This week’s Buttonwood column in The Economist looks at the global stock market rally that is now entering its third month, raising the possibility that some investors will begin looking at their neckties for signs of trouble. …

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How does a stock market work? Does it make much money because of the stock market?

Huh?

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Green Shoots Or Rose-Colored Glasses

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The stock market continues to rally. Yesterday evening the S&P500 closed with a 7.1% gain and the Nasdaq closed 6.9% higher. This brings us up to a 21% move in two weeks, which is the biggest 10 trading day increase in S&P500 since 1938 …

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Stock Market: What college major is closest to the stock market?

There are very few, if any, academic courses that will provide a sufficient working knowledge of the stock market nor markets for any other types of securities. This is true from the very smallest colleges to the big ivy league liberal institutions.

Yes the closest course may be Finance, but

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I think this is a dead cat bounce and we won’t see this rally go past 8000 if 7750 on the DOW – so hold tight as more bad news is still to come for the rest of 2009.

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Intel to Freeze Salaries, Exchange Employees’ Options

Intel, based in Santa Clara, California, rose 87 cents, or 5.9 percent, to $15.52 in Nasdaq Stock Market trading at 4 pm New York time.

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