Feb 08 Dow drops more than 1,000 points as stocks continue to slide By Associated Press The market opened little changed on Thursday but started to fall in early trading and extended its losses throughout the morning. Continue reading
Feb 06 Watch 5:13 Before this week’s roller-coaster trading, the stock market was ‘unusually calm’ By PBS News Hour Global markets have been on a roller coaster ride for the past three days. The Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged more than 500 points Tuesday morning, but ended up more than 500 points. John Yang learns more from Neil Irwin… Continue watching
Feb 05 Analysis: 5 reasons the market is crashing, and 2 caveats By Paul Solman How low could the markets go? After the Crash of '29, the S&P index bottomed out in March of 1933 at around six. In other words, the S&P dropped by more than 80 percent. (The Dow actually fell by almost… Continue reading
Feb 05 Dow plunges more than 1,000 points Monday after major drop last week By Daniel Bush The Dow dropped by as many as 1,500 points, before rebounding to close the day down nearly 1,200 points. Continue reading
Feb 02 Dow falls 666 points, capping worst week on Wall Street in 2 years By Michael Rios Investors said the drop was partly due to fears of rising inflation, which could lead to an increase in interest rates in the coming months. Continue reading
Mar 02 Watch 5:08 Trump’s agenda is fueling investor confidence. Will it last? By PBS News Hour The Dow Jones and other indexes were already doing well when Donald Trump won the presidential election. And the overall jump of recent weeks has accelerated mightily, rising from just above 18,000 on election day to breaking 21,000 this week. Continue watching
Jan 29 Watch 3:43 Positive fiscal signs amid a slow-growth economy By PBS News Hour The U.S. economy has slowed since the 1990s, but in the final month of President Obama’s term, 156,000 jobs were added and unemployment held at 4.7 percent. As President Donald Trump took office last week, the Dow Jones closed above… Continue watching
Jan 25 Column: How Chicken Little got Dow 20,000 so terribly wrong By Terry Burnham Economist Terry Burnham predicted that the Dow Jones Industrial Average would hit 5,000 before it hit 20,000. With the Dow hitting 20,000 today, Burnham discusses how he got it so wrong. Continue reading
Aug 24 UPDATE: Stock markets down after volatile day of trading By Kristen Doerer Stock markets plummeted this morning, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average falling more than 1,000 points, or 5 percent, at opening, before rebounding and making back most of its gains by noon. As of 12:15 p.m. EDT Monday, the Dow… Continue reading
Apr 01 Where does Chicken Little invest? By Terry Burnham You might think of economist Terry Burnham as the "Chicken Little of Finance." That's because he's repeatedly argued that the Dow will hit 5,000 before it hits 20,000. Since he first made that forecast in the summer of 2013, the… Continue reading