Friends It was a very quiet day for the markets with little volatility and volume. Stocks vacillated back and forth between positive and negative territory seemingly without any real catalyst for the day. Traders of course are focused on the fiscal cliff, but they...

Friends In economic news we got a somewhat mixed message this morning as the PMI Manufacturing Index came in better than expected, while the ISM Manufacturing Index was just shy of awful. The result was a minor rally on the first number and a giveback on the second....