With the First Quarter of 2009 quickly coming to a close, investor’s will shift their focus to the upcoming earnings releases. While the last few quarters releases have been significant to the market, we feel this quarter’s releases will carry even greater weight. What may…
For the first weeks of office President Obama continued to drill into the heads of Americas that our economy was in really bad shape and that things could be bad for a very long time if we did not take…
The following quote may some up the bulk of what the market has been trying to over come for many weeks: “It’s been this continuous (cycle of) hope leads to disappointment,” said Todd Salamone, senior vice president of research, Schaeffer’s…
Over the course of the last two days, we have heard from many prominent government figures (Ben Bernanke, President Obama, and Tim Geithner via President Obama) and we may finally be getting some answers to our many questions. Unlike the previous…
Well, for all the talk of a big news-making weekend, we are still waiting for all the details to be released. The Senate came up with its own version of the stimulus bill that now needs to go back to the…
For once, Monday may not come fast enough for many investment professionals, with two major announcements set to be made over the weekend or at the latest, Monday morning. At the time of this post, the Senate is debating the…
At this point we are a third of the way through earnings season (at least by SP 500 standards)… so what have we learned so far? From my perspective the biggest surprise is that we haven’t done worse, so far from the…
With the majority of the publicly traded companies reporting earnings over the next 3 weeks, investors will begin to get a picture of just how bad things really were at the end of 2008. Most companies will likely paint a…
With a holiday shortened week, ahead of us, many are expecting a fairly calm trading week. While we are hoping this will be the case, this week also has the potential to be very volatile. With many professionals already having…
Another busy week of information lies ahead…Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley release earnings before the close tomorrow and then the Fed releases it’s decision on interest rates at lunch time. All that and we are only halfway into Tuesday, the…
