Earnings season is almost upon us and, for the first time in a long time, the increase in corporate profits we’ve grown accustomed to will likely not be there. Thanks to falling oil and the strengthening dollar, the S&P 500 is now only expected to notch a 1.1% year-over-year gain as companies report their Q4…

One of the most interesting predictions I’ve heard made about 2015 is that this would be the year the economy finally outperforms the stock market in the US. Who knows, but I wouldn’t mind if that were the case. For one thing, it would help a lot of people who’ve been “left behind” by the…

Crude oil prices cut in half within 6 months, but nobody really follows that commodity so it makes sense they didn’t see it coming. $STUDY — Downtown Josh Brown (@ReformedBroker) January 9, 2015 Energy analysts updating consensus WTI, Brent Crude forecasts, standby… pic.twitter.com/MmsjaFO77J — Downtown Josh Brown (@ReformedBroker) January 9, 2015

Trian’s Nelson Peltz made it official overnight after skirmishes with the management at DuPont over the last year and a half. It’s to be a proxy battle, with Peltz angling for four board seats and a three-way split up of the chemicals conglomerate. DuPont is a 212 year old company and, at $67 billion in…