Posted on 08/05/2024 12:16:36 PM PDT by bitt
The first Monday in August has arrived with panic sweeping through the finance sector, as nearly $2 trillion was wiped out of the S&P 500 at market open. Investor anxiety over a looming global recession triggered a selloff that sent U.S. stock futures plummeting and raised urgent questions about the Biden’s administration’s economic policies.
As trading began on August 5th, a staggering $1.93 trillion was wiped out from the S&P 500, with stock index futures taking a massive hit. S&P 500 futures fell more than 4.4%, while Dow futures were down 3%, translating to a loss of 1,212 points. The Nasdaq 100 futures fared even worse, plummeting over 5.2%, according to Watcher.guru.
JUST IN: Over $1.93 trillion wiped out from the US stock market so far today. pic.twitter.com/LVnknYv2eB
— Watcher.Guru (@WatcherGuru) August 5, 2024
The Nasdaq has never been down by that amount in its history.
WATCH: “We have never been down 1,000+ points — EVER, not even intraday — on the Nasdaq.”#KAMALACRASH pic.twitter.com/iCXN83vOkQ
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) August 5, 2024
In a striking move, investor Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway dumped nearly half of its gigantic Apple stake last quarter, according to CNBC.
Buffett’s recent actions have raised eyebrows across Wall Street; the 93-year-old investment titan has been on a massive selling spree, offloading over 75 billion** in equities during the second quarter alone. This aggressive liquidation has raised Berkshire’s cash reserves to an unprecedented **277 billion, an all-time high for the conglomerate. Notably, Buffett also began selling his second-largest holding, Bank of America, in July.
JUST IN: Warren Buffett now holds $277 Billion in cash and has been selling stocks like never before, including Apple.
He’s getting ready for a crash… pic.twitter.com/7gNrDmsX97
— Radar (@RadarHits) August 4, 2024
According to Quartz:
Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway has $234.6 billion worth of short-term investments in U.S. Treasury bills, the massive conglomerate’s second-quarter earnings report Saturday showed.
Buffett has always been a fan of U.S. Treasury bills (also known as T-bills). At the annual Berkshire conference in May, the 93-year-old investor called them “the safest investment there is.”
Treasury bills are short-term securities issued — and backed — by the U.S. government. They are issued in maturities ranging from four weeks to 52 weeks, at a minimum purchase amount of $100. The bills then increase in value to pay off their entire face value at maturity.
With Berkshire buying up $229.5 billion in T-bills and fixed maturity securities in the first six months of the year, it surpassed the Federal Reserve in its investment into the securities. The Federal Reserve reported last week that it holds $195.3 billion in the bills.
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With day traders, hedge funds, etc. the US Stock market has become home for speculators.
If you look at the Asian markets, they were hit even harder.
The US economy is still the strongest economy in the world and the US stock market is where people with money all over the world want to invest.
There will be lots of volatility in the US market, but if you are investing in the long term, it is still the best game on earth for wealth accumulation.
But according to all the polls, Kamala is waaaaaay out front. That should make the market happy, right?
Excellent. I’m sure the spineless fake Republicans will whine.
A perfect time to put an illegal alien refugee in charge of the country. Give it hell schmucks. You’ve just about sunk America.
I bailed three weeks ago.
I saw this coming.
My feeling is Tuesday is going to be worse.
Just profit taking and course correction. It’ll go right back up. Don’t panic. Good stocks are now on sale.
Buffett is probably a big time lib but when it comes to his money and to the BH holdings, I figure he calls it like he sees it.
And reportedly he is way out of equities.
Maybe Buffett’s like Jamie Dimon - a self proclaimed “duel” - - has ‘the heart of a democrat and the brains of a Republican’....
Silver is down while gold is flat. Seems they would both be going up.
Other metals are down, though there is always a demand for plutonium.
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