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Why Donald Trump Is to Blame for the Stock Market Crash – Reason …

Ahmad Nawawi/FlickrInvestors and financial journalists scrambling to find an explanation for the recent plunge in global stock markets have plenty of suspects. Some look abroad for scapegoats: Greece or China. Others blame Janet Yellen: the Federal Reserve she chairs is at long last on the verge of raising interest rates, if only slightly. Personally, I blame the decline in share […]

Why is China's stock market falling and how might it affect the global …

China’s stock markets have lost all the gains they made in 2015. Photograph: Zhang Yixi/Xinhua Press/Corbis
What has happened in China?China’s stock market has fallen sharply over recent weeks despite measures by officials in Beijing aimed at calming investors’ jitters and shoring up global confidence in the country’s slowing economy.Shares in China had soared 150% in the 12 months to mid-June […]

Public Tech Companies Are Already Recovering From Brutal Stock …

Things didn’t look good this morning. When stock markets opened, Facebook was down 12.1 percent, Apple was down 10 percent, Google was down 6.5 percent, etc. But public tech companies are already recovering from this brutal drop, with Apple leading the way.As of this writing, Apple is back in the green, up 0.19 percent compared to Friday’s closing price to […]

China stock market panic shows what happens when stimulants …

US traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange at the start of the trading following ‘Black Monday’ in China. Photograph: Justin Lane/EPA
Related: Asian stock markets fall again after Wall Street slump – live
Financial markets have gone cold turkey. For the past seven years, they have been given regular doses of strong and dangerous narcotics. The threat […]

chainsawsuit – three panels daily » a special stock market report

jim. what’s it like in the big computer library where you are, john?john. well i see a lot of men with frowns. they’re looking at the numbers come out and they just aren’t good numbers from the looks of it. also there are many old phones and some yelling.jim. thanks for that special report, john. i certainly don’t like to frown, […]

Stock Market Panic! Why is It Happening? – Hit & Run : Reason.com

Stock Market Panic! Why is It Happening?
Perhaps stock prices for past few years were to a large extent an inflationary bubble.
Brian Doherty|Aug. 24, 2015 11:57 am

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Everything is multicausal, economies and markets are complicated things, and at base the only thing we can know for sure about why prices start to plummet is that, other things being equal, lots of people […]

Donald Trump on stock market tumult – Business Insider

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Republican presidential candidate and real-estate magnate Donald Trump released a video on Instagram on Monday, warning that China could bring the US economy down.
“I’ve been telling everybody for a long time China’s taking our jobs. They’re taking our money. Be careful: They’ll bring us down,” Trump said in the post. “You have to know what you’re doing. We […]

You know the stock market is in trouble when Tim Cook is emailing …

Stock markets around the world have been posting big losses for the last few days. The route was especially rough this morning, with the DOW Jones at one point falling 1,000 points in less than an hour. At the heart of the current slide is an issue which could impact many tech companies: economic weakness in China.Two weeks ago China’s […]