Re:China May Have $5.8T in Hidden Debt with ‘Titanic’ Risks
by nradov on Tuesday October 16, 2018 @07:37PM
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A temporary 4% drop in the S&P 500 (based on closing prices) is hardly a mini-crash. If you check the historical price charts over the past several decades, movements of that size are common. And analysts make up all sorts of explanations after the fact for the fluctuations just so that they have something to talk about on TV. The reality is that we don't know why; maybe it was interest rates, maybe it was something else.
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Re:China May Have $5.8T in Hidden Debt with ‘Titanic’ Risks
by ksec on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @11:44PM
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The problem is we haven't seen a 4% drop for years, from a predictive of recent decades, many who wasn't in the Stock market during 2008, a 4% drop is a mini crash.
Of coz for those of us who are in it for multiple decades.... 4% drop doesn't surprise us.
Re:China May Have $5.8T in Hidden Debt with ‘Titanic’ Risks
by nradov on Thursday October 18, 2018 @10:41AM
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There were 10 other trading days in 2009 and 2011 where the S&P 500 index dropped more than 4.0%. The largest daily decline was -6.7%.
No one cares about investors who only got into the stock market after 2008. They don't have enough capital to really impact anything.