If any one is using aptistock, kindly check out this stuff. There is a price file section called as global market index in aptistock. It tracks about 81 market indices across the globe. May be 10 or 15 of them are belongig to american markets. Yesterday I updated it and to my utter surprise I found out that about 75% of the indices across the world moved in the same manner inculding our nifty and tankex ( I mean sensex). Almost all of them had sharp fall around October 2005 for about two weeks, thereafter recovered upto May 2006 and again had sharp fall during May 2006. Even the intermediate recovery/retracement in this bear phase (from May 2006) is also exactly similar in nature. Just apply bollinger band to each and every indices and see how every indice moved nicely along the bands in tandem. If we are raisng and sinking in tandem with other markets, then is there any point in tom toming about India growth story?