Amidst all the excitement of companies beating five-times watered down earnings estimates, General Electric (GE) managed to lay an egg. Consider GE Profit Falls 45% as Revenue Trails E

Not to put a damper on the party, but anyone else out there getting the feeling we're a little overbought here? Heck -- even Roubini is sounding a bit optimistic. Asian stocks came to life overn

General Electric (GE) -- the company that needs no introduction, unless your spaceship just landed -- is due out with its second-quarter numbers tomorrow. Naturally, the entire civilized world will b

General Electric’s (GE) first-quarter profit took a hit following increased consumer-credit defaults at GE Capital.But the company’s overall earnings decline wasn’t as sharp as anal

The word is it’s going to be a beautiful weekend, but I’m not sure I’ll get to enjoy it all that much. My wife has already given me the “honey do” list, and at the top:

The Cyclical Bull Within the Secular Bear In today’s 2 major financial print-media outlets, Wall Street Journal and Financial Times, you have a remarkable contrast between the academic versus t

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