It was a tale of two stocks.

There's nervousness and people waiting maybe for another shoe to drop. It's not going according to (plan), most people had expected the market to be a little better. They expected a Santa Claus rally which was very muted this past year.

The market drifted today. A lot of people were not in. People are concerned over profit warnings, missed revenue targets and that sort of thing.

(The market is) very quiet, choppy, very, very volatile. There are a number of players that have already exited ahead of Christmas. In consequence, very little is going on so it doesn't take much to move the stock either way, up or down.

The market is volatile, people are edgy; it's also very, quiet in spite of the volumes. I guess everyone's waiting for a catalyst, something to drive the market at this point.

It's very lethargic. It's individual stocks that are moving it. It's very, very quiet, I'm not seeing a lot of activity.

Most of the decline came from the banks. Banks have run up the last several weeks and part of the reason (for the fall today) was profit-taking.

The flip side of high technology (has meant) people have been staying away from basic industries because they're not nouvelle cuisine. You could be seeing some stock rotation here.

The market is like Sleepy Hollow today, there's very little going on and now there's fewer and fewer players out there. It drifts, it depends on the last trade.