S&A Investor Radio looks beyond the regular headlines heard on mainstream financial media

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How's it going out there? It's March 16th and I'm Frank Curzier, host to the S&A Investor

Podcast where I break down the headlines and tell you what's really

moving these markets. Wow, we are not short on topics to talk about this week, that's

for sure.

Japan experienced one of the largest earthquakes ever recorded on Friday.

Cities and towns are destroyed, debris everywhere.

I'm sure you've seen it all over the news. Death toll is

over 10,000. Terrible, terrible tragedy. On Tuesday, Japan's stock market

collapsed. Nikk fell over 1,000 points,

which is 11%, was down 14% at one time.

That was in response to a possible radiation

leaks at one of its nuclear plants.

The U.S. markets did not react favorably.

Fell 3%, reaction to the radiation news,

almost every single sector, with the exception of maybe alternative energy

and outside of nuclear got hammered nuclear stocks crushed down more than

30% across the board some down more than 30% across the board, some down more than 50%.

Now why are you seeing such a sell-off in these stocks?

Well, you're looking at nuclear, it's a long-term growth strategy.

Following the earthquake in Japan... it's a long-term growth strategy.

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