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The Fed chairman updates Congress on the economy -- bad -- and explains the Bear-Stearns rescue.
  • A crash is a 7% drop in a few days.

    We're down 7-12% depending on the index you look at, YTD. So it's a slow unwinding. Technical analysts will point to the volatility such as yesterday's 400 pt jump as a stuttering before it all falls off the cliff. But the technicians aren't always right on this point.