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Europe Closes And Selling Gets Worse: Dow Falls 160, NASDAQ Down 1.8%
The Business Insider ^ | 5-19-2010 | Joe Weisenthal

Posted on 05/19/2010 8:57:28 AM PDT by blam

Europe Closes And Selling Gets Worse: Dow Falls 160, NASDAQ Down 1.8%

Joe Weisenthal
May. 19, 2010, 11:38 AM

The bulls staged another run and briefly managed to get the Dow down just 50, but they can't sustain it.

What's going on?

You know the drill:

EURO EURO EURO EURO EURO EURO EURO, GERMANY, EURO.

All pretty straightforward stuff.

Meanwhile, European markets fell hard, lead to the downside by France's CAC-40.

One interesting stock to watch: Goldman Sachs (GS) had been higher throughout the morning, but is now slightly in the red.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: badnewsblam; djia; euro; markets; stocks
The DJIA is down 155 as I post. See here
1 posted on 05/19/2010 8:57:29 AM PDT by blam
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To: blam
Go here to see the closing numbers on the European markets.
2 posted on 05/19/2010 8:58:55 AM PDT by blam
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To: blam

Must be fat finger racism again...


3 posted on 05/19/2010 9:00:15 AM PDT by Dallas59 (President Robert Gibbs 2009-2013)
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To: blam
Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) 10:54AM EDT: 10,404.62 -106.33 (1.01%)
4 posted on 05/19/2010 9:05:21 AM PDT by blam
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To: Dallas59

yeah the socialist sheethole called the EU is imploding. so nice this what Zero & Friends want to changeyhopey the USA into. hopfully we can avert disaster in Nov.


5 posted on 05/19/2010 9:05:50 AM PDT by Gasshog (going to get what all those libs asked for, but its not what they expected.)
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To: blam

The PPT ( Plunge Protection Team) has arrived, now down 129!


6 posted on 05/19/2010 9:07:57 AM PDT by Timocrat
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To: Timocrat

PPT They do work so you dont have toooooo... said as we swirl around the tolietbowl.


7 posted on 05/19/2010 9:12:14 AM PDT by Gasshog (going to get what all those libs asked for, but its not what they expected.)
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To: Timocrat

LOL the way you make them sound like Superheroes.

“Who will save us from Captain Crash! Why, its the Plunge Protection Team!!”


8 posted on 05/19/2010 9:19:19 AM PDT by agere_contra
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To: Timocrat
"The PPT ( Plunge Protection Team) has arrived"


9 posted on 05/19/2010 9:29:09 AM PDT by Dem Guard ("We're Coming to Take You Away")
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To: blam

Germany, Greece and Exiting the Eurozone

Euro Battles Back Amid Greece Exit Chatter (Rumors or...?)

Major Investment Bank: "Greece Is Going Down, Germany Drafting Law For Orderly Insolvencies"


10 posted on 05/19/2010 10:23:48 AM PDT by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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To: agere_contra
LOL the way you make them sound like Superheroes.

I had in mind the cavalry arriving to the sound of the William Tell Overture played Allegro.

11 posted on 05/19/2010 10:52:10 AM PDT by Timocrat
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