With the US stock market declining the way it has since the subprime crisis hit last year, I wanted to take a look back in time and compare the current decline from previous recessions since the 1900s. The reason why I did this was to see how the current market fares against previous market declines [...]

After rejecting the bailout bill early last week, the US Congress quickly turned thing around by passing a slightly different version of the bill which included certain “sweeteners” to pacify earlier concerns by various lawmakers. Investors reacted negatively to the earlier failure with the biggest one-day drop in US history.
Over the weekend, US President [...]

We all know by now what is going in the US financial market. As traders, we should keep our eye out on the effects of the recent bailouts of Lehman Brothers and AIG on the market. Looking forward, where are the markets headed?
We all know that equity and assets of these companies are leveraged many [...]