S&P 500 drops 7%, triggering NYSE ‘circuit breaker’ trading halt for 15 minutes

CNBC ^ | 03/12/20

[Enlightened1]

The only real threat I see is the Supply Chain.

Making President Trump's point that we should not depend on China so much.

[Taipei]

Trump is right on China, but he’s been wrong on the virus. He deserves criticism. Not insane MSM criticism, but it has not been his best work.

[cowboyusa]

Suspened the dmm market!

[Taipei]

That’s an idiotic idea. You don’t suspend the market in an environment like this, you find the bottom, then rebuild.

[cowboyusa]

Not if it falls through the floor.

[Buckeye McFrog]

he’s been wrong on the virus. He deserves criticism. Not insane MSM criticism, but it has not been his best work.

Trump is not a doctor. He depended on the "experts" (people at the CDC and NIH) whose job is supposedly to be on top of this stuff.

They kicked into standard Swamp Bureaucrat mode and weeks of valuable time was lost. Trump's biggest weakness since the start IMHO has been the tendency to delegate to and rely on people who cannot be trusted.

[Pearls Before Swine]

Trump is right on China, but he’s been wrong on the virus. He deserves criticism.

Yes he was too optimistic, and should have shut down travel, or at least quarantined travel from Italy much sooner.

He said many of the right things last night, but he looked pretty tired (for him) as he read his speech.

It's not clear anything could have been done in our fairly open society that would have really helped. But it might have.

[Freedom'sWorthIt]

How should he have done better about the virus?

[chris37]

There really isn’t much he can do to prevent this thing outside of putting the entire country on lock down.

[Drago]

Early testing....the CDC is under HHS? Cabinet level?

[Taipei]

Trump and his political aides muzzled the disease experts in an effort to present an optimistic view and prop up the economy. This is what he deserves criticism for.

[chris37]

I wonder what people will do when the market hits zero.

I wonder if investors will feel better then.

[babble-on]

I feel like that’s not exactly what happened. Seems like they were saying to take it seriously and he was saying that it was a hoax and people should not change their behavior and keep going to work even if they have the virus.

[palmer]

Hasn't fallen through the floor. Looking at the five year chart, it's still basically a correction.

[Red Badger]

TURN THOSE MACHINES BACK ON!!!!!...............

[eyeamok]

Thank God we are dependent on China for just about everything we use

/s

[cuban leaf]

Yep. I see this as seriously damaging globalism. And this speaks to my tag line.

[babble-on]

It may not have helped that the administration officials in charge of monitoring global pandemics were fired in 2018 and never replaced.

[cowboyusa]

Really getting tired of the sniping.

[Freedom'sWorthIt]

Early testing? They did not have tests to use early. How could they have known?

HHS is cabinet level.

I don’t get your complaints/suggestions.