STOCK MARKET WATCH - Thursday, 19 March 2020

[Tansy_Gold]

STOCK MARKET WATCH, Thursday, 19 March 2020

Previous SMW:
SMW for 18 March 2020




AT THE CLOSING BELL ON: 18 March 2020


Dow Jones 19,898.92 -1,338.46 (6.30%)
S&P 500 2,398.10 -131.09 (5.18%)
Nasdaq 6,989.84 -344.94 (4.70%)

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[progree]

1. Initial claims for unemployment insurance for week ending March 14 to be released 830am ET Thursday

In other news, S&P 500 closed Wednesday at 2398 down 29.2% from its February peak.

The 3 biggest post-Great Depression stock market dives (1973-75, 2000-01, 2007-09) and the time to recover:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1116&pid=87804

[Aquaria]

3. OMG

That's going to make the market a bloodbath tomorrow.

Not good. A few weeks ago, when COVID-19 was revving up, I told my mother to sell everything for now. EVERYTHING, get out, and go wherever her financial advisor told her to go that was super-safe (I'm not familiar with all of the investment interests out there these days). She told me the other day that I saved my inheritance with that advice, because she cashed out the next day--which was I think a day or two before the DJIA peaked, and did well. Not a huge killing, she wasn't that heavily invested, but enough to make a big difference.

Funny, when she called him to sell, her advisor told her she was crazy, market's soaring, you're going to regret it!

Yeah, how did that work out, cupcake?

[progree]

4. I think the week ending March 14 is going to look like the "good ol' days" compared to the

following week (week ending March 21). But one week at a time.

[Aquaria]

2. Almost got to my prediction

Of the market going under that of Obama's last day at a closing bell.

I still think it happens this week. I'll have to see what the futures look like in the morning. Right now, they look sickening.

[Maeve]

5. Oh, we will see that!

Altho it wouldn't surprise me if Friday ends up--like last week. But then, nothing would surprise me; that got drained out over the past three + years....

Futures down @1.5% an hour before opening.

[Hugin]

8. These imbeciles are going to spend every last cent in the US Treasury to keep that from happening.

Does that sound petty? Well, it should because these guys are pettiness personified.

[Tansy_Gold]

10. This is what we've been afraid of, isn't it?

Seriously, we here on SMW have watched this slow, unsustainable rise for years now, and we always knew it would fall. That it has come under these circumstances may not have been foreseen, but we knew the crash would come.

And eventually, the piper has to be paid, or else. It may be that we lose an entire generation, perhaps metaphorically, perhaps not. But the piper will demand his due.

All apologies to Robert Browning, Van Johnson and Claude Rains, Edvard Grieg, and the good people of Hamelin Town.

[Hugin]

11. Old Yeller's life long trick of robbing Peter to pay himself has certainly made the situation...

Worse.

[Hugin]

6. I like the cartoon today, Tansy.

Good selection.

[Tansy_Gold]

9. The cartoonists' website has been a, forgive the pun, bear

They changed it up completely a couple months ago, and searching for good 'toons has taken about five times as long as it used to. They also didn't have all the 'toonists online the way they used to. It's slowly getting better, and every once in a while someone has a really, really good one that I just love to jump on. This was one of those.

I can't take credit for drawing them, but I do try to find relevant and pointed ones. This was, indeed, one of the best.

[Maeve]

7. Unemployment figures come out and future sag further

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/03/19/unemployment-insurance-today-coronavirus/

Job losses are mounting. The Labor Department reported Thursday that 281,000 people applied for jobless benefits last week, up 33 percent from the prior week. Economists say it’s only going to get worse. New York restaurateur Danny Meyer’s Union Square Hospitality Group let 2,000 workers go this Wednesday. Pebblebrook Hotel Trust, which oversees 54 hotels, laid off 4,000 employees Tuesday. MGM Resorts and Caesars have begun letting staff go, along with countless smaller restaurants, bars, gyms and coffee shops.

Already, state unemployment insurance offices are reporting real-time record spikes in claims. Virginia saw a 33-fold increase in unemployment claims this week, while Pennsylvania and Colorado reported increases of nearly 20 times the usual volume.

U.S. Stock Futures
S&P -71.75 / -2.99%
Level 2,329.75
Fair Value 2,384.54
Difference -54.79
Data as of 8:24am ET

Nasdaq -152.75 / -2.12%
Level 7,052.75
Fair Value 7,157.34
Difference -104.59
Data as of 8:24am ET

Dow -596.00 / -3.00%
Level 19,257.00

[Maeve]

12. Ending figures--up a mixed amount

DOW +0.95% 20,087.19 / +188.27

Nasdaq +2.30% 7,150.58 / +160.73

S&P +0.47% 2,409.39 / +11.29