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The stock market fluctuations are intensive.
In the past week, the S&P 500 (^GSPC) increased every day or fell by 1% – generally the last – as uncertainties around the path of economic growth, in particular the proposed rates of President Trump, weighed on investors.
The S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC) had just their worst weeks in six months. The S&P 500 is now a 6% discount on the most recent all-time high, while the Nasdaq composite now has a correction, more than 10% compared to the most recent high.
As our graph of the week shows, the path lower has come a number of aggressive bounces, usually inspired by Trump, or threatening rates or those threats to escalate.
In this area under pressure, even something like a relatively solid job report in February did little to cool the nerves of investors on Friday. The shares were still waving great again and diving into the 5,600s before they expressed a modest profit that closes 5,770. And the new bet of the market for three federal interest rate provisions in 2025, as the economy delays, changed little.
“There are many clouds, some storms, things get pretty dark,” Moody’s chief economist Mark Zandi told Yahoo Finance. ‘So I think I’ll weeks [jobs] number up. I think this might be the best song that we get for a while. “
Although there is a tough debate about how long the clouds will be here and how big they can take a storm, one thing now feels clear: they are not going away fast enough for investors to make sure to release the boat tomorrow.
On the other hand, the recent shoriness of the market is not common. Up to and including Thursday, the S&P 500 had waved 2% or more for seven straight sessions from Friday. For per data from Jared Blikre of Yahoo Finance, this is the longest piece with such a large intraday movement in the benchmark index since August 2024.
In particular, that is also the last time that the market story focused on a ‘growth -fright’, in which investors were concerned about the process of the US economy.
Close: March 7 at 4:43:27 PM Est
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Blackrock’s Chief Investment Officer of the global fixed -income income Rick Rieder, who has been in the industry since the 1980s, wrote on Friday to customers that “it seems as if there has been very little time in markets where people have to interpret so many unpleasant and sometimes conflicting, data and influences.”
