Quote from stock_trad3r:
I am as bullish now about the US economy as I was back in June 2007 when the dow was at 14k.
the US economy hasn't changed at all. There is no correlation between weakening retail sales and a protracted decline in stocks.
Quote from S2007S:
Worst retail numbers since they started keeping records since the early 1990's.
I actually thought they were going to be worse, -4%-5%.