I’ve been too busy the past couple of days to really pay close attention to the reason for this, but I did hear that the stock market has gone down the past three days.  To be honest I try not to pay too much attention to the stock market – I feel that stocks should be a long term investment and if you follow it too closely you are likely to panic and sell the stock at a loss.  I’m confident that by the time I retire and want to sell my stock that I will have made a profit, and that is the whole idea of buying stock (at least for me!)