On 6/19/06 6:51 PM, "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> Here's an AP headline explaining today's US stock market action:
>
>> Dow ends down 72 on lack of economic news
>
> That's creative! They couldn't just say that the market had to do
> something, and falling 72 was as plausible as rising 72. Humankind
> cannot bear very much randomness, as TS Eliot might have said.
>
On the principle that no news is good news one would have expected the
market to rise.
Jacob