Have you looked at our 401k lately? If not, don’t because you will be angry, upset or depressed if you do. Thanks to Joe Biden and the communist Democrats in Congress stocks officially entered bear market territory as the recession rages on (despite how Biden and the media try to re-define it).
Stocks tumbled on Friday to close out a brutal week for financial markets as surging interest rates and foreign currency turmoil heightened fears of a global recession.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell more than 700 points to fall below 30,000 to a new low for the year. The 30-stock index is fell 20% from its high, known as bear market territory on Wall Street. It was last trading 603 points lower, or 2%. The S&P 500 fell 2.2% and headed for a new 2022 closing low, while the Nasdaq Composite slid about 2.2%.
“The market has been transitioning clearly and quickly from worries over inflation to concerns over the aggressive Federal Reserve campaign,” said Quincy Krosby of LPL Financial. “You see bond yields rising to levels we haven’t seen in years — it’s changing the mindset to how does the Fed get to price stability without something breaking.”
The British pound hit a fresh more than three-decade low against the U.S. dollar after a new U.K. economic plan that included a slew of tax cuts rattled markets that are fearing inflation above all right now. Major European markets lost 2% on the day.
“This is a global macro mess that the market is trying to sort out,” Krosby said
But at least no more mean tweets right?