Bush's number has been weak over the past week although Kerry has been invisible as usual, the 'mainstream' media does not put the Iraq chaos in headline and the 'Berger scandal'. It seems to me Bush's poll number correlates better with Dow Jones Index than with Kerry's strength(or weakness).
U.S. stocks languish in negative territory
U.S. stocks lost ground Thursday as blue chips tumbled below 10,000 for the first time in two months, and the Nasdaq hovered around year-lows, on a mixed batch of results and an outlook from EBay which stoked concern over future earnings growth.
Sending the Dow Jones Industrial Average below 10,000 was an unexpected fall in the index of leading economic indicators, which confirmed a slowdown in U.S. economic growth in June.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI - News) was last down 52 points, or 0.5 percent, at 9,993, after posting a triple-digit decline Wednesday. Sixteen of 30 stocks were moving lower.
The benchmark index last fell below 10,000 intraday on May 25.