WEEK IN REVIEW
No Man is an Island ECN The name of everybody’s old pal Robert E. (“You have a friend…
SOMETIMES BAD NEWS IS GOD NEWS
As if investors didn’t have enough to worry about, what with the Federal Open Market Committee meeting this…
MEDICINE TO MAKE THE LANDING SOFT
Everybody is crystal-balling an interest rate hike this week by the Federal Reserve to nip inflation before it…
WEB ACTION HOTTEN THAN WEATHER
On the virtual front all is not quiet, even as it was announced that online securities trades grew…
BAD FOR WORKERS, GOOD FOR INFLATION
Nothing cheers investors like bad news on the job front. Initial jobless claims were up for the second…
WILL WE CALL ‘EM NIGHT TRADERS NOW?
Night-owl trading sooner rather than later, in the here and now rather than in the sweet by-and-by —…
INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY
While the stock market decided that higher consumer prices weren’t such a bad thing after all, as long…
FLUSH AS THE MAY, EXCEPT FOR PRICES
All’s right with the world, or at least the U.S. stock market part of it. Right enough, anyway,…
GREENSPAN MORE UP THAN DOWN
That Alan Greenspan. No more talk of irrational exuberance from him, even when the Dow Jones Industrial Average…
SAY HEY, PAY JUST INCHING ITS WAY UP
If you find you’re working more and enjoying it less, you’re not alone. A U.S. Labor Department study…