Whats the Dow doing this morning?

[Vanje]

I'm listening to NPR.
They're covering Baseball pretty well today.

[ProdigalJunkMail]

1. slightly down...pretty boring given all the apocalyptic

predictions...who knows, maybe it will crash later...

sP

[shraby]

2. Go here and you'll find running numbers

that are renewed every few seconds.
<http://finance.yahoo.com/>

[Vanje]

4. Thanks. Bookmarked.

Hmm. Down 111 points now

[Vanje]

5. Now

135 down

[Vanje]

6. Uh. Coming up........No wait ......Yeah Up a little from -135 , and rising.....

......wait. moving down again...

This could make ya seasick with all those waves.

[flvegan]

3. Healthy trading day thus far.

Considering the FEAR that was swirling this weekend, it's not doing too poorly. Down 84 points or so right now.

[Javaman]

7. down 200 at open, then shot up to +40, now down 157. nt

[uppityperson]

8. Check out the DU stock market thread, link here...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=3230276&mesg_id=3230276

[Lasher]

9. Down 0.88% so far on the day.

I watch the S&P 500 more closely. It's currently at 1,265.79, down 1.62% today. That's real bad.

S&P 500 was at 1,342.90 when Junior took office on January 22, 2001. So that's a net loss of 77.11 over the course of 7 years and 2.5 months. Today's S&P would be 1,123.46 based on 2001 dollars, so we've had an inflation-adjusted loss of 219.44 while Stupid has been at the helm.

To put this into context, from January 1950 to December 2001 the S&P 500 returned an average of 9.2% each year, based on capital gains and excluding dividends.

http://www.moneychimp.com/features/market_cagr.htm

This is not the worst the S&P has done under any president since the Great Depression, but that is only because the index didn't exist until 1950. We truly are suffering under the WORST. PRESIDENT. EVER.