Market Variorum

• Nikkei posts biggest loss in nine months while the pros remain bullish


• The global map of last week's losses looks only impressive if you forget how good times have been


• Carry on!


• Was the Indian market the key leading indicator?


• The lessons investors should learn from a wobbly week in the financial markets


• How are sell-offs healthy?


• What's the smart money doing now?


• Ironically, once the market breaks a long winning streak, the odds of turning in a winning month appear to grow


• Mark Mobius is cautiously optimistic


• A warning from Harry Schultz


• The stock bloggers turn bearish


• Did you see David Walker on 60 Minutes last night?


• Barron's cover story is still bullish


• On the whole, advisers said most clients are staying put


• Some even see a plethora of buying opportunities


• "The next recession will arrive when it's least expected. Always has, always will." - Dr. Irwin Kellner


• How p/e multiples can lead the sheep astray


• The p/e ratio of the S&P 500


• Happy Birthday S&P 500!


• TraderMike pulls out the trusty T2108 indicator


• Some real bear talk


• Marc Faber on liquidity, the Yen, and Gold


• When brokers top, markets follow


• A new worry for Wall Street


• Warren Buffett's annual letter to shareholders


• Looking for the next Warren Buffett


• Option trading gurus created a big market decline


• A new type of nuclear-arms race generated by hedge funds


• 2 + 20, and other hedge fund math


• Beware of dark pools of liquidity


• Institutional investors feel snubbed


• Goldman Sachs and Merrill Lynch put hedge fund cloning to the test


• "The housing industry in 2007 may be where technology was in early 2001—engaged in the first serious hard times the industry had seen in more than a decade, finally aware of the problem, but still a long way from the bottom." - Daniel Gross


• Homeowners are stuck as lenders cinch standards


• The bears attack the latest subprime spin


• Subprime anguish!


• Regulators call for caution on subprime loans


• The house flippers would have been better off buying farmland


• Blackstone goes car shopping


• SEC alleges insider trading in TXU ahead of buyout


• What's the deal with Nortel?


• Berkshire Hathaway's 5-star stocks


• Please keep a close eye on those stocks which are bucking the index trends


• Mebane Faber offers some of the best ideas from the hedge fund jocks


• What stocks are trading above the 20 Day SMA and also up 5 days?


• Morningstar thinks it is now raining 5-star stocks


• StockPickr's: high-yield small caps, Spencer Capital, REIT buyouts, Quant Foreign Value Fund, and Ken Fisher


• America's most admired companies


• When you replace conviction with “hope”, that’s when you should run for the exits before you get hammered


• Ben Stein on keeping cool in a shaky market


• The secrets of trend following


• It's time to think like a commodity trader


• Four guiding principles of market behavior


• Sit down for a chat with hedge fund movers


• Jim Cramer offers time managment tips


• Want more? Then give more!


• February's ETF Performance Report


• Dow-tracking ETF traded accurately despite index-calculation hiccup


• How did the defensive funds fare during this downdraft?


• A critical examination of Fidelity Magellan's Frankenfund


• More investors take advantage of socially conscious investing


• A primer on master limited partnerships which are growing in popularity


• All you need to know about the I-Bond


• Roy Weitz shares his trouble with following a market-timing advisory


• Six habits that will get you out of debt and keep you out


• It's always a good idea to build a rainy day fund


• The 50 most important people on the web


• The best online brokers according to Barron's


• Some interesting stats on how the online brokers held up last week


• Don't forget to sign up to receive a free weekly email update


• Every nerd's dream desk setup


• Seven ways to immediately increase your confidence


• "A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them." - John C. Maxwell