Market Miscellany

• Bernanke lays the groundwork for a pause


• Highlights from Bernanke's testimony


• Crude sinks after surprise rise in inventories


• More economic reports tomorrow - jobless claims, leading indicators, Philadelphia Fed Survey, and the FOMC minutes


• Heatwave!


• Businesses are finding unique ways to save money on energy


• Did you see the bounce in the housing sector today?


• Inflation is everywhere


• Small vs Large Business - which is the real engine of the economy


• How Americans make and spend their money


• Are current expectations for strong back-to-school sales wrong?


• American retailers lose more than $30 billion a year to theft


• Mayday! for the powerboat industry


• Immigration enforcement benefits prison firms


• The drug industry is beginning to reap a windfall


• Get ready for egg-vertising!


• Some folks are predicting that we are witnessing the beginning of World War III


• Thoughts from Value Line


• Sam Stovall thinks it is finally time to play defense


• Marc Hogan's bunker portfolio


• Ike Iossif's weekly charts


• Earnings season volatility has already peaked?


• The global economy is at a fragile juncture


• Why cold hard cash is so attractive


• China reports fastest growth in a decade


• Fund managers now see weaker global economy


• A snapshot of Canadian investment manager sentiment


• Global warming has a bright side for Greenland ($)


• Overview of global steel industry


• Puru Saxena makes the case for holding commodities


• $100 oil spike may boost and hurt some oil and gas companies


• It's getting easier to separate the "haves" and the "have-nots" in the oil and gas sector


• Major refining companies are seeking and winning large local tax breaks with little political opposition ($)


• Time to avoid water stocks? I don't think so, but here is the other point of view


• Turning burgers and beers into big bucks


• LEDs are about to transform lighting


• Hot times for online gaming


• Is the gaming boom over?


• Top 10 dumbest online business ideas that made big money


• Good investing by design


• Kelley Wright looks for blue chip bargins


• Yahoo! (YHOO) disappoints


• Bodisen Biotech (BBC) has been coming up in my screens as well


• Why don't I like to trade stocks everyone likes? Today's classic example is provided by Rambus (RMBS). Ouch!


• Williams-Sonoma (WSM) books a huge gift card bonus


• US Airways' new profit-making scheme


• Honda's (HMC) engines of change


• Bank of America's (BAC) profit exceeds $5 billion on card fees


• You know things are tough when Pepsico (PEP) is one of the few stocks that keep appearing in this daily strength screen


• John Dorfman screens for stocks with low price-to-sales ratios


• Harry Domash shows you how to screen for doomed stocks


• Forbes' weekly stock screens: falling estimates, cash-rich, insider selling, and falling estimates


• Top 40 Stocks - Prophet's most watched symbols


• Big block trading makes a comeback


• Traders who seek to develop a strategy that offers consistent low-risk returns need to develop a mechanical filter that can sift through the vast amount of news and information bombarding market participants


• Humility is always a virtue in the investment arena


• How to prepare for the day's trading


• Want to profit like a CEO? Then buy shares in their companies as soon as the CEOs are given stock options


• What can male traders learn from successful women


• "I have personally worked with a number of traders who have made one million dollars or more (after expenses) in a year for multiple years. Of these, I would describe none as emotionally restrained. In fact, just the opposite. They tend to be highly competitive and quite emotional about losing. They channel this emotion into making themselves better, however." - Brett Steenbarger


• There are two kinds of traders


• An only top-down approach can blind you to opportunities


• Candlestick master Steve Nison talks to StockTickr


• It pays to follow the lead of the top long-term performers


• Inverse and Leveraged ETFs


• 7 steps to get more from your nest egg


• Are you paying too much for investment advice? ($)


• The equity you build up in your home is not a retirement-savings account


• Two trusts to help you do good


• Looking for a home for those graduation gift checks? Consider a Roth IRA


• It's probably time to shop around for good deals on life insurance


• The best places to live


• The worst American cars


• Instant Bull will likely prove quite popular


• Herb Greenberg's market blog


• Yet another trading contest website


• Free finance publications


• Knowing how to boot XP from an ordinary USB drive would have been helpful recently. In addition, if you use Windows XP, you should print off these instructions just in case


• Internet TV


• Do-It-Yourself DVDs


• 101 Fabulous Freebies


• "Running from fear only strengthens fear -- you are demonstrating that fear has power over you. Fear must be faced and gone through... Only then do we learn the truth of fear -- that fear is merely an illusion, not a real thing." - Peter McWilliams