It's the kind of market now where (investors) have to get out -- to lighten up, ... Interest rates are making people do that, and fear of a slowing economy and higher inflation. If that's the fear, then prices come down.

The market overreacted to the storm and that attracted buyers at key technical levels,

That's terrific if you're a BellSouth shareholder ... but there are too many negatives poking at the market right now.

The financials bottomed out in mid-October. Now everybody and their sister is saying they've got to buy them. There's a perception that the yield on the 10-year note is not going that much higher.

We had the Nasdaq acting poorly all day, even when the Dow and the S&P were doing well all day, ... But breadth has gotten increasingly negative. We are just seeing technical action here and higher oil is just exacerbating the move.

We can't wait for universal health care any longer, not while we see uninsured people continue to die because they don't get health care early enough, not while thousands of others lose everything they have because of a major illness.