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Little more negative. I really do. Think about it. Weve run so far, so fast, so much right now. And yet we dont have any new data points of consequence. Were simply paying more and more for the same exact insights. But it doesnt seem to matter, as we strike towards another set of new highs. Dow gaining 40 points. S p advancing 0. 51 . Nasdaq climbing 0. 671 . Not trying to be a naysayer, but pessimism has back the enemy of profits. Negativity isnt being rewarded at all, except in a narrow handfu...

Stories this morning. Deal news dominating this morning. Valeant ends the buyout deal for allergan. They made an unsolicited deal last spring. It looks like the soap opera could end, 210 is more than they expected. Hackman and valeant are going to share the profits that ackman has reportedly made with the stock at 40 . This is a winwin situation because of the way he structured this. But valeant shareholders effectively split the profits with ackman. With the purchase there. Thats pretty interes...

Crude continues to fall. Some americans can watch for 2. 50 a gallon gas. Can halliburton defend its oil business . Retail sales better than expected. Nordstrom earnings beat. A number of downgrades to contend with this morning. A Richard Bransonbacked ipo at the nasdaq, Virgin America. Well have the first trade and interview with the ceo coming up. Oil the big story, below 74. Baker hughes confirming it is in preliminary merger talks with halliburton. The journal story said motivations behind t...

Even keel with the dow dipping 18 points today. S p edging up 9. 2 . Nasdaq advancing 1. 8 . Will it stay this way . I think it could depend on what happens this weekend when the g20 meets in brisbane. This conference represents the first time that the true antagonist the ukrainerussia conflict sit down. And perhaps some sort of path to peace can go down. Lets put it another way, though. If you go through my tenpoint checklist, the cessation of hostilities in ukraine was on the list. We get any ...

Of the month. That being about 80. We are moving higher. You see this morning. Our road map starts with what you might expect. These markets are surging overnight on central bank action. China unexpectedly cutting Interest Rates. Mario draghi promises more aggressive stimulus in europe. It is a big morning for dan loeb. Dow chemical and third point reached an agreement. Management changes at hertz and sothebys which loeb is on the board of also expecting to change their ceo soon. On the earnings...

That a good or bad idea . Voices on both sides of that issue. We have the latest and you get to chime in on whos right in that battle, as well. You can see on an otherwise up day, all the table stocks are lower. The president in china at a quick summit announcing a visa program thats expanded and on the same day china is the top suspect in a massive hacking attack on the u. S. Postal service affecting more than 800,000 postal workers. Can we have truly normal economic relations with china while ...

Stock market got clocked at the opening because of weakness in japan. Its always somewhere there. We got a second straight drop in growth for a quarter and thats enough to trigger an official designation of a country in recession. Thats right, even after the japanese government pulled out all the stops, hasnt seemed to matter. Growth too hard to come by. By mid morning a wave of buying came in to take advantage of the decline. The dow closed up 13 points, the s p advanced. 07 but the nasdaq decl...

Hearing from gap stores while we take a look at the markets in the meantime. The futures are indicated lower. Dow futures down by 62 points below fair value. S p futures off by seven. The nasdaq down by 17. What was happening in asia overnight . Youll see the nikkei cloez closed up slightly, and i mean ever so slightly. These are barely budging for both the hang seng and the shanghai, as well. In europe, youll see some red arrows, coming on the news that some of the pmi numbers were weaker than ...

Week. Not discussed at all, including today, when the dow opened big. Nasdaq advancing 0. 31 . A lot of that because of apple. Apples endless inexorable rise is a gigantic underpinning of this market and we must never forget that fact. Oh, we may focus on the gyrations of ali baba and marvel at the possibilities of twitter. We may be fascinated how macys rallied. Nevertheless, its apple thats the leader. And that in itself is amazing, given everything we ever thought possible about any one parti...

While an endless parade of widely respected nay airs keep insists stocks are doomed to go lower, a pessimistic drumbeat that gets amplified across tv, print and the web. Regardless of where stocks are trading or how the stock might actually be doing, but this attitude is totally out of the sync with reality. I wonder if some of the national permabears are living in an alternate universe. Just for 20 months from mid notch to miff july of 2014, the s p 500 rallied more than 50 , a performance that...