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Today the stock market took no prisoners during the late day drop. While yesterday MLP's and REIT's escaped the carnage that wasn't the cae today.MLP's did their little jump yesterday, before getting spanked hard today. As we had mentioned (a hundred times I think) the bottom fishers have been way too early as there is no fundamental information indicating that energy prices should…

The DJIA and S&P took a bit of a tumble today, but they remain only 3% off of all time highs. Today the heavier industrial stocks accounted for a large share of the fall with large tech (MSFT in particular) contributing most of the rest.  With some shares such as Caterpiller off about 30% of their 52 week highs you…

With earnings out from heavy equipment manufacturer Caterpillar (ticker:CAT) this morning markets will be getting off to a rocky start. Cat reported earnings 25% below last year and warned that with the price of oil "2015 will be a tough year".  It is not just oil which is causing a headache for many companies, but commodities of all sorts--from corn…

With the new QE program in Europe, terrorist running wild in the Mideast and oil prices at a level not seen for 6 years we simply move forward with out investing. We have learned to not overreact to all of these individual events as life moves forward as does the marketplace and there is no place for one putting their…

After mostly an absense of close to 5 years on Seeking Alpha (we published on there as early as 2008 until 2011--then our time became to valuable to spend time there) we have tiptoed back into writing there--at least to a small degree.We did this at the reguest of Seeking Alpha. Some of our older articles still garner readers even…