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Roland99

(53,342 posts)
Thu Mar 5, 2020, 11:28 PM Mar 2020

Asian markets have opened down 2-3% on Friday

Asia Dow 3,182.02 -75.06 -2.30%
Nikkei 225 20,652.55 -676.57 -3.17%
Hang Seng 26,217.62 -550.25 -2.06%
Shanghai 3,035.98 -35.69 -1.16%
Sensex 38,470.61 61.13 0.16%
Singapore 2,971.17 -47.10 -1.56%

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Wounded Bear

(58,654 posts)
1. Yeah, this aint over, not by a long shot...
Thu Mar 5, 2020, 11:30 PM
Mar 2020

just basically ripped the guts out of 1st qtr production, world wide.

Iwasthere

(3,167 posts)
3. I moved all of our IRAs and 401ks to Gold and silver ETFs
Fri Mar 6, 2020, 01:50 AM
Mar 2020

Don't have heart to watch my retirement cut in half.

roamer65

(36,745 posts)
5. Just wait until negative interest rates and about $2T in QE hits here in the US.
Fri Mar 6, 2020, 02:31 AM
Mar 2020

I can hear the helicopters firing up for the money drops.

muriel_volestrangler

(101,316 posts)
9. European markets down between 3 and 4% this morning
Fri Mar 6, 2020, 06:52 AM
Mar 2020
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business/market-data

At time of writing, London is down about 14% from its February peak, Frankfurt 16.5%, Tokyo 13% and the S&P 500 11% (and with the futures figure from the link in reply #6, that would be 13%).

wishstar

(5,269 posts)
10. Dow futures down 647 at 6 am with all financial news negative
Fri Mar 6, 2020, 07:00 AM
Mar 2020

Not surprising since 26120 is actually still quite a high level with plenty of downside potential

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