#MrMarket: Tightening until something big breaks. Brett Arends, Marketwatch
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🗓️ 18 February 2023
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#MrMarket: Tightening until something big breaks. Brett Arends, Marketwatch
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/fed-tightening-always-breaks-something-s-p-500-will-drop-to-3-800-by-march-warn-bank-of-america-strategists-e86be31e?mod=home-page
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| 0:33.6 | This is CBS Eye on the World. Here's John Batchler. |
| 0:39.9 | Watching the markets react to the Federal Reserve. I welcome Brett Arons of MarketWatch, who |
| 0:46.3 | is Break the Glass Brett. Break the Glass means when there's an emergency on Wall Street |
| 0:52.1 | that means sinking stocks. You break the glass and comment and Brett is here to comment |
| 0:57.0 | on not the sinking but the expectation of sinking. The Warning from Bank America. This |
| 1:03.3 | is MarketWatch reporting in these last hours. |
| 1:06.6 | Warning from Bank America's strategist led by Michael Hartnet expects the S&P 500 SBX |
| 1:13.4 | that's all bundled together to the basket. |
| 1:16.3 | It will be 7% weaker by March. That's within days. As they wait into the no-landing debate, |
| 1:23.4 | they add this remark, something always breaks when the Fed tightens. The Fed tightened last |
| 1:30.5 | year with jumbo hikes and then in February with a quarter point. Now there is talk, just |
| 1:36.9 | talk of a half a point in March. That tells us something's going to break as Bank of America. |
| 1:43.8 | But something broke the first time they started tightening. But it was something colorful, |
| 1:49.6 | but not very fundamental. That was crypto itself. Broke. Then I think the Mem stocks broke, |
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