Well, maybe it’s not quite that much of a fairy tale, but the breakthrough and clear close above the 11,000 mark for the Dow does help to remove one of the more meaningful technical barriers...

The market has been in a rotational uptrend for the past three years, which is confusing, as not all stocks are moving in the same direction at the same time.

Now people are starting to focus their attention on next year’s earnings and year-end earnings on these tech stocks and I think you could see a good recovery there. Especially if some of the news...

That probably means we’re going to follow through to the downside tomorrow.

My days as a runner are supposed to end with the new hip, but I run so slow that there?s not much jarring. I plan to keep going.

We’ve seen some evidence of a slowing economy, which is a good thing but we need more evidence to call it a trend,

We’re seeing some evidence of some slowing in the economy, which is a good thing, but we need a little longer time to call it a trend. And I think that is what the Fed...

Right now, the best thing to do is to buy stocks that are good values,

I think we’re seeing already the start of a relief rally. Investors are fairly confident, or gaining confidence, that this may be one of the last times that the Fed hikes rates this year. Anything...

Although we are on track with our expected results for personal auto and small commercial, our expected combined ratios for large commercial and homeowners will be higher than we anticipated at the beginning of the...

I think we could see a rally begin again in the fall as investors start to look forward to the next year’s earnings which are, right now, very unclear and I think that’s one of...

We’re putting that data together to go to the Hill to show congressmen and senators exactly what is happening on individual farms. What they want to do is show how these energy costs are hitting...

The correction isn’t over, although the worst part of it is probably behind us now.

We had retail sales numbers which were a little on the weak side. The CPI which was very good this week, and yet the market has not been able to react for more than about...