Slim gains on vacation volume still sufficed to send the Dow Jones Index up for a sixth successive session as it and the Standard & Poor’s 500 closed at fresh highs for the year. While 1,10

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

The bears strongly believe we’ve been in a bear market rally since March. A “rally” that will suck in the very last dollar before the market plunges once again into a giant bull tra

After hitting its best levels of the year on Wednesday ahead of the Federal Open Market Committee’s (FOMC) communiqué, the S&P 500 Index ran into heavy weather on the realization tha

All it took was a historically powerful stock market move and retail investors are in love with the stock market again. Equity funds brought in more money than they lost for the fifth consecutive mon

A 529 college savings plan is designed to encourage savings for future expenses.The plans, officially known as “qualified tuition plans,” are sponsored by states, state agencies or univer

So you bought a few mutual funds for retirement, to fund a child's education, and to build some wealth. Or maybe you see the S&P 500 more than a third off its highs and you want to take a chance

Minyan Morning Memo One to watch: Walt Disney (DIS) is due to report fiscal third-quarter earnings at the close. Shares of the entertainment juggernaut and world’s biggest media entity have bee

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.Equity mar

Have you seen Hoofy & Boo’s take on corporate family feuds? Don’t the boys on the Beltway know that nobody is bigger than the market? That, while they sold the car cra