Comics, 2-8-18: Stock Market

UPDATE WEEK END 2-9-18:
 Stocks reverse higher to end brutal week - finance.yahoo.com
A very bad week ends with another whipsaw day. We get technical and break down the S&P 500's wild chart.

2-8-18, Fox Business - AGAIN ... Worse than Monday: Stocks posted sharp losses Thursday with the Dow shedding 1,033 points, as higher interest rates continued to rattle investors. More here

​Under Obama Stock Market Sees WorstFirst Quarter Since 1939
President Obama keeps racking up a dreadful record: The stock market had its worst January in 113 years. The stockmarket had its worst February since 1933.

​Powell sworn in as new Fed chair amid stock market sell-off ...
2-5-18, ABC News -- Jerome Powell was sworn in Monday as the 16th chairman of the Federal Reserve on what turned out to be a turbulent day for Wall Street, with the Dow Jones industrial average plunging by more than 1,100 points. Part of the market unease has been attributed to fears that rising wages and higher inflation could prompt the central bank to raise rates more quickly than investors had been expecting. Some analysts said the big sell-off over the last two days may end up taking some pressure off the Fed to hike rates again soon, given that lower stock prices would ease fears of an overheated market.

​Down, then up then down again? Stock market goes on another wild ride volatility ...
2/7/18, The bounce-back no doubt came as relief to many Americans made queasy by Monday's drop ... 2/8/18 - CNN slid down at open -400+ points