Ninth Inning, Extra Innings, or Game Over?As the stock market enters the second week of its most famous month of the year, one has to wonder if we’re in the last inning of the game for this pow

When Sony Pictures Animation announced it was producing an animated film version of the entertainingly bizarre 1978 children's book Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs featuring Mr. T as a voice for on

The Chicago Purchasing Managers Index stole the show today and maybe even the bull’s bite. If you aren’t familiar with the Chicago PMI it's an index of business conditions in the Chicago

It was a sleepy Friday on Wall Street as stock prices waxed and waned before closing the day lower by -0.14% to 1042. The S&P 500 snapped a five day winning streak but stocks still had a str

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Once again gold stole the spotlight as the yellow metal outperformed the sleepy stock market. Gold was up 1.58 % to 994.1 just off a high of 999.5, so close to breaking the psychologically important

The S&P was outshined by Gold today as the yellow metal was up +2.54% to 981.50 and the popular index trading in a tight 10 point range for closing down -0.33% to 994. The action was in Gold, as

Doug Noland is 46, but these days, he says he’s feeling a lot older.Who can blame him? It isn’t easy being the manager of a bear market fund when the market has risen as fast and furious

The markets haven’t done much so far. Yesterday’s sell-off and reversal came on the heels of the swine flu news; today’s followed capital concerns for Bank of America (BAC) and Citi

The bears won the battle today, as stocks sold off on comments made by legendary investors Marc Faber and George Soros. Both predicted the bear-market rally would come to an end as companies get set