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Tuesday, February 07, 2006
In And Out Of The Market

- A handful of analysts see a '90s-style bull market if the era of rate hikes ends
- Ed Keon slashes equity holdings
- After last week's pullback, investors turn more bullish
- US equities have barely budged for almost 3 months now, leaving some to think that Mr. Market is setting up for its next big move
- The market has always gone up when the Steelers appear in the superbowl
- Logics and targets for 2006
- Corporate America keeps two sets of books - one for the SEC and the other for the IRS and they seldom match
- Earnings to reach double digits again
- I always like to see more oversold than overbought stocks
- "He who wishes to secure the good of others, has already secured his own." - Confucius
- Myths of the Greenspan Era
- Greenspan sends mixed signals even in retirement
- The best writings of Ben Bernanke
- Ben Bernanke: An unworldly professor
- Bush sends Congress a $2.77 trillion budget plan
- Iraq war is costing $100,000 per minute
- "We are, in every way, living on borrowed time." - Ben Stein
- New health savings plans mostly help the wealthy
- Bush's major economic idea goes bust
- Is Hugo Chavez just all talk and no action?
- $96 crude is predicted for this summer's hurricane season
- Jim Jubak explains why OPEC won't turn off the oil
- Global imbalances are due for a correction?
- The Prisoners’ Dilemma by Jeffrey Saut
- A bullion-dollar bank account?
- The $200 billion broadband scandal
- If home prices fall, rents may fuel inflation
- No inflation? My wife's school will ask their teachers to pay a year-over-year +19% increase in health care benefits
- Travelers work around fast-rising hotel rates
- "Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one." - Charles Mackay
- Interesting economic charts from Ahead of the Curve
- Costa Rica is the new Gold Coast
- Larry Silverstein will run out of money before he can finish rebuilding the World Trade Center
- A pretty reliable contrarian indicator - real estate is top job choice for young adults
- Foreclosure activity in California is up
- A buyer's market in home real-estate
- More developers are trying to entice new-homebuyers with freebies
- The Mortgage Professor
- The bull market in James J. Cramer has no end in sight
- At least for now, Eddie Lampert is the Steve Jobs of the investing world
- The other Mr. Bond
- Barron's takes a brief look at last year's top investment newsletters ($)
- Q&A with Barry James, PM of the James Small Cap Fund (JASCX) ($)
- Hedge fund manager challenges new rules
- I would be surprised if Intel (INTC) doesn't hold its $20 long-term support
- General Electric (GE) attracts a lot of investment newsletter support with one exception
- Independent oil firms may end being swallowed up by the big boys
- Satellite radio stocks have been duds recently causing some to get interested
- It is a wild toad's ride at China Tech (CTDC)
- Have commodities become the new tech stocks?
- "Aluminum will be the metal of 2006." - Jim Cramer
- Did you know that consumers spend a collective $100 billion every year on bottled water
- The Water Wizard
- Thanks to slick new software, cell phones are getting as powerful as PCs
- Time Warner's new business plan - e-mail taxation
- John Dorfman finds 9 stocks with danger signs
- Feeling bearish? Trends, MACD Crossovers, EMA Breakouts, RSI Crossovers, Fibonacci
- 10 top-rated stocks with low p/e ratios
- Stock buybacks
- Please take time to read Presidential Elections & Stock Market Cycles
- "Well over 90% of the recent bull market occurred on Monday, Tuesdays, and Thursdays." - Brett Steenbarger
- Mapping the trader's brain is an interesting read
- Trust your instincts
- "The more I insulate myself from outside influences and concentrate just on the movement of stocks, the better I trade." - Dr. Eric Wish
- A basic options calculator
- A new status symbol has emerged: the $500 million cash payout
- John Bogle continues to shed light on the greedy practices of the mutual fund industry
- For long-term investing, you need to measure real-world return
- Hidden costs can cut your profits from mutual funds
- Index funds may not be sexy, but they work
- Index Funds: The 12 Step Program for Active Investors
- Having automatic back ups of your hard drive is a must
- Find statistics on just about anything
- Need to find your cost basis? BasisPro can help
- Search the future with PubSub
- 10 time savers for better time management
- Yes, I am a speed reader
- What women really want on Valentine's Day
- Dave Barry gets funny about money
- "It is essential to our well-being, and to our lives, that we play and enjoy life. Every single day do something that makes your heart sing." - Marcia Wieder
