• 18.8% increase in the trade deficit, to $49.9 billion

• 2.5% decrease in the Dow because of this news
• 2.8% fall in the S&P 500 for the same reason
• 3% dip in the Nasdaq today; sigh source

• 40% the amount the stock increased on its IPO day (it was a great day)
• 3.85% the amount the NASDAQ as a whole fell today (it was a bad day)

Elon Musk scored big, too

• $70M the amount that Musk put into Tesla Motors all by himself – he was broke before today
• $650Mthe amount that Musk’s share in the company is worth after today – not bad, duder
• $15M the amount Musk took out to ensure his Tony Stark-like life can continue source

• -2.6% the decline of the Dow Jones industrial this morning
• -2.8% the decline of the S&P 500 in early trading this morning
• -2.9% the decline of the NASDAQ; all have had cruddy months source

• 3.6% the current increase for the Dow Jones Industrial

• 3.98% the boost for the S&P 500 thanks to Europe’s debt crisis response
• 4.29% the current increase for the Nasdaq; this matches global markets source

• 1.5% increase in the Dow Jones Industrial today; hip
• 1.6% increase in the S&P 500 today; hip
• 1.7% increase in the NASDAQ today; hooray! source

• Late Tuesday, Intel announced that they had estimated current quarter sales of $8.5 billion, which totally blew analysts’ numbers out of the water. Even better, their previous-quarter sales managed to top analysts’ numbers, too. Good to see someone’s doing really well.

• Today, the stock market reacted very positively, with investors giving high-fives all around, we’re sure, over the news. The Dow had its best day in three months, and NASDAQ its best in nine. Yum Brands struggled, though, prolly ’cause of KFC’s recent idiocy.

• cause

• effect

• -223 point decline of the Dow Jones Industrial today, due to crappy employment numbers source

• -187.1 Point loss of the Dow today, caused by economic fears scaring investors like a bad horror movie source