The TIPS auction was better than anticipated, especially the indirect bid. Technical buying and a weak stock market also helped.

This is really a stock picker's market and not an index picker's market. I'm not buying stocks on a group's performance ever.

If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling advice.

Anybody who plays the stock market not as an insider is like a man buying cows in the moonlight.

There was very strong demand -- off the charts -- from the indirect bid -- about 65 percent, bigger than the 55.6 percent at the 10-year note auction in November 2005.

The stock market never sleeps,even in a blinding market recession it continues to thrive for those who know how to see opportunities.