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Dow -192.43 down-2.24% 8,386.76

Democrats assume Republicans are raising Obama's many questionable relationships in a desperation effort to salvage the election. You might think this is splitting hairs, but I believe the reason is that these relationships scare the daylights out of us. Conservatives were very much opposed to Bill Clinton for myriad reasons, but with decades in elective office in Arkansas, at least he wasn't a stealth candidate. Though rumors and mysteries abounded, Clinton was hardly a blank slate who emerged out of nowhere. Obama is different. He burst onto the political scene and has risen with such alacrity that even many of...

The markets are extremely oversold, but it can't muster a rally. Why not? The Fed is doing everything it can; ... While many are expecting a rally, and some are in fact buying modestly right now, there are other problems. ... 2) But there's a bigger problem: there is no "E" in the P/E. In English, there is no Earnings in the Price/Earnings Ratio. Look at the estimates now: S&P 500 price is 975; many estimates of earnings for the S&P 500 for 2009 are around $75 for the index. Do the math: 975/$75 = 13 x earnings. Now, this...

The Dow celebrated the one-year anniversary of its all-time high by plummeting below 9000 for the first time since August 2003 and ending in the red for the seventh straight day. The worst financial crisis since the Great Depression continues to engulf Wall Street, carving out 5,000 points from the index, including 2,000 points over the past seven days alone.

Obama purchases half hour of primetime on CBS, also in talks with FOX, NBC... DEVELOPING...

If a recent poll found that almost 75 percent of America's top business leaders felt that a McCain presidency would be disastrous for the nation, with some even stating that his proposals if enacted would bankrupt the country in three years, do you think media would have reported it? Probably every hour on the hour until every American had heard about it, right? Well, on Wednesday, with the nation in the middle of what is being regularly portrayed as the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, Chief Executive magazine released its survey of 751 CEOs finding that 74 percent...

The Dow Jones industrials fell under 9,000 this afternoon for the first time since the summer of 2003 as investor confidence that markets would stabilize appeared to collapse. At 3:40 p.m. ET, the blue chips were down 641 points, or 6.9%, to 8,617. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index was off 74 points, or 7.5% to 911. The Nasdaq Composite Index was down 94 points, or 5.4%, to 1,646. The S&P fell under a closely monitored support level of 960. A support level is important because it is supposed to trigger new buying. At those levels, the crash of 2008...

8995. Wow, I'm impressed how well socialism has helped the markets.