The collapse of the Euro yesterday was swift and steady as it not only fell through the 1.31 level but also fell to below 1.30 to as low as 1.29.38.  Today the Euro has already fallen to as low as 1.28.  The lack of any support for the Euro is analogous to a hot knife [...]

The post crash party is over for the world equities, debt and commodities markets as all countries and regions of the world will have to make adjustments to the rising U.S. Dollar and collapsing Euro and the European economy. 
 
Yesterday on April 27th the Dow Industrials Composite Index plummeted by over 213 points to back below [...]

Yesterday’s Decline in the U.S. Consumer Confidence index to 10 month lows underscores the severe problems that the U.S. economy and stock market is facing.  Additionally, the present situation index for consumers dropped to 19.4 from 25.2 in January, the worst since February 1983.  An un-expectant decline in housing prices for December of 2009, is [...]

The collapsing Euro will drive the U.S. stock market to new lows. Investor’s concerns about the sovereign debt of the PIIGS (Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece and Spain) has caused a sharp and sudden sell off in the Euro against most of the other major currencies and most especially the U.S. Dollar. Since hitting its 2009 [...]

One of my followers sent me this information on the current Secular Bear Market this morning.  I thought that it would be of interest to my subscribers.
Secular Bear Market: Are We Still in One?
by Van K. Tharp, Ph.D.
Since my book Safe Strategies… came out, I have been saying that we are in a secular bear [...]

Warren Buffet’s Berkshire Hathaway announced that it is acquiring the 77% of Burlington Northern (NYSE:BNI) shares that it currently does not own.  The media pundits and Buffet have said that with the acquisition he and Berkshire are making a big bet on the U.S. economy.  I disagree.
 
In making the acquisition I believe that Buffet is [...]

Kraft Foods, which has over 30,000 suppliers of ingredients for its packaged foods announced that it is planning on reducing its number of suppliers by 50% in order to streamline its operations and save costs.
At first blush this is yet just another story of a large behemoth corporation cutting its costs so that it can [...]

After recent reports indicated that U.S. GDP had declined by a rate of 1.0% during the second quarter of 2009, I was perplexed.  How could that number be so low when many large U.S. companies such as IBM, Cisco, Alcoa, Dupont, MMM and Intel be experiencing double digit revenue declines for the same quarter that [...]

The major U.S. and global stock market indices have staged a rally for the ages since March of 2009, even though economic conditions continue to deteriorate.  For those who are trying to ride the market-timing roller coaster by following the momentum and direction of the S&P 500 and the Dow 30 there are two key [...]

Market up 68 points yesterday.   Eight Dow Stocks down yesterday.   Led by AA down 3.69%.  CVX, DD, XOM, MRK, PFE, KFT all up by approximately 2% or more
 Unemployment claims unexpectedly rise
 
Stabilization of German economy may not last
 
German economy data better than expected over last quarter.  However, strength was due to its cash for clunkers and [...]