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The John Batchelor Show

#MARKETS: UP & DOWN. LIZ PEEK THE HILL. FOX NEWS AND FOX BUSINESS

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

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4.62.7K Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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#MARKETS: UP & DOWN.  LIZ PEEK THE HILL. FOX NEWS AND FOX BUSINESS
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0:00.0

This is CBS Eye on the World.

0:08.5

Here's John Batchelor.

0:11.8

This is CBSI on the world.

0:13.8

I'm John Batchel.

0:14.8

I welcome my colleague Elizabeth Peake,

0:16.6

writes a column for The Hill,

0:18.3

writes a column for Fox News.

0:19.7

We attend first to the markets.

0:21.7

The Wall Street Journal is pointing to the turmoil in the markets these days.

0:25.8

But I remind myself whenever there's, say, something you can't explain,

0:31.4

I remember the 19th century advice.

0:33.5

Markets go up and down.

0:34.7

And that's certainly the case right now with the Magnificent 7.

0:38.1

They're not going up as we got used to in the 2024-20203.

0:43.5

And you will recall, there's the S&P 493, and then there's a Magnificent 7.

0:48.1

So the market thinks that there's an unpredictable nature going on.

0:53.1

But it's not Donald Trump. The market is not

0:56.6

demonstrating a particular alarm at the president's remarks about tariffs and the economy,

1:02.7

nor is it particularly alarmed about partisanship. That would be Mr. Musk. In fact, it looks

1:08.4

to be behaving itself, waiting earnings for some big companies. And at the same

1:13.9

time, the Federal Reserve is not especially alarmed. Liz, I know it's very dangerous to say things

1:20.0

are calm out there, but they certainly do appear calm. A very good evening to you. Can we explain

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