Friends   It was a quiet day for stocks as the 10-year Treasury note finally settled back a little in yield giving traders a bit of relief. As we have pointed out, market participants have had trouble dealing with the rise in longer term interest rates over the...

Friends   The bond market continues to be the catalyst for many of the stock market moves we have seen lately. Today, interest rates continued higher on stronger than expected economic news. In the past months, the Fed has cut the Fed Funds rate (short term...

Friends   Stocks got off to a nice start this morning, but as the trading session wore on the market averages continued to give up some of the gains. Again, a handful of stocks were the early winners led by Nvidia and Microsoft, but there wasn’t a whole lot of...

Friends   The first trading day of the new year was quite volatile as stocks moved higher at the open, fell firmly into negative territory then recovered some before the close. It was not really a surprise to see stocks like Apple fall today given the pent-up...