Stock Market "Skyrockets" Then "Plunges"
The financial markets are all very concerned about the Coronavirus. I watched a video from Shanghai, China yesterday that showed the streets totally empty of cars and pedestrians. When 500,000,000 Chinese people don't go to work then their factories don't make anything. When you don't make anything you have nothing to sell. When you don't sell anything you don't make any money. When you don't make any money you don't spend any money...and the whole economy can quickly go into a downward tailspin.
"But Dennis, that's all happening in China. This is America so China's problems won't affect us in the least...cuz they are on the other side of the world."
Ummmm...If China doesn't send Walmart, Target and Amazon any more T-shirts, coffee pots, duffel bags, baseball bats, and basically every other product that China makes and we consume....our economy, 70% based on consumerism (people buying crap) will slow down pretty quickly.
Of course the stock market does NOT like uncertainty. So after plunging last week, the market skyrocketed yesterday. Now today it has plunged again because the Federal Reserve came out and unexpectedly slashed interest rates.
This article caught our eye because it said "first time EVER", when describing how 10 year Treasuries went below 1%
Stocks fell sharply in volatile trading on Tuesday after the Federal Reserve slashed interest rates by half a percentage point in an emergency effort to stem slower economic growth from the coronavirus outbreak.
The decision came two weeks before the Fed’s scheduled meeting as the central bank felt it was necessary to act quickly to combat the effect of the virus spreading worldwide. It’s the first such emergency action coming in between scheduled meetings since the financial crisis.
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