Stocks surged, sending the S&P 500 up for a sixth straight session and propelling the Dow to a 13 month high, after a G-20 host became the market’s Darling for a day. Equities and ironies e

A great market coach, a famous financial blogger, and a dear friend, Dr. Brett Steenbarger recently wrote this piece on trading and response inhibition, which I highly recommend to fellow Minyans.In

A sampling of this morning's headlines provides a snapshot of our task at hand.In Matador City, you've got the world's most famous investor plunking down $44 billion for Burlington Northern Sante Fe

Reality, it appears, is a dish Washington believes is best served, never.Late Friday evening, long after most Americans had shut off their computer screens and turned their attention to more importan

Old habits die-hard and die-hard habits rarely get old. Case in point this past weekend as Bobby rocked the Beacon, the Raiders took a spanking (New York teams have outscored Oakland 82-7 this season

The Cold Play song “Viva la Vida” whose lyrics go “I used to rule the world” comes to mind when I think of Corning (GLW). This is because not too long ago, the New York-based

“Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.” --Albert Einstein We often say time and price are the arbiters of our fi

Online brokerage firm OptionsXpress (OXPS) is set to report earnings on Tuesday and while the company offers an excellent platform for trading, its stock might not make the best investment. When the

National Amusements plans to sell a portion of its stock in CBS Corporation (CBS) and Viacom (VIA) to repay debt. National Amusements has no plans to further reduce its holdings in CBS or Viacom and

Exactly twelve months after its first close below 10,000 in almost four years, changed days indeed for the Dow. Amid seventieth birthday celebrations for The Wizard of Oz equities were all emerald ci