Views & Clues

• Earnings reports show soft economy

• Wake up and smell the recovery!

• We're all doomed!

• A strong case for market optimism

• The Stagflation Menace

• Five signs the stock market has bottomed

• Bulls are trying to turn the technical corner

• The latest on existing home sales

• Timing market tops and bottoms

• "It would be nice if a horn would go off or a bell would chime to mark the end of one trend and the start of another." - Kevin Klombies

• Are markets leading or lagging indicators?

• Individual and professional investor pessimism towards US stocks remains deep-seated and historical in nature

• Mark Hulbert offers a sentiment check

• US stocks are building a base

• VIX numbers and overbought signals

• Bespoke monitors the earnings beat rates

• Banks are on the hunt for more cash

• Reports last week by Citigroup & Merrill could have be a lot worse except for an accounting quirk

• Traders bet on more problems in financials

• When the economic data stinks, just change it or stop reporting it

• Talk is cheap - is the Fed really worried about inflation?

• Fed speculation heats up

• Fed Watch: time to think about the other side?

• What questions are we not asking that we should be?

• All of this is due to misplaced bets on the carry trade?

• "The worst outcome of the current financial crisis would be a return to the status quo." - Willem Buiter

• Delinquencies rise on home equity lines of credit

• Here comes the next mortgage crisis

• The next earnings nightmare for banks has begun

• The summer will see a wave of foreclosures

• Credit crisis hits student borrowers

• A billion here, six billion there - these bailouts sure add up!

• Following the Americans, Britain starts up its own bailout measures

• Hedge funds expect big inflows!

• Big pensions slash stock investments

• Big rise seen in unoccupied office space

• Except at the gas pump, not much spending is going on

• Teens become frugal?

• Are you better off than you were eight years ago?

• Bonds are back in the game

• Inflation elephant stomps on bonds

• Companies get stingy on their dividends

• Oil - how high from here?

• $200 oil!

• As oil prices soar - where is the economy's breaking point?

• Billionaire Texas oil man makes big bets on wind

• The Dell of solar energy

• What's behind the surge in natural-gas prices

• UN chief warns world must urgently increase food production

• Tim Knight's long-term commodity charts

• Three scenarios for the great commodity bull run

• Time to worry about the farmer bubble?

• Just in time for Earth Day - how to save the planet and make money doing it

• U.S. rails seen rolling along despite slowing economy

• Opportunities in heavy-construction stocks?

• Big losses in managed-care stocks this year

• Going abroad for earnings

• Advisors are moving back into U.S. funds

• A really long-term view of emerging markets

• Remember the theory that you must buy Chinese stocks until the Olympics?

• People trading BIDU also traded...*

• The high cost of doing business in India

• Allstate records raise yet more questions

• Steenbarger's sector stocks to help you track the stock market

• Ticker symbols for virtually every sector

• An investor's guide to Yahoo's earnings

• David Dreman looks beyond the Fed bailout

• Pat Dorsey likes big cap tech

  James Altucher's addiction plays

• Morningstar's moat upgrades & downgrades

• The most overbought stocks in the S&P 500

• Stocks showing discounts in dividend yield

• The Fortune 1000

• Recent insider activity shows buying at Zumiez and selling at Nike

• Barron's on where to track insider money flows

• 8 simple rules of investing in volatile periods

• S&P looks at the most common forms of risk

• Stop-loss temptations and regrets

• The problem with positive thinking

• The Doctor offers a few trading psychology observations

• A basic introduction to pairs trading

• The utility of keeping an eye on the Average True Range (ATR)

• How to identify ETF turns using moving average crossovers

• Why every trader should be an investor

• 10 myths about investing and finances

• No-effort portfolios!

• The top 100 best financial advisers

• Some skepticism over new 130/30 funds

• MacroShares to terminate after price runup, but successors are in the works

• Live forex market analysis & rates

• Wall Street spreads its Presidential bets

• Outrageous - the Pentagon's hidden hand

• What really scares the hell out of most investors

• The return of big government

• Will this be a typical election year?

• The ultimate trading keyboard

• OpenOffice is an open-source office software suite

• The top selling books relating to the stock market

• A beginning investor's reading list

• "If you want to know what a man is really like, take notice how he acts when he loses money." - Anonymous