{"id":3424,"date":"2019-08-18T16:11:54","date_gmt":"2019-08-18T20:11:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/envisionco.net\/?p=3424"},"modified":"2019-08-18T16:11:54","modified_gmt":"2019-08-18T20:11:54","slug":"week-ending-8-16-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/envisionco.net\/?p=3424","title":{"rendered":"Week Ending 8\/16\/2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>MARKET RECAP<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Both US and international stocks fell by about 1.1%, down for the third straight week. The entire psychology of the market has changed since Trump&#8217;s trade tweet a few weeks ago. Investors are worried about the threat of a coming recession. Stocks are now 4.6% off their recent high from July 26, but there have been some wild days since then. The S&amp;P 500 is now working on 12 straight days of intraday moves greater than 1%.<\/p>\n<p>The yield on the 30-year bond fell to 1.98% on Thursday. That was the lowest yield of all time. Also, on Thursday, the 10-year fell to 1.47%, not far from the all-time low of 1.36% from July of 2016. While the 3-month\/10-year curve has been inverted for a while now, the 2-year\/10-year also inverted intraday during the week, a recessionary signal. There is now $16 trillion in negative-yielding debt around the world.<\/p>\n<p>Stocks rallied on Tuesday when Trump delayed a portion of the new tariffs that he recently announced. But then the market really got hit on Wednesday, down 2.9%, on weak economic data from Germany and trade tensions. On Thursday and Friday stocks did rally back, on a good retail spending report<\/p>\n<p>SCOREBOARD<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/envisionco.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Scoreboard.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3427\" src=\"https:\/\/envisionco.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Scoreboard-106x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"106\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/envisionco.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Scoreboard-106x300.png 106w, https:\/\/envisionco.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Scoreboard-361x1024.png 361w, https:\/\/envisionco.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Scoreboard.png 557w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 106px) 100vw, 106px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MARKET RECAP Both US and international stocks fell by about 1.1%, down for the third straight week. The entire psychology of the market has changed since Trump&#8217;s trade tweet a few weeks ago. Investors are worried about the threat of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/envisionco.net\/?p=3424\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1893,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/envisionco.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/envisionco.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/envisionco.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envisionco.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1893"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envisionco.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3424"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/envisionco.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3429,"href":"https:\/\/envisionco.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3424\/revisions\/3429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/envisionco.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envisionco.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envisionco.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}