There's never been more of a slow-motion train wreck in the market than we saw this morning. Ever since last Friday, when the government published disturbingly weak jobs numbers, we knew the market was in for a rough ride. But because the stock exchanges were closed Friday, we had to wait until today to get the expected drop -- and with many European markets still closed today as well, we won't see the full impact worldwide until tomorrow. At about 10:45 a.m. EDT, the Dow Jones Industrials
Among Dow stocks, financial stocks posted big declines, with Bank of America
Disney
Finally, Caterpillar
Some perspective
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