5,789.06 reported in the NYSE Composite Index on Oct 22 1:20pm ET
http://money.cnn.com/data/markets/nyse/
Not the Dow, so we should worry less?
Thanks for the update. Sorry you cannot give me stock tips from the future. The title of the thread is “DOW Below 10,000”, and every other comment is about the DOW average, so you’ll understand my confusion when you pop in with a figure from the NYSE Composite index without explaining it.
It looks like every exchange is down across the board today. Wait for tomorrow, it’ll be up again!
Personally, I am waiting for some slight stability to return to the markets before I stick money in (I pulled it out last year, and it’s now sitting in an interest bearing short-term account)
[George Carlin] As your fucking economy collapses around you! [/GC]
Heckuvajob, Bernanke!
I confess, I’m a bit puzzled by all these stories every time the markets tank talking about “fear of a recession”. Maybe I’m just mis-reading what they’re saying, but it seems like they’re implying that the reason the markets are tanking on this particular Friday (or Tuesday or Thursday, whichever new collapse we’re talking about) is that traders woke up that morning and said “Oh, gosh, this new information we just got–Britains GDP declined or whatever the fuck–leads us to believe we’re headed into a recession!!!”
So…is there really anybody still out there who hasn’t been made aware of this for at least, what, several months now? I mean, are we getting a fresh batch of people every week waking up from their cryosleep chambers, glancing at today’s Wall Street Journal and lunging for a phone yelling “HOLY SHIT! SELL! SELL! SELL!!!”