It has been a tough week for those invested in the stock market

Posted By on June 21, 2018

After 8 down days for the Dow, the beginning of summer has not been kind to investors hoping 2018 would be a bit more positive. With unemployment at near all time lows, corporate tax cuts, the economy rebounding and promising better wages … and even talks with North Korea going well, one would think optimism would continue to reign on Wall Street? Nope … indexes are back where we started the year and sharply down as we start the first day of summer. Hm … is it all trade concerns and tariffs, or is the real threat inflation and the Fed raising interest rates to prevent an overheated economy?

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The Dow Jones Industrial Average ended down 196.10 points, or 0.8%, to 24,461.70, while the S&P 500 lost 17.56 points, or 0.6%, to 2749.76, and the Nasdaq Composite slid 68.56 points, or 0.9%, to 7712.95.

If the Dow closes down again tomorrow, that would mark its longest losing streak since it’s nine-day loss in February 1978. Since 1896, the Dow has only suffered 10 losing streaks of nine days or more.

more at Barron’s Online

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