Twelve years earlier, in this same week, the first infamous Flash Crash struck the New York Stock Exchange and drove stocks down 1,000 points in just 10 minutes. But how do they work? With waterfall declines and split-second crashes becoming more and more common, I’m here t show you how to stay one step ahead of the machines…
Sell in May and go away… Ah yes, the familiar adage among investors that comes up this time every year. It refers to the calendar tendency for below-average stock market returns from May to October. But this time around, what really matters is “sell Jay and go away.” Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, that is.
“This is a major financial shock for the world … a first in the history of monetary policies. ”No investor likes to wake up to a headline like this. And yet, there it was, on my morning news feed. To be honest, this is good news to me.
Welcome to your Monday Market update! This weekly special edition covers the “Big Picture” factors at play in this week’s headline — so you can stay ahead of the trends with ease!
In last week’s video, I provided an economist’s perspective on bitcoin. This week I’m broadening my horizons to look at a few of the hottest “next-generation” coins that could actually soar by providing REAL-WORLD value to investors and the global economy.
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