Today was a negative session for stocks, as sellers are testing buyers' resolve at short-term support. We shall see if it holds.

A steady Fed statement sent the bulls running on Wall Street. The S&P 500 closed today's session at 1,435.04, looking to make a move on recent highs.

Happy Pi day. Some mathematicians celebrate this date, 3.14, to honor the most famous irrational number. "Irrational" may also be an apt term for describing today's markets.

Following last week's slide, stocks are trying to hold support and climb toward resistance, but they are finding the slope to be a bit slippery.

Many years ago, I asked my father, internationally known master of market intelligence, why the market moved in a particular direction. He called upon more than half a century of Wall Street experience and astutely answered in his Brooklynese, “Sonny, sometimes the bears gotta get fed and sometimes the bulls gotta get fed.” Each day, the [...]