Market Musing and Weekend Reading

Road to recovery

The market continues to baffle. S&P 500 index is up 5% for the month and we are only 10% away from the high we set in October of 2007 (1564). If the worst financial crisis since WWII only impacts my portfolio by 10% and we are on our way to recovery - fantastic! But there is a nagging fear that all is not well. The sentiment is too negative and news too dismal to truly believe that the crisis is over. I guess time will tell but today the market does confound me.

Here are some interesting carnivals and posts that may shed some light on how the market is supposed to work. Enjoy!

• Everything Finance organized the Carnival of Everything Finance: # 16. Almost 100 articles on investing, finance and saving and shopping.
  
  
• The Skilled Investor organized the Carnival of Financial Planning - April 19 2008 Edition. Good selection of financial posts from the PF universe.
  
  
• Check out Carnival of Personal Finance #127 - Wonders of the World hosted by Moolanomy.
  
  
• Festival of Stocks #85—Man on the Moon was hosted by G Blogmaster. Interesting carnival theme!
  
  
• The Happy Rock organized 149th Carnival of Personal Finance - Chasing Dreams Edition. He featured 86 personal finance articles.



• Skeptical of Wall Street analyst ratings? Check out this article (and book review) at Kiplinger on how Wall Street ratings really work.
  
  
• What do drinking, partying and buying a house have in common? Check out this Wall Street Journal report on how desperate realtors are trying to lure buyers.
  
  
• Some sage advice from Seth Godin on site traffic management and conversion.
  

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