The volatility seems to have been started by technical factors rather than rising worries about state and municipal defaults.
Stocks closed slightly higher on Friday, after a sharp sell-off earlier in the week caused by rising worries about the impact of surging borrowing costs across Europe.
Now, Google is looking up, and it's Apple, hit by rising worries about a slowdown in iPhone sales, that may be headed for some pain.
The move came amid rising worries about the loss of the region's edge in technology, and the transfer of so-called dual-use technologies to China.
This week, despite rising worries about the street clashes, the cabinet backed Mr Samak's plan to hold the referendum.General Sonthi Boonyaratglin, the former army chief who led the 2006 coup, seems to have gone quietly into retirement.
Against the backdrop of rising worries about violent Muslim extremism in the United States, advocates see hypocrisy in the way the attack and the man under arrest in the shooting have been described by law enforcement officials and the news media.
Even today, the rapid growth of organic closely tracks consumers' rising worries about the conventional food supply -- about chemicals, about additives and, most recently, about genetically modified ingredients and mad cow disease; every food scare is followed by a spike in organic sales.
It took a convergence of rising worries about the geopolitical and climatologic effects of excessive oil consumption to muster the political will to pass the first significant hike in CAFE standards as part of the Energy Independence and Security Act in December 2007.
As the number of confirmed cancers rose, worries grew about a link to radiation and those concerns gained a high-profile proponent.
If everyone's income is rising, why worry about some incomes rising faster than others?
