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In the Market Today? Congrats! You Lost Money!

August 18, 2011 6:04 PM EDT
...unless you were lucky. Not like, I-worked-hard-for-my-success luck, we mean hitting a 7-10 split lucky (don't tell us that's not luck! Even pros can't do it every time, and all they do is bowl).

According to market checks, approximately 99.1 percent of stocks were in the red today, meaning 0.9 percent were positive.

Here's a positive closer: Eastman Kodak (NYSE: EK), up 13.4 percent. Kind of bittersweet when you consider it's down 96 percent from highs of $78.50 in 1997.

So, tomorrow's Friday. There's at least that. Unless Obama or Geithner are planning on having another 50th birthday.

P.S. - Try looking up "lucky person example" or "stories of lucky people" on Google, and you're likely to get people crying about how millionaires are lucky. Searching for "near death stories" produces webpages made in the late 90s.


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