It’s Sunday evening and Lehman Brothers (LEH) still doesn’t have a buyer. Wall Street is hanging on this news.  Bad news for Lehman will likely be bad news for the stock market.  The investment banks will especially be the focus this week, as Goldman Sachs Group (GS), Morgan Stanley (MS), and Lehman Brothers are scheduled to post quarterly results.

Professional system trader Art Collins shares his daily biases in the index, bonds and currency futures markets for September 15.

This week we look at the housing market in some detail.  When can we expect it to turn around?

Has the greenback's rally come to an abrupt end or is this just a breather before the buying continues?

After a wild week of Euro price action that included a 500+ pip decline to one-year lows near 1.3900, and a subsequent 300+ pip rally on Friday, shell-shocked traders may not know what to do next.

Some sources claim that a consortium of banks and private equity shops will acquire fast-falling Lehman Brothers shares over the weekend, and such an event would likely cause a sharp short-term rally in global stock markets -- sending the Japanese yen lower in its wake.

The Swiss franc has had a mixed reaction to its major counterparts this past week.

Is there no limit to how much the government can borrow?  How much it can spend?

The US dollar fell sharply across the majors on Friday as US retail sales and producer prices proved to be broadly bearish and unsupportive of speculation that the Federal Reserve is hawkish enough to consider raising interest rates before year end.

Price Headley discusses some market indicators showing fear in the financial markets.