Not a nice Christmas Gift at all. http://finance.yahoo.com/

Was a reaction to the Interest Rate drop.. which aused the stock market to react. Its recovered slightly.

Federal Reserve says the economy is doing well and they expect a rebound of some degree form the credit/housing "crunch"

May also be worth noting the Stock market has gone over 14,000 a few times.


May directly effect a pretty small specific segment of investors but average people overall?... probably not much if any.....and I doubt we shall see the rebound posted by you.

I lost $100 dollars from the $150 I gained the day before. $50 dollars net still there though

Anyways, though, people watch the stock market too closely on a day to day basis. The stock market jumps and drops every day, depending on what is occurring that day. Overall, it means nothing. Long term, the stock market steadily increases. This is the reason that mutual funds are such worthwhile investments. Screaming doom and gloom every day the stock market drops is just gonna make your throat raw. Tomorrow or the next day it will probably go back up to higher than it was. This is especially true with the Christmas season. Increased sales is good for the economy.

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You know, you'd think investors would be happy as punch they're getting an interest rate cut they really shouldn't be getting -

But now they're upset 'cause it's "not enough".

What a bunch of whiners - er... I mean... speculators.