Or, “Who cares about Portugal/Greece/Spain/Italy/UK?”

Or, “It was a fat finger in WTI; never seen a computerised trading glitch?”

Or, “Gold is a very small market; it points to nothing.”

Or, “Contagion? We’ve had the jab.”

Whatever. US equity markets fought back late on Friday – refusing to join in the 1.5-2 per cent index carnage seen across Europe earlier.

Here’s the Dow, with a determined push back up to the 10k level:

Still, bit early to get the real trend. The real Dow mood is set in the latest 20 minutes of trading…

This entry was posted by Paul Murphy on Friday, February 5th, 2010 at 20:38 and is filed under Capital markets. Tagged with dow jones industrial average. Edit this entry.