Of course, there are many in the trading community that wish the side-talkers in the Fed, especially the ones who are FOMC non-voters, would walk the plank because they are pushing and pulling the financial world.

James Bullard, had of the St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank and a voting member of the Federal Open Market Committee felt a compulsion to comment on the decisions that he agreed with just last week.

Poor earnings, plus sagging crude oil, and an extraordinary loss in a patent case in the biotech sector, weighed on equities prices today.