Cisco and Dell may announce splits. But I think dopes who bought for the earnings and split news will be in for a rude shock if they ignore these: 1. decisive downtrend in utilities index. 2. transports weak (yesterday was a one day wonder) 3. gold strong (though it may not hold-up for now) 4. strong yen and tanking bonds; and most importantly, my favorite:
  5: BAD BREADTH ALERT - just two days after S&P set a new high. It happened in July:
  Tue Feb 2 3:33pm ET - U.S. Markets close in 27 minutes. 
  -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- U.S. Market Digest    NYSE  AMEX  Nasdaq  Bulletin Board  
  --------------------------------------------------------------------------------   Advancing Issues  1,005  197  1,394  699   Declining Issues  1,969  344  2,636  839   Unchanged Issues  530  177  860  517         Total Issues  3,504  718  4,890  2,055  
    New Highs  28  9  72  59   New Lows  91  16  51  30  
    Up Volume  266,541,472  11,515,620  240,418,864  98,127,272   Down Volume  439,856,480  22,831,380  566,961,152  130,860,320   Unchanged Volume  34,870,568  5,434,330  40,985,652  21,625,570        |