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    Decision Time Looms for the Fed

    January 29, 2008 All eyes tomorrow will be focused on the Fed and what they will provide the market with in terms of a cut in interest rates. The future course of the market, at least in the near-term, hinges primarily on the decision that the Fed makes and the comments that they provide at

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    Strength in Times of Weakness

    January 28, 2008 Interesting day in the market as the major indices opened up lower and then saw the bulls jump on the dip, and continue to rally for the rest of the day, as the bears repeatedly attempted to sell the rally as it did on Friday; but this time they were unsuccessful in

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    The Market Can’t Keep the Rally Going

    January 25, 2008 The market finally concluded a week where the major indexes finished in positive territory. Even in the midst of a respectable sell-off on Friday, after gapping open at the bell. Nonetheless, with this week behind us, we need to start looking towards next week. It is fair to say that there is

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    The Bulls Giving It Their Best

    January 24, 2008 The market was able to follow through on yesterday’s gains with another positive day. A better than expected jobs report, a positive AT&T earnings report, and an economic stimulus plan that should be able to put some money back into the hands of Americans, gave this market all the reason it needed

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    Is a 600-Point Rally Enough?

    January 23, 2008 A lot a fears concerning a total market meltdown was relieved today as the Dow rallied from being down 300 points to closing up 299 points. All of which took place in the last two hours of trading. The volume was very high on the day, as the buying programs kicked into

    By |Published On: January 23, 2008|2 min read|
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    It’s a Bird; No, It’s a Plane; No It’s Ben Bernanke

    January 22, 2008 Though the markets were closed on Monday, there was major tension in the air as global markets took a pounding in the range of 5% and as high as 11%. Most of it was due to the pessimism surrounding the US economy and what the “powers-that-be” were doing to fix it. The

    By |Published On: January 22, 2008|3 min read|
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    Intra-Day Rallies Unsustainable

    January 18, 2008 Probably worse then a 200-point drop in the market, would have to be what we saw, and continue to see in the market over the past week. The market opened and rallied over 1% – undoubtedly, a very positive beginning to what has otherwise been a very difficult month for many investors.

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    The Market Breaks Down

    January 17, 2008 Today’s action in the market, made is seem quite apparent that investors decided to take what ever they had left in the market and just go home. Bernanke spoke before congress and didn’t assuage investor’s fears about what may lie ahead for the markets. In fact, he stated that we were unlikely

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    Conditions Continue to Sour

    January 16, 2008 The market didn’t have the kind of day we have become used to recently. While Intel reported horrible numbers after yesterday’s closing, the market looked poised to sell off hard today. But just when you think it’s a certainty the market will act in a certain way, is when you usually get

    By |Published On: January 16, 2008|2 min read|
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    The Pounding Resumes

    January 15, 2008 Almost as if a perfect storm came to fruition. The day started out with Citigroup’s earnings report, and the problems found with it was that they actually didn’t write-off enough mortagages as was previously believed to be reported, leaving many to believe that these problems will continue to persist into the next

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