Market Foolery: 08.18.2011
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🗓️ 18 August 2011
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Stock market sell-off due to speculation over Europe’s banks. Our analysts discuss implications for investors, offer some stocks for volatile times, and weigh in on the latest emails from listeners.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Thursday, August 18th, and this is Market Foolery. |
| 0:04.6 | I'm Chris Ellen joining me in studio today from Motley Fool Asset Management, Bill Mann. |
| 0:08.4 | From Motley Fool Global Gaines, Tim Hanson, and from Inside Value, Joe Meager, guys, decided to make it a three-piece. |
| 0:15.0 | The band is still together. That's right. I think there's a trademark on that. |
| 0:18.0 | Yeah, it's going to expire trust me. We've got... I feel some anger in the room I got to be honest. |
| 0:24.8 | At some point this is all going to boil over and we're gonna you know all things |
| 0:28.4 | come to an end because they end badly and we're headed in that direction. |
| 0:31.6 | I think we are we will and we will get to that later when we get to the outpouring of response from our |
| 0:36.5 | dozens of listeners a lot of emails to get to but we have to start with the big |
| 0:40.8 | story of the day it was at least for the first few days |
| 0:45.5 | this week relatively stable in the market. This morning the Dow down at more |
| 0:50.5 | than 400 points. Tim one of the things you put out on Twitter, |
| 0:53.9 | and I'm quoting here, 4% moves are back again. |
| 0:57.4 | What happened? |
| 0:59.3 | What happened today to kill the stability. |
| 1:02.6 | It looks like the catalyst is this borrowing of 500 million euro by an unnamed European |
| 1:09.2 | bank from the European Central Bank, which has people concerned again about bank failure, which obviously |
| 1:14.2 | is what preceded the credit crisis that caused the downturn just a few years ago. You know, the one thing that had made this downturn different from the one a few years |
| 1:27.1 | ago was that banks were still lending to credit-worthy people. |
| 1:31.1 | A couple years ago, nobody could get capital. |
| 1:34.2 | So if this is a sign that banks are stressed again and capital is going to dry up, that's where I think |
| 1:38.0 | people are concerned about a repeat. |
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