Editor's Note: The following article was written by Raymond James Chief Investment Strategist, Jeff Saut. It has been reproduced with permission for the benefit of the Minyanville community.Las

Absent an eve of Halloween horror show, stocks will avoid a red October after snapping a recent slide in emphatic fashion on GDP figures which showed the worst recession since the Second World War is

King Dollar looks more and more like the court jester. The currency fell to a 14-month low last week. In fact, the US dollar index is now off more than 15% from its March high. More to the point, som

I've received hundreds of emails from readers with questions regarding establishing long-term core positions at a low-cost basis from which to trade, as well as methods to build upon them during the

Editor's Note: The following article was written by Raymond James Chief Investment Strategist Jeff Saut. It has been reproduced with permission for the benefit of the Minyanville community.The Dow Jo

Equity markets had their biggest rally this year after Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke outlined steps to fix the banking industry in a morning address. His remarks, delivered to the Counci

What a day it was for the market. Turnaround Tuesday definitely lived up to the hype.Citigroup (C) came out and said they had 2 profitable quarters through the first 3 months of this year; all the ba

The stock market is on a tear this morning on the heels of a statement by CEO Vikram Pandit that Citigroup (C) has a profit for the first 2 months of 2009. In a letter sent to employees Monday,

1) Now It's the Economists' TurnWe knew this was only a matter of time."The downturn exposes the decline of economic expertise," Newsweek observes in the March 16 issue. "Think of all

Methodology is destiny when conducting a study. A study conducted by San Diego’s Utility Consumers’ Action Network, which purports to show cell-phone users pay an average of $3.02 a minut