Stock Market Slump? How to Respond
SO MUCH for the Santa rally, writes Money Week’s government editor John Stepek in his unfastened every day investment email Money Morning. The Federal Reserve has hinted at going smooth. Donald Trump and China have sort of, kind of, kissed and made up. Italy – the Eurozone's maximum instant hassle – appears to have dropped off anybody's large worry list. Yet the marketplace is tanking. What's taking place? We've already written about the yield curve. To reduce a long story brief, lengthy-time period US bond yields are falling greater unexpectedly than short-time period ones, and this is usually a caution sign that a recession is headed our way (despite the fact that perhaps now not for up to 2 years). We're now not quite "inverted" but (that is the key signal) but we are no longer a ways off it. This does seem to have rattled markets badly. But you could observe a number of other things and point to them as being catalysts. Re...