Thursday’s session removed all doubt about whether the market’s October low would mark the final low of the bear market that began in October 2007.

LOS ANGELES (TechTrader) -- Stocks with strong relative strength in the face of a weak market tend to perform best when the market turns around. Here are five such snapback candidates, all of which happen to be in the healthcare and biotech arena -- four of which have made new 52-week or multi-year highs in the last several weeks.

The Dow is down below 8,000 again. Is the bear market half-empty or half-full?

He said it over 20 years ago and few will argue with him today. For more than 20 years Charles Allmon, editor of the Growth Stock Outlook, warned that the stock market was overvalued and vulnerable to the declines that we've seen over the last 13 months.

It’s somehow fitting that Charles Allmon chose a punishing bear market in which to retire after 44 years of editing his investment newsletter, Growth Stock Outlook.

Market sentiment is disturbingly complacent with the U.S. markets near five-year lows. A technical breakdown is a risk.

Losing 16.3% over the past seven months might not seem like winning.

Gold had a good week, in the end. And the battered bugs are regrouping again.

The top-performing hard asset letter says the crisis is abating. But it’s still jumpy.

It was almost exactly a dozen years ago that Yale University finance professor Robert Shiller bent Alan Greenspan’s ear, prompting the Fed chairman to give his famous “irrational exuberance” speech.