Everyone's been complaining about the cost of living as the economic crunch really takes hold. Money's getting tighter, everything's getting more expensive and the government's "inflation" numbers don't seem to be totally accurate or honest. But fortunately for our pocketbooks, oil hasn't yet gone on the sort ...

THE PREFERRED APPROACH

High-yield bonds aren't the only risky asset to benefit from investors' renewed quest for higher returns. Preferred stocks, which trade like equities but earn most of their return from fixed dividends, have more than doubled from their March low--they were down nearly 50% during the first two months of 2009. (The stocks are "preferred" because their ...

The next few days of action for the dollar index and the PowerShares DB US Dollar Bull ETF (NYSE: UUP) will be critical to the near- as well as medium-term technical outlook. The ability of the dollar to climb back towards a test of key resistance at 79.50 and 27.70 ...

The PowerShares QQQ Trust (NASDAQ: QQQQ) has been trading beneath key near-term support at 39.20 this morning, which suggests that the market is consolidating ahead of more weakness rather than digesting its losses ahead of a recovery bounce. While it may be too premature to make the call for more weakness directly ahead ...