Late Note: Berkshire Hathaway announced purchase of Bank of America preferred shares valued at $5billion. Bank of America immediately rose 20% and S&P 500 futures jumped 12 points to up 10 points. Pre-opening Comments for Thursday August 25th U.S. equity index futures are slightly lower this morning. S&P 500 futures slipped 2 points in [...]

Pre-opening Comments for Wednesday July 6th U.S. equity index futures are lower this morning. S&P 500 futures are down 7 points in pre-opening trade. Investors are responding to a four notch downgrade of Portugal’s sovereign debt to Ba2 and a 0.25% in China’s deposit and base lending rate. The U.S. Dollar strengthened on news of [...]

  (Editor’s Note: Mr. Vialoux is scheduled to appear on BNN Television tomorrow at 7:00 PM EDT) Pre-opening Comments for Thursday March 17th 2011 U.S. equity index futures are higher this morning. S&P 500 futures rose 18 points in pre-opening trade. World equity markets are showing early signs of stabilizing despite the ongoing nuclear crisis [...]

What happened today?   I looked at my portfolio around lunch-time, saw that it was up nicely, so I sat back in my chair, let off a quiet “Oh yeah” and then went on with my work thinking the gains were plentiful enough to finish the day in the green.   When I returned from my afternoon [...]

  Cracks in U.S. equity markets Technical action by S&P 500 stocks turned mixed on the charts this morning despite better than expected fiscal third quarter earnings reports. Many reporting companies including Apple, Inc (NASDAQ AAPL) – $200.36, Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE:CAT) – $60.04 opened higher on better than expected quarterly earnings, but quickly came under [...]