Nonsense, they took another big dive then. They tend to do that when the President turns into Dr. Doom. It happened when Bush was in office too. The President coming out and saying that the world will end without a TARP vote tends to start things rolling in that direction.
It isn't hard to follow that bouncing ball. The markets went to the crapper, TARP passed and the President stopped being a doomer, the markets started a slow rise until the end of January, then dove again, far deeper than they would have otherwise, as the next President started doom & glooming.