Breaking Point

• Unemployment leaps to 14-year high!

• Once all the revisions are taken into account, the actual loss in jobs is at 939K - a 61% increase

• If you thought the jobs report was bad, imagine if they weren't cooking the numbers

• Biggest recession since WWII looms

• TrimTabs provides the latest on money flow

• Having a tough time this week? Just blame the hedge funds!

• More rate cuts are now expected

• $100 billion stimulus in the works

• Whoa! Take a look at the Fed's balance sheet!

• Fed pumps an additional $100 billion into commercial-paper market

• So much for proper disclosure - credit swap disclosure obscures true financial risk

• Firms say bailout plan lacks necessary clarity

• Bailout bucks to banks!

• Distressed firms try debt exchanges

• Banks' decision to spurn government aid raises questions

• U.S. explores its options with TARP

• Auto execs make the hard sell for bailouts

• GM sells U.S. a lemon

• Many are asking the government for help. Be careful what you ask for

• A simple question - is this the time to make a long-term bet on equities?

• More about Jeremy Siegel's strange claim - stocks are dirt cheap

• Jim Cramer's four reasons to be skittish

• Retailers report weak October sales

• Number of credit card offers dives

• Earnings estimates get slashed

• The Ted Spread as a leading indicator

• The hospital indicator!

• Another useless sentiment indicator!

• It seems like forever since we've seen an IPO

• Retail investors push trading to record levels

• Has anyone noticed that bullish sentiment seems correlated with age?

• Are investors really expecting the worst?

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• Novembers in the market

• Yet another stat for this year's record book

• Understanding bear market price swings through history

• The 40 Year Cycle

• S&P 900 is key!

• Even more bottom calling...

• A towering economic to-do list for Obama

• Jeff Miller's message to Obama

• Recommendations for the Obama Administration

• Companies guess impact of new Obama Administration

• The Obama Agenda - time to redistribute

• Does Wall Street really prefer a Democrat or a Republican President?

• Many see multibillion dollar investment by Obama into clean energy

• Fund expert's top sector bets on Obama

• An All-Obama Portfolio

• Domestic ABCs

• Sy Harding is one of the few winners so far in 2008

• Wall Street job cuts

• Private equity chief urges fees rethink

• The International Energy Agency says oil prices will climb back above $100/barrel

• Oil service firms warn of dangers of lower prices

• Global shockwaves roil Brazil's offshore plans

• Largest wind farm in the world halted by credit crisis

• IMF sees global 2009 recession

• Central banks in Europe cut rates sharply

• Zero rate world may lie ahead

• Chinese economy shows signs of fizzling

• Japanese equities are already priced for the ice age

• An interesting look at country default risk!

• Educational providers - a counter-cyclical industry?

• The current economy as seen through the eyes of Intel's CEO

• Post election stock and sector performance

• Almost Family with a stellar quarter

• Petmed bites back at recession

• Ford blows through another $3 billion

• Dirk Van Dijk's earnings scorecard

• StockScouter's 50 stocks for November

• Standard & Poor's 28 dividend aristocrats - companies that have boosted their payouts in each of the past 25 years—with top S&P STARS rankings

• 7 highest yielding stocks going ex dividend in November

• Stocks with earnings momentum

• Trader Mike provides 10 charts to watch

• Today's chart toppers

• 7 top stocks in the bargain bin

• Did you know the number of trades placed--not the amount of time spent trading--that best predicts success in markets?

• When should a trader cut position size & risk?

• Selling calls against stocks locked in a trading range can be a great way to generate steady income

• Some of the key analytical techniques of Tom DeMark

• Impressive signals from DeMark

• What is TRIX?

• Watch out for those full moons!

• Day of the week trading edge

• How the Dow Theory can help you

• How to hunt for clues for companies that will soon cut their dividend

• When can you trust economics papers?

• "Do yourself a favor. Just watch the market action. It will tell you want you need to know. Very often, the supposed news drivers which people think are creating the short-term moves in the market are mostly coincidental." - John Forman

• It's an amazing time to be playing the Stock Market Game

• The Wisdom of Great Investors

• Investing lessons from Benjamin Graham

• Do-it-yourself investors can't mimic large endowments or sovereign wealth funds, but they can learn about asset allocation from them

• How about a diversified ETF Portfolio?

• Only three funds have stayed positive for each of the last nine years

• Just because your mutual fund is under water doesn't mean the tax man won't pay you a visit again this year

• Prop desks largely depend on four different strategies to outperform the market

• More hedge fund performance numbers

• More chatter on the triple leverage ETFs

• Will Democrats tinker with retirement plans?

• It's time to put social security funds in the stock market?

• Splurges seem shameful and cheap is cool!

• swaptree is a place where you can trade books, music, dvds, or video games than you own

• How to make a spending plan

• If you like pumpkin bread as much as I do and have a Great Harvest Bread Co. nearby, be sure to pick up a loaf and try it out. You'll love it!

• The hedge fund business, explained

• This week's edition of the dumbest things on Wall Street

• Things that I can't friggin believe

• "It is often hard to distinguish between the hard knocks in life and those of opportunity." - Frederick Phillips