Amrith Ramkumar

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860 appearances 16 recordings 1 series first heard May 2018 last heard Sep 2021

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WSJ Your Money Briefing · Stock Market: What Goes Down Doesn't Then Go Back Up · 11 Dec 2018 podcast

In the first four days of December last week, it's the worst start since 2008 for major indexes. voice-verified

It really has been brutal for a lot of people, especially after in late November, again, we saw a pretty big rally. voice-verified

So people have seemed pretty optimistic coming into the month, but we've seen just the same trade tensions, fears over global growth, overhanging everything. voice-verified

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It's really a big change from earlier in the year. voice-verified

Again, a lot of people have said this is a resumption of normal volatility. voice-verified

But U.S. voice-verified

stocks did really well in the first nine months of the year. voice-verified

And it seems like just this last quarter, people are really catching on to some of these fears and they continue to linger and hang over everything. voice-verified

That's exactly right. voice-verified

And to go back to what I was saying earlier with November, like late November, we saw the rally after the Fed signaled it might be more cautious with interest rate increases. voice-verified

But now some people are interpreting that as they're doing that because the economy is slowing down, which is still not good for stocks and these other risky investments. voice-verified

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It's kind of this, yeah, like tug of war, push and pull, whatever phrase you want to use. voice-verified

There's good news that appears to be good news for a day or two, but then people kind of reassess. voice-verified

And it's like you're saying these same overhanging fears. voice-verified

So the people are saying the real key will be these trade negotiations the next few months. voice-verified

But as you say, that's likely to continue for a while. voice-verified

Right, and we saw even the Fed Chairman Jerome Powell, just some of his remarks saying that the interest rates are kind of close to a neutral rate, and markets really rallied on that. voice-verified

But again, people are kind of reassessing, so... voice-verified

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