, XHB and RTH – tech, financials, homies and retail. If they broke...

Today, both oil and gold stocks came out of the gate with gains and fresh new highs. But stocks scooted up to a 74 point gain on the Dow.  Hmmm. Oil did back off its peak But then stocks crater to a triple digit loss and...