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Mood Moves Ritholtz

dvdpenn — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 13:05:14 -0500

Trader and author of The Big Picture blog, Barry Ritholtz asked recently, "Here’s an interesting question: Are videos like this one more likely nearer to tops or bottoms?" read more »

Bear Market Blagojevich

dvdpenn — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 07:25:31 -0500

I've sometimes thought of liquidation that occurs during bear markets as akin to those old fables about the over-ambitious offering up their eternal souls for temporal glories. I'm no liquida read more »

Spectacles of Discontent

dvdpenn — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 08:37:10 -0500

One of the golden rules of mood analysis is that major declines in social mood will always be accompanied by dramatic outbreaks of mass violence. read more »

Mood and the Miracle on the Hudson

dvdpenn — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 08:29:31 -0500

Along with the upcoming inauguration of president elect Barack Obama, the Miracle on the Hudson - in which a US Airways jet plane made an emergency landing in the Hudson River late in the day on Thurs read more »

A Tradable Rally in Equities, Risk Aversion Takes a Reprieve, and Key Levels to Determine Sentiment for the Week

osok — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 23:51:40 -0500

The R Word, the C Word

dvdpenn — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 19:41:44 -0500

With the outgoing administration finally able to utter the phrase "recession", we have another crucial element in the sort of capitulation that we'll need before we see a rebound in mood. read more »

The Geithner Bottom?

dvdpenn — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 04:00:48 -0500

The appointment of New York Fed President Timothy Geithner - "not Wall Street guy" - as Treasury secretary in the incoming Obama administration is this week's most compelling market mood read more »

How NOT to Read Market Moods

dvdpenn — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 10:30:42 -0500

Brian Wesbury is a smart guy. But suggesting that the first press conference by President-elect Obama on Friday was instantaneously causing a sell-off in the stock market - as Mr. read more »

Welcome to Market Moods!

dvdpenn — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 15:34:59 -0400

When I first got into the business of writing about the financial markets, it was the summer of 2000. Seve read more »