Social Mood Fuels the China Bull"China, despite its 5,000-year burden of history, has emerged as a dynamo of optimism, experimentation and growth," enthuses a Time magazine piece about Chin

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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

It was a slow day on Wall Street as earnings reports dominated the headlines. Technology was the big loser on the day as the Nasdaq shed -1.20%. The weakness was thanks to poor earnings guidance by B

Stock markets, in general, again logged gains last week as pundits perceived economic data to be better than expected. But the recovery path isn't home and dry yet, as shown by declines in crude oil,

Risky assets last week again marched higher to the tune of economic data supporting the argument of a global economic recovery. A realization among investors that the economic transition from recessi

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen has generally gotten horrendous reviews from frou-frou, white-wine-sipping movie critics -- it currently has an abysmal 20% freshness rating on Rotten Tomatoes.Sti

S&P 875 is like a moth to a flame but as Minyan Dougie Kass mentioned to me on Instant Message, it may be too obvious. "Toddster, you may not want to r

1) Loan Demand and the Unintended Consequences of Credit Reform"And I dreamt of a houseHaunted by all you tweakers with your hands out And the headstones climbed up the hills And the headstones

Before we short travel and hospitality stocks or go long in face masks, let’s take a minute to recall the great swine flu epidemic of 1976. It didn’t happen. But many of the same factors