Yeah, the market is in many ways a fulcrum point for a zillion leveraged strategies that create pressure for the market to do not much of anything. Check out these headlines from Bloomberg: "KKR to Acquire First Data for $25.6 Billion in Second-Largest Buyout Ever" "New Century Files for Bankruptcy as U.S. Subprime-Mortgage Defaults Surge" Which will have a bigger impact on the markets? Big money liquidity or the inflation, low wage and confidence tribulations of the Great Unwashed?
I had to bring this thread back to the top because you're such a tool. By chance stock_trad3r, is your name Veruca Salt?