MARK TO MARKET ACCOUNTING CHANGES Could the wheels be coming off of the bear market rally already? It’s certainly possible, but I think it’s more likely that either late Monday…or certainly sometime on Tuesday we will begin to see the markets head higher again. Here’s why:

Assuming that the market doesn’t fall apart today (down 120 points now but I think it may even close positive), today will mark the single best week we’ve had in the market since late December and for the first time in a long time I’m seeing some constructive market internals (new highs/lows,

While I expect the bear market rally to continue for a short while longer there is no evidence that I can find whatsoever that we have reached a final bottom in this once of a lifetime collapse in equities and the economy. Here’s what you have to remember about bear market rallies; they happen incredibly quickly…

As I wrote yesterday morning for VRA subscribers, a bear market rally is upon us and it’s obvious even to the most newbie of investors that this one was highly coordinated at both the government and corporate levels. Yes folks, the fix was in for a stock market rally, which tells you that they are very concerned….beyond that, frightened,

One by one, U.S. and global leaders are lining up to talk up their respective schemes to end this once in a lifetime economic collapse. Collectively they are putting on a unified road show to ensure us pawns that the trillions upon trillions being spent on massive, never-before-seen global bailouts will in fact work,

Unfortunately, this is all that’s holding our fragile economy and financial system together as we enter this most important week of trading. The band aids are the fiscal stimulus programs and government (see taxpayer) funded bailouts of the banking and financial industries.