Aug 29, 2008, 1:00AM This year, the late summer market action is anything but limpid Stocks are stuck in a typical late-summer environment Driving to Disney World is now less expensive View of economy is somber from Fed mountain retreat Bernanke wants regulators to... [#]

Aug 28, 2008, 10:56AM Although revised second quarter gross domestic product figures released Thursday suggest the U.S. is nowhere near a recession and may even have grown faster than its noninflationary potential, an alternate measure the Federal Reserve looks at shows... [#]

Aug 27, 2008, 4:16AM "Is the first zone wide recession in the short history of the eurozone about to be registered?" asks Edward Hugh. I was curious to apply the algorithm for calculating my U.S. recession indicator index to a euro area GDP measure to get an answer. [#]

Aug 29, 2008, 1:00AM Michael Shopshire has provide a nice post at his blog called - Persistence: Is It Always Good? Among several interesting points, he provides a nice little exercise to determine if trading is right for you: Ask yourself, would you trade... [#]

Aug 28, 2008, 12:15AM PIMCO's entrance into the ETF marketplace marks a watershed moment. [#]

Aug 28, 2008, 1:37AM Gold and silver prices have crashed. Ted Butler, Rob Kirby, James Conrad and others are all blaming manipulation. Let's take a look at those manipulation theories starting with Ted Butler.Lessons of a Lifetime Here are a few excerpts from Ted Butler's... [#]

Aug 29, 2008, 1:00AM It's been an interesting summer. A time that I'm sure we'll look back upon in the years ahead with both gratefulness and wonderment. Since Memorial Day, here's just a brief overview of what we've been up to: The outside of... [#]

Aug 28, 2008, 1:00AM Performance-based fees are often derided as way for hedge fund managers to fleece their clients. So why do institutions keep paying them? [#]

Aug 27, 2008, 7:05PM After the leveling off, up or down?IN A guest post at Barry Ritholtz' Big Picture site, Mark Thoma gives it to us straight on the latest housing news. First, he says, lots of people have been calling a bottom since, well, since the top. [#]

Aug 27, 2008, 3:15PM As August draws to a close, it seems Wall Street is caught on an Escher staircase. Up one day. Down the next. Up and down. Up and down.But for all its perambulations the past two months, the market has gone essentially nowhere, with the Standard & Poor’s ... [#]

Aug 27, 2008, 2:01PM Rob Curran of Dow Jones reports:During the global bull market of 2002 through 2007, emerging market stocks outstripped the performance of U.S. and European stocks. In a global bear market, they could fall a lot further. [#]

Aug 27, 2008, 5:07PM Retired neurologist William Bernstein is probably known for his investment books The Intelligent Asset Allocator and The Four Pillars of Investing. His two latest books, A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World and The Birth of Plenty, deal with... [#]

Aug 26, 2008, 4:06PM FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair commented in a press conference this afternoon that she expects the credit markets to continue to worsen, and judging by the recent action in credit spreads, the market seems to agree. [#]

Aug 27, 2008, 4:58PM Imagine a country whose central bank responded to growing inflation by raising interest rates, strengthening the currency and trying to win investor confidence. This may be shocking to some U.S. investors, but proper monetary policy is still being... [#]

Aug 27, 2008, 5:37AM In my books, I've described pattern recognition as fundamental to trading, with patterns learned through a process of implicit learning. Implicit learning occurs when we are exposed to multiple examples of patterns and thus become sensitive to the rules ... [#]

Aug 27, 2008, 1:00AM Thought beta was a pretty down-to-earth concept? That's what we thought too... [#]

Aug 27, 2008, 11:43AM Newspaper died last week.Specifically, at 3 a.m. Eastern Standard Time, when Barack Obama texted his selection of Joe Biden as Vice President to the world.Now, the death of newspapers is not exactly new-news. [#]

Aug 27, 2008, 1:30PM Today's guest post comes from Mark Thoma, who labors tirelessly in the pacific Northwest. Mark is a Professor of Economics at the University of Oregon, where he also pens the well regarded blog, Economist's View. [#]

Aug 25, 2008, 1:36AM Well, I am fresh off of my Europe trip and ready to study the charts this week. I’ll start by posting a few charts of the US dollar. I have talked about these buy and sell signals in the past and wasn’t surprised to see this pattern upon my return. [#]

Aug 22, 2008, 1:27PM Diageo is an international dividend achiever. It has been increasing its dividends for the past 10 consecutive years. From the end of 1997 up until August 2008 this dividend growth stock has delivered an annual average total return of 10. [#]