A negative pallor hangs over the market.

The driving factor is indeed the Enron story.

Since it's broken through that, that sets a negative tone for the market.

The market is in one of these funks where it puts a negative spin on everything. I don't see what's going to pull us out of this in the short term.

Negative campaigning is wrong.

With a market as nasty and negative as it is at the moment, there's little room for error. The Nasdaq has contracted very sharply in a short period of time. Its drop in a year is approximately 60 percent, but this is not representative of all companies that are publicly traded.