As the S&P 500 continues to approach its former all time high, below is a long term chart of the index adjusted for CPI.  While we'r...

After QE3's announcement in mid September there was some concern that the effect of QE on the market had eroded because the S&P 500 ...

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...

2013 is beginning the year with a strong dichotomy in asset class returns.  While the S&P 500 is on pace to have its best January since ...

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...

Circling back on a slightly ridiculous market indicator that we had been tracking here: not only was the Mayan Apocalypse averted back in De...

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...

In recent weeks, there has been talk that part of Apple's 23% decline may be due to the fact that capital gains taxes are likely to go u...

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...

Even though we're set to open slightly lower this morning, the S&P 500 is hardly down at all for November.  This is amazing consider...

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...

There was an article in the Journal today about a painting by Gerhard Richter entitled Abstract Painting (809-4) which sold for $34m, the hi...

Given the choppy trading environment that we've been going through recently, the S&P 500 is getting closer to trading at its 50 day ...

In order to celebrate the five year anniversary of the highest point in the S&P 500 set at 1561, I put together a list of the best perfo...

Earnings season is set to pick up again starting next week, and it's an important season because earnings growth has begun to slow in r...

The S&P 500 is up nearly 16% year to date, even though earnings are expected to grow 4-5% for the year.  If earnings grow by that much, ...