Market experts continue to speculate about how the Dow Jones Industrial Average will perform in the remaining weeks of the year. Optimists believe that the stock market will rebound during the last two weeks of the year, while pessimists think the stock market will continue to spiral downward. And everyone hopes for a Santa Claus rally by the end of the year.
When you look at performance over the past two months, it's obvious how extremely erratic this market has been. For example, the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped to 10,500, yet rose to 11,600 just one week later. That's more than a 10% gain - in just one week! All this movement makes it extremely difficult for investors to judge the market's direction - not an ordinarily easy task, anyway.