Euro Crisis Sends Dow Plummeting Before Late Day Save

Continued woes in the European Economic Union had stocks wobbling like young Harvey the protagonist of Kipling's Captain Courageous after smoking a stogie on the deck of the "We're Here".  With no economic reports in play, traders weighed the woe caused by the sword rattling in Korea against debt disaster in Europe as the Dow fell 160 points early in the session.  Record Black Friday sales and Cyber Monday sales provided a late day balm that brought the Dow back to a loss of only 39 points.