How much will the Dow drop today.

[dolemitesooner]

Hopefully 800 points:)

[Ardmore_Sooner]

Hey will that mean gas will be 1.87?

[Tulsa_Fireman]

Eleventy brazillion.

[dolemitesooner]

tHAT WOULD BE awesome

[SoonerInKCMO]

Why do you want it to fall? Are you heavily invested in Dean's Mason Jars Fund?

[dolemitesooner]

YES

[Chuck Bao]

The most important thing to remember is: DON'T PANIC!

That's my job.

And, I mean that in the sense that if you do panic, I lose my job.

[olevetonahill]

Very tru Chuck.
Hell Im old enough that Ive gone thru 3 or 4 of these things so Far . we always Bounce back .

[Boomer.....]

Horrible at first but bounced back at the end to only end 310 down. Sucks but still better than 700 or 800 down.

[badger]

One of my co-workers just went off on me when he announced in his abnormally loud voice that the stocks dropped 700 points - I think they ended up down 800, but closed at down 360 or so, right? Anyways, in a quiet "Not talking to you" voice, I said "So much for the bailout," and this guy just started yelling about "You must have attended Harvard Business School" and several other cheap shot insults.

In any event, odds are he has lost a lot of money in the last few weeks, so I will not hold it against him. People took the market and made a lot of money off of it for years and now it's time for them to give back some of that money, just like economics taught us - not at Harvard, but in high school. It's cyclical. You go up and then you go down, but then you'll eventually go up again. You can't go up forever.

This co-worker is now giving me the silent treatment. Thank god. I was ready to put on the headphones if he kept talking so loud.

[walkoffsooner]

Hopefully 800 points:)


Getting about time to buy? Or is 8200 going to be were it settles.

[dolemitesooner]

Oh yeah it is.

No I think it will go below 7,500. Around 7,000 I would say BUY BUY BUY

[olevetonahill]

I d say Buy anytime yer ready this slump aint gonna last long .
6 Months maybe a year.

[Rogue]

I d say Buy anytime yer ready this slump aint gonna last long .
6 Months maybe a year.

The glass of OVJ is always half-full! :D

[olevetonahill]

The glass of OVJ is always half-full! :D

I may have to go up .;)

[JohnnyMack]

Oh this is bad.

http://moneycentral.msn.com/investor/research/msnbc/newsnap.asp?Symbol=$DJI

[C&CDean]

Everybody knows the messiah is coming.

[oumartin]

by the time this is over we may all be needing universal health care!

I've got my sunglasses, cane and tin cup ready

[Chuck Bao]

In Asia, we are in for another rough ride this morning.

Good grief! Can't you guys get your act together?

Did you know that Asians are calling this the "hamburger crisis"? I believe that they think it is clever, like the '97 Tom Yum Gung crisis. Or, they think Americans resemble hamburgers or smell like hamburgers or have little beef between the buns. No idea.

Anyway, bad, bad day ahead.

[jkjsooner]

Man, I knew the real estate bubble was going to end badly and it would affect the overall economy but I totally underestimated the level of collateral damage.

I'm seriously wondering if we will be standing in soup lines this time next year.

Is the market drop really a panic or is this where our economy is going?

And, Chuck, you're giving the U.S. too much credit here. We were the first domino to fall but there were plenty of other dominoes waiting to tip over.

P.S. The biggest client on my project is Wachovia.... Guess that doesn't look good for me. ;-)

[Chuck Bao]

Japan is off 10.5%, Hong Kong -8.2% and Australia -6.3%.

Thailand hasn't opened yet. Maybe someone will just hit the circuit breakers at the opening.

Ugly just got nasty.