The S&P 500 fell to its lowest level this year, while the Nasdaq is down 20% since March.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average plummeted to its lowest point in nearly two years on Friday, falling 2.5% to 29,335 in afternoon trading, with every component stock seeing a decline.
The index has lost over 13.7% of its value since the Federal Reserve began raising interest rates in March in an effort to rein in runaway inflation.
The S&P 500 also took a nosedive, dropping to its lowest point of the year at 3,667, a decline of more than 15% since March. The Nasdaq fell to 10,847, down 20% since March.
The market-wide drop came days after the Fed’s latest 75 basis-point interest rate hike, which brought the current federal funds rate to between 3.00% and 3.25%. The central bank is struggling to tamp down the highest inflation numbers seen in four decades.
Although annual inflation fell to 8.3% in August, down slightly from July, the monthly headline figure was up 0.1% over July, a higher reading than expected. That triggered another sharp selloff in markets earlier this month, sending stocks on September 13 to their worst day of trading since June 2020.
The Fed plans to increase rates still further before the end of the year and projects a rise to 4.60% in 2023 before any potential cuts, even as many economists fear further hikes will tip the economy into a full-on recession. Indeed, Fed Chair Jerome Powell has acknowledged that the central bank’s efforts have contributed to “declining activity of all kinds” in the housing market and could cause unemployment to climb.
The majority of economists forecast the US entering a recession by mid-2023, according to a survey conducted by the National Association of Business Economics last month, while 20% believe that it is already there.
President Joe Biden, however, insisted earlier in the month that things are “going to be fine,” reminding the population that “the stock market doesn’t necessarily reflect the state of the economy, as you well know.”
“The economy is still strong,” he claimed. “Unemployment is low. Jobs are up. Manufacturing is good. I think we’re going to be fine.”
Hey Malcom, any chance of some, good news.?
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I am not sure how long the scam will last.
There is an artificial demand for USD, the petro dollar, used for international trade. Nixon era plot to subjucate other countries worked well so far. Fed Reserve creates this fiat USD from time to time and pumps into the markets. Wall street borrows USD from Fed Reserve and boost share values. All the Western pension funds, and other Oligarchs from non-West also pump money into Wall street. Banks also borrow from Fed, which is lent to buy assets in many countries including NZ. By controlling the interest rate, Fed creates booms and recessions. Having created 40% USD ever existed in the last 2 years, too much money was pumped to Wall St and elsewhere, all asset prices have been inflated unrealistically. Once the inflation, mainly on the consumer side for good and services, goes up, Fed has to tighten the USD supply or else the fiat currency scam will burst. It usually takes up to 10 years for Fed to bring inflation below 2%. So there is unlikley any more excessive money supply from Fed.
The problem is the demand for USD will reduce in the future with alternative trading using other countries grow in future. If most countries decide noit to keep USd reserves and trade in another currency, Globalists cannot play their game as they have done in the past. They cant steal assets cheaply and then over-inflate their values and continue the scam. This is the stage USD will collapse bring down most currencies in the Western world. USD is not supported by production of goods and servoces, oil and energy resources of their own but by the big MIC, wars and stealing others wealth. So when USD collapses, the standard of living will fall drammatically in US and in other western countries. It is not far away, in about 5 years may be.