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"There's a certain
amount of optimism baked into the market, particularly [with regard to]
corporate taxes being cut," said Andres Garcia-Amaya, global market strategist
at Zoe Financial, an independent wealth management firm.
https://firenewsfeed.com/finance/716197
November 9:... the health of
the markets isn't solely dependent on whether or not tax reform gets done.
The Dow climbed more than 200 points on Wednesday morning, signaling that the
sell-off earlier this week may have been a blip instead of the start of a
more serious downturn. The Dow's two-day loss of 2% was its worst since
September 2016. But
the bounce also shows how the markets have suddenly become a bit more turbulent.
The VIX (VIX)
volatility index has spiked 30% this week to a five-month high. The S&P 500
broke a record streak without consecutive drops of 0.5%.
http://money.cnn.com/2018/01/31/investing/stock-market-today-dow-jones-trump/index.html
February 2:Dow Drops 666 Points
Friday, More Than 1,000 Points This Week
The Dow closed at 25,520.96, and
Friday's 666-point drop was the sixth-worst ever. The index is still up more
than 3 percent since the year began. But with a loss of about more than 1,000
points since Monday, it was the blue chip index's worst weekly performance in
two years.
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/02/02/582809604/dow-plummets-more-550-points
February 5:The markets plunged Monday, with the Dow falling
nearly 1,600 points in the largest intraday point decline ever. ... The selloff
knocked the Dow down as much as 6.3%.
At its worst levels, the Dow has fallen 2,200 points over the past two sessions.
The plunge sent the Dow below
24,000. It hasn't closed below that level since November 29.
If the decline holds, it will be the worst single-day point decline in Dow
history. The Dow fell 777 points on September 29, 2008.
February 8: The Dow Jones industrial
average plunged 1,033 points Thursday, its second-worst drop in history,
extending its losses in the recent sell-off to more than 10% and putting it
officially into correction territory.
February 9: American
presidents cannot help but pay attention to the stock market. The reasons should
be obvious: While many observers dismiss the market's performance as being
largely divorced from the country's economic fundamentals, it's undeniable that
over the long run, at least, the markets can tell a meaningful story about the
U.S. economy. And fairly or not, presidents take credit or receive blame for
economic and market performance on their watch.
http://theweek.com/articles/753969/trumps-stock-market-recoil
March 7:Dow falls 300 points
after Gary Cohn resigns
The White House announced ...
Tuesday that Cohn, President Trump's top economic adviser, was resigning. He
disagreed with Trump's planned tariffs on foreign steel and aluminum.
March 22:Dow dives 724 points as Trump's China tariffs
sink in ...
Trump’s decision to levy tariffs on Chinese imports
Opens a New Window. fueled concerns on Wall Street that other nations
will retaliate with their own measures targeting U.S. trade. Investors are also
weighing the impact on manufacturers and other companies that could be hit with
higher costs. The administration recently imposed tariffs on aluminum and steel,
although it exempted some nations including Canada and Mexico.
March 27:
Dow drops 345 points as tech stocks get crushed ... Wall Street posts worst week
in 2 years ... The wild ride on Wall Street just got crazier.
The Dow dropped about 345 points, or 1.4%, on Tuesday, completely reversing a
244-point gain from early in the day. The selloff followed Monday's
670-point spike.
April 6:The Dow closed down 572 points, a drop of 2.3%,
after President Trump threatened to escalate a confrontation with China over
trade. It fell as much as 767 points earlier in the day. The S&P 500 and the
Nasdaq each declined more than 2%.
May 26:Wall Street is poised for its best
May in 9 years - but there could be a hitch ... amid growing
concerns about the resurgence of antiestablishment parties ... and the potential
for those developments to spill over into the broader markets, there's an
abundant source of agita for investors in coming months that will test their
resolve.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/wall-street-is-poised-for-its-best-may-in-9-years-but-there-could-be-a-hitch
May 31:Unlike last year, when the stock
market rose steadily — and considerably — in the first quarter, Wall Street has
gotten off to a disappointing and disconcerting start in 2018.
As concerns have shifted back and forth from a sluggish economy to an
overheating one, the market has taken investors on a roller coaster ride,
resulting in poor returns and testing investors’ strategy and resolve.
http://time.com/money/5290948/stock-market-2018-7-investing-charts/
May 31: Wall
Street rallied strongly on Wednesday reversing previous day’s losses. All three
major indexes ended in the green driven by a sharp rise in oil prices resulting
in significant gain for energy giants. Moreover, major banks also recovered from
the previous day’s drop on expectations of a rate hike in June.
https://www.zacks.com/stock/news/305794/stock-market-news-for-may-31-2018
June 19:U.S. stocks
fell on Tuesday as a sharp escalation in the trade dispute between the United
States and China rattled markets and put the Dow Jones Industrial Average back
in negative territory for the year.
August 27:Stocks jumped on
Monday as the United States and Mexico closed a new trade deal. Investors also
digested reassuring comments from
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome
Powell on the central bank's policy-tightening path.
September 5:Disaster Is
Inevitable When America's Stock Market Bubble Bursts
Despite the volatility and brief correction earlier this year, the U.S. stock
market is back to making record highs in the past couple weeks. To many
observers, this market now seems downright bulletproof as it keeps going higher
and higher as it has for nearly a decade in direct defiance of the naysayers'
warnings. Unfortunately, this unusual market strength is not evidence of a
strong, organic economy, but of an extremely unhealthy, artificial bubble
economy that will end in a crisis that will be even worse than we
experienced in 2008.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jessecolombo/2018/09/05/disaster-is-inevitable-when-americas-stock-market-bubble-bursts/#2df32f641b82
October 24:The US stock market has suffered
another day of big losses, as investors worry about the state of the economy,
trade wars, and possible interest rate rises.
November 12:
The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed at 25,387.18 on Monday with a loss of
602.12 points or -2.32%. The S&P 500 closed at 2,726.22 with a loss of 54.79
point or -1.97%. The Nasdaq Composite closed at 7,200.87 with a loss of 206.03
points or -2.78%. The VIX Volatility Index was higher at 20.37 for a gain of
3.01 points or 17.34%.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/us-market-indexes-close-lower-220027549.html
November 20:
The recent plunge in the stock market is a cakewalk compared to what's
going on with cryptocurrencies. Bitcoin prices are down more than 15% in just
the past week and have plummeted nearly 70% so far this year.
November 20:
Dow drops 500 points and all 30 components fall, led by Apple’s stock
The Dow Jones Industrial Average
DJIA, -2.21% fell 500 points, or
2%, at 24,516, and tumbled by as many as 596 points or 2.3% at the session’s
lows. The S&P 500 index
SPX, -1.82% was down 45 points,
or 1.7%, at 2,644, while the Nasdaq Composite Index
NQZ8, -2.16% was off by 114
points to 6,913, a drop of about 1.6%.
The drop erased year-to-date gains for both the Dow and S&P 500, while the
Nasdaq was clinging to a narrow gain for 2018.
December 6: Stocks plunge for second session in a row after arrest of Huawei exec
reignites trade worries
Dow tumbles more than 1,000 points in 2 days
The Dow Jones Industrial Average
DJIA, -0.41% declined 372
points, or 1.5%, to 24,655, though the index was down by as many as 785 points
at the low. The index of blue chips shed 800 points on Tuesday, as fears about
heightened trade tensions sparked a selloff.
The S&P 500 index
SPX, -0.26% dropped 38 points,
1.4%, to 2,661 and the Nasdaq Composite Index
COMP, +0.23% fell 44 points, or
0.6%, to 7,115.
December 17: The US stock market sank deeper into the red following sluggish economic
reports on Monday and bad news from a couple of blue chip giants.
December 21: It's official: The Nasdaq is in a bear market.
The tech-heavy index finished down 195 points, or 3 percent, to 6,333 on Friday.
That's almost 22 percent off its most recent high of 8,109.69 set Aug. 29 of
this year.
The Dow
Jones Industrial Average plunged more than 650 points Monday -- the worst
Christmas Eve trading session in the country's history, according to experts --
after eyebrow-raising comments by the treasury secretary, an escalating trade
with China, and amid an
economic slowdown.
Stocks are negative for the year, and the
Dow has fallen thousands of points from its high of nearly 27,000.
The Dow ended the day a dramatic 653 points lower at 21,792 in an abbreviated
trading session ahead of the Christmas holiday, down nearly 10 percent from a
mere week ago. The day's losses of 2.9 percent, added to last week's of 6.8
percent, set the stage for a sober last week of trade this year.
https://abcnews.go.com/Business/dow-jones-opens-170-points-lower-treasury-secretary/story?id=59997548
December 31: Dow Gains on Last Day of Worst December Since the Depression
Stocks ended higher Monday on the last day of the worst December since 1931 for
the Dow and the worst year in a decade.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 265, or 1.2%, to end at 23,327. The S&P
500 rose 0.85%, and the Nasdaq rose 0.77%.
For the month, the Dow fell 9.7%, its worst December since the depths of Great
Depression.
