BREAKDOWN: 5 Numbers That Tell the Story of Markets Right Now
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4.8 • 689 Ratings
🗓️ 3 June 2020
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
Every day that protests continue and the stock market goes up, more people ask what the disconnect between markets and the real economy is. In this episode of The Breakdown, NLW peels back the story of today’s economy by looking at five numbers:
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- The growth of the S&P500 since the March 23 low
- Current unemployment stats and a Bloomberg Economics estimate of the number of jobs at risk
- The performance of the S&P500 in 1968, one of the most tumultuous years in American history
- The total percentage of the world’s debt denominated in dollar terms
- The number of flights between the US and China by Chinese airlines going forward
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| 0:53.8 | Welcome back to the breakdown. an everyday analysis breaking down the most important stories in Bitcoin, crypto, and beyond. |
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| 1:12.6 | And now, here's your host, NLW. |
| 1:20.2 | Welcome back to The Breakdown. |
| 1:22.3 | It is Wednesday, June 3rd, and today we are going to be looking at a topic that has all of Twitter really |
| 1:29.4 | talking, which is the disconnect between markets and the world around us. And the way that we're |
| 1:35.5 | going to do it is by looking at five different numbers that tell the story of markets right now. |
| 1:41.2 | Each of these numbers is a stand-in for a larger representative force in markets. |
| 1:47.0 | And I thought this would be a good way to explore a number of different dimensions all at |
| 1:51.0 | once. So let's dive in. All right, the first number that we're going to look at is 37.7%. |
| 1:58.0 | That is the return of the S&P 500 over the last 50 days. The important part of this is this is now |
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