What will neutralize Mike Paulenoff's still-bearish near-term outlook for silver and the iShares Silver Trust ETF (SLV)?

Dave Landry takes a one-minute look at the stock market in his video for December 28.

It is promising that all of the major indices are consolidating at the two-day high, but Deron Wagner would not be surprised to see choppy price action until after the New Year.

The stock market indices were flat today, but early on came on strong and made new rally highs as the Nasdaq 100 reached up toward the 2297-98 area, and the S&P 500 jumped up toward 1269, achieving the 1268 target for today.

Download Adrian Manz's Around The Horn Intraday Trading Plan PDF for December 27.

Industries that used to provide value for money are corrupted. Each makes a deal with devil government.

None of the upmoves in Bank of America (BAC), Goldman Sachs (GS) and Morgan Stanley (MS) inflicted significant damage to the still dominant downtrends.

Dave Landry takes a one-minute look at the stock market in his video for December 27.

Institutional players were absent from the market on Friday, as is typical for a pre-holiday session.

This year's markets have perplexed the best of them. Each week brings another event that sets up some confusing crosscurrent.