“Uncle … UNCLE!”As the father of two young boys, I often hear those words hollered when one has the other pinned. The stock market is screaming a similar phrase right now as Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell puts equities in a chokehold. But he’s not letting up.
At the simplest level, “what just happened” is that stocks went down… A lot. Going one step further, we can say that stocks went down because bond yields went up. Again, a lot. But to really understand why stocks and bonds have fallen so hard and so fast, we need to understand why they went up so much in the first place.
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!
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