Market knows 'the Fed is out of bullets': WSJ economic commentator

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Greg Ip, chief economic commentator at the Wall Street Journal, Anastasia Amoroso, head of cross-asset thematic strategy at JPMorgan Private Bank, and CNBC's Steve Liesman join "Squawk Box" to discuss the markets amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Stocks fell sharply Monday — with the Dow suffering its worst day since the “Black Monday” market crash in 1987 and its third-worst day ever — even after the Federal Reserve embarked on a massive monetary stimulus campaign to curb slower economic growth amid the coronavirus outbreak.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed 2,997.10 points lower, or 12.9%, at 20,188.52. The 30-stock Dow was briefly down more than 3,000 points in the final minutes of trading. The S&P 500 dropped 12% to 2,386.13 — hitting its lowest level since December 2018 — while the Nasdaq Composite closed 12.3% lower at 6,904.59 in its worst day ever.

“The markets are getting no break with yesterday’s historic Fed actions and COVID-19 dominating the world’s headlines,” Frank Cappelleri, executive director at Instinet, said in a note. “While the news continues to worsen and with the price action doing things we’ve only seen a handful of other times in the last century, it’s nearly impossible to keep things in perspective.”

“We can’t argue the facts, and we’re dealing with a much bigger issue than just the economy,” Cappelleri said.

The major averages fell to their lows into the close after President Donald Trump said the worst of the outbreak could last until August. He also told reporters the U.S. “may be” heading into a recession.

“The market didn’t hear what it wanted to hear. I don’t think that it wanted to hear that this was going to last until July and August, and now the market does the math. If it lasts until July and August, that means we maybe have a contraction in the second quarter and the third quarter, and that means recession,” BNY Mellon strategist Liz Young said on CNBC’s “Closing Bell.”

Monday’s losses put the Dow down 31.7% from its all-time high and the S&P 500 and Nasdaq more than 29% below their records last month. The Dow fell to its lowest point since 2017.

The Dow’s drop was the worst decline since its “Black Monday” crash three decades ago when it fell more than 22%. The drop surpassed its 9.99% tumble last Thursday. It was also the Dow’s third-worst day ever; it dropped more than 13% in late 1929.



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Well, that's it. The last card has been played. We are now in freefall.

PeterBaskerville
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no i dont think so, the fed called the place where they print money and said to increase production

markwalker
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The Fed regulates banks, and any money the Fed "creates" (typically by encouraging banks to lend) shows up as debt on some balance sheet somewhere. The US already has a lot of private debt, and adding $1 trillion in private debt over the next 6 months is not necessarily helpful.

bob___
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We will open, but then we will close ! Awesome .

davidellis
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He said "as far as we know the banks are well capitalize " .

rogergrant
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Cash withdrawal limits (as of last Friday):
BBVA: $5000
BofA: $2500
Grocery Store: $40

jaym
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I shot the sheriff. But I did not shoot the deputy. Sheldon pay some of this sick pay.

rockymountainrockhound
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These people are only discussing how to keep the status quo in place by baling them out - we did that 12 years ago and it got us here -maybe we try something different this time - either way it is going to be bad but at least we will have hope

mrunderhill
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We were just saying what the military industrial complex told us to say. We were just doing our jobs.

sunnycheba
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i am afraid there is nothing that a interest cut of some % can do now ... they could try to freeze short selling and see But it looks like this virus has triggered the perfect storm ... and it is not ended at all ... DJ could go down to 16k easily if the confidence in the market falls deeply

gino
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Might be time to invite Peter Schiff back. He at least knows what he's talking about.

philiscoolerthanu
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negative interest rate in the next two week

hobbies
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how about we start talking about families and people - not just businesses and workers ? Just for once let's show our humanity

mrunderhill
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But then again, its not a one man show.

eddywinata
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Circuit breakers allows Wall Street Krooks to get more FED monopoly money
to short the market further (thus flushing 401K's down the toilet).

jaym
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Here we go again with a another massive dose of socialism to bail out capitalism.

matterantimatter
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jp morgan the criminal price fixing organization... giving us advise...

schopen-hauer
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Steve sugarcoating a flaming hot pile of crap, as usual

mattr