As May begins the “I Do” season kicks into high hear. Which wedding trades could leave your wallet living happily ever after?   Read More

Following are the week’s biggest winners and losers. Find out why shares of Monsanto and Tiffany popped while JPMorgan and Citigroup dropped.   Read More

Jamie Dimon raises his bid for Bear Stearns to quell a shareholder rebellion. What's it mean for the rest of the financials? Also, a debate on the Fed, a surging Nasdaq and more.   Read More

High end sales are the last to fall off going into a downturn and the first to pickup coming out of a recession. So what does Tiffany's spacer better than expected earnings tell us about where we are in the middle of those two options?    Read More

The most important fact about this week is that it is the last week of a dismal quarter. Traders got annihilated in January, as the market went against both longs (in the first half of the month) and shorts (in the second half).    Read More

Find me an analyst or an investor who's excited about this week's same store sales results. Literally, the expectations are so low for this first month of the first quarter, that any indication of a rosier March may cause volatility around share prices when the nation's biggest stores report same store sales results for the month of February on this Thursday.    Read More

Forget Howie Mandel, we’ll tell you about all the M&A chatter and how you can profit.   Read More

Part III in a series - Even more companies that you may love this Valentine's Day...   Read More

Futures trending down since Europe opened on rumors that someone might be unwinding a structured product in Europe this am. Mixed morning for stocks: MBIA shares down 11 percent.    Read More

Anecdotal evidence that the U.S. consumer's marathon spending spree may be slowing to a trot increases daily. By some measures, the U.S. consumer makes up about 19 percent of the world economy and 70 percent of the U.S. economy, so the health of American consumption is key.    Read More