By Jim Butler and Jim Abrams | JMBM's Global Hospitality Group®Hotel Lawyers | Authors of 1 November 2009How Expedia, Orbitz, Travelocity and other online travel companies (OTCs) create huge headaches for owners and operators on their suits over hotel occupancy

We go to "Red Flag Flying" status this after last week's sell off and the technical damage done to the major indexes and sectors. We expect still lower prices ahead. The markets remain overvalued and clearly investor sentiment has dramatically

As the new generation of post-credit crisis markets evolve, all levels of forex trader need to be able to see the woods from the trees, because too often most new forex traders see themselves as strictly currency traders, and do

S&P Emini 500 Futures ended October trading much the same way it started, with a high volume sell off. Prices gapped down 2.50 points at the open, 1059.00.

Nov 01 09 The following is a case study by Christopher Lewis in what a global trader could look at when searching for the big picture view on a potential set up.

The Euro lost some major ground this week because of a downturn in the U.S. Stock market. The fear is coming back and it appears as if the recovery that everyone was so excited about is not happening as expected.

CURRENCY TRADING SUMMARY - 2nd November (00:30GMT)U.S. Dollar Trading (USD) was very strong as risk aversion came back into the market as concerns about CIT bankruptcy and weak personal spending -0.5% in September sent US stock markets down over 2.5%.

The Richmond Fed produced a report that provides some useful information on the issue of non-recourse mortgage loans and their default rates. The report includes a State-by-State breakdown of the rules for defaulting.

Nov 01 09 Asian markets were dropping like lead weights during the new trading week after a report showed that US consumer spending declined on Friday. The Japanese Nikkei has declined 248 points while the Australian S&P/ASX has fallen 108

Oct 31 09 Trading the OTC (over the counter) currency markets offers an opportunity to hedge stock and bond investing, but really is more of a traded market following the ebbs and flows of global commerce.

I see that the blogosphere has latched on to the momentum divergences as a sign the market is going to crash soon.

Each week, I like to publish the past week's hottest ETFs to share some new trends and niche ETFs out there and give investors some new investing/diversification ideas. Last week, all global markets and emerging markets especially, took a beating.

A few months ago, I wrote a series of posts about anomalies in the pricing of Citigroup common and preferred stock (see here for the final installment). At the time, Citi's common stock traded at prices that appeared to be

Posted: For the Week of November 1 through 7, 2009 At first glance, Best Buy (Symbol BBY) and Maxwell Technologies Inc. (Symbol MXWL) appear to have little in common. The latter makes ultra-capacitors, which are small battery-like devices, while the

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--CIT Group Inc. (NYSE: CIT), a leading provider of financing to small businesses and middle market companies, today announced that, with the overwhelming support of its debtholders, the Board of Directors voted to proceed with the prepackaged plan

Alan S. Blinder, the Gordon S. Rentschler Memorial Professor of Economics and Public Policy at Princeton University and former Vice-Chairman of the Fed's Board of Governors, gave a wonderfully informative and chatty speech at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston

In my previous "Advance/Decline and Volume" post on October 26, 2009 I have expressed that from the point of my personal technical analysis I see a dominance of Bearish market which was confirmed by decline on the stock market during

Hope you didn't buy any CIT on the hope of a bailout!

I am speaking of the notion that went up the flagpole on allowing banks to refinance commercial real estate loans at more than 100% LTV - and having this "overlooked" by regulators.

Yesterday, Moody's cut the outlook for the sovereign debt of Portugal and put Greece on negative watch for a downgrade, signaling growing concern over spiraling debts. Just as with Spain and Ireland which I discussed yesterday, Portugal and Greece are