[JoSixChip]

Why does the stock market hate America? The economic numbers are great, the markets are down?

[DIRTYSECRET]

It’s the Fed. Trump is pedal to the metal. There will be damage to the extremities but it’s necessary.

[familyop]

The answer to those questions would be very long and include many causes. To add a speck of light to the confusion generally seen from news organizations, some market indexes include manufacturing based in the U.S. but with actual production happening overseas. Other reports come from surveys of manufacturing on U.S. soil.

Wall Street is loaded with import interests, and a large portion of investors derive their incomes from the various levels of government in bed with foreign national interests—mostly anti-Trump interests.

[lilypad]

I ask that question over and over. Something seems weird. There’s always some flimsy stupid excuse. I swear that someone is trying to sink the market and blame Trump so he can’t take credit for a great economy. This is killing our retirement.

[rb22982]

Markets are still up huge from Nov 8, 2016. Corrections are normal and healthy. They are typically forward looking, and take it from first hand experience, they are worried a recession is coming.

[Vaden]

It’s because they are beholden to the globalist/no-border/free-trade agenda.

[Old Teufel Hunden]

"Why does the stock market hate America? The economic numbers are great, the markets are down?"

Remember, investors in stocks are forward looking not past performance. Someone in the thread also talks as if there would be a cabal of investors 'holding the markets back' etc.. That's an impossibility. The stock market is so large and diffuse that no single investor or group of investors can influence the whole stock market.

Investors are a jittery bunch and when they hear this news or that news they sell and buy. Right now it does seem like investors are not concentrating on fundamentals. However, you have to view the stock market not in one day but over the long haul and in the past two years the market has steadily risen. We are still in a bull market and I think we will continue to be, thanks in part to President Donald J. Trump.