Like traders throwing good money after bad, their instinct is to average down their cost of their position.
The raids helped push the Dow Jones Industrial Average down about 150 points before a rally left the index down 24.97 points.
The Dow Jones industrial average down 1.8 percent to close at 14, 599.20.
This has only taken the 1-down-year-in-4 average down to 1 in 3.
That may be explained by more people coming into self-employment without the work and wages being there for them, dragging the average down.
Three are corporations with jet aircraft fleets that use the Mustang for trips under 1, 000 miles to average down fuel and maintenance costs.
Behind-the-scenes factors, such as hedge-fund liquidations seemingly triggered by quarterly withdrawals, pushed the Dow Jones industrial average down 3.0%, or 300.11 points, to 9, 655.39.
Bond yields are signaling significant turbulence is ahead, yet stocks in the U.S. are on average down a little over 6% from multi-year highs.
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The industry dragged the Dow Jones transportation average down 1.2 percent.
Initial claims inched down by 1, 000 to 400, 000, according to a report by the Labor Department, helping push the 4-week moving average down 7, 750 to 407, 750.
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Investors sold and sold on Monday, sending the Dow Jones industrial average down as much as 800 points before they got tired of all that selling.
It really boils down to whether you are trading purely off technicals, or if you have enough confidence in your fundamental analysis to average down into positions.
By contrast the ETF has declined on only 34 days, but the average down volume on those days was far higher at 278.4 million shares, 61% higher.
It just depends on the person, and if they are willing to value invest, and they are willing to continue to average down, which is something I do.
Big holiday technology retailers like Apple and Best Buy were down as well, bringing the Nasdaq down 8 points to 2, 657 and the Dow Jones industrial average down 27 points to 11, 546.
American stock markets appeared calmer after the excitement of Tuesday, with the Dow Jones industrial average down just over 1% at the close and the technology biased Nasdaq index up more than 2%.
Somebody whiffed and dragged the average down.
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This news followed hard on the heels of the news that housing prices continue to fall in 16 out of 20 major U.S. cities for the sixth month straight, to the level of a decade ago, prices on average down over one third with nine cities hitting their lowest level since the bust.
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The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down by around 45 points after also sliding on Monday.
At one point this afternoon, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down almost a thousand points.
At midday in New York, the Dow Jones industrial average was down 1.3%, or 172.91 at 13483.00.
At its nadir today, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 369 points, or 2.78%, to 12, 876.
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The Nikkei Stock Average finished down 3.7% at 13, 261.82, a six-week low amid selling by domestic retail investors.
In Tokyo, the Nikkei average closed down half a percent Thursday, after declining 9.4 percent a day earlier.
Japan's Nikkei Stock Average closed down 0.4% after the central bank said it would increase its asset-purchase program.
On Friday, the Dow Jones industrial average closed down 1.4 percent to 15, 115.57.
The Dow Jones industrial average opened down Monday, dropping 21 points to 12, 251.
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