• It isn't. It's actually just taking a brief break from going "up."

• Nobody knows.

• People get paid a lot of money to pretend to know.

• Stuff is so messed up, it could be any number of things really. The paper says "on intensifying investor fears about a slowdown in global economic growth" and that's such a huge load of baloney. Oh, the investors feel fear about the globe? Cool story, bro. I mean, the DOW is scaled averages of share prices of 30 companies, not people's feelings about Europe's debt crisis. (Right, that's why Home Depot shares are down 10%.) It's called TAKING MONEY [...]