Tag - stock market crash

How to Make Sense of the Federal Reserve’s Repo Market Moves

Last week the Federal Reserve made waves in markets by announcing that it would immediately offer $1.5 trillion in funding for repo markets. While that made for a nice stock market bounce in the immediate aftermath of the announcement, it couldn’t keep stock markets from losing the most points...

Coronavirus Fears Hammering Stock Markets

After weeks of discounting the dangers of the coronavirus to the world economy, it seems that stock markets have finally gotten wise to the threat the virus plays to the global economy. The Dow Jones opened Monday down nearly 1,000 points as more negative news about the virus emerged....

The S&P 500 Is Overvalued in More Ways Than One

By now even the most fervent stock market bulls realize that the current valuations of stock markets are way out of whack with underlying market fundamentals. By just about every measure, stocks are trading at ratios that are far higher than their historical averages. Most people look to the price...

New Danger Sign Flashes Warning that Stock Market Collapse Is on the Way

With so much competing financial news out there, investors may have a hard time deciding for themselves whether markets are going to continue to grow, or whether they’re going to completely collapse. Certainly the economy is slowing, industrial production is down, and tariffs continue to hurt American farmers and...