first, I've never been a fan of BS. As their name implies, they have always been on the "Bearish" side. As, you all know I have a problem dealing with negative people, let alone negators that bet on the demise of a public company/people/investors. I can't identify at all with these types. I believe as posted earlier that BS is the "Grandfather" of the infamous manipulative rigged strategy of "Naked short selling." This illegal rigging of the stock market has gone on , hush-hush, all the while stealing Americans/investors, 100's of billions maybe a trillions of dollars of "OUR" money. So, I believe what we witnessed with this firm started with their hedge fund troubles. That was back about 6 months ago and was quickly dismissed as "no problem." But you have to ask yourself as an investor, how could someone so big and a household name without any warning go broke so quickly??? You would think that regular investing would be calcuable and therefore forseeable for the regular ups & downs of these 'regular" investments? But, what if they we're invested/short stocks, that have "unlimited loss" potential? This to me is the more likely scenario. We may never know....... mguru