The market was basically even today after an up and down jaunt. What started out as a positive day quickly turned negative and then back to even. Oil is expensive, the United States is sacntioning Iran, but most surprisingly of all is that sales of new homes actually increased by 4.8 percent in September which beat analysts expectations of a 2.5 percent drop. The Dow Jones Industrial average was down 4.71 points down .03 percent with one hour left in trading for the day and the NASDAQ was down 21.59 points down .78 percent with one hour of trading left for the day. Microsoft (MSFT) was up 2.59 percent for the day on news it purchased a small stake in Face Book. Microsoft is up 25.28 percent for a two year period. Walt Disney Co. (DIS) was down 2 percent on news it was donating 2 million dollars to aid the fires in California (meaning business at Disney theme parks in California will be affected).

Popularity: 7% [?]