Reply #26: It makes me wonder.

[ozymandius]

Do people at the brokerage desks pay attention to this thread? Perhaps this is just a case of self-aggrandisement.

I may stop paying attention to the Reuters and AP speculative blather. They are consistently focused in the market's opening numbers, particularly the first half-hour (doesn't mean squat), without any attention paid to the daily trend. As James and Julie mentioned earlier in the thread - the wildly ranging durable goods figures and cash-balance option news are some indication that reality is lost on these reports. It is all book sense and no horse sense.