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

If you read this blog or listen to my podcast on a regular basis, you know that I don’t consider myself a technician. But that doesn’t mean I don’t pay attention to technical levels—you have to take information from multiple places in order to make the best decisions. So to close out the first full [...]

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, [...]

Well, folks, we didn’t quite make that 500-point gain in the Dow yesterday, but we did see one of the biggest moves in equities in quite a while thanks to that perfect storm of events, capping off what appears will be a very, very big month. I was looking at some numbers, and if we [...]

Folks, I’ve been saying for weeks now that the market has been mispriced, and as more and more earnings reports surface, we’re seeing the proof in the pudding. Look at Ford. Boeing. These are hot numbers coming out at a time when a lot of people were concerned we were going to see a slowdown. [...]

Folks, we’re coming up on the end of what has been an exceptionally strong month. In the last few weeks, we’ve seen tremendous moves in equities—the Dow shot up more than 9%, the NASDAQ more than 11% and the S&P more than 10%. After a run like that, we want to see the market stop [...]

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, after nine straight sessions of gains and an 11% move in the S&P, the markets are in the red this morning on news from—you guessed it—Europe. Germany once again lowered expectations on finding an end to the European Union’s debt crisis, saying that a summit of European finance leaders wouldn’t be likely to produce [...]

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, while we’ve seen the market moving almost straight up over the last eight or nine sessions, it still seems like it’s trying to figure out what’s next. In the S&P, we’ve tested the upper end of the range, up around that 1215 level, but have yet to penetrate. And if you were to overlay [...]