Sitting in a MickeyD's, drinking coffee. Faux News is on a muted TV and

[sinkingfeeling]

they have a live countdown running for the DOW. It's dropped like 30 points since I got my coffee. Currently -454.

[maxsolomon]

1. Ask to have it turned off.

Or turned to BBC or something.

[SWBTATTReg]

2. Hmmm...thanks for the heads up. This going down over 1%, especially over 1% has happened ...

too many times over the last month or so. Am I going to say that the big BOOM downwards is coming? Well........

I got everything parked on the sidelines...markets have had a good run, now the tailwinds, all artificially induced by rump and his idiotic antics are starting to wear and tear at the fabric.

[JCannon]

3. They WILL change the channel...

I know that your original post was about the DOW, but the image of Fox on a public TV is also worthy of address. When my local MickeyD tried that, I complained often -- first to the counter personnel, which did no good. So I eventually went to the website and found the complaint form, saying that I took offense at a racially insensitive statement broadcast on Fox. (This was not a lie.) It had the desired effect.

As for the stock market: I hate this! I hate rooting for an economic downtown, because I know that struggling poor people will be hurt. And yet it may be the case that this is the only thing that will hurt Trump.

[KPN]

4. The faux Pres needs to go. This will continue -- the wild

market volatility that is — until he is gone and replaced with someone the markets view as more stable. I have reduced my market exposure to about 23%; and 40% of that is in bonds (mostly short term bonds). I’m going to wait till the boogeyman occupying the WH is gone before I risk my retirement savings any further. I’ve already incurred 5.5% loss in my (well my wife’s and my) retirement accounts this year.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

5. It's down about 2% for the day.

Big whoop.

It's down about 4% or so from the beginning of the year.

We've simply had a lot of several hundred point daily swings all year, but the overall trend is always up in the long term. Yes, there could be a huge crash at some point. More likely it won't be so much a sudden crash as an overall trend downward that lasts a few years. Along the way, keep in mind that while the Dow frequently posts record highs, it never posts record lows.

[CK_John]

6. It is Friday the market usually sells off in case something bad happens over the weekend.