Stocks on Track for Monthly Losses After PPI Inflation Surprise

[ruet]

Source: Yahoo Finance

US stocks sank on Friday after a measure of wholesale inflation came in hotter than expected and Block's (XYZ) surprise shakeup turned the spotlight on AI disruption risks.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) led the way down with a loss of 1%, or more than 500 points. Meanwhile, the Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC) fell 0.8%, while the S&P 500 (^GSPC) dropped 0.4%, respectively, on the heels of sharp closing losses for the tech-heavy indexes.

The Dow snapped an eight-month win streak, with the blue chip index losing more than 2% in February. The Nasdaq and S&P 500 also declined more than 2%, and 1.5% respectively for the month.

Read more: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/live/stock-market-today-dow-sp-500-nasdaq-fall-to-end-losing-month-as-ai-worries-buffet-markets-210030002.html

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I hate Yahoo for constantly doing this but the title of the story from the main page is as indicated in my title. Having said that...

50,000!

[samsingh]

1. Could the tarrifs account for this?

[we can do it]

2. Inflation

[samsingh]

3. Tarrifs cause inflation

[ananda]

4. Surprise!

Not

[progree]

5. "I hate Yahoo for constantly doing this but the title of the story from the main page is as indicated in my title...."

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Yes, it gets worse...

That "stock market today" page (that's the title one sees after clicking the finance.yahoo.com page headline, and looking at the story that pops up), which changes throughout the day, and, speaking of the finance.yahoo version, never starts with "stock market today"

Sigh. And now the worse part --

That "stock market today" page has at least a dozen stories below it from throughout the day, but few have stand-alone versions with URLs. So I have to instruct readers to go to the stock market today URL ( currently, for Friday, https://finance.yahoo.com/news/live/stock-market-today-dow-sp-500-nasdaq-fall-to-end-volatile-month-as-ai-worries-buffet-markets-211239963.html )
and scroll down the page, or do a search on the page for "Private credit fears keep hammering the financial sector" if that's the story I want to direct readers to.

I deal with that all the time in my "S&P 500" pinned thread in the Economy Group ( https://www.democraticunderground.com/111699775 , it's also in my sig line ), where I, in a typical day cover what's at the URL, and then have a section, "SCROLLING DOWN THE PAGE" and list the ones of interest for the day.

Not too bad for a one-day report, but I also want to refer to some of those stories long-term (that page keeps an archive of many of the main economic reports of the last 2 months in the "Calendar" section, and it really is silly that there, I also often have to direct people the same way, whether rather than giving them some URL that takes them direct to the story.

[ruet]

7. My favorite was...

all of the tarriff stories, for months and months, used the same comment section. So you had to wade through thousands of months old comments to read anything current. Brilliant!

[pat_k]

6. Another reason to be glad I shifted to Defiance Large Cap ex-Mag 7 ETF

S&P is down 1.43% on the month. XMAG is up 1.46%

Frankly, whatever happens to the fund, I feel good about divesting from the evil empire stocks.

Note: XMAG is basically the S&P excluding the "Magnificent 7" (Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia, and Tesla)