Dow closes below 9900.

[Renew Deal]

That's ugly

http://tinyurl.com/4yg4f

[chelsea0011]

1. How's my private Social Security Money Market Fund doing?

There's an idea that's doomed for failure. How many trillion bailout for seniors when the money isn't there for a whole wealth of reasons?

[gardenista]

9. Sorry, looks like you'll be working in the WalMart 'til your're 97.

But look on the bright side. Greeting customers is good for your smile muscles!

[Wickerman]

2. So, are we in a triple-dip or is it only a double-dip super extended

recession?

[Renew Deal]

3. I don't think we have negative growth.

[Wickerman]

8. Nah, I know we aren't in a technical recession

just a world of shit.

[sandnsea]

4. OMG

They all dropped about 1%.

BTW, didja know Mary Cheney is a lesbian???

[NewYorkerfromMass]

5. They know Kerry's coming after their 200K (among other things)

Kerry's coming and they know it. Party's over.

[Goldmund]

6. in 24 out of the last 26 elections,

the Dow movement over the 2 months before an election correctly predicted the outcome. If it fell, the incumbent party lost.

The exceptions were 1956 and 1968.

[louis-t]

7. Let's hope this year is

NO EXCEPTION!

[HFishbine]

10. And it's probably going lower in the near term.

http://clearstation.etrade.com/cgi-bin/intra?tic=3-month&cs=&ci=None&Symbol1=_indu&i1=DMI&i2=MACD&i3=MACDHist&i4=Stochastic&e1=12&e2=26&e3=50&olay=ParaSAR15&gs=Huge>yp=Default&gr=1&Refer=http%3A%2F%2Fclearstation.etrade.com%2F

May rebound a little in the days before the elction, but too little, too late. Safe to say the DOW will be down about 5% to 8% on election day from where it was when Bush took office -- you know, before the Clinton recession.

[spooky3]

11. The stock market normally goes up 8% a year. Anyone know how

it compares to January 2000? I think it's actually lower but need a factcheck.

on edit--that 8% is a long term average