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By Todd Gibson Occupy Wall Street turned 1 month old recently. What a difference a month makes. The movement went global this past weekend with OWS protests in many cities here in the US as well as abroad. What is the big deal? I'll try to answer that. The movement, recently, is being courted by...

Alcoa (NYSE: AA) kicked off earnings season on Tuesday after market closed. Its profit of 15 cents per share fell short of expectation of 22 cents per share, and its stock price fell from $10.30/share to $9.76/share after hours. While this does not sound very good, the decline was after the...

The past month has been a wild ride for both equity and commodity traders around the globe. Novice traders have had their heads handed to them and their investment accounts drained. When fear, uncertainty and volatility are running high, some of the best opportunities become available to those who...

Crude oil prices are poised to continue following stocks lower as S&P 500 futures point aggressively lower. Gold looks to Ben Bernanke's testimony for direction. Talking Points Crude Oil Selling Continues as Risk Aversion Rules Financial Markets Gold May Erase Recent Safety-Driven Gains...

The markets have been all over the map today. A gap down gave rise to a huge spike on ISM economic numbers. This popped the markets to the positive side, only to see them come all the way back down and hit the lows of the day. Since that double bottom, the markets have bounced back up, just...

Interesting tidbit on the CNBC site: Having analyzed 150 years of macroeconomic data, Goldman has found 20 examples of stagnation similar to those experienced by Japan in the 1990's, most of which occurred during the last 60 years in developed economies. “During these episodes, GDP per capita...

The stock market opened sharply higher today. This move took the Dow Jones Industrial Average up by more than 200 points. In the last two days, similar up moves have taken place but sharp selling has come in late in the day and driven the markets back down. Today, the markets are seeing sharp...

I think the talking heads on TV are generally not really picking up what the markets are laying down.  Even Jim Cramer has his wires crossed a bit on this one; and I usually find his macro analysis pretty cogent.  To be fair, there's a lot going on with a rolling European debt/banking crisis,...

There are many ideas about market timing, stock valuation, and financial ratios. Text books, popular finance books, blogs, and television offer a buffet of theories. The goal for all is buy low and sell high, right? But how to do so is not easy. Use the Dividend Yield to Value the MarketThis...

Crude oil is vulnerable as S&P 500 stock index futures point to risk aversion into the close of the trading week while gold appears to have formed an important top. Talking Points Crude Oil Vulnerable as S&P 500 Futures Point to Risk Aversion Gold Technical Setup Hints Significant...

A good overview of the entire market and economic environment from hedge hogger Doug Kass.  I find myself agreeing with the majority of his thought process here. Worth the full read, here are the arching overviews. As an aside, there are some stunning data points on equity outflows from the market...

Merger activity increased last week with three new deals announced and three closing. You can find all the active deals listed below in our Merger Arbitrage Tool that automatically updates itself during market hours. Deal Statistics: Total Number of Deals Closed in 2011 148 Total Number of...

I mentioned early in the week we are simply in a huge trading range of roughly 100 S&P points, between 1120ish and 1220ish.  Today's excuse du jour is an ECB member resigning due to his resistance to bond buying, and (wait for it) worries about Greece.  If I had a nickel for every time I wrote...

The Australian Dollar, Canadian Dollar and New Zealand Dollar were the three strongest performing currencies to start the week as the safe haven block slid among renewed hope for a third round of monetary easing by the Federal Reserve. Fundamental Headlines • Gold Advances to Record as Platinum...

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA - November 17, 2010 (Investorideas.com Mining stocks newswire) – Lucky Strike Resources Ltd. (TSX.V-LKY), (the "Company") is pleased to announce today that the TSX Venture Exchange has provided final acceptance for the filing documentation with respect to the...