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As stock prices sink, many ordinary Americans are remaining calm and sticking with their plans
– canadianbusiness.com
WASHINGTON – Even as anxious investors send stock prices plunging, many Americans are sounding a rather different note:
They’re staying calm and carrying on.
Some wonder if they may have to work a few extra years to recoup some of their shrunken retirement savings. Others concede that the meltdown might have wiped out investments needed to pay for a vacation.
Yet conversations Monday with roughly a dozen everyday Americans suggest that people generally expect stock prices to rebound, just as they have after previous swoons. For now, the panic on Wall Street does not appear to have spread very far.
“I’m certainly not panicking or looking for tall buildings,” said Vincent Signorotti, 62, a San Diego-based executive for a company that builds geothermal plants in Southern California.
Signorotti said he has no plans to cut back on his spending or even adjust his investment strategy.
The Standard & Poor’s 500 stock index sank nearly 4 per cent on Monday and has now tumbled 9…
They’re staying calm and carrying on.
Some wonder if they may have to work a few extra years to recoup some of their shrunken retirement savings. Others concede that the meltdown might have wiped out investments needed to pay for a vacation.
Yet conversations Monday with roughly a dozen everyday Americans suggest that people generally expect stock prices to rebound, just as they have after previous swoons. For now, the panic on Wall Street does not appear to have spread very far.
“I’m certainly not panicking or looking for tall buildings,” said Vincent Signorotti, 62, a San Diego-based executive for a company that builds geothermal plants in Southern California.
Signorotti said he has no plans to cut back on his spending or even adjust his investment strategy.
The Standard & Poor’s 500 stock index sank nearly 4 per cent on Monday and has now tumbled 9…
China stock market tumbles to 8-month low – CBC.ca
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CBC.caChina stock market tumbles to 8-month lowCBC.caChina's main stock market index has fallen for a fourth day, plunging 7.6 per cent to an eight-month low. In Japan, the Nikkei 225 index, which had risen earlier Tuesday, closed down 3.9 per cent at 17,806.70. The Shanghai Composite Index closed …Shanghai Stocks Continue to Dive as Global Markets Elsewhere StabilizeNew York TimesChina stocks sink over seven percent as panic selling intensifiesReuters CanadaEurope shares open higher despite further massive falls in ChinaBBC NewsReuters -Telegraph.co.ukall 5,815 news articles »
What China’s economic slowdown means for you
– moneysense.ca
It’s been four years, almost to the day, since investors gritted their teeth and rode out a fear-fuelled stock market sell-off. But unlike the 2011 rout, sparked by the eurozone debt crisis, the sudden collapse of global equities markets that began last week is all about China—which makes it all the more unnerving since few have a good grasp on how the world’s most important emerging economy actually works.
North American investors arrived at work Monday morning and were greeted by a 1,000-point sell-off in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, marking the blue chip index’s biggest intra-day decline ever. The broader S&P 500 index, meanwhile, lost 58 points, while the S&P TSX was down about 300 points after the opening bell. Some even dusted off the “#blackmonday” hashtag on Twitter, although many were quick to point out the 1987 stock market crash was orders of magnitude more severe. As if on cue, the markets clawed back most of the losses by mid-day.
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North American investors arrived at work Monday morning and were greeted by a 1,000-point sell-off in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, marking the blue chip index’s biggest intra-day decline ever. The broader S&P 500 index, meanwhile, lost 58 points, while the S&P TSX was down about 300 points after the opening bell. Some even dusted off the “#blackmonday” hashtag on Twitter, although many were quick to point out the 1987 stock market crash was orders of magnitude more severe. As if on cue, the markets clawed back most of the losses by mid-day.
6 mistakes investors make when markets tank »
Even so, the short-lived sell-off made it clear investors are growing concerned about the health of China’s faltering economy…
Too much capital, too little return
– moneysense.ca
One thing I find strange about market corrections is how nobody seems to see them coming.
Markets reach what look like peaks. People talk about how we’re at a peak. Prescient folks suggest equities are overvalued, carefully avoiding calling it a bubble. And then, one participant in the global capital markets chain accumulates enough bad news to spark a selloff.
Talking heads are quick to blame interconnectivity of global markets, but the reality is globalization began when the Chinese, Vikings and Celts started navigating the seas.
What too many opinion leaders are ignoring, though, is the demographic realities that fuel bull markets and spark bears.
When you get right down to it, demographics drive economies.
In North America, the baby boom’s kept a firm hand on the stock market’s tiller for decades. The oldest of that generation, now 69, fuelled the ’80s bull markets and bounced back from the 1987 crash with sufficient exuberance to drive markets to the tech-fuelled peaks of the late 1990s…
Markets reach what look like peaks. People talk about how we’re at a peak. Prescient folks suggest equities are overvalued, carefully avoiding calling it a bubble. And then, one participant in the global capital markets chain accumulates enough bad news to spark a selloff.
Talking heads are quick to blame interconnectivity of global markets, but the reality is globalization began when the Chinese, Vikings and Celts started navigating the seas.
What too many opinion leaders are ignoring, though, is the demographic realities that fuel bull markets and spark bears.
When you get right down to it, demographics drive economies.
In North America, the baby boom’s kept a firm hand on the stock market’s tiller for decades. The oldest of that generation, now 69, fuelled the ’80s bull markets and bounced back from the 1987 crash with sufficient exuberance to drive markets to the tech-fuelled peaks of the late 1990s…
Japan official says government ready to act if necessary to quell market volatility
– canadianbusiness.com
TOKYO – A senior Japanese official says the government is prepared to “take appropriate measures,” if necessary, to quell volatility in the financial markets.
Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said Tuesday that Japan’s economy remains “on track for a moderate recovery.”
But he acknowledged that recent swings in share prices and foreign exchange markets have taken a toll.
Suga said Japan was co-ordinating on a daily basis with the central banks and economic ministers of other major economies.
On Tuesday, Japan’s main share index, the Nikkei 225, sank 4 per cent to 17,806.70 in a session that saw the benchmark swing between positive and negative territory. It fell 4.6 per cent on Monday.
Share prices had surged in Japan over the past three years on strong monetary stimulus and a weakening in the yen.
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Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said Tuesday that Japan’s economy remains “on track for a moderate recovery.”
But he acknowledged that recent swings in share prices and foreign exchange markets have taken a toll.
Suga said Japan was co-ordinating on a daily basis with the central banks and economic ministers of other major economies.
On Tuesday, Japan’s main share index, the Nikkei 225, sank 4 per cent to 17,806.70 in a session that saw the benchmark swing between positive and negative territory. It fell 4.6 per cent on Monday.
Share prices had surged in Japan over the past three years on strong monetary stimulus and a weakening in the yen.
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