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What's making investors jittery?

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Some food for thought "It is better to travel well than to arrive." —Buddha (Indian Saint Philosopher, 563BC - 483BC) Word for the day Applesauce (n) Nonsense; bunk.   First random thought this morning For past 3months, I have been daily watching the fury of nature of on my TV screen. Scenes of incessant rains; massive floods; cloud bursts; landslides; broken roads; submerged schools; inundated pathways; colonies, fields & villages; and buses & trucks drifting haplessly in furious streams etc. all made me believe that we have witnessed a furious monsoon season with bountiful rains all across the country. But the final IMD data says that the country received 9% below average rainfall this year, against an official forecast of + 4%. Some analysts have found fault with the IMD data and concluded that the rains may be even lesser than what IMD is claiming. This is fifth straight year when IMD has overestimated rai...