But that might only give a short-term lift, like the one-day rally when the October employment report was released last Friday.

Prices of Treasury bonds and notes moved narrowly lower, bringing a one-day rally to an abrupt end.

Investors were once again growing nervous that this nuclear-propelled market might leave them behind in one of the greatest one-day rallies ever.

That was the sharpest one-day rally since Oct. 3.

The price of gold surged $28.20, or 9 percent, to $308.10 an ounce yesterday, the biggest one-day rally in almost two decades.

That 2.3 percent jump in the Dow was the biggest one-day rally in more than two years.

"It will take more than a one-day rally in the dollar to bring them in," one trader said.

So a market that has been depressed enjoyed a rousing one-day rally.

After a one-day rally, the market drifted, ending the week at 2,017.

But instead of providing a hoped-for boost, it gave the Tokyo market just a one-day rally.