Dow Death Watch

Wow, a typo?

The Associated Press: Wall St. rollercoaster: Stocks fall nearly 10 pct (http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jmT59dgLTTziX4p9X9MRBRpWZGdQD9FHLKMO2)

Seriously. The whole thing stinks if you ask me. How does any trader not notice the "billion" instead of "million?" Wouldn't you proofread a trade of that size before you push enter?

Wow, a typo?

The Associated Press: Wall St. rollercoaster: Stocks fall nearly 10 pct (http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jmT59dgLTTziX4p9X9MRBRpWZGdQD9FHLKMO2)

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Wow, a typo?

The Associated Press: Wall St. rollercoaster: Stocks fall nearly 10 pct (http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jmT59dgLTTziX4p9X9MRBRpWZGdQD9FHLKMO2)Whew, hopefully that's all it was.

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Funniest thing I've read on here in a few days. LOL. Thanks for that.

Nasdaq Cancels Trades Made Over 20 Minute Period - WSJ.com (http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20100506-727290.html)

I just heard on the news that nasdaq is going to cancel trades made from 240-3pm that are:

"greater than or less than 60% away from the consolidated last print in that security at (2:40 p.m.) or immediately prior."

I dont exactly know what the means, or how they can even do something like that (legally and administratively). Apparently around 280 securities are effected? Tomorrow should be interesting. Did anyone see the cnbc clip where Cramer is being interviewed and they have Proctor and Gamble up on the screen and while their talking about it within about 45 secs the stock drops to 39 then back up to 60.

Germany is a socialist country with lots of social programs, I wonder why they haven't gone under. The Greek problem is two folds, decline in world wide shipping and tourism due to United States sub-prime crisis, and fraud (http://www.businessinsider.com/henry-blodget-greece-paid-goldman-300-million-to-help-it-hide-its-ballooning-debts-2010-2) on the part of the Greek government with the help of Goldman Sachs to mask their real debt.

The German economy isn't a great one to compare with, it's a force and can support a hefty government budget because it derives so much of its GDP from exports. It's a central and critical transportation hub for traveling throughout Europe. And its citizens are highly educated and specialized, something Greece and Canada don't quite match up against.

You're right about Greece's problems and how they got into the mess to begin with. But their government's spending was unsustainable given their economy. The broader economic crisis did kill their shipping and tourism industries, which represent such a large chunk of what they need. While Germany has been able to weather the storm because of the mere size and diversity of their economy, Greece got crushed, and couldn't sustain a government of that size.

In the case of the United States, we're running a bigger deficit (as a % of GDP) than Germany is. We're not at the Greek level by any means, but nations can't continue heading down that road, or the piper ends up getting paid a lot more later than it would take to pay him off today.

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Yes FD can crash the stockmarket with just a click of his key board. Lets see we start talking about drilling for oil and we have a disaster and now they are talking finance reform and we have this. The thing in time square was just a diversion so we would not tie the two things together.

were you on the Warren commission?

Market surging back today thanks to the European Union's decision to back the Greece package. Hope nobody sold last week during the swings.

sorry fellas but im really hoping the stock market tanks for awhile so i can build up some savings then jump back in when stocks are at a low value and ripe for the picking.