1) Good News: We're Halfway There!I've been following an analog that a friend passed along several months ago comparing our current market juncture to the 1930s. The chart below shows the stock marke

1) Incoming! Data Watch for the Week Ahead It's relatively quiet on the data front with just a couple of things to watch this coming week: Housing Starts this Tuesday, the Federal Reserve Open M

If there's anything to be learned from the unwinding of this credit bubble, it's this simple reminder: The amount we do not know about our instinctual motivations to herd and swarm -- even in si

Kevin Depew's daily Five Things You Need to Know to stay ahead of the pack on Wall Street: Some "Interesting" Datapoints... Debt Crisis vs. Liquidity Crisis... Why Now?... The Fed Should

Monday, July 7EconomicsEarnings Before: MERXAfter: Events Finance Asia Korea Offshore Investment ConferenceTuesday, July 8Economics 10:00 Pending Home Sales: -2.8% cons, 6.3% prior10:00 Wholesale

I travel to New York frequently and while I'm there I can't help but think about what made the city what it is today. It's the nostalgia of days gone by that really gets my blood pumping and puts an e

“This is one ‘mother’ of a market,” wrote 84-year old market veteran Richard Russell of Dow Theory Letters, aptly describing what market participants were again faced with duri

Morning Perspective: Today’s Crops Report According to FT, U.S. farmers will have a general idea of which crops to plant when the U.S. Department of Agriculture publishes it's Prospective Planti

Good morning and welcome back to aces wild. For the first time in history, the four top seeds have advanced to the final throws of March Madness. One week from tonight, UCLA, Kansas ,

There were two interesting articles I read over the weekend from the Financial Times, click below to read them.  SEC's new guidance to stop short of suspending 'fair value' rules.