Its all Greek today on the Jack B. Show.  Alan Rohrbach joins in the discussion with Jack and Sara.  Technical and psychological views of the markets are given with special attention paid to China, Gold, the Aussie Dollar and S&Ps. Click here to listen to this podcast

Today is the last trading day of the year, and folks, this has been one of those years where you just have to sit back, take a deep breath and be glad that it’s over. If I had told you that we’d go through what we’ve gone through—the tsunami/nuclear disaster in Japan, the Arab Spring, [...]

Many of the lessons that I learned in trading the markets were learned from my old mentor, Bing Sun, who went from being a boy genius to an academic at Harvard to running the multi-billion-dollar Harvard Endowment Fund. After he left the fund, I became his assistant on the floor at the CME. Spending hours [...]

Folks, many years ago Mark Haines, the late, great CNBC anchor, gave me the nickname the Optimistic Armenian. I bring that up because as I look at the continuation of Friday’s rally early on in today’s session, I’m seeing a lot to be optimistic about. Last week I told you that if we were able [...]

Folks, I told you earlier this week how I was very interested in those inflation numbers coming out of China. Well, that number came out exactly where we wanted it to. For September, CPI in China was 6.1% and PPI was 6.5%. Some of you might be saying, Jack, 6+% inflation—that still seems high. And [...]

Folks, so far in today’s session, the markets are trading mixed. This comes after a run-up of around 80 handles in the S&P over the last three days that has helped to restore a little confidence. So, too, did a better-than-expected jobs number this morning—nothing to jump up and down about, but considering the obstacles [...]

Folks, Dallas Fed President Richard Fisher spoke to CNBC this morning. When asked about whether the FOMC will continue to experiment with monetary policy, he responded, “Whatever we do has to have a complementary side, a fiscal policy that channels it properly.” That’s right: without the help of legislators and the Obama administration, there simply [...]

Folks, in addition to being T+3 settlement day, it’s also the beginning of Rosh Hashanah. Things will probably slow down later in the day as Jewish traders on the East Coast leave early to celebrate the high holiday. Expect a flurry of activity early and then a slowdown toward the end of the session. All [...]

Folks, as I write this, the yield on the 10-year is 1.7%, and the reason is because there is a ton of confusion out there in the marketplace. So much, in fact, that people are willing to go into a net-negative interest rate situation (at least for the short term) because of the uncertainty with [...]

Folks, yesterday, Jim Cramer interviewed Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner on CNBC. I probably don’t need to remind you that I think Mr. Geithner is a little long in the tooth as far as that position is concerned, but he said something very important that I wanted to make sure you all caught: there is no [...]