Zach writes, “What do you think has been priced into Microsoft in the past 2-3 months? Are they already pricing in them getting Yahoo! or not..."   Read More

Dennis Gartman on what to do now that the Fed is out of the picture.   Read More

Uncle Sam wants you to bet on a strong dollar. But you can’t always trust relatives with your money. What to do?   Read More

Warren Buffett spoke live this morning (Monday) with CNBC's Squawk Box about his role in today's $23 billion Mars acquisition of Wrigley spacer. The previous Warren Buffett Watch post has the highlights. Here is the complete interview in two parts, both video and transcript.   Read More

The Dow, NASDAQ and the S&P 500 are all negative for the week fueled by GE's almost 13% decline on Friday.   Read More

GE and the G7 -- two big stories for the markets Friday with the dollar as a common theme.
First, General Electric releases earnings before the open.    Read More

Like an early warning system, retailers Thursday could reveal how much pain the consumer has been feeling from rising energy costs and the slowing economy.    Read More

Stocks are trudging along and have held up fairly well in the face of some not so good news and ahead of the barrage of next week's earnings reports.    Read More

There's plenty of hand wringing around first quarter earnings, and Alcoa didn't help by kicking off the reporting season with a miss.   Read More

There's a watchfulness in the stock market that's likely to translate into tentative and choppy trading as the corporate earnings season gets underway.    Read More