REUTERS: A BAD WEEK FOR STOCKS: “U.S. stocks broke out of their post-election funk on Friday, but on balance, the market hardly delivered a ringing endorsement of Barack Obama’s defeat of John McCain to be elected 44th president of the United States. Whatever the reason, since Election Day, major U.S. indexes are down more than 7 percent. For the Dow Jones industrial average .DJI and Standard & Poor’s 500 .SPX, that represents the worst ever conclusion to the week of a presidential election.”