Author: Michael Kahn

Today’s theory is that stock markets tell us the social mood. A falling market forecasts problems and the worse the bear the worse the reaction – war being the ultimate expression of foul social mood. Some would say...

Yay! A technical analysis tool worked again! While I may be overly giddy about this one it is nice to see volume call the shots again. Monday, as stocks rose, volume was puny. What, you say? According to the chart it was up...

I don’t have an actual Bloomberg machine and don’t ask how the color scheme changed. But this is the Saudi index two days later – OUCH!  Day of Rage coming March 4. Saudi readers, MidEast readers –...

The Tadawul All Share index in Saudi Arabia, courtesy of Bloomberg. What do they know about the March 11 Day of Rage that we seem to be ignoring here?

I’ve decided I’ve already said enough about the US Scare luggage fiasco and only add that they refunded the luggage fees after sending our bags to the wrong airport. This week, I booked my son on Spirit Airlines....

As is usually the case, after I submitted the column to editing yesterday the market reversed course. However, unlike the last few times this happened, there were technical reasons for the sell off in the first place.  I...

I’d love it if a reader can tell me what this means. Before the last oil run up the spread widened but this time it is...

OK, you caught me lapsing into pop culture again. If you were alive back then, the title is a tribute to Kool Aid competitor Funny Face – a drink mix from the 60s and 70s with rhyming names and a healthy image that...

Today’s Barron’s Online column was conceived over the weekend before today’s stock market decline. Please read it when it comes out at roughly 4:30 NYT and then come back here for additional thoughts later...

Since I am heading off to the NY Traders Expo in the morning, I’ll do the full rant another time. But now I am so tempted to short yet another airline stock for the company behind it. USAir, aka US Scare, is now worse than...