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Dow Sees Longest Weekly Losing Streak In Nearly A Century

Anderson Cooper 360

CNN

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3.73.8K Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

The Dow is on its longest weekly losing streak since 1923. The S&P 500 briefly fell into bear market territory as recession fears continue to grow. CNN Chief Business Correspondent Christine Romans tells Anderson Cooper what people should do right now if they’re worried about their retirement or children’s college funds. Plus, the CDC is monitoring six people in the U.S. for possible monkeypox infections but says the public “should not be concerned.” CNN Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta joins AC360 to discuss the symptoms of monkeypox and why he agrees with the CDC about why he doesn’t think people should be worried. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Good evening. We begin tonight with your money inflated costs of falling stock market and

0:05.1

concern about recession. If you have a 401k you've likely seen it drop. The Dow industrials

0:10.0

just capped their eighth straight losing week the worst since 1923. Here's what all three major

0:15.1

indices look like for the year down anywhere from 15 to near 30%. On top of that the price of gasoline

0:21.1

is hitting record highs just in time for travel season. Inflation overall is higher than it's been

0:25.7

for decades. There are chip shortages supplied chain bottlenecks and baby formulas hard to find.

0:30.6

There is positive money news. The economy added when the 400,000 jobs last month and unemployment

0:35.8

rate is now at pre-COVID levels. But let's try to figure out where we are at right now. We begin with

0:40.8

seeing a cheap business correspondent Christine Romand. It seems like there's nothing but storm

0:44.4

clouds on Wall Street. There's so much going on and so much chaos really. I mean I keep saying that

0:48.9

there are so many cross-currence in the global economy. Any one of them would be to stabilizing.

0:53.0

There's a half a dozen. You talked about the higher prices. You talked about the chip shortage,

0:57.8

COVID lockdowns in China. War in Ukraine. War in Ukraine. And that's going to be a really big deal

1:01.9

for some time. That's going to mean energy prices. We're going to redraw the global energy map.

1:06.0

That's going to take some time. For investors, if you're looking at your 401k, you know this.

1:11.0

Eight weeks in a row, the longest losing streak for the Dow since the 20s. That's not great.

1:17.0

Nasdaq stocks just hammered. You look at Apple meta. Some of these widely held stocks. They are

1:22.8

down. The big eight tech stocks are about half of the stock markets. What started the downturn in

1:28.4

all the tech stocks? Well, you know, they are really susceptible to higher interest rates. You know,

1:33.3

they are a high growth stock. They're susceptible to higher interest rates. And the Fed is raising

1:37.8

interest rates. And it's going to have to raise interest rates aggressively to fight inflation. And

1:41.6

that leaves those tech stocks vulnerable. Also, they had had a great couple of years. So you're taking

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