“Blood and power intoxicate; they help to develop callousness and debauchery. The mind then becomes capable of the most abnormal cruelty, which it regards pleasure; the man and the citizen are swallowed up in the tyrant; and the return to human dignity, repentance, moral resurrection, becomes almost impossible."
Fyodor Dostoevsky, The House of the Dead
16 November 2010
SP 500 and NDX December Futures Daily Charts
This is important support and if the market will find a bottom this is about where it will be.
At the least I think the stock decline may take a pause for the GM IPO. The Street and the government have a vested interest in its success.