It seems the major catalyst of the summer is oil with energy stocks holding up an otherwise sluggish stock market. How should you be positioned?   Read More

The bulls initially dominated trading on Tuesday after the Treasury Department said 10 big banks have gotten the okay to pay back $68 billion they received from the government.    Read More

As expected, 10 banks are being permitted to repay their TARP money, a combined $68 billion. Oddly, they didn't name the banks, but it's JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, US Bancorp, American Express, Capital One, BB&T, Bank of New York, State Street and Northern Trust.    Read More

Stocks refuse to drop, but the "wall of worry" gets higher. Bond yield backups, dollar strength have all become topics in the past week.    Read More

If last week is any indication, the market focus will be less on stocks and more on bonds and the dollar; while the dollar staged a late-week rally, the Treasury auction this week and continued weakness in long-dated Treasuries continues to be a worry for traders.    Read More

Plus, Cramer makes the call on steels, coal and more.   Read More

April pending home sales of existing homes - which measures contract signings--stronger than expect - April, up 6.7 percent, much better than expectations of a gain of 0.5 percent.    Read More

Sure, JPMorgan Chase and Goldman Sachs are top-notch firms, but they don’t hold the most potential upside. Here are the three that do.   Read More

Kirk Kerkorian and Warren Buffett are two more of the world’s richest investors who have just revealed how they’re gaming stocks!   Read More

Even though Warren Buffett always says he likes stocks more when they're cheaper, he didn't do a lot of buying as Wall Street's major indexes fell to their bear-market lows (so far) in early March.  Berkshire Hathaway's first quarter stock portfolio snapshot shows no blockbuster buys. A few stakes did, however, get bigger during the first three months on the year.   Read More