Thoughts

The Muslim Brotherhood's Official English website is a good breaking-news resource.

Market Running Out of Energy?

At some point, the rise in energy prices is almost always a negative for equities.

We might be approaching that point now.

Whenever the XOI has experienced a big run against the S&P 500, it is usually bad for the U.S. stock market.

Genworth Takes Out Bank Stocks

Bank stocks are getting hit on the GNW news. (Genworth's shares are down by 10%.)

Housing watchers should pay special attention to Genworth's release.

PayPal to Partner With Android?

I'm hearing that PayPal will become the exclusive payment partner on Android. If accurate -- and I have no clue if it is! -- it should help EBAY.

Should the rate of increase in commodity prices continue their upward assault, I would expect more geopolitical risk and chaos around the world.

This is one of the unintended consequences of massive quantitative easing.