Today’s payrolls report from Washington is ugly. The crowd was expecting that today’s jobs report from the Labor Department would show that US …
Economic Update: The Jobs Report The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that Nonfarm Payrolls, which is one of the most closely followed gauges …
US jobless claims rose last week, the Labor Department reports, although new filings remain close to four-decade lows. Despite the latest jump, today’s …
I seldom look at the overall stock market to see how it is going. I read the daily headlines, but rarely take a …
Three months ago to the day (6/30), I served up a list of reasons for lowering one’s exposure to riskier assets. I discussed …
By Dana Lyons’ Tumbler In our post yesterday on household stock investment, we discussed what we call “background indicators”. These various investment metrics describe the longer-term …
Last Friday I reviewed some of the bearish signals that were casting dark shadows across the US stock market. This week’s trading activity …
By Charles Sizemore I’m not much of a market forecaster. I’m content to leave that in Harry’s capable hands.
Two developments make a shutdown of the US government on October 1 less likely. First, the outgoing Speaker of the House made it …
By Dr. Steve Sjuggerud I was such a fool in the 1990s.
