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    By Charles Hugh Smith

    | 11:30AM 10/18/2010
    The U.S. stock market has been on a tear since Sept. 1, but technical caution flags are now appearing in the charts. A close look at action in the VIX, S&P 500, Nasdaq 100 and financials reveal that the tide may be about to start going out.

    By James Cullen

    | 12:00PM 8/19/2009
    Robert Selander, CEO of MasterCard Inc. (MA), looks to be getting ready for retirement, TheStreet.com says. According to a recent SEC filing, Selander plans to sell roughly one-third of his shares of the credit-card processor under a pre-arranged sale program for "personal financial management...

    By James Cullen

    | 4:30PM 7/06/2009
    Last week, a couple of days before Americans closed up shot to celebrate America's birthday, something funny happened in the Fed Funds market. According to data from the New York Fed, the borrowing rate on the overnight market on June 30 -- the end of the second quarter for most firms -- hit 7.0...