With oil prices hitting a new record and GM's stock under $10 (last time it was there was when Ike was president), Wall Street officially went into bear market territory, with the Dow ending the day at 11,215.51. And that's just over 20% below the high of 14, 164.53 last October. An analyst told Bloomberg News, "Investor sentiment is clearly miserable right now."......

Oil prices hit a new high, at close to $143/barrel today (but ended over $140/barrel), and the Dow fell 106 points to close at 11,346.41. The NY Times reported the Dow Jones Industrial Average "flirted with bear market territory" when it fell 120 points--"The bear peeked out of its cave on Friday. And then it retreated." The Dow Jones is close to a bear market, because it's down 20% (the "threshold for a so-called bear......