Programming Note: Sheraz Mian, the Director of Research here at Zacks, will be part of The Opening Bell on WGN Radio tomorrow morning at 5:38 am (CT). He'll be previewing the Q2 earnings season. Stocks dropped sharply in the final minutes of trading on Monday, but the major indices still started a

Let's say that five years ago, you invested $8,000 in an S&P 500index fund. You'd probably be pretty pleased if you checked it today and found about $13,500 in there. On the other hand, if you'd invested in one of these stocks, you'd be sitting on more than $25,000...in one case, a lot more!

 

It's been a while since we featured the grouchy version of Richard Breslow, Bloomberg's  "Trader's Notes" author, who is back with a bang with his latest missive, explaining why "Ignoring Current Events Just Makes You a Slave" and why the mockery of centrally-planned "markets" has gone on long

Bearish: Currently we are @ 147.48 in a well-built range. We completed the move out of the symmetrical triangle to the top and appear to have made the turn to the downside. We are looking for a continuation to the 0.500 Fibo @ 146.50 and then to the box support @ 146.00. The average daily true