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.
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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,..
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down down into a burning Ring of Fire.
thegoose
(3,115 posts)MAGA!
durablend
(7,460 posts)Is this what they call "pwning the libs" ?
IronLionZion
(45,452 posts)everything was great until Pelosi ruined it
OnlinePoker
(5,722 posts)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.
flibbitygiblets
(7,220 posts)I'll give 'em one thing, they're consistent.
SWBTATTReg
(22,133 posts)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...