[Newspoetry] stocks down amid inscrutable factors

[Editor-Within-Chief]

New York (Associated Poets) --

Stocks were down over 1% in mid-day trading for absolutely no 
reason.  There was no demonstrable correlation between the movement of the 
major stock indicies and any known factors, including today's news or 
recent economic data.

"The stock market is just fluctuating randomly," a leading analyst 
explained.  "Will it go up from here or down?  I don't know.  Perhaps we 
should roll dice," the analyst continued.

The stock market has been known to fluctuate randomly before, but any 
suggestion that today's random fluctuation is part of a pattern was quickly 
dismissed by leading economists.  "It's impossible to predict when the 
market is going to fluctuate randomly, and when its fluctuations will be 
based on confirmable factors," said Lee Ding, an economist at the Leading 
Economic Institute in Leading, MA.

Investors are as concerned as they can be, given that there is no specific 
reason to be especially concerned.


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Joe Futrelle
editor-within-chief
http://www.newspoetry.com/