10-25-2018, 12:08 PM
What's wrong with the markets? Take your pick..
- Policy mistake by the Federal Reserve
- Rising interest rates that could make borrowing more expensive
- A slowdown in global economic growth exemplified in China weakness
- An overall breakdown in stocks, represented in equities trading at multimonth lows
- Midterm election jitters, which have seasonally resulted in some jitters in U.S. markets
- Seasonal October volatility, which has tended to translate into choppy trade
- Worries that the U.S. economy is in the late stages of its expansion and due for a recession
- Brexit
- Italy’s budget crisis
- The looming end of quantitative easing in Europe
- The political implications of the killing of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi
- Worries about the health of emerging markets outside of China.
- Signs from U.S. companies that they are see earnings growth slowing
- U.S.-China trade relations which may be exacerbating Beijing’s economic malaise
- Growing deficits partly derived from President Donald Trump’s corporate tax cuts in 2017
- Weakness in the banking sector which hasn’t benefited from rising interest rates
- Softness in transports which Dow theorists tend to follow as a gauge of the health of the market
- A rotation of investors out of growth stocks and into those names viewed as value
- Major cracks in the housing market
- A weak earnings outlook