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A Field Guide to Stock Market

EmmaZahn — Thu, 06 Feb 2014 00:23:54 +0000

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A Field Guide to Stock Market Corrections | The Reformed Broker The S&P 500 is now down just about 7% from its mid-January all-time high. We’re currently somewhere between what market-watchers would call a “dip” and a “correction”.

I’d like to walk you through what these terms actually mean and give you some context before you encounter the almost-guaranteed hysterics of the financial commentariat this evening. If you’ve been reading this blog for awhile, then you already know that I don’t play for any particular team – bulls or bears – I simply deal in the facts themselves and leave readers to formulate their own opinions.

- Josh

It's happening

artappraiser — Tue, 04 Feb 2014 07:09:31 +0000

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It's happening again:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-02-04/asian-stocks-fall-as-u-s-manufa...

Updated, 4:09 p.m. | Stock

artappraiser — Sat, 25 Jan 2014 00:32:19 +0000

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Updated, 4:09 p.m. | Stock markets fell around the world on Friday as investors worried about an economic slowdown in emerging markets.

The concerns led to the first sustained decline in United States stock indexes in 2014. The Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index was down 2.09 percent on Friday; so far, it is off more than 3 percent for the year. The Dow Jones industrial average dropped 1.96 percent and 4 percent for the year.

The downturn was much worse elsewhere, with the Euro Stoxx 50 index falling more than 2.8 percent, bringing it into the red for 2014.

The declines this week have been fed by disappointing economic news out of China and the rest of the developing world. An index of Chinese manufacturing growth released on Thursday showed that the sector was contracting for the first time in six months.

A number of slightly disappointing economic data points in the United States has led to some concern that a slowdown in China could be contagious. On Thursday, data on home sales came in slightly lower than expected....

continued @ Dealbook @ nytimes.com, Jan. 24

Thank you for this. There's

artappraiser — Fri, 24 Jan 2014 03:56:21 +0000

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Thank you for this. There's been so much else going on and the stock market has been sooo same-old same-old for so long that I had stopped paying attention.