Stocks closed higher today after a roller-coaster day of trading. While the market is tremendously oversold, this rebound appears to be nothing more than technical in nature. With three yellow lights and a DnDn situation Prudent Investors should remain on the sidelines, but get their shopping lists ready.Aggressive Investors…

Fears of the global economic slowdown intensified over the weekend causing stock prices to move lower throughout the day. We now have a situation in which the Buy/Sell ratio is lower than it was on its lowest point on November 26th. So now we must wait patiently until it…

Stock prices ended mixed today after moving lower in early trading due to a large increase in wholesale prices, but recovered somewhat in late trading. The good news today was that November Retail Sales were relatively strong prompting some economists to say that a recession is not forthcoming. …

Stock prices opened sharply higher today on news of the Fed’s plan to improve liquidity; then stocks began to move lower, slowly at first and then sharply in late trading as investors concluded that the plan was too timid to have much positive affect. There is considerable dissatisfaction with…

Even though the Fed did what most investors had expected by lowering the Fed Funds rate by 0.25 percent, stock prices fell sharply after the announcement because most investors were hoping for a larger decrease. Now it remains to be seen whether this disappointment is only a temporary blip…

Stock prices moved moderately higher today in relatively subdued trading, pending the result of tomorrow’s FOMC meeting on monetary policy. It is generally expected that the Fed will cut the Fed Funds rate target by 25 basis points, while a few analysts are cheering for a 50 basis point…