Filed under: Earnings reports, Conventions and conferences, Economic data, Federal Reserve After testifying before a Senate committee about AIG (NYSE: AIG) last week, the Fed's Ben Bernanke participates in a Council of Foreign Relations event Monday evening. Economic data due to be released this wee...

The indices continued their range-bound trading today. The early strength gave way to selling mid-morning. I’m not sure whether to blame it on Obama’s economic press conference or technicals — the Nasdaq approaching its 50-day moving average and the indices hitting last week’...

Another rough week in the markets. The parade of bad news was virtually non-stop. For those traders who think this is a contrary indicator and are wading in buying, best of luck (sold to you). I will tell you that negative sentiment has reached pretty high levels. Not extreme, but definitely high. B...