stock markets

Need a general thread, especially with what's been happening the past day or so. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-08/donald-trump-tariffs-trade-war-markets/105148802

I have been looking at the FY16 market predictions and most are negative although some are predicting a disastrous drop in stock values. Business Insider http://www.businessinsider.com/wall-street-2016-stock-market-forecasts-2015-11 Goldman Sachs predictions as reported by Fortune...

Does the stock market really matter? Giving the stock market some thought lately, and it occurred to me that unless a company was selling shares of itself for the purposes of expansion, the stock market really doesn’t seem to matter to the rest of the economy. Once a share of stock is in...