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orangecrush

(19,384 posts)
Wed May 29, 2019, 05:11 PM May 2019

Dems' Mueller-Infused Impeachment Cry Roils the Stock Market


By CCN: A surprise statement and resignation from special counsel Robert Mueller did little to help the wobbling stock market on Wednesday. The Dow briefly fell beneath 25,000 before rallying to back to 25,126, down 221 points for the day. Meanwhile, the Nasdaq closed down 0.79%. Mueller made it clear he did not exonerate the President but had no valid court to try him in. This appeared to be another trigger for stock declines alongside the bond yield sell-off,


https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.ccn.com/dems-mueller-impeachment-stock-market/amp


Wall Street is not the American people.

Fuck 'em.
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Dems' Mueller-Infused Impeachment Cry Roils the Stock Market (Original Post) orangecrush May 2019 OP
The writers at CCN need a little better grasp of nomenclature A HERETIC I AM May 2019 #1
Thank you orangecrush May 2019 #2
They should explain yesterday or last week malaise May 2019 #3
Agree. orangecrush May 2019 #4

A HERETIC I AM

(24,360 posts)
1. The writers at CCN need a little better grasp of nomenclature
Wed May 29, 2019, 05:20 PM
May 2019

As the expression “bond yield sell off” makes no sense.

They used that term and put a hyperlink to a Bloomberg story on Yahoo! Finance that does NOT use the term.

You can’t “sell off” yield.

Yields fell not because there was a sell off, rather a rally on bonds occurred, running prices up and as a consequence yields went down.

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