According to reports, the bank prop trading desks are having troublem making their quotas for this month.
Bernanke will be speaking later this week, and that may move the markets.
The average person buys when they should sell, and sells when they should buy. Often they buy or sell when they should do nothing. The Wall Street insiders and their demimonde frequently help them to do this. That is how things are, and now moreseo than before because of the shrinking pools of exploitable non-banking czpital and the lack of financial reforms.