Earnings season is now in full gear and so far the reaction to reports has been mixed.Strong quarters have been met with buying: Microsoft’s (MSFT), Amazon (AMZN), and Google (GOOG) for example

The S&P 500 rose for a sixth successive session, its best run since June of ‘07, as it and the Dow each ended at highs for the year, although an afternoon about-face on vacation volume mean

Loud Deafening Noises from AIG Shares of American International Group (AIG) exploded yesterday. The move may be attributed to comments by new Chief Executive Officer Robert Benmosche. In a sign of st

This week we've had 3 very similar trading sessions: News knocks the market down in the morning, but it finishes with a late afternoon rally that leaves it unchanged on the day. Monday, it was poor n

Bears and some bulls -- the rational ones -- finally got what they were looking for this week. The market finally pulled back after 9 weeks of advancing. There wasn’t any news that particularly

The market stopped going up -- but that’s only because the closing bell just rang. That’s the only thing that could stop the bulls today. The S&P 500 shot above 902.99, which was wher

Well, it looks like we're going to have to wait until Thursday to see the results of the stress tests; the Federal Reserve and Treasury said they would be held pending challenges from Bank of America

So I’m sitting next to a guy on my commute home yesterday, and he’s drinking coffee. No big deal, right? But he’s taking these little delicate baby sips, and after each sip he says:

Step inside, walk this way, you and me Ben, hey hey!I return to my turret to find Big Ben on the little screen and his words all over my eight other screens. As I scrolled through his vibe,

“How do you shoot the devil in the back? What if you miss?” --Verbal Kint, The Usual SuspectsAll in all, last week was just another brick in the wall. The question we must