Mutual funds are clearly a very big reason why the stock market is declining, ... This is the other side of the mountain.
Even though it's a bad time, it's a good time - if you have a taxable account, you clearly want to harvest some of the gains, and offset it with some sales of losses,
It's not good news, ... Even though the focus is on the Middle East and oil prices, these numbers clearly are not going to stabilize the markets.
Clearly the Federal Reserve is getting what it wanted with six interest rate increases.
The focus is clearly on earnings, that's what it's really all about.