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Uh Oh; In A Month Of Big Warnings, The Biggest Yet
Uh Oh; In A Month Of Big Warnings, The Biggest Yet All better now. It’s a Christmas miracle, the plunge erased by market closure as if FDR had just been re-elected and taken the oath. The Dow is on everyone’s mind, so trading on December 26 has understandably stuck. Stocks posted their best day in […]
El-Erian: 1000-Point Swings In The Dow Are The “New Reality”
El-Erian: 1000-Point Swings In The Dow Are The “New Reality” While even some of the most dogged bulls are throwing in the towel on their optimistic forecasts for the US (see Goldman taking the axe to its 2019 GDP forecast noted earlier), there are those who steadfastly believe that 2019 will be a solid year […]
Which Side Are You On?
Which Side Are You On? You had to love the narrative that the financial media put over about the 1000-plus point zoom in the DJIA on Wednesday: that pension funds were “rebalancing” their portfolios. It dredged up the image of a drowning man at the bottom of the deep blue sea with an anchor in […]
DataTrek: “Healthy” Markets Don’t Rally 1,086 Points On The Dow
DataTrek: “Healthy” Markets Don’t Rally 1,086 Points On The Dow Even with Wednesday’s rally, December’s 11-13% declines (S&P 500, Russell 2000) for US stocks couldn’t have come at a worse time for markets. First, there is the psychological damage of seeing such a swoon in what is a typically good month for domestic equities. Then […]
Stock Market Crash of 1987
Stock Market Crash of 1987 The first contemporary global financial crisis unfolded on October 19, 1987, a day known as “Black Monday” when the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 22.6 percent. Composite of newspaper headlines reporting the Stock Market Crash of 1987 (Associated Press) The first contemporary global financial crisis unfolded in the autumn of […]
Dow Plunges 600, Global Markets Tank After China Retaliates In All-Out Trade War
Dow Plunges 600, Global Markets Tank After China Retaliates In All-Out Trade War So much for yesterday’s Amazon bounce. Just before 4AM EDT, a Bloomberg headline hit which has not only unleashed a furious global selling wave, sending the S&P lower by nearly 2% and the Dow 600 lower, but may have changed the course […]
“Bloodbath” – Dow Crashes Over 1000 Points, Enters Correction
“Bloodbath” – Dow Crashes Over 1000 Points, Enters Correction Dow crashed over 1000 points today…. All 2018 gains are gone… Time for “Markets In Turmoil” special… Markets “turmoiled” again today as Treasury yields spiked on a weak auction and the implications of a budget deal that means more supply is coming. This spooked stocks once […]
Steve Keen: “Why Did It Take So Long For This Crash To Happen?”
Steve Keen: “Why Did It Take So Long For This Crash To Happen?” As originally written at RT, outspoken Aussie economist Steve Keen points out that everyone who’s asking “why did the stock market crash Monday?” is asking the wrong question; the real question, Keen exclaims, is “why did it take so long for this […]
A Fly in the Economic Ointment?
A Fly in the Economic Ointment? Global Growth Cap Repeating History Flying Blind at 20X China Chills Sonoma and San Diego The holidays are fading from memory, and 2018 is off to a good start, economically speaking. Most of the forecasts I’ve read expect a good year – not a blockbuster year or a horrendous […]
WARNING: Markets Reaching Extreme Leverage
WARNING: Markets Reaching Extreme Leverage As investors’ bullish sentiment moves up to euphoric levels, the markets are reaching extreme leverage. This is terrible news because a lot of people are going to lose one heck of a lot of money. According to CNN Money’s Fear & Greed Index, the market is now at the “extreme […]
