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In reply to the discussion: Can anyone recommend a primer on the stock market? [View all]Amishman
(5,554 posts)3. Stock pricing is based in earnings projections and growth
Usually biased towards short term.
The outbreak is a threat to earnings in many ways; illness disrupting workers, quarantines disrupting supply chains, and general fear keeping people at home and not buying things. Probably a little concern about an actual severe pandemic, but the former considerations are probably most of it.
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Hi. Thanks for your reply. Do you mean ask in that forum or just start reading the posts there?
Dark n Stormy Knight
Feb 2020
#5
OK, so, I read everything down to about halfway through your post and
Dark n Stormy Knight
Feb 2020
#31
Hmm, the first one looks like a variable annuity, and all I've read about them is that they
progree
Feb 2020
#25
That's not bad -- the S&P 500 is down 8.0% from last Wednesday, your mut fund is down 8.4%
progree
Feb 2020
#7
Here's my take: don't worry about it. I held on to all my stock mutual funds during
progree
Feb 2020
#21
I know my parents (who have had far better financial success than I)
Dark n Stormy Knight
Feb 2020
#28
Don't know your age or how much you have, but looks like your investments move closely with market.
Hoyt
Feb 2020
#10
On stocks being overvalued etc. -- not so much when you consider the competition: bond yields
progree
Feb 2020
#12
I guess my problem isn't not understanding the stock market, it's not really understanding
Dark n Stormy Knight
Feb 2020
#19
DON'T SELL! DON'T WATCH!! Just let it sit there and don't pay attention to it.
cbdo2007
Feb 2020
#30