Bullish Blog

AP - A stock market ripe for a big pullback succumbed Tuesday, plunging when rumors of a bank failure revived investors’ anxiety about the banking industry and the economy as a whole.

Investor’s Business Daily - 1 Stocks fell in mixed volume, pushing investors away from risk. The rocky start to the week began after the Shanghai composite sank 6.7% on gov’t plans to turn off the flood of easy credit. The Dow fell 0.5%, the Nasdaq and NYSE composite 1%, and the S&P 500 0.8%. The 10-year Treasury yield fell 5 ticks to 3.40%.

AP - After giving the stock market a big gain during August, investors still worried about the economy backtracked the final day of the month.

Investor’s Business Daily - China Life Insurance is a mega-cap stock that’s slowly made its way back to a key moving average.

AP - How far the Dow Jones industrial average has fallen or advanced each trading day since Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Sept. 15. Since Lehman’s fall, which touched off a paralysis of the credit markets and deepened the recession, the stock market has gone through an extended period of volatility before kicking into a big rally starting this spring. The numbers are the closing levels for the Dow:

Time.com - The summer stock-market rally is a break with traditional seasonal patterns, and that bodes well as we head into the scariest season of all

AP - After giving the stock market a big gain during August, investors still worried about the economy backtracked the final day of the month.

Reuters - U.S. stocks fell on Monday as concerns about the global economy’s health weighed on Wall Street following a sell-off in Chinese equities.

AP - European shares fell Monday after Chinese stocks plunged nearly 7 percent and Japanese shares weakened after the country’s opposition party came to power in a landslide victory.

Reuters - Chinese stocks sank 6 percent to a three-month low on Monday, weighing on Asian shares, sapping investor willingness to take risks and giving the yen an added boost after Japanese voters swept the opposition into power.