Charting Stocks

The US government issued approval for 10 of the nations largest banks to pay back the TARP money.  The banks are:

The markets jumped early in the trading day in a move  led by a “Leaked” memo by Nationalized Citigroup CEO Vikram Pandit which was sent to employees stating that the troubled bank was profitable in the first 2 months of 2009. He went on to describe their capital position as “Strong.”
The market, which was extremely [...]

1929 Wall Street Stock Market Crash

Note: The shoe shine story was about Joseph Kennedy not Bernard Baruch.
Richard Whitney, President of the New York Stock Exchange peddling fear. National Securities Exchange Act will destroy the stock market and capital.

Gold futures jumped as high as $998.50 an ounce.  as investors spooked by the sell-off in U.S. stock futures and international stock markets sought safety in the precious metal. The April delivery contract rallied to an intraday high of $998.50 an ounce, which is just a few dollars below the psychological resistance point  of $1,000 [...]

The yield on the 10 year treasury sunk to a 50 year low this week. It’s important to pay attention to moves in the treasury yield. If investors are panicked, they are more concerned with safety and less concerned with returns. Because price and yield are inversely related, when demand increases and the price for [...]