Pending Home Sales Unexpectedly Fall – Bloomberg Copper Extends Declines – Bloomberg Jobless Claims Fall to 469,000 – Business Week Retail Fared Better in February – Wall Street Journal M&A Activity Highest Since 2008 – CNBC Greece Starts 10-Yr Bond Sale – Bloomberg Greece’s Epic Battle Against Debt – CNBC Market Bubbles Might Not Be [...]

Lind Plus Senior Market Strategist Jeff Friedman discusses the impact of Dubai’s debt crisis on various markets. This video is part of “Lind Market Recap.”

Dubai Fallout Hurts Stocks – Wall Street Journal Stocks & Commodities Slide as Bonds & Dollar Gain on Dubai Debt Crisis – Bloomberg Copper Falls Most in Five Months on Dubai Concerns – Bloomberg Cotton Tumbles Most in Five Weeks – Bloomberg Crude Oil Hits 7-week Low – MarketWatch Gold Drops First Day in 10 [...]

U.S. Stocks in Broad Rally – Wall Street Journal New Jobless Claims Rise Unexpectedly to 627k – RealClearMarkets Durable Goods Much Better Than Expected – Wachovia Gold Rises for Third Day – Bloomberg Wheat Falls to Eight-Week Low – Bloomberg U.S. Crisis is Like Japan’s, Only 7 Times Faster – Newsweek Regulatory Reform: A Primer [...]

Here’s an interesting little diagram comparing the current government bailout to previous government projects, courtesy of Voltage Creative. (click to enlarge)

By Tim Haberkorn It was a record-setting day for the stock market on Monday, October 13, 2008, and this time, it was gains and not losses that made headlines. Investors saw widespread global interventions to rescue the financial markets and free up credit over the weekend. However, looking at everything going on in the world, [...]

Dow Falls 500 Points; S&P Below 1,000 – Bloomberg Is the Credit Crunch Ever Going to End? – New York Times Are We Depressed Yet? – Los Angeles Times We’re Not Heading for a Depression – Wall Street Journal Neither Rome Nor Confidence Were Built in a Day – MarketWatch Bernanke Signals Fed May Cut [...]

Dow Plunges 700 Points – AP London Suffers Sharpest Fall Since ’87 – Telegraph How Will We Know if the Bailout Succeeds – The Atlantic Fed Will Provide as Much as $900 Billion in Loans to Banks – RealClearMarkets Is This a Replay of 1929? – Washington Post The Next Crisis: The Economy – MSNMoney [...]

U.S. Plans Sweeping Cleanup – Wall Street Journal World Markets Soar – Associate Press London Surges Most in History – Telegraph Treasury to Guarantee Money Market Funds – Reuters SEC Bans Short Selling for Financials – CNN Money Russian Stocks Resume Trading – Associated Press Oil Rises Above $98 – RealClearMarkets Gold Tumbles as U.S. [...]

Treasuries a Safe-Haven in Times of Crisis By Greg Perlin An avalanche of negative news swept the markets yesterday. To summarize the events, two Wall Street titans will essentially disappear. Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy and Merrill Lynch agreed to be acquired by Bank of America. The stock market really has taken a hit and [...]