The data coming out on home prices is rather clear. Home prices are moving up steadily in the last year now increasing at a rate last seen in 2006. Of course, little of this is coming from wage growth but more from easy access to debt, investor demand, and historically low supply. One thing that people fail to remember is ...

Succinctly summarizing the positive and negative news, data, and market events of the week... Positives Yahoo acquires Tumblr for $1.1 billion, stock now down 3% Goldman hikes S&P PT to 1750 by year end Foreign banks have plenty of cash (thanks to the Fed) HLF makes it difficult for shorts Tuesday makes it 19-19 for the DOW Market reacts to ...

MADISON, Wis. (Stockpickr) -- Professional traders running mutual funds and hedge funds don't just look at a stock's price moves; they also track big changes in volume activity. Often when above-average volume moves into an equity, it precedes a large spike in volatility. Major moves in volume can signal unusual activity, such as insider buying or selling -- or buying ...

MADISON, Wis. (Stockpickr) -- Professional traders running mutual funds and hedge funds don't just look at a stock's price moves; they also track big changes in volume activity. Often when above-average volume moves into an equity, it precedes a large spike in volatility. Major moves in volume can signal unusual activity, such as insider buying or selling -- or buying ...

A Massachusetts appellate panel has given a group of 27 investors who lost $20 million in hedge funds linked to Bernard Madoff’s massive Ponzi scheme the go-ahead to continue suing audit firm KPMG in court. The plaintiffs in the case, Askenazy v. KPMG LLP, invested in hedge funds run by Tremont Capital. They claim KPMG failed to audit the investments ...