The stock market indices had a strong start, consolidated mid-day, and ended the day with a very solid surge to close at the session highs going away and right at key overhead resistance near 1090 on the S&P 500 and 1840 on the Nasdaq 100.

Guess who was better off at this stage following the beginning of the crisis. The investor in the Great Depression? Or, the investor today?

The iShares Silver Trust ETF (SLV) continues to stair-step higher within a well-defined trend channel.

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Dave Landry takes a one-minute look at the stock market in his video for September 2.

The big question is whether Wednesday's bounce will develop into a substantial, new uptrend, or if the bullish momentum will swiftly fade, as has been the case with other rally attempts in recent months.

How sustainable was yesterday’s rally? The low volume suggests that the major dynamics at work yesterday were short-covering.

The stock market indices gapped up sharply at the opening as foreign markets were higher.

The point of a correction is to correct.

Increasingly the pattern carved out by Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMY) during the past three weeks has the right look of a bullish digestion period.