While the Burlington Northern deal is getting a lot of attention, it has not brought pre-open trading in the S&P futures into positive territory yet. Risk aversion has become a more prominent theme since last Wednesday, when the S&P 500 dropped below its 50-day moving average for the first time since July.    Read More

At the end of September, we looked at analysts' price targets for the S&P 500 to see which stocks had the greatest expected gains in the months ahead.  So far, 3 out of the October 1 top 5 and 6 out of the top 10 are trading to the upside.   Here is the current list of 15 stocks expected to pop (and another 15 expected to drop).   Read More

Futures all over the map this morning: They popped to their highs of the morning, and have since come down, as the final numbers for second quarter GDP came in better than expected (decline of 0.7 percent vs. expectations of a decline of 1.2 percent).    Read More

The Dow and S&P rallied on Monday, snapping a three-day losing streak, as a string of corporate takeovers fueled optimism that value remained in the market.   Read More

How should you put money to work in the wake of this uptick in M&A?   Read More

The markets continued to inch up yesterday, posting gains for the seventh time in 8 days and are looking up again this morning on the open.  While the Dow and S&P have mostly been up fractionally on those days over the past couple of weeks – string together those smaller gains, and notice they have rallied a notable 4% and 6%, respectively, since September 2.    Read More

Since Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy one year ago, a screen of the S&P 500  reveals that 82% of its components remain in the red to date.   Read More

Cramer is back and he hit on several key topics on Tuesday's Stop Trading! segment.   Read More

Tech companies in the S&P 500 have been a major force in the recent rally, up 15.9% on average since their July 10th lows. Here is a look at which tech stocks are leading and which are lagging in the recent rally.   Read More

Shortly after the March lows, we wrote a story about the tech led rally.  In the article, we pointed out which tech stocks were leading and which were lagging.  Now, as one of our readers wrote in, the story has changed and he has profited from it.   Read More