The bad news is the market looks just terrible today, the Dow’s off big after several back to back days of triple digit moves. The small caps are doing what small caps have been doing all year – struggling to maintain their longer-term uptrend, and EM stocks are being unceremoniously dumped in a landfill. The…

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Barry sat down with Jeff Saut for this weekend’s newest edition of Masters In Business on Bloomberg Radio. The chief strategist for Raymond James has been involved with the markets and writing commentary for four decades. He weighs in on the current bull market (which he believes is secular) and discusses his process in the…

You guys liked this one, apparently: How determined is the Fed to keep asset prices elevated? They’re literally arresting bears on Wall Street. pic.twitter.com/eYpZM0enno — Downtown Josh Brown (@ReformedBroker) September 23, 2014   See you in the am.

How many brilliant investing insights can we glean from watching the behavior of ants, bees and other “social” instincts? How many similarities can be seen between a hive of bee activity and a huddle of investors? A column of ants marching forth and a mob of traders pursuing a trend? Wall Street Journal: Social insects excel…

Here’s a really key insight from my friend Ari Wald, technical analyst at Oppenheimer Asset Management… You’re hearing a lot about divergences right now because the internals on the S&P 500, here at all-time highs again, are blatantly bad. The same is going on market-wide. Only 65 percent of the S&P 1500’s stocks are above…

Very thankful and proud to be named to a few great lists of people in the industry to follow. If you’re looking for ideas for people to add to your stream, try these… The master list – 102 pretty smart, influential folks who share their market, economic insights on Twitter: The 102 Finance People You…