Friends The much anticipated non-farm payroll number was somewhat of a best of both worlds or Goldilocks number. Last month 175,000 new jobs were created in the United States (yes, that is better than the number I had guessed, for entertainment purposes only), which...

Friends After yesterday’s drubbing, stocks seemed poised to post a third down day in a row as the Dow was down a spooky 117 points in early trading. But the afternoon brought with it a reversal, as some major technical levels held, and stocks staged an impressive...

Friends Well, it had to end someday. Yes, the streak of up Tuesdays ended today. After twenty Tuesdays in a row of stocks being up, we finally had a down day for the major averages on a Tuesday. The main culprit seems to be the musings of Kansas City Fed Governor...

Friends Friday’s, last day of the month selloff, was a distant memory today as stocks rallied despite overnight chaos in Japanese trading. We get a lot of economic news this week, including the non-farm payroll number on Friday, and today’s ISM manufacturing number...