The market seems to be selling-off on the back of limited bad news imo, apart from the dollar that is.

If you can hold your nerve and apart from any short term requirements to offload poor performing stocks, I have a couple!!, my advice would be sit tight. This does not have the feel of the tech(mining!) bubble at all. Difference being there are a lot of good fundamentals, unlike in 2000 when there were a lot of over rated nothing companies.

ah well, you can't uninvent the atom bomb either! .... would never expect you to agree with anything i write (and vice versa most times), having seen such when i became boorishly repetitive about what a carp company SEO was - well still is, just

anyway, must be a racing certainty that the markets will gyrate terifyingly this afternoon, and goodness knows where they will close ...... both possibilites are real possibilities!

fed propping up the markets before the start , a bounce now a possibility

the brave (or foolhardy man) would now place a long on the Dow but set a target

just games at the mo

If the Dow bounces enough (which it won't right now) ,i'm shorting it cynic.

was that the bounce or the rebound of the bounce then ...?

he ain't sayin'! ...... Dow is currently -140 ... it has hovered between this sort of level and -110 virtually since opening ...... i would not be surprised to it recovery to -40 or better, but i hope i am not brave enough to put money on it

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Futures markets began betting Friday that the Federal Reserve will institute an emergency interest rate cut this month in the wake of the credit worries that have roiled U.S. markets in recent weeks.

bet they don't! That really would be admitting to dire probs and would be likely to send markets crashing still further

i have my doubts cos the dollar will plunge causing even more chaos

things looking a bit dangerous now

nice quote:

"It is unwise bordering on imprudent to assume that terrible will not follow bad," Catalano said.

Hmmm! (the DOW) its bounced DOWN ... (or shall we say rebouded off the bounce). Its looking dire - I wounder wher AVE got the oomph from

sned , all sorts going , shorts closing i would suspect causing bounces , we will see

Y(W)anks rocking but not rolling yet!

at least that brings a really nasty couple of days to a close in London.
now we must all hold our breath to see what the evening brings and of course Monday

Grim !

2:20pm 08/10/2007


NASDAQ said Friday that Thursday was the biggest day in its history for total matched volume, with 3.31 billion shares traded. The Nasdaq said it traded 1.77 billion in Nasdaq-listed stocks, 1.13 billion shares in NYSE-listed and 405 million in American Stock Exchange-listed stocks.

never seen a summer like this one - i wonder how many holidays have been disrupted

Dow looks to be finishing quite close to break even .... that being so, there will be a huge sigh of relief round the world with a probable consequent surge in prices ..... the more cautious and wise will wait to see what happens in US again

i guess ITS DIFFERENT THIS TIME :-)))

no break on any of the indices

shorts always under the cosh when the fed stepped in although what the fed was doing buying dodgy subprime is beyond me

The FED on behalf of the American tax payers can afford to bail out the poorly judged lending activities of the likes of Bear Sterns.