Weekend Reading

Good Sunday morning and welcome to Weekend Reading. As always, here are some articles and papers worth reading. First, however, a look back at the week that just finished, and a look forward to the week ahead.

It was an upbeat week on the major markets, with the Dow, the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq Composite all gaining approximately 1.0%.

Next week is, once again, all about the Federal Reserve. While no rate changes are expected from this Tuesday's meeting, that won't stop traders from watching to see if there are any changes in the signals coming out of the meeting. Is the Fed likely to reduce rates in the spring, as many are expecting? Has the latest jobs report made the threat of recession recede? Or are we, as Jim Rogers claims in the weekend Barron's, already in recession? ...