The FBI is investigating at least three cases over the pastmonth and a half in which ricin was mailed to President Barack Obama and other public figures.
The XHB and most of its component stocks now trade below their 200-day moving averages, below which their 50-day averages plunged in the pastmonth and a half.
Over the pastmonth and a half, the U.S. stock market has tumbled from its late April highs, and talk of a double-dip recession is becoming more frequent.
Campaign officials say their efforts have "ramped up" significantly in the pastmonth and a half, although a campaign official says they are probably a month or more away from hiring field staff to coordinate efforts to reach religious voters at the state level.
Once they do, average euro-wide interest rates will have fallen by half a percentage point as much as they have done in the pastmonth or so in the United States.