I believe we may have cerated a bottom. I would guess news like this should be very very positive for the market http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/071125/holiday_shopping.html
This is more like it: Retailers Buoyed by Strong Holiday Fart The nation's shoppers set aside worries about higher gas prices and a slumping housing market and proved their resilience over the Thanksgiving weekend, giving what the nation's merchants wished for -- a strong fart, to start the holiday shopping season. By Anne D'Innocenzio, AP Business Writer Anne, don't get your gun!
Doom and gloom it is not. I was expecting the retail bottom to fall out. This takes a lot of worry away.. Remember these numbers really don't come out until Dec 1st. Its a guesstimate...