NOTE TO EDITORS: The Following Is an Investment Opinion Being Issued by The Bellwether Report.

They're all descending.

The U.S. government may take equity stake in banks in order to secure a return on its bailout efforts. Meanwhile, blue chip IBM made an early 3rd quarter profit announcement to boost the Dow by 50 points to 9308. The tech-heavy Nasdaq surged 20 points to 1761.

After surviving sky-high fuel prices, airlines are now facing even greater challenges in the form of tight credit conditions and slumping passenger traffic.

Yesterday's market is today's road map.

Comments by Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke suggesting that the global economic crisis will extend well into next year sent the markets into a tailspin with the Dow skidding 508 points to 9447. Nasdaq plummeted 108 points to 1755.

A very disappointing day indeed on Wall Street, starting out very negative and then reversing sharply higher, but not able to hold the gains.[More...]

Monday's promising rally failed by mid-day and rolled over hard into the afternoon, taking out yesterday's lows and closing near the lows for the day going away, with the S&P 500 closing under 1000.[More...]

US Stocks fell sharply lower on Monday as credit crisis intensified and investors remained nervous, despite concerted effort by governments across the world. Dow finished below 10,000 for the first time since 2004 on concern the $700 dollar bailout packag[More...]

The indices were up sharply in the morning and came down sharply in the afternoon in a very dramatic and steep five-wave decline, closing near the lows for the day going away.[More...]

Looking at index charts, I am not sure whether the term “oversold” has much meaning in relation to our current market. Sure, we may get an oversold bounce, perhaps if we get an emergency rate cut. But lower interest rates will do nothing to solve the underlying problem. Moreover, the market may have already priced [...]

Colleen S. King takes a look at news on the Street before the market open.

Colleen S. King takes a look at news on the Street after the market closes

Schaeffer's Andrea Kramer takes a look at unusual option activity on the Street

Schaeffer's Laura Houser takes a look at activity on the Street after the market close

Schaeffer's Carly Schaeffer takes a look at activity on the Street ahead of the market open