Fat fingers or financial fears? Something spooks the stock market!

Something happened on the Stock Market today that sent the Dow Jones index plunging 1000 points, the largest drop since the crash of 1987.

As the trading day went past the 2:30 PM ET, 11:30 AM (PT) stocks started to track lower, spurred on in part it seems by an inexplicable crash of Proctor and Gamble stock.

With the momentum of the sudden drops increasing, the roller coaster aspect of the stock market took a decidedly downhill move, with financial analysts crowding to try and shed some light on the situation on the financial and news stations of the world…

(from  the blog a town called podunk, click on the link below to see the entire article atowncalledpodunk.blogspot.com/2 … fears.html   )