Stock Market

[alina6]

Anyone have thoughts on what is going on in the stock market and how long it will last?

[Bigpar31]

It will crash again but not in my life time.

[potluck6]

my husband retired so we moved his 401 to a ira last week just in time i think.he doesn't have that much in it but everything is important.well if 401k's loose people won't spend that much for awhile.looks like its going back up right now anyway.

[countrygirl12]

Anyone have thoughts on what is going on in the stock market and how long it will last?

The government has been lying to you.  Anyone with any sense has not been buying into the economy is getting better.  Or the "recession" being over.  The economy has not improved.  As for how long it will last?  Until there is a total collapse.  When will it happen?  Hard to say.

 

It will crash again but not in my life time.

Are you planning on dying in the next couple of weeks?  We are on the brink of a total economic collapse.

 

my husband retired so we moved his 401 to a ira last week just in time i think.he doesn't have that much in it but everything is important.well if 401k's loose people won't spend that much for awhile.looks like its going back up right now anyway.

I don't know where you are getting your information from but I am looking at it right now and the Dow is down almost 400 points.  I also am not sure what your husband's 401k has to do with the stock market?  Unless he has that money invested in the stock market. 

When people see stocks going way down they get scared and don't spend money.  Unless they are living off the government are think that cow won't ever run dry.  Delusional, they are.  Anyway, when a company's stocks start dropping at places like fast food and retail and people stop spending money then they will start laying people off.  More people who are spending less money and the economy gets worse than it already is.

[patti4me]

My husband firmly believes from what he has heard and read that we are soon to have a big collapse economically.  I hope he's not right but I'm afraid he is.  Getting kinda scary lol

[vickysue]

What goes up must come down. We have been living in an inflated economy for quite some time. And sooner then later it will collapse. It has happened several times. As to how bad it will be only time will tell. But I think this one will be nasty.
 I hope I am wrong. But when it starts to go down with large amounts  it is scary.

[lynnc35]

The stock market isn't going away, we hit a depression a long time ago, but I think things are better now. Just choose all your investments wisely and do a lot of research on any company you are going to invest in, follow them for a while and see what they are doing.

[aflyingmonkey]

I think the economy is getting better, definitely... I don't know for who though, definitely not for the middle class.   I know houses around here that were selling for $300,000 6+ years ago after the last housing drop, are now selling for around $700,000... and they are not staying on the market long.  People have money, not everyone, but enough to keep the wheels turning.

[mgint]

be patient things will be back to normal.

[lbeery]

You know, it crashes about ever 3 years or so, whenever things get to crazy....they call it readjustment.  We, however, call it losing our a...es.  Well, it will happen again.  Anyway, three out of four finance gurus say, don't panic (of course they would say that but did they leave their money there?) that it really is just a needed readjustment and that things will re turn to normal and that it is not going to be as bad as 2008 or even 2011.  Well, some have warned that a great downturn is due this fall so maybe this was it and maybe there is more to come.

[hawkeye3210]

The Dow gained 400+ points today and closed at 16,271.

For comparison:
2007- 14,000+
2009- 6,507 (Record Low)
2015- 16,000+

The stock market has more than recovered from the "Great Recession".  It certainly looks like we are entering another bear market, but that should be expected.

[Sendmicheck]

I pray not have another Stock Market crash.

[ricdsm]

It will calm down.  I'm not worried.

[honeyflower93]

I'm a firm believer in the growing power of the stock market. I don't know the first thing about buying individually so I like to play it "safe" and just go for an index with a good track record. 
I'd rather lose everything I've invested (not everything I have) than to buy into the hype that it will crash and then it doesn't and I've lost a potential for hundreds of thousands of dollars over time. I'm not putting all my eggs in one basket either though and that really is the key to finances. Experts have differing ideas but this one is constant. 

[sgluckadoo]

I think it will be unstable for a long time to come, bouncing around all over.