Why aren't we having the Wall Street financials who we bailed out or maybe all financials contribute to a 'Reparations fund" for the damage they have caused the world by their dishonesty and greed? Many of these financials are making tremendous profits at the cost of average citizens of the world. They need this "Reparations fund" for the next crisis they will cause. Don't forget also the Savings and Loan crisis in the 80's.

Give more support to the protest on Wall Street. The robbing of a nation happens and only a couple of hundred people show up? They are jailing people that object to Wall street execs robbing the American People !!! Walmart7Wall Street they both do damage to main street !!!

80% of statistics are made up on the spot.

If only investors decided to buy or sell on earnings, such herd animals [guided not by corporate profit but by fear and greed] would care. By example Lehman Bros registered great paper profits that its Boss/CEO ran off with huge bonuses of hundreds of millions. If only the poor schlubs who believed him could get their money back today, then maybe analysts and corporate reports would be meaingful. Instead, many are like Bernie Madoffs'.

These are the same people who were bailed out,given bonuses,and then ran the price of gas up to $4;00 a gallon.I feel real sorry for them(lol)

It's all on paper until you buy or sell!! The question is timing!!!

It's not economic worry, it's people pulling their money out of oil speculation, stocks, etc to get some profit on what the Fed announced it would do the other day with the bonds.

Lets see oil at $50 a barrell.It's true value.

When the DOW hits 8800, the economy will be on the road to recovery. You heard it HERE first!!!

caint do nothin' for you son !

Can you say Depression 2.0?

STOCKS LOWER THAN OBAMA'S RATING!!!

When I first started watching and studying the stock market in about 1975, a multiple of 7.5 times earnings was considered the top range for purchasing. Now comes creative accounting, off balance sheet activities, tax and rebate finagles,off shore banking and who knows what else and the analysts want us to believe that a 10.5 multiple is a buy signal. I personally don't believe that if the accounting systems were honest and all factors in net worth were considered, there is a single stock in any of the the markets that would be a safe investment. Even salvage value is questionable as who would want a factory that produces things that no one will buy? Take a look around Detroit, Gary, Pittsburgh and other former industrial boom towns. Deserts.

Whoopie the great ponzi scheme is getting ready for another run-up. Just keep buying into the "hope & change" policies and you can take my analysis to the bank--oops, maybe not the bank

The shareholder economy is a scam, merely an illusion of economic viability that obscures the debt-ridden operations and overcompensation even more than actual production. Just as worse as the unjust support that politicronies and kleptocrats provided to the conniving perps and pseudo-patriots promoting the fraud of securitization and commoditization (as well as ensure their own wealth and self-interests are secured by literally giving away the national Treasury), "equity" markets have become exploited and abused as they have been propped up by the so-called stimulus, periodic bail outs, and other unjust forms of support. Appeasing the deluded people "investing" in them, including the Federal and public pension funds, as well as the perps and the pseudo-patriots pushing them just to drain more wealth from other citizens as well as possible operating capital for their resepctive businesses by manipulation and obtaining additional compensation (boards of directors are consistently biased and appeasing as all the other shareholders haven't that much say in those matters). The growth suggested by the ScAmerican shareholder economy is an illusion exhibiting the chracteristics of a tiered-pyramid scheme as well ... except that, courtesy of corruption and abusing rule of law, it now has a refill directly from the Treasury. Many are misinformed or not privy to actual conditions but exposed to propaganda especially about the actual problems and their causes. For the longest time their was ignorance about the supposed foreign oil sources providing to the USA when the western hemisphere nations, such as Canada and Mexico, where the greatest suppliers. Another example is the holders of Federal debt, as those in state and other public pension funds are rather large holders; they have become opaque and autonomous in their operations while socializing the risk. This is not only exploitation but another injustice creating greater socio-economic disparity as well as creating troubling conditions for representative government, providing civic services, and upholding the public trust. Beside all the government fraud, waste, and abuse the socio-economic matters will get worse as social institutions, like medicine and education, are sold out by kleptocrats that allow them to be further exploited by their cronies, corporateers, and the other pseudo-patriots instead of serving the public good.

We are in a depression and this depression is the worst depression the world has ever had as this is the only time in history the U.S. has had a national debt of 14.55 trillion dollars that it owes to others and doesn't have the money to pay those to whom the money is owed and will continuously have to pass a new budget every time payments are due. The U.S. can't continue to print money without anything backing the money and if this continues the U.S. will default on all payments to other nations, businesses and individuals. The U.S. is more in debt than Greece but this debt is being covered up by using Greece as an example of how not to balance the budget of a country while asking the European Union and especially Germany for a bailout. There is no country to bail out the U.S. and 14.55 trillion dollars is an astronomical amount of money (14.55 thousand billion dollars) and it can never be paid because every man woman and child in the U.S. would have to pay 43,500 dollars each to pay the money that is owned to others and that isn't possible. We are soon to be headed for the worst and longest lasting depression the world has ever had to experience and we have one person to thank for that. George W. Bush who declared war on Iraq and the rest is history.

And the wealthy parasites who are sitting on tons of unused cash will buy buy buy.....parasitism remains malignant.

Well I will tell you how I feel about it, I am no analyst, I am no investor, so I know very little. Almost all signals, close to 85% of them say stocks will go lower. If you look at all the data, worldwide and in the U.S. it is for the most part negative, until we get a new direction and we have not been getting it. The world looks at the U.S. for a lead and what they are seeing in us is nothing but negative numbers,unemployment,foreclosure,deficits,spending, job losses, job hiring, bank failures,lending, credit ratings, loans, credit scores to get loans, long term unemployed, food stamps, amount considered poor, and on and on. Now we could talk about whose fault it is but it does not matter anymore, all that matters is what we are doing is not working so try something new and change directions. The stock market is just a reflection of everything else. I say It will get worse in the long run over the next few months because we are seeing no change and it is politics as usual, sure we may have swings up and down but overall treed will be down. Actually, it should be alot lower but the markets are just catching up with the phony money the feds are floating everything with!!! How far down depends on if all they have done wrong catch up with them before any good comes, I believe it will catch them or maybe they have another short term stimulus and it gets them through the election.

Blaming Bush was easy, until Obama came along and made matters worse with his spending spree and anti-business agenda. Sure Bush's defecits due to the wars was bad. Educate me how Obama has improved that at all. He hasn't in almost three years. In fact, he increased troops in Afghanistan and started a new war in Lybia.

Yes, you can make a good argument that we got on the wrong fiscal track with Bush. But it's even easier to make an argument that Obama continued down the wrong track and made things worse with his maybe not wrong but certainly untimely social and environmental agendas adding regulations and cost to big employers. It's like he hates their very existence. So they will go elsewhere.

Why is manufacturing dying in USA? As a CPA I know why and it doesn't get fully explained most of the time. Sales, material product cost, labor, facilities, energy, administrative and taxes on profit. Most Dems seem to be upset that higher labor and taxes shift jobs overseas. Duh. What goes most unsaid is how energy costs are killing manufacturing. An energy policy that would keep costs down would reinvigorate manufacturing, particularly electronics and heavy manufacturing like steel and raw materials conversion. But Obama wants to do the opposite and increase electricity cost significantly with his idealistic solar and wind energy initiatives. He increased labor cost by increasing minumum wage, and health care benefits cost. He constantly threatens to increase corporate tax. Is it any wonder why businesses are not expanding? They're in the trenches with Obama manning the machine gun at their heads, especially CEOs that fly in a private airplane.

I don't think Obama can be this stupid to do all this by accident. He is wrecking the economy and raising the defecit on purpose. Stupid or destructive, take your pick.

DOW 10,000