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The Consumer Confidence Index fell to 85.5 in October from a revised 97 in September. Analysts surveyed by Briefing.com expected a reading of 95.9. The October result is the lowest [...]

Although October's goody bag generally held a nasty mix of sour economic news and weak sentiment data, the auto industry is about to announce sweet news as vehicle sales are [...]

This time of year it is proper to conjure up a picture of which sectors, and specifically which stocks, should perform well. Two sectors that should perform well into the [...]

Prior to Sept 11, the stock market was declining because of economic fundamentals. Investors were pondering the effects of signs that the economic downturn could be extended be. yond the [...]

Risk encompasses all of those things about which we are uncertain. In today's terms this would include a checklist that is topped by a favorable outcome in the war against [...]

We used to think of the OPEC (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries) oil cartel as having adversarial relations with the industrial economies of Europe and North America. When it was [...]

In the wake of the Sept. 11 World Trade Center attack and as the prospects of a world wide recession loomed larger, the stock market, as measured by the S&P [...]

For a short while in 2000, Cisco was the world's most valuable company at more than $550 billion. Although there were concerns about its huge price-earnings multiple when John Chambers, [...]

The United States has experienced economic recessions and severe bear markets on Wall Street many times, and it has managed to live and tell the tale. The current economic slowdown [...]

The markets suffered through a second consecutive dismal quarter as earnings warnings dominated the investment news. Concerns for investors were the further weakening of the economy and a more deliberate [...]

One of the few pieces of good news about the economy in recent months was the report from the Conference Board that consumer confidence rebounded strongly in March. It had [...]

For the second time in two years, Wall Street is ignoring its own advice. One of the stock market's time-honored axioms is that investors should aggressively buy stocks when the [...]

The world's two biggest economies, America and Japan, seem to be sliding toward recession, but the outlook for Europe is much more sanguine. Euroland as a whole grew at the [...]

Trade agreements, international capital flows and central bank coordination are all part of the growth of the globalization trend that has benefited rich and poor countries alike. Economists agree that [...]

The bear market that has finally replaced the great bull market of the 1990s is an unusual one in that the damage to the market has been so concentrated. Since [...]

The bull is finally beaten, but it took almost twelve months. At the end of February, the Standard & Poor's 500 index had tumbled a full 20 percent, the official [...]

As nobody liked the ugly duckling, few like this stock market. Investors dislike uncertainty, and they showed that in February. The major market indexes all lost the gains achieved in [...]

Gloom and doom hang like a heavy pall over Wall Street, and it is hard to find any positive slant on business news coverage to give the investor on Main [...]

After surging out of the blocks in the opening days of the New Year, technology stocks have run out of breath. The tech-laden Nasdaq Composite had climbed almost 16 percent [...]

In recent months, Merrill Lynch advised its wealthy clients to limit the foreign stocks in their portfolios to about 5 percent. This is down from the 35 Percent recommendation that [...]

According to Acampora, market breadth, a fancy term for the number of New York Stock Exchange stocks going up minus the number going down, is now indicating bullish times for [...]

The Federal Reserve's recent move to cut interest rates by another half a percentage point was so widely anticipated, the equity markets treated the news with a yawn, followed by [...]

In new testimony before Congress last week, Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan seemed to provide the necessary assurances that he will not only reduce interest rates as necessary, but he [...]

In contrast to the snowballing sell-offs of recent months, support developed last week whenever stocks began to slip. For the first time in a long while, moreover, the impact of [...]

The stock market's sharp decline that started in the middle of last year was forecasting an impending economic downturn of significant proportions, but nobody -- not even the Federal Reserve [...]

The action of the stock market itself also is different this time. The 10-year bull market has enriched millions of Americans. Household net worth has doubled in the past decade, [...]

The euphoria that swept through Wall Street in the wake of the Federal Reserve's surprisingly bold rate reduction dissipated rapidly as renewed concerns about the economy and corporate profits surfaced. [...]

Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan made waves Jan. 3 by lowering the target Federal Funds rate to 6.00 percent from 6.50 percent. The move came as a complete shock and [...]

We recently spent some time analyzing the current status and future of technology. Here are some thoughts on computer software and services from Brian Hogan: While PCs have been slow [...]

Despite the current troubles and the probability that the markets will retest the lows, we see a possible turning point that will most likely be the base that, builds into [...]

Remember the goldilocks economy -- not too strong or too weak, but just fight? Now that we have a president; we are also likely to have gridlock in Congress that [...]

Beleaguered tech-stock investors are consoling themselves that the January Effect -- the well-known tendency of the stock market to perform well as the New Year begins -- could be favorable [...]

This time last year, a whole series of pleasant macroeconomic conditions seemed to support a continuation of the economic expansion, then entering its 10th straight year. With such a backdrop, [...]

The technology boom and bust we have lived through the last few years has been a breathtaking ride, but it is hardly unprecedented. According to a recent article by Hal [...]

For months now, investors have become increasingly, pessimistic as indicator after indicator pointed ever more insistently to a less than 'soft' landing. Trying to avoid being tagged with responsibility for [...]

We certainly feel like crying 'boo hoo,' as the infamous Grinch suspected the 'Whos' would do after he took away their Christmas. Yes, the election debacle has hurt the markets [...]

With personal income dropping and many stocks trading at two-year lows, the wealth effect that helped buoy the last couple of holiday shopping seasons is likely to act in reverse [...]

The last bastion of technological strength has fallen to the rampaging stock market bears. With the capitulation of the optical networking stocks represented by Nortel, JDS Uniphase and Ciena, every [...]

Ralph Acampora, Chief Technical Analyst at Prudential Securities, has given us many insights into the recent stock market when fundamentals did not tell the whole story. One of his claims [...]

There have been extraordinary gains in U.S. productivity over the past five years, culminating in an 8 percent surge in the fourth quarter of 1999. Productivity growth has extended the [...]

Like a football team that always played with the wind, institutional investors always had the upper hand when it came to information and corporate communications. Wall Street analysts would often [...]

Close result likely to bring few big changes Wall Street does not like uncertainty. That may be an obvious understatement, but the market's confidence was shattered when the U.S. Presidential [...]

Investors abhor uncertainty. Yet there is still much uncertainty in the markets. Is there light at the end of the tunnel as the markets crawl, battered and bruised, toward the [...]

It is not news to investors that this year has been a big disappointment. The struggling Dow is now back in the low 10,000 range, where it was in April [...]

Information technology is revolutionizing the way we communicate, work, shop and play. But is it really changing the economy? The true believers said IT helps economies grow faster -- the [...]

One of the effects of the IT revolution is that it creates new technologies and then destroys them at a rapid pace. Joseph Shumpeter, the mid-century Austrian economist, was the [...]

In the midst of the current gloom on Wall Street, the Federal Reserve announced Oct. 3 that it would not change he level of interest rates at this time. The [...]