Rewind the movie to before the stock market lows of March 9: stocks down, corporate bonds down, commodities and gold down, emerging-market currencies down, safe havens in fashion, including the US do

I concluded a post on stock markets over the weekend saying: “After equities’ seven-month climb, stock markets certainly look vulnerable for a decline. Two downside reversal days -- on We

Photo by Andrzej Grygiel/AFP/Getty Images “U2 were never dumb in business,” Bono told music journalist Michka Assayas in the book Bono. “We don’t

What’s a Fed to do? We get talk about tightening and taking away the easy credit, but we got the fourth largest monetization on record last week. This week we examine the elements of deflation,

Risky assets remained in favor during the past week, generally helped along by fairly robust economic data and better-than-expected corporate earnings reports. A number of bourses, crude oil, inflati

Editor's Note: This was posted in real-time on our Buzz & Banter. It is being republished here for the benefit of the Minyanville community.Professor Krueger’s excellent Buzz post yesterday

Two of the major indexes rose for a third straight session and unless investors suddenly turn a tin ear to Alcoa’s (AA) impressive earnings, this morning will witness another solid start.

It’s not always enough to be a mere “guest” in a luxury hotel. Wouldn’t it be better to feel like you own the place? Not just the room. The whole place -- and the outdoors as

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

Marking the one-year anniversary of the Lehman Brothers demise, risky assets last week again marched higher to the tune of economic data supporting the argument of a global economic recovery. A reali