So The Market Sold Off? What’s the Big Deal?

Trading Perspectives: An Economic Podcast

After an incredibly easy go of it for the first seven months of 2024, the start of August was a rude awakening to U.S. stock investors. The market can and will go down, and no one is happy about it when it does. However, what was the real cause of this recent sell-off? Was it really a weak jobs report? Japanese monetary policy? Impending economic doom? Or was it a relatively normal reaction an unusual market?

In this week’s Trading Perspectives, Sam Clement and John Norris discuss the recent market turmoil. Is this a temporary setback? Or are the bad times here to stay?