Friday, February 06, 2009

Maybe the market needs MORE bad news?

As a follow up to Dale's blog about how they try to over simplify why the stock market went up or down on a given day (when the reasons a market moves are not only multi-variable but partly irrationally and emotionally based) - I took this screenshot today:

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

that's probably because those data were for January/in the past, so most all the institutional investors/experts already knew that. Kind of like when they announced that we were officially in a recession... it wasn't a surprise to anyone.

Dale said...

So basically bad news means the market could go either up or down...

Tom said...

I don't know who anonymous is but that is my whole point! The market doesn't move because of the one-line headline like they try to make us believe!