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Stock Market in US â€˜crashingâ€™ 20:20 - Feb 5 with 5891 views

ElderGrizzly

Lost 6% today, down 1,500 points

https://www.theguardian.com/business/live/2018/feb/05/stock-markets-slide-global

Stock Market in US ‘crashing’ on 07:50 - Feb 6 with 1134 views

BloomBlue

Great news. I bet heavily on a crash in Feb...win win win ££££££££££££

Stock Market in US ‘crashing’ on 07:51 - Feb 6 with 1133 views

chicoazul

Sell in May and Go Away came early this year. Can't blame people for taking profit out of a government-backed grossly inflated market.

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Stock Market in US ‘crashing’ on 07:52 - Feb 6 with 1129 views

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FTSE due to open -230 points ish too

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Stock Market in US ‘crashing’ on 08:09 - Feb 6 with 1102 views

BanksterDebtSlave

Apparently wages have gone up too fast ! And something to do with 'the machines' getting carried away.

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Stock Market in US ‘crashing’ on 09:09 - Feb 6 with 1065 views

lowhouseblue

Stock Market in US ‘crashing’ on 08:09 - Feb 6 by BanksterDebtSlave
Apparently wages have gone up too fast ! And something to do with 'the machines' getting carried away.

monetary tightening may be coming quicker than the market had assumed, uncertainty has risen, there is more volatility, and people are remembering that equities are a risky asset. we're inching back to normality.

And so as the loose-bowelled pigeon of time swoops low over the unsuspecting tourist of destiny, and the flatulent skunk of fate wanders into the air-conditioning system of eternity, I notice it's the end of the show

Stock Market in US ‘crashing’ on 09:19 - Feb 6 with 1050 views

StokieBlue

Stock Market in US ‘crashing’ on 09:09 - Feb 6 by lowhouseblue
monetary tightening may be coming quicker than the market had assumed, uncertainty has risen, there is more volatility, and people are remembering that equities are a risky asset. we're inching back to normality.

There is some mean reversion going on as you have said which always happens eventually and can be self-perpetuating. It seems the main driver for the sell-off in the US yesterday is the expected increase in interest rates due to the fact the US economy is actually doing pretty well at the moment and unemployment was down. Monetary tightening in the US started back in October.

If interest rates rise people often move money into safer assets which pay a guaranteed income, as you rightly point out, equities are a risky asset and volatility is rising.

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