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Wall Street’s Next Great Shift: From AI Stocks to AI Trading

AI trading is emerging as the market’s biggest edge as investors use next-gen tools to cut through the noise and win on Wall Street.

Fannie Finally Gets Off Its Fanny?

This week, the U.S. Senate Banking Committee approved legislation that strengthens congressional oversight of Fannie Mae (FNM) and its sister company Freddie Mac (FRE) two…

Fannie-Freddie Bailout: What It Means to You

This weekend the government finally took over mortgage lenders Fannie Mae (FNM) and Freddie Mac (FRE). World markets cheered and stocks are higher across the…

New Government Role Jeopardizes Bank Stocks

You really need a scorecard to follow the flippings and floppings of our government officials over the past week as they made a spectacle of…

The Dollar Finally Makes a Move Higher

After what seems like a lifetime of declines, the U.S. dollar has finally staged a comeback. Before you put on your rally caps, though, this…

7 High-Profile Dollar Stocks to Watch in 2010

Stocks trading around $1 per share could be your ticket to easy street, or they could leave you holding nothing but pennies. Take a look…

The Hottest Sector to Own Right Now

Did the headline grab your attention? If so, then sit back, and enjoy this story, as I unveil what I believe to be the greatest…

Goldman Sachs Fraud Claims End Wall Street Win Streak

The stock market had its first major speedbump in months with the major indexes down between -1% and -1.5% on news that the SEC has…

Where Is Our Stimulus Plan?

When talking about the incoming Obama Administration’s fiscal stimulus package, it’s easy to take heart from the pragmatic brainiacs that are coming to run policy…

Build Profits With 3 Crumbling Housing Stocks

Housing stocks are vulnerable to a sell-off, especially if the economy weakens. Here are three option trades to profit from the sector’s struggles.

Broadcom (BRCM) Takes a Bruising

Earnings season is always a difficult time to invest, but this one seems to have been harder than most. Companies that have hit earnings homeruns…

Best Buy (BBY) To The Rescue?

With the announcement of the U.S. government seizing control of mortgage giants Fannie Mae (FNM) and Freddie Mac (FRE) the housing crisis appears to be…

Wachovia’s Steel Resolve

Are we there yet? Are the last vestiges of the mortgage crisis finally upon us? Wachovia (WB), the nation’s fourth largest financial institution, announced earnings…

Finding Safety and Stability in 3M

Safety and diversification are two of my favorite words during times of economic turmoil. Believe it or not, there are a number of stocks that…

Lehman and Wamu in Death Pact

Stocks have jostled around lately like rocks at the bottom of a paper bag, always threatening to break down but never quite developing the energy.…

Market Analysis – 2 Sectors That Might Keep the Market Afloat

If technology and financial stocks can break through major technical resistance, the market could continue to go up for several more days.

Balancing Risks and Rewards in This Market

Before you panic because of the recent financial meltdown and go completely to cash, take a deep breath and think back to that old phrase…

Finding the Stock Market Bottom

I grew up with a wonderful grandmother and I respected her generation for their accomplishments through some difficult times in history. In a way, I…

Don’t Trust the Bank Bounce

Government officials tried to pull off something that no administration has EVER come close to accomplishing: kill off short-sellers and oil speculators while quelling inflation…

Why the Treasury Hit the “Reset” Button

It became apparent over the past two weeks that the only way to hit the reset button on the global economy is for Western capitalist…

Buying Homebuilders Just Doesn’t Make Sense

Sometimes things don’t just seem to make sense. Like watching Stanford beating USC in football, or Brett Favre play in a New York Jets uniform.…

A Healthy Dose of Reality

Every now and then my hometown team, the Seattle Mariners, and the shares of large companies behave similarly. Volume has been light as the market…

Credit Markets Point to Upturn

The credit market, a reliable indicator of equity direction, suggests we will break out of the SPX’s trading range to the upside.

U.S. Markets, Dollar Showing Olympic ‘Mettle’

Like the Olympics, you can get the equivalent of gold-medal options trades (i.e., the triple-digit winners), the silver-medal trades (where you double your money) and…

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