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Wall Street’s favorite jester has fallen foul of the prophet of doom. A tense feud has broken out between the outspoken tele­vision stock picker Jim Cramer and the notoriously gloomy economist Nouriel Roubini.
Roubini, a New York University professor who famously forecast a dire world recession as far back as 2006, has taken exception to remarks [...]

Stock futures are down sharply this morning ahead of the open. The DJIA is down 170 points while the NASDAQ is off 21 points. The mainstream media sources are attributing todays selloff to a comment made from the Obama administration that suggests a GM bankruptcy is a possibility. Is that really the reason for the [...]

Much has been made (mostly by the mainstream media) over the recent rally in the Dow Jones Industrial Average. Many of the usual suspects, including those that have been wrong for the past 3 years, have been quick to call a bottom. We, as technicians, tend to pay little attention to CNBC, Fox Business, etc. [...]

The media spends too much time repeating the optimistic outlooks of economists and strategists who’ve been wrong for 3 years. I like to focus on those who clearly saw this recession/depression coming. Among those who correctly predicted this crisis was NYU professor Nouriel Roubini.
Professor Roubini Monday offered the opinion that the US recession could drag [...]

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Louise Yamada is widely regarded as one of the top technical analysts in the business. She was a Managing Director and Head of Technical Research for Smith Barney and was the top-ranked market technician in 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2004.
In November, Louise stressed the importance of the Dow Jones holding the 2002 lows and warned [...]

Amid growing rumors of bank nationalization, which the WSJ and Dow Jones attribute to ChartingStocks.net, the great wealth destroying CEO of Bank of America felt obliged to give an emergency interview  yesterday to play down talks of government takeover.
“When you talk about nationalization of Bank of America, it becomes absurd. What it appears to [...]

March 4, 2007
The Bear Market Has Begun
(Update 2008: OK, so I was a bit early!)
In “The Coming Stock Market Crash of 2007,” I made the case for a major stock market decline based on both macroeconomic events and technical weakness emerging in the global financial markets. At the time, my view was against [...]