The Smart Profits Report Thursday, November 20, 2008: Issue #577   by Paul Moore, Contributing Editor & Technology Specialist, Smart Profits Report You'd expect financial commentators to have discussed the many reasons for the stock market's selloff lately. After all, waffling is what they do best! The bug seems to have crept to the onlooking ...

Tuesday, November 18, 2008: Issue #576  by Marc Lichtenfeld, Senior Analyst & Healthcare Specialist, Smart Profits Report Since the U.S. stocks as a whole peaked in October 2007, the world's equity market capitalization has shrunk by 53%. If you're counting at home, that's $33 trillion. - John Roque, Natixis Bleichroeder They say that misery ...

Monday, November 17, 2008 by Lee Lowell, Futures Options & Commodities Specialist, Smart Profits Report Welcome to another installment of "Commodities Corner." I'm filling in today for my colleague, Jim Stanton, who's taking a well-earned vacation. His bi-weekly "Sector Watch" column will return next Monday. Having the chance to write to you for two ...

Friday, November 14, 2008 by Karim Rahemtulla, Investment Director, Smart Profits Report I know we don't usually send the Smart Profits Report to you on a Friday. But with the stock market still crazier than a drunken leprechaun and this year's economic and financial woes leaving many consumers seriously strapped for cash ...

Thursday, November 13, 2008: Issue #575 by Marc Lichtenfeld, Senior Analyst & Healthcare Specialist, Smart Profits Report Stating that the retail sector has suffered a bombardment of bad news the last few months is like saying the Atlantic Ocean is wet. My colleague Paul Moore wrote an excellent piece on Tuesday, detailing Circuit ...

Tuesday, November 11, 2008: Issue #574 by Paul Moore, Contributing Editor & Technology Specialist, Smart Profits Report So China has become the latest country to pump up its laboring economy, with a whopping $585 billion stimulus package. Whether it works or not... time will tell. But Asian and European stocks picked up on ...

Monday, November 10, 2008 by Lee Lowell, Futures Options & Commodities Specialist, Smart Profits Report Never has there been a time where the stock market has influenced the commodities markets so much. Last time I checked, the price of soybeans, cocoa or orange juice had absolutely no relationship to whether Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT), ...

Thursday, November 6, 2008: Issue #573 by Marc Lichtenfeld, Senior Analyst & Healthcare Specialist, Smart Profits Report A lot of people have had to rethink their investment analysis since late last year as they've watched one "sure thing" stock after another fall prey to bad management, the faltering economy or investor panic. At ...

Aaron Lehmann is a contributong editor with 40 years of experience in the financial community includes senior level positions as a securities research analyst, portfolio manager, director of research and strategist. His employers included Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, Chase Investors, Hartford Insurance Group, Steinhardt Partners and Westinghouse Pension Investment Corp. Mr. ...

Monday, November 3, 2008 by Jim Stanton, Technical & Quantitative Analyst, Smart Profits Report Today was originally set to be my colleague Lee Lowell's turn in the Monday rotation, but since I'm going to be on the road for the next couple of weeks, I've switched with him this week. Lee will ...