[Brilliant]

When folks start talking about a “breakout,” that’s usually when the market collapses.

[kbennkc]

Tell me just before it peaks next time will you please.

[raybbr]

Other than the guys who can manipulate billions of dollars worth of stock with a keystroke, what would people invest in?

How could this idiot of a paper print this crap as though everything from here on in is going to be

GRRRRREAT!

[paul51]

Investors have been forced to readjust their expectations for the economy, with data showing the pace of the recovery has gone from a sprint to a crawl.

When the data spells trouble, don't adjust the stock price, just adjust your expectations.

[jimbo123]

Given that this propaganda came from the NY Times, I’d be wary of buying anything right now. Most Wall Street traders are NOT meeting the their numbers so far this year so be very careful.

[April Lexington]

The stock market is a collection of people who earn their bread investing and trading other people's money. They make the market go up and down based on their fear of loosing their bonuses and their greed of missing a run up. The stock market is a very poor indicator of general economic conditions so whether it goes up or down, the US economy is still in the tank. People are unemployed. Houses are under water and business stinks... If the market goes up, sell into the rally. If it falls, who cares?

[Uncle Ike]

” Stocks on Brink Of Breakout “

This will sure come as a great comfort to the twenty-some-percent of us who are either drawing unemployment, or are ‘lucky’ enough to be pulling down subsistence wages...

Thanks, Obama and Dems...

[BenLurkin]

Sometimes, “buy” means “sell”.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

We have to SAVE Obama!

[The Comedian]

I'm just hoping for a momentary collapse in GLD and SLV so I can use the profits I made shorting solar and wind companies to make a killing on gold and silver after Mr. Soros' Puppet King kills the dollar.

Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

[DCPatriot]

ROTFLMAO!

The Stock Market will be under 5000 by Halloween.

[ex-snook]

The boom before the bust. Customer confidence in the economy does not justify this expectation. Unless it’s just investors goosing up each other waiting for the suckers to take the bait.

[OpusatFR]

QE2 coming? Bet cha so.

[Wolfie]

Ah yes, the weekly Monday pump up for the weekly Friday dump off.

[upchuck]

ping

[Don Corleone]

The threat of TAX increases are keeping this economy in peril. IMHO

[Washi]

These days, there's no rhyme nor reason to the fluctuation of the stock market. There certainly has been no correlation to economic realities.

I had hoped to buy back in just prior to November, thinking that the economy would improve if one or both houses of congress were captured by the Repubs.

On the other hand, if Bush's tax cuts are allowed to expire in January, the economy is going to tank.

Uncertainty is a powerful weapon if you're trying to destroy the economy.

[bray]

Let me know when housing recovers which is the engine of the economy.

Pray for America

[101voodoo]

No jobs, people who have jobs in fear of losing them, housing market in the toilet and about to be flushed, consumer confidence at a new low, and in an economy 2/3 driven by consumer spending with consumers NOT SPENDING, just WHO will be spending the money necessary to keep earnings up?

Companies have increased profits through cost cutting (layoffs) and increased production (again fewer employees doing more work), and have seen all of that they can see. Any further growth has to come from consumer spending and I’m not seeing any of that.

Let’s not confuse the stock market with the economy. Unless and until consumers resume spending we are going nowhere. Companies are today sitting on 1.8 TRILLION in cash. They are doing so because of uncertainty and uncertainty is what the markets hate the most.

Anyone here disagree?

[Varsity Flight]

++++ . If it falls, who cares? +++++

How about govt. pensions? Guess who’s “invested” in the market?...and has a driving interest in saving their own, while the rest go unemployed or are taxed into nothingness?