Over the course of the recent bull market there have been a few growth stocks that have hit extreme levels only to come crashing down.  Alth...

This is an update to a post that I first wrote last year, t he last time that the S&P 500 had a big rise in the first month of the year ...

2012 was a pretty mild year as far as volatility is concerned.  There were two periods of correction, but both were relatively light and the...

As of today, the bull market which began in March of 2009 is 1,422 calendar days old.  Over that whole period there have been nine drawdowns...

Even though the Dow was down by 12 points today, it's beginning to look increasingly likely that we'll see a new all time high for t...

The S&P 500 is just 10 points away from reclaiming the 1500 mark, a level it first hit nearly 13 years ago in March of 2000.  The overal...

Last year the S&P 500 was positive for the entire year--it didn't close in the red YTD on any single day, and so far in 2013 the s...

Assuming that we don't run into a recession at the beginning of this year, 2013 will be the 5th year of economic expansion since recover...

The heart of earnings season is fast approaching, but as someone who likes to value companies on a long term basis, it's typically diffi...

Bank of America was up 108% last year to lead all members of the Dow.  Amazingly, one can argue that even after the 100% return, BAC is stil...

The averages are up around 2% to start 2013--for historical comparison the chart below shows the best first days in Dow history going back t...

At the beginning of last year I noted that our current bull market has paced the 2003-2007 bull market step for step and year for year .  Af...

I may be getting a little ahead of myself here, but since the Santa Claus rally has been in full effect in 2012, I'm starting to think a...

Tonight the lucky residents of 42 states (sadly not California) will get a shot at a $500m Powerball jackpot.  Below is a chart of all the t...

The end of this week will bring the end of November, and with that there is the usual seasonal talk about a Santa Claus rally in the stock m...

After today's selloff, the S&P 500 is up 7.8% for the year (ex-dividends) while the Dow is only up 2.9%.  This means that the S&...

With the S&P 500 at 1384, we're currently more than 5% off of the most recent high for the S&P 500.  This marks the 9th time sin...

The S&P 500 is down a little over 5% since September 14th, and it feels like the decline has been led by some of the best performing sto...

Early this year (back on January 4th) I posted that 2009, 2010 and 2011 had followed the pace of the 2003, 2004, 2005 rally almost perfectly...

Even though November 2008 was a much different market environment than November 2012, it's worth noting that equity markets sold off pr...