STOCK MARKET WATCH -- Friday, 16 December 2022

[Tansy_Gold]

STOCK MARKET WATCH, Friday, 16 December 2022

Previous SMW:
SMW for 15 December 2022




AT THE CLOSING BELL ON 15 December 2022


Dow Jones 33,202.22 -764.13 (2.25%)
S&P 500 3,895.75 -99.57 (2.49%)
Nasdaq 10,810.53 -360.36 (3.23%)

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DU Economics Group Contributor Megathreads:

Progree's Economic Statistics (with links!)
mahatmakanejeeves' Rail Safety Megathread
mahatmakanejeeves' Oil Train Safety Megathread

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Quote for the Day:

The answer is found, at least in part, in the arcane machinery by which we finance public education. Most public schools in the United States depend for their initial funding on a tax on local property. There are also state and federal funding sources, and we will discuss them later, but the property tax is the decisive source in shaping inequality. The property tax depends, of course, upon the taxable value of one's home and that of local industries. A typical wealthy suburb in which homes are often worth more than $400,000 draws upon a larger tax base in proportion to its student population that a city occupied by thousands of poor people. Typically, in the United States, very poor communities place a high priority on education, and they often tax themselves at higher rates than do the very affluent communities. But even if they tax themselves at several times the rate of an extremely wealthy district, they are likely to end up with far less money for each child in their schools.

Jonathan Kozol. Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools. Harper Perennial. (c) 1991.

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[Shermann]

1. Inflation (aka "The Grinch") stole the Santa Claus rally right out from under the tree! nt

[progree]

2. S&P 500, down 18.8% from all-time-high, and down 18.2% year-to-date

Still above the 20% down bear market line, although we're technically in a bear market (because we've broken below 20% earlier in the year) until the S&P 500 completely recovers.

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/%5EGSPC?p=%5EGSPC

[Warpy]

3. The market has been hyperinflated for a long time

by QE, TFG's tax cut for the richest, and misused Covid relief funds that were supposed to go to wages and instead went to stocks.

Having it lose air slowly is a good thing unless you spent money you couldn't afford to spend at the top of the market because you thought it would go up forever.

Only half a point yesterday should have made investors giddy with joy but it panicked the panicky, as usual.

[progree]

4. I agree it's very much overvalued.

See my #1, #3, and #4
https://www.democraticunderground.com/11214459

That said, its been overvalued for a long time. For decades I've been hearing that "it's a bubble" when it's going up, and "see I told you so" when it's goes down. But I've done many fold better than the permabears.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/111694222#post5

[Warpy]

5. Even with TFG;s massive cash infusions into it, it lasted longer than I thought it would

so while I don't shrink from identifying it as hyperinflated, I've given up on issuing predictions.

I do think we are likely close to the end game, hedge funds and venture capitalists scrambling for new things to milk dry (housing and hospitals being in the news last week, alone). The system depends on returns without risk these days and that's about to end..