Folks, this morning’s ADP number blew away street. Private-sector payrolls increased by 325,000 last month, far surpassing the forecast of 178,000. Now the expectations for tomorrow’s non-farm payrolls are even higher, but the range is still pretty significant—the projections are anywhere from 110,000-200,000. Tomorrow’s number will be the real tell, of course, but it’s nice [...]

Welcome to 2012, folks! Before the holiday I broke down what I believe will be the three keys for investors to watch going into the new year. As you know, I’m a glass-half-full kind of guy, so on this first trading day of the year I wanted to go through three sectors that I think [...]

Early in today’s session, Best Buy’s stock price is getting kicked around on reports that their third quarter earnings fell by 13%. My co-host Sara Ritz, aka the Market Belle, mentioned on the show this morning how she wasn’t surprises at all about Best Buy’s miss. After all, their stores have essentially turned into a [...]

Folks, with quadruple expiration taking place on Friday and the holidays just around the corner, this week is essentially the last week of the year to trade. On the one hand, we have portfolio managers who are underinvested. And on the other hand, we have books about to close for the year—there’s something of a [...]

Folks, when you really boil it down, the question that’s been at the center of this whole European situation has always been pretty simple: How can you be a monetary union without being a fiscal union? And the answer is equally simple: you can’t be. If you share a currency, you have to share other [...]

Folks, I’ve been around a long time, and I’ve learned that there are traders’ markets and there are investors’ markets. As the nervous condition continues and the aftershocks from Monday’s pullback are compounded by problems at European banks, this market environment has become unsuitable for traders—you simply cannot properly manage risk when there’s this kind [...]