Although the core PPI numbers accelerated, core CPI dropped and it's expect to head even lower.  Less price pressure will give the Federal Reserve more room to cut interest rates.

Consumer prices fell 1.0% in October, which was the biggest decline on record, dragging the annualized inflation rate to 3.7% from 4.9% -- the lowest since last October.

Has the bear market delivered enough pain, or is more in store?

First the bubble pops, the demand collapses and takes stocks down with it. But never fear, it's all part of Nature's plan.

High rates of saving causes a recession to turn exceptionally nasty.  People cut back, and all of a sudden the cutbacks are magnified by millions of little decisions all up and down the economic ladder.

Professional system trader Art Collins shares his daily biases in the index, bonds and currency futures markets for November 18.

As traders, our tools of the trade are watchlists and scanning tools.  But how do you assemble a watchlist?  How do you decide which securities to trade?

Signs of stability in the US manufacturing sector has failed to turn around the market’s risk appetite.  Although the US dollar has weakened marginally against all of the major currencies, if US stocks continue to sell off, we could see the dollar regain strength.

Wall Street is bracing for some really bad news from this week’s economic reports. Housing starts are expected to hit half-century lows.  The Consumer Price Index is expected to fall 0.9% in October, the biggest one-month decline since the government began tracking the CPI in 1947.