No one should be shocked at all by the stockmarket's direction. When during the last week of December it was announced that Warren Buffet, George Soros & others DUMPED their stock in technology (Intel) & domestic products (Proctor & Gamble, Kraft, Johnson & Johnson) that should have been the big clue that the market was going to head south.

Sage advice from the people who admitted to misleading their customers and took positions to steal from them. Before con-gress the Goldman CEo claimed Goldman was 'doing God's work."
Oh, yes, I will do exactly as Goldman suggests.

When "strategists from Goldman Sachs Group Inc. to AMP Capital Investors and JPMorgan Chase & Co." tell their clients to sell, rather than "hang on," I'll be a buyer. Until then, I'll keep my powder dry.