Author: Scott Redler

Last week we saw fireworks with the meat of earnings season, as many of our go-to stocks reported earnings and saw volatile action that resolved mostly to the upside. This week’s calendar was not so jam-packed with...

The Fed has long stated its readiness to enter into further quantitative easing to stimulate the economy, but more recently there has been a growing choir of well thought-of skeptics who have expressed concerns over the...

Conventional wisdom says the market has been pricing in massive QE2 since the Jackson Hole Fed retreat, and the upcoming announcement, if it comes in light of expectations, could trigger a strong sell-off. That is a very...

October’s last trading is today falling on a Friday and featuring the advance 3rd quarter GDP reading. After the 8.8% gain for the S&P 500 in September, October looks to be another move to the upside of roughly 3.5%....

The S&P has been hovering between 1172-1197 over the past two weeks, showing indecision and putting in a solid upper range ahead of two important events: the mid-term elections and the Fed QE2 announcement. Right now, if...

The first panel on day one of the World Research Group’s Buy-Side Tech: Global Equities Trading Summit was titled “Examining the Evolution of Market Structure for North American Equities: US & Canada”....

Yesterday one of the big stories circulating around the blogosphere was the labeled anti-Fed diatribes of two top asset managers: Pimco’s Bill Gross and Jeremy Grantham of Grantham Mayo Otterloo & Co. While...

The Rare Earth stocks have been a bonanza for traders over the last two weeks, and now a lot more eyes are on the sector. Rare Earth Resources Ltd (REE) and Molycorp, Inc. (MCP) specifically have been extremely volatile, and are...