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AAII Sentiment Survey: Bearish Sentiment Falls, But Still High by: AAII June 03, 2010 Bullish sentiment rebounded 7.3 percentage points to 37.1% in the latest AAII Sentiment Survey. Despite the improvement, the percentage of individual investors who expect stocks to rise over the next six months stayed below the historical average of 39% for the second consecutive week. Neutral sentiment, expectations that stock prices will be essentially unchanged, rose 2.8 percentage points to 22.1%. The historical average is 31%. Bearish sentiment, expectations that stock prices will fall over the next six months, pulled back to 40.8%. Even after accounting for...

Bulls Grind Out Another Big Win: Here's What You Need To Know Joe Weisenthal Jun. 3, 2010, 4:00 PM Well, it wasn't the most decisive victory, but it was well earned on the part of the bulls, who have now put together two winning days. But first, the scoreboard: Dow: +5 NASDAQ: +23 S&P 500: +10 And now the key stories: * The moderate rise upward was a refreshing. There weren't many huge headlines out of Europe or Asia, and so it appears that for the moment the default for the market is to drift higher. The late-day buying was...

The Bears Pull Off Another Successful Win As The Dow Closes Down 115 Points Vince Veneziani Jan. 28, 2010, 4:17 PM What a day to be short in this zero sum game we call the market! Equities absolutely tanked throughout the day. The Dow closed down 115 points at 10,121. Earlier, it was below the 10,100 mark prompting fears of a four-digit DJIA. The NASDAQ closed down 42 points, nearly 2%, to close at 2179. The S&P took one on the chin, closing at 1084, down 13 points. Commodities were able to make it work today, however. Despite all the...

Rude Awakening For Stock Market Investors 2010 Stock-Markets / Stocks Bear Market Jan 25, 2010 - 10:09 AM By: Martin D Weiss The heyday of the Bush-Obama bailout frenzy is coming to an end. The bailout’s base of public support, tenuous from the outset, is collapsing. Its chief architects — Treasury Secretary Geithner and Fed Chairman Bernanke — are politically dead or dying; its loyal opposition — Obama adviser Paul Volcker and FDIC Chairman Bair — is gaining rapidly in influence. Suddenly and with growing momentum, America is shifting into a brand new phase of the crisis … The Rude...

Gold, Oil, Copper ETFs Soar As The Dollar Bulls Emerge by: Tom Lydon December 17, 2009 It was only a few weeks ago that the U.S. dollar was hitting 15-month lows. Now, for the first time since March, the dollar bulls are out in force and giving a boost to gold, oil and copper ETFs. Investors are putting their bets on the recovery of the U.S. economy, now that the recovery is showing signs of sustainability. As a result, investors turned bullish on the dollar for the first time since March, reports Chris Fournier for Bloomberg. The world’s primary reserve...

We've got to work harder at getting information out, thanks state run media. There are some charts and issues we need to educate others on; 2009 Federal Revenue and Spending Book of Charts http://www.heritage.org/research/features/BudgetChartBook/ Income Tax Receipts Stay Constant Even as Tax Rates Decline A Breakdown of Federal Revenue Sources Is Social insurance all those Social Security Administration IOU's we owe? I'd guess yes...

If you take a tour of Bernie Madoff's penthouse or check out the furnishings in his Palm Beach digs, his beach home or even his yacht, you'll walk away with one clear, albeit disturbing, thought in your mind: The man apparently has a bull fetish. Madoff's got bull statues in his Upper East Side luxury digs. He's got bull paintings in his Palm Beach house. He's got a yacht named "Bull," a smaller boat named "Little Bull" and has T-shirts decorated with bull logos and motifs. Get this: The disgraced financier even has napkins and glassware engraved with "Bull" --...

WARNING - GRAPHIC VIDEO - Here is graphic video of a Spanish man being gored by a bull at the annual Pamplona "Running of the Bulls" in Spain yesterday. The video is chaotic and in Spanish, but if you look carefully in the center of the screen you see a man in a striped shirt. You then see the bull make one quick thrust which gores the man on the left side of his neck. At the end of the video you see the man on a stretcher with emergency personnel trying to stop the bleeding. The man - said...

PAMPLONA, Spain — A charging bull gored a young man to death Friday at Pamplona's San Fermin festival, the first such fatality in nearly 15 years. Nine others were injured in a particularly dangerous and chaotic chapter of the running of the bulls. The San Fermin festival Web site said the unidentified man was gored in the neck and lung during a run in which a rogue bull separated from the pack, which is among the worst things that can happen at Spain's most popular fiesta. Photographs showed the man lying on a stretcher moments after the goring, his face...

LAST WEEK WAS PIVOTAL for the stock market as the major indexes ignored preliminary technical breakdowns and shrugged off bad news. Indeed, even for a bear such as me, the writing was on the wall as bearish reversal patterns changed into bullish continuation patterns (see Getting Technical, "Why the Bulls Just Won't Die," May 28). With Monday's big stock-market gains -- at least as of 3 p.m. ET -- it does look as if the bulls are not only alive but well, at least in the short-term. Of course, the question is just how long the rally can keep going....

THE DOG approaches the outstretched hand. Her name is Sweet Jasmine, and she is 35 pounds of twitchy curiosity with a coat the color of fried chicken, a pink nose and brown eyes. She had spent a full 20 seconds studying this five-fingered offering before advancing. Now, as she moves forward, her tail points straight down, her butt is hunched toward the ground, her head is bowed, her ears pinned back. She stands at maybe three quarters of her height.

A local father shot and killed a neighbor's pit bull. The dog was loose and had followed a child into the dad's home. Law enforcement says no one will face charges because of the incident-- not the father for shooting the dog in front of children, nor the pit bull's owner for letting the dog get out. It happened in a quiet neighborhood west of Lantana, the dog shot in the driveway of the home of J.R. Martin. Martin declined comment. But here's what the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office and Animal Control say happened. At least two girls were...

Tuesday's huge rally was the second call to arms for the bulls. Both the rally just after the Bear Stearns episode, which was also a near 400-point move in the Dow, and this latest rally were what are called 90 percent up days. That is, the up volume was over 90 percent of the total volume for the day. This kind of day is hugely bullish and is often indicative of a bottom being established, a slow but sure turning of the ship to a new direction. Now, before I go any further, let me repeat that my Super Chart...

GREENSBORO, N.C. — An animal shelter may have to euthanize healthy, adoptable dogs because it must care for 15 pit bulls seized from the property of a man charged with dogfighting and animal cruelty.

Two American brothers badly gored at San Fermin 13 July 2007 MADRID - Two American brothers seriously gored during a bull run in the northeastern Spanish city of Pamplona were recovering at a hospital Friday. Lawrence Lenahan, 26, of Hermosa Beach, California, and his brother, Michael Lenahan, 23, of Philadelphia, were gored Thursday by a bull who strayed from the pack. Thirteen people were injured and seven were gored, including the Lenahan brothers and another two men who were seriously injured. Michael Lenahan, a sales executive for General Mills, was injured shortly before making it to the bullring _ the...

PAMPLONA, Spain - Six massive bulls charged down the packed streets of Pamplona on Saturday during the first run of the San Fermin Festival, which combines the half-ton animals with damp cobblestones and revelers steeped in adrenaline and alcohol. Injuries are usually common as the crowds strive to keep ahead of the bulls in the narrow streets. But only seven people were treated for minor injuries this year, including an Australian man who was slightly gored and a Spaniard who escaped with a minor shoulder injury after being tossed in the air and falling into the path of another bull,...

Thousands of revelers sprayed each other with sparkling wine and the mayor of this northeastern city launched a skyrocket at noon Friday to start Spain's most famous festival, the San Fermin running of the bulls. "Men and women of Pamplona, viva San Fermin!" Mayor Yolanda Barcina shouted from the city hall balcony. Crowds packed the town hall square, most dressed in the traditional garb of white shirts and trousers, and red handkerchiefs. Residents threw water on the revelers from balconies to cool them off. The launch of the skyrocket, known as the "chupinazo," began the nine-day fiesta that was popularized...

AUBURN HILLS, Mich. - Suddenly, it's a series. Ben Gordon scored 28 points and the hot-shooting Chicago Bulls beat the Detroit Pistons 108-92 Tuesday night in Game 5 of the Eastern Conference semifinals, pulling to 3-2 in the series. Detroit opened the series with two routs and made a big comeback in the third game, leading some to predict it would end with a sweep — or in five games at the most. Obviously, the Bulls had other plans. Game 6 is Thursday night in Chicago and if Game 7 is necessary, it would be Monday night back on the...

USS NASSAU, At Sea (March 24, 2006) -- The flight line at Al Asad Air Base was a flurry of rotor blades and wrench-toting men and women while Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron 261 (Reinforced) was in Iraq. Night and day for months, these mechanics, avionics and air frame specialists and a myriad of other supporting personnel of HMM-261 (Rein) enabled the squadron’s 1,845 sorties of more than 3,000 combat flight hours. Even though those on the flight line rarely saw the direct benefits of their job, their hard work kept Marines throughout Iraq safe. “We delivered a lot of bullets...

The fan accused of harassing the wife of New York Knicks forward Antonio Davis will drop threats of a lawsuit if the couple says it's sorry, the man's attorney said Friday. No way, Davis said. "I'm not apologizing to anybody for anything," Davis said on a conference call. "I don't think that my wife did anything wrong, I don't think that I did anything wrong." ... Axelrod's [the Fan's] father, David, is a prominent Democratic political consultant in Chicago who has worked with Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton and Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley.