Market Sentiment

• Consumers are feeling worse about their personal finances and prospects

• Choosing bankruptcy to stay afloat

• Federal Reserve officials are like the rest of us?

• Inflation expectations are no longer well-anchored

• HSBC chief accuses governments of not facing up to inflation

• Understanding liquidity is key

• Yen declines to one-month low versus Euro on carry-trade demand

• Investors bet Persian Gulf will loosen dollar pegs

• Libor exposed

• Where the financial crisis is headed next

• The credit crunch effects yet to come

• Banks miss an easy housing fix

• Bank failures to surge in coming years

• Bill Gross' investment outlook for June

• There is a serious dichotomy between growth as measured by the median EPS growth rate and as measured by the total net income growth

• That's a lot of bearish bloggers

• Conflicting sentiment signals

• The temporal anchoring of expectations

• Elliott Wave reversals

• Volume declines cut both ways

• Technicians should be losing sleep over this

• Identifying potential highs & lows through Fibonacci

• Sector performance by calendar month

• Asset allocation sorted by stochastics

• Chinese lessons

• Shanghai struggles with 50 day ma

• Brazilian stocks are hot!

• How long can the Latin American bull run continue?

• Following the money to Dubai

• Hedge funds foment Russia credit crunch with 16% puts

• Only five countries have suffered annual house-price falls in the latest data

• Drastic action may be needed if housing slump worsens

• Abandoned houses are keeping contractors busy

• Housing market charts

• "As always, we will continue to buy companies that have the best fundamentals in the marketplace. At the moment, many of those companies are in the energy, agricultural, and materials sectors." - Louis Navellier

• Wishful thinking? Pump prices may have peaked

• The new fad - reports of gas tank and line puncturing are starting to trickle into police departments and repair shops across the country

• Index investors driving commodity prices?

• 60% of today’s crude oil price is pure speculation driven by large trader banks and hedge funds

• Understanding crude oil prices

• How would you like 12-cent gas?

• "In order to feed growing demand, agricultural production would have to increase 50% by 2030." - Hafez Ghanem

• Peak water?

• There's been no refuge in healthcare stocks

• Transport stocks may have hit a wall

• The most promising ETF's? Russia & Coal

• GE eyes world's next big worry - water

• Lost opportunities haunt final days of Bear Stearns

• Lehman's confidence game

• Cleaning up after Fannie & Freddie will be no easy task

• Key grows more pessimistic about loans

• Uncle Sam pays massive credit card fees, too

• Smart oil hedging by Southwest Airlines

• As Standard Pacific gets a lifeline, bearish traders get zinged

• Flir Systems' breakout draws attention

• Humana's road to recovery

• A clearance sale at Jos. A. Bank?

• A solar-powered iPhone?

• Energy stocks with room to run

• Bets on wind energy

• The best, from the brightest

• "We face the most serious recession of our lifetime." - George Soros

• The next Buffetts

• America's hottest investor

• Janet Brown only buys what's hot

• A Singapore-based hedge fund uses computer models to pick trades

• The folly of political portfolios

• New analyst ratings

• The earnings calendar is on the light side this week

• 10 most frequently searched stocks

• Wall Street's buy list

• Stocks 50% above their 50 day & 200 day moving averages

• Banks that need to raise capital quickly

• World's largest stocks and who owns them

• Pacesetters adds two stocks to their current portfolio this month

• "Successful traders have a range of personalities. The critical thing is they must be risk takers who are comfortable with uncertainty and have a certain degree of abstract reasoning ability. They have to enjoy trying to piece together the mosaic of information needed to make a good investment, and they need some degree of caution, thoroughness, and coachability." - Ari Kiev

• James Altucher's four strategies for boosting your annual returns

• The stock market's great paradox

• Eight lessons from the great bear markets of the past 100 years

• How thinking costs you

• If it feels bad, it's probably a good trade

• What exactly is expectancy?

• Another Q&A with Brian Shannon

• What you can learn from the bid-ask spread

• Day trading time zones

• More on using p/e ratios

• Using meditative techniques can help tame the trading demons

• The easiest E-mini?

• Northern Trust casts wide net over country indexes

• TheStreet.com's rates 37 new ETFs

• Should you buy ETFs of ETFs?

• There's now a fund dedicated to the greed principle

• AAII does an in-depth review of several web-based stock screening services

• Ticker Cloud!

• The perils of investing as a couple

• 5 money management tips the rich can offer all of us

• Financial advice for new grads

• Chicago is the best city for traders

• I finally have a good reason to visit North Dakota!

• New tax law makes escape tougher for tax exiles

• Making the case for taking a vacation

• How to travel smart this summer

• Email scammers focus on renewable energy

• A terrible and completely avoidable tragedy

• "It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when you're number one. What you got to have is faith and discipline when you're not a winner." - Vince Lombardi