Market Barometer

• Slower growth ahead


• Philly Fed


• Mr. Bernanke's big adventure has only just begun


• The Greenberg Indicator


• Retail investors missed most of recent rally


• Left-behind investors can power the rally but remember they're a skittish bunch ($)


• U.S. securities attract foreigners ($)


• Will the Saudi's really defend $60 oil?


• Eric T. Miller's random gleanings is always interesting


• Furniture inflation!


• Americans will spend $7,129 each on health care this year


• The McGuire story reminds us that health reform is overdue


• Government retirement benefits to rise +3.3% next year


• "For now, the U.S. economy continues to run on credit the rest of the world willingly supplies. For this perpetual-motion machine to stop would mean mutually assured destruction." - Randall W. Forsyth


• More homeowners are going into default


• Foreclosure help on way: local banks set aside $100M for refinancing


• Poll signals more Republican woes


• The Election Scorecard


• Is the stock market discounting strong gains by Democratic Party candidates in this November's congressional elections?


• The Rising Fallen


• Microcap fund manager Michael Corbett has the hot hand


• Mutual-fund managers seek opportunities in emerging markets


• The top 40 Arab brands


• Cell phones are the new cigarettes?


• S&P believes the investment outlook for waste management is positive


• Apple's Big Mac


• The 10Q Detective examines Bodisen Biotech (BBC). But, is it just all hype


• A nice cup-and-handle formation can be seen in shares of Chindex (CHDX) and the catalyst already fairly well-known


• The fool's true free cash flow screen identifies OmniVision (OVTI)


• 10 best and worst performing industries over the past month


• Stocks with 6 or more up days


• WiserTrader screens: insider buying, capital rich, growth momentum, Peter Lynch, Warren Buffett, Benjamin Graham, John Templeton, and Martin Zweig


• O'Shaughnessy's screen yields five big caps


• Takeovers screen


• IBD top 10 low-priced stocks


• Brett Steenbarger's observations on life and markets


• Fibonacci for the rest of us


• 25 rules of trading discipline


• Why investors often lag behind the market indexes ($)


• Tracking the number of stocks making new highs can be a useful timing method


• Understanding cost basis


• What day of the week is most profitable?


• The only group that enjoyed rising wages between 2000 and 2005 were the small slice with graduate degrees ($)


• The Best B-Schools Of 2006


• Wall Street workers took home nearly $300,000 on average last year


• All About Alpha


• Guzzo the Contrarian


• PowerShares Listed Private Equity Portfolio raises some red flags


• Turning taxes to your advantage when investing in ETFs


• Do your ETF dividends qualify for the 15% rule?


• Morningstar's take on globally minded fixed-income mutual funds


• Preferred stocks: pros and cons


• Countrywide's internet savings rates are competitive


• During my recent trip to Ohio, my mother and I spent a lot of time doing this


• Have you heard of private placement life insurance?


• Judge voids Ken Lay's Enron fraud conviction


• How to become a lie detector


• Steve Wynn's $139 million dollar accident


• Does anyone know if Second Life has a stock market?


• For those who have nothing better to do - excel games


• More links for mobile news


• What would you do if you had just 100 days left to live?


• "A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood." - George S. Patton