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riversedge

(70,242 posts)
Fri Dec 21, 2018, 08:19 PM Dec 2018

Dow's worst week since 2008 financial crisis; Nasdaq closes in bear market

Source: cnn




By David Goldman, CNN Business Updated 4:20 PM ET, Fri December 21, 2018


New York (CNN Business)The Dow just suffered its deepest weekly plunge since 2008 and the Nasdaq is officially in a bear market.


The miserable performance reflects deepening fears on Wall Street of an economic slowdown and overly-aggressive Federal Reserve.
See what's driving markets now


The Dow closed 414 points, or 1.8%, lower on Friday. The Nasdaq plummeted 3%, closing in its first bear market since the Great Recession. And the S&P 500 shed 2.1%.
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For the week, the Dow lost 1,655 points, or 6.9%. That's the steepest weekly percentage loss since October 2008. The Nasdaq plunged 8.4% on the week, its worst since November 2008. And the S&P 500's 7.1% weekly loss was the worst since August 2011.
All three major indexes are down more than 12% in December. Stocks are on pace for the worst December since the Great Depression,..

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/21/investing/stock-market-today-dow/index.html



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Dow's worst week since 2008 financial crisis; Nasdaq closes in bear market (Original Post) riversedge Dec 2018 OP
But...but... thegoose Dec 2018 #1
So...much...winning! durablend Dec 2018 #4
He'll blame it on Democrats winning the house IronLionZion Dec 2018 #2
Already saw it on one of the right-wing sites I troll. OnlinePoker Dec 2018 #3
The party of "responsible adults", ladies and gentlemen flibbitygiblets Dec 2018 #5
Now we're getting into the twilight zone w/ the markets... SWBTATTReg Dec 2018 #6
Kick ck4829 Dec 2018 #7
And today Dow Jones was up over 1,000? WTF? SharonAnn Dec 2018 #8

OnlinePoker

(5,722 posts)
3. Already saw it on one of the right-wing sites I troll.
Fri Dec 21, 2018, 08:41 PM
Dec 2018

It was all Trump's doing when the market went up, but all the Democrats fault for getting elected in November and the market tanking.

SWBTATTReg

(22,133 posts)
6. Now we're getting into the twilight zone w/ the markets...
Fri Dec 21, 2018, 11:28 PM
Dec 2018

rump is doing nothing of course to monitor and/or interject if need be (I don't think he can do anything anyway other than moan and bitch like he has been, which doesn't do any good). Once the panic sets in, it'll be too late by the time rump even realizes what's happened.

Not that I'm saying that folks are freaking out yet, but I'm sure that there are lots of folks who are now moving their funds offsite/away from equity stocks (it is probably getting to the point it's going to be too late), but when lots of them realize that folks don't truly know how far down the markets could go, the panic selling will begin and movements of prices downwards will be like no one has seen for quite some time.

I know lots of DUers have already moved their stuff out, to ride it out. Now I'm sitting here just watching, day by day, and will wait for quite some time before I even look at equity stocks seriously. Why not? I'd rather not worry about day to day downturns...

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