Wikimedia CommonsWe just witnessed the worst week for the US stock market in four years. The blue-chip Dow fell more than 500 points Friday and entered correction territory on an intra-day basis — defined as a 10% drop from recent highs. Major stock markets across Europe and Asia also closed sharply lower.First, the scoreboard:Dow: 16,459.75, -530.94, (-3.12%)
S&P 500: 1,970.89, -64.84, (-3.19%)
Nasdaq: 4,706.04, -171.45, (-3.52%)
And […]
(NaturalNews) Amid a global financial system that remains in flux, oil prices tanked Friday as well, sending prices below $40 a barrel for the first time since the Global Recession was at its peak in 2009.Prices touched a six-and-a-half year low of $39.86 a barrel for a brief period, rising above $40 to settle around just above that mark by […]
What has been happening on Wall Street the past few days has been nothing short of stunning. On Thursday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average (INDEXDJX:.DJI) plummeted 358 points. It was the largest single day decline in a year and a half, and investors are starting to panic. Overall, the Dow is now down more than 1300 points from the peak of the market.Just yesterday, […]
We Have Already Witnessed The First 1300 Points Of The Stock Market Crash Of 2015
By Michael Snyder, on August 20th, 2015What has been happening on Wall Street the past few days has been nothing short of stunning. On Thursday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average plummeted 358 points. It was the largest single day decline in a year and a […]
The Tokyo stock market fell due to worries about China. Photograph: Kimimasa Mayama/EPA
Sell in May and go away, don’t come back until St Leger Day. So goes the old stock market adage and rarely has the first part of that advice been more apposite than this year. The FTSE 100 index peaked on 27 April, just before the general election, […]
Sometimes it helps to take look the world through an unconventional perspective when thinking about the size of things.So here’s a pretty awesome map from Bank of America Merrill Lynch’s Chief Investment Strategist Michael Hartnett that shows the world according to free-float equity market capitalization in billions of dollars measured by the MSCI.The US, with a market cap of $19.8 trillion, is the […]
Via Dana Lyons’ Tumblr,.50-day “droughts” before and after a 52-week high in the Dow Jones Industrial Average have marked several major tops.It has now been 64 days since the last 52-week high in the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) on May 19. While that may seem like an eternity in the context of the past 2.5 years, it’s not at […]
A shop worker in Jakarta, Indonesia, counts rupiah after a big fall in its value amid increasing fears for the health of the Chinese economy Photograph: Bay Ismoyo/AFP/Getty Images
China slowdownChina’s continued growth helped limit the impact of the global recession of 2009 but now fears are increasing that the world’s second-biggest economy could cause the next recession. China’s growth is […]
Why Are So Many People Freaking Out About A Stock Market Crash In The Fall Of 2015?
By Michael Snyder, on August 19th, 2015Is the stock market going to crash by the end of 2015? Of course stock market crashes are already happening in 23 different nations around the planet, but most Americans don’t really care about those markets. The […]
Why Are So Many People Freaking Out About A Stock Market Crash In The Fall Of 2015?
By Michael Snyder, on August 19th, 2015Is the stock market going to crash by the end of 2015? Of course stock market crashes are already happening in 23 different nations around the planet, but most Americans don’t really care about those markets. The […]
