Author: Vivian Lewis

Because of the Memorial Day holiday, there will be no issue on Monday. We will be honoring US war veterans by sunning ourselves on the beach, a change from my Manhattan childhood when we used to cheer and wave flags at the...

  “Never predict, especially not about the future” is a wisecrack I attributed to Yogi Berra yesterday. NY reader LM says the remark was made by Sam Goldwyn, a Hollywood mogul. But it has been attrributed to...

Is the stock market growing up?After a couple of days of fear, the markets of the world are reverting to their alternative mood, of greed. Market psychology resembles the limited moods of an overtired two-year-old, although my...

  Today it’s the Chicken Little market. Brighter performance lies ahead because smart money is getting back into the market despite threats of a new Korean War and some hasty bank deals in Spain (which has no FDIC)....

If you go down to the woods today, You’re sure of a big surprise. Today’s the day the teddy bears have their picnic. Sorry about that, but I have been spending the last week with three grandchildren under 8. I think...

  It’s time for Schadenfreude in Britain over Germany, the hereditary enemy in all late-night TV moveis. Here is the Daily Telegraph’s Jeff Randall’s take on the problems of the common currency Britain is...

The time to buy has come. Do not head willy-nilly to the place where there is blood on the street, namely Thailand. But think about some other places that sound more troubled than they are, and some global players’ stocks...

  In a brillian example of “Schadenfreude”, happiness at the troubles of others, Christopher Wasserman, President and founder of the Zermatt Summit, an independent Swiss business business meeting run...

  It is hard to be a technical analyst or chartist these days. What are you going to do with the still evolving figures about what happened last Thursday? Louise Yamada has a bit of advice to her TA colleagues: “just...