Dow is dropping: approaching 100 points in the first hour...

[brooklynite]

Leadership for America

[elleng]

1. Anyone surprised?

As Bill C said, repugs trying to cause U.S. to fail.


.At 11:06 AM ETMarkets »
S.&P. 500
1,683.64
–8.11
–0.48%Dow
15,159.15
–99.09
–0.65%Nasdaq
3,771.23
–10.37
–0.27%

[KoKo]

2. Time for some to "load up the truck."

[HereSince1628]

3. Gotta take the opportunity to crank it down so it can be reinflated

You can't ensure the benefits of the next pump up if you've got no room to inflate the market.

[bhikkhu]

4. Odds are that all the (R) millionaires, and everyone they know

has sold there shares first thing this morning, and will buy back in a couple of days just before the vote where they cave. The market drops based on what they did over the weekend, and the market will bounce back based on the next decision.

They lose political points (based on their idiotic ideology) either way, but they've done this often enough to be able to make some bank off of it. Money-made eases the pain pretty well.

[whttevrr]

7. And the gutting of the STOCK Act hides the disclosure of who sold what...

You know Cruz is short. People are going to make a lot of money on this downturn. If I had any money in the market I would be shorting the hell out of shit...

Anyone know where I can buy small amounts of stock?

It seems like everything needs initial money of at least 5-10 thousand dollars... Where can I get in at 1-2 thousand?

[A HERETIC I AM]

9. You can open an ETrade account for $500

https://us.etrade.com/open-account/all-accounts?ploc=footer

Click on "Open an account" under "How Do I"

[bhikkhu]

10. Or if you just want a decent fund Vanguard is pretty good

I found years ago I just don't have the stomach for trading in stocks - too much stress, too much second guessing and there's always something you missed or some timing opportunity screws up. You could always have made more money or saved losses, if only...

After I refinanced my house earlier in the year I put a little bit into a Vanguard fund rather than savings. They vary in the buy in - most are $3000, but some are as low as $100.

[legcramp]

5. Have you ever paid attention to the markets before?

The phrase "laughing stock of the Internets" comes to mind. The

[closeupready]

6. Coordinated action, I'm 99% sure. Why does anyone trust "the market"

after what we've been through these last few years.

Wall Street laying groundwork to give material to Obama's adversaries, putting blame on him.

[whttevrr]

8. 11:54

Dow -100.93
15,157.31 -0.66%

Nasdaq -9.34
3,772.25 -0.25%

S&P 500 -8.85
1,682.90 -0.52%

GlobalDow -19.18
2,313.20 -0.82%

Gold -8.50
1,330.70 -0.64%

Oil -0.98
101.89 -0.95%