Asia’s stock market rally seemed to be running out of steam Wednesday, despite an overnight surge on Wall Street, as investors cashed in on recent gains amid persistent doubts about the outlook for the global economy.

What should investors do when the stock and bond markets are struggling to produce returns and eating your savings?

Like a sucker I stayed up to watch the Jon Steward/Jim Cramer smack down on the Comedy Channel. Steward, angry at the refusal of Santelli to come to his show after Santelli's outburst against Obama's mortgage bailout, had run clips of CNBC stock analysts before Sept. 2008 that had predicted incorrectly the subsequent swoon in the stock market. Cramer's show Mad Money was featured in one of the many clips; he said positive things about Bear Stearns that, one week later, was essentially insolve

Last week at the annual Photo Marketing Association (PMA) trade show in Las Vegas, Panasonic introduced the latest member of their new and revolutionary interchangeable lens camera system: the LUMIX DMC-GH1. This latest addition to the Lumix G Micro System is groundbreaking because it offers so many professional level features.

I compare the annual average beat variance of the songs in the US Billboard Top 100 since its inception in 1958 through 2007 to the standard deviation of returns of the S&P 500 for the same year and find that they are significantly negatively correlated. With the recent high stock volatility, people should now prefer less volatile music. Furthermor