Yeehaaaa, riding the DOW high baby. Up 565 points........

[a kennedy]

Hugh job numbers is partially the reason. I usually always post the bad DOW numbers, so was extremely happy to post the good numbers.

[Ocelot II]

1. No-default deal is probably the bigger reason.

[stopdiggin]

2. yep. even for the majority

that had factored in a 'deal' all along. Just no way to slice it other than a positive - and a relief.

[onenote]

3. Not because of the 339,000 jobs or the debt deal.

It's up because the unemployment rate went up from 3.4% to 3.7% -- an increase that may lead the Fed not to raise interest rates.

[Emile]

4. Up over 630 now 😁

[Boomerproud]

5. Hopefully will recover the money I've lost in my very necessary nest egg.

It's a roller coaster, I know.

[DFW]

6. I own a few stocks, no huge numbers or positions

But of the two that I watch--WHEN I watch--one was down a little today, and one was up a bit.

Yin and Yang. It's mostly a spectator sport with me. I can't remember the last time I've bought or sold a share of anything. When the brokerage where I store what I've got "recommended" that I sell the 500 shares of Apple (bought for $38 or so per share back in 1998), and they then split and soared to be worth about $3 million more than I got from the sale, I just said, to hell with this game. These clowns don't know what they're doing any more than I do, and I don't know anything.