So, with many countries trying to get their fiscal affairs in order, the potential for genuine economic growth (in a year or two) is being cultivated. If this came to fruition, then laggards within the Dow Jones Industrial Average should improve, and ...

And that brings me back to what Benny was saying on two days ago. Just a few weeks ... If there is a correction - which there could be and there should be - it could be a few hundred Dow points or it could be few thousand Dow points. Look at what Japan ...

... U.S. economy continues to increase, and we have witnessed an explosion in the ranks of the �working poor� in recent years.

Yet here we are, working our way through our third set of bubbles in less than two decades, which must be some sort of world record.

John Whitefoot: Despite the record run of the Dow Jones Industrial Average (INDEXDJX:.DJI) and S&P 500 (INDEXSP:.INX), many investors continue to sit on the sidelines, preferring capital preservation to wealth creation.

To say the very least, looking at inflation data from the last two months (March and April), it is still too early to say if the U.S.

Companies in the key stock indices aren't really earning more; rather, it appears they are making more because of two financial maneuvers: cost-cutting and stock buybacks.

You can earn a yield of 0.23% on a two-year U.S. Treasury, 0.79% for five years, 1.90% for 10 years, and up to 3.13% if you extend it to 30 years.

As shown in the chart below, the materials ETF (NYSEARCA:XLB) was turned back at several points of logical resistance over the past two years (see red arrows). The green arrow highlights a breakout above a typically bullish chart pattern know as a ...

John Whitefoot: It's been strange watching the Dow Jones Industrial Average (INDEXDJX:.DJI) and S&P 500 ... This ETF seeks a return that corresponds to twice the inverse (-2 times) of the daily performance of the Dow Jones U.S. Real Estate Index ...