Oil and the bears feeling threatened if energy doesnt go higher immediately. Each day, one of the bears seems to roll over, crushing goldiloc goldilocks, and today papa bear just mauled her, sending the dow down 112 points, s p down 12. 5 . Nasdaq down 1. 4 . It was a nightmare of a session, because goldilocks looked home free before she was blindsided by the whole bear family in the last 20 minutes of trading. It was the goriest close of the year. You remember the story of the three bears. So lets put them in perspective, with goldilocks, who, of course, triumphs in the fairy tale, but these days tends to get waterboarded at least once a day, if not kept all night with lights and blaring rock music. Each session, goldilocks faces off against a different bear, and today the russian papa bear mauled her and her happy ending. No happy ending. However, i dont want to get too ahead of the story. Lets take the bear serially, so you know what kind of gauntlet this kid has to go through. Firs