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Industry Focus

Tech: The Selloff

Industry Focus

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4.6854 Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2020

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

There's no way around it -- this was the worst week for the stock market since 2008. As reports of coronavirus have spread, concerns over individual safety, travel and global supply chains have spooked the global markets and sent stocks down. Even stalwart businesses have felt the pinch. We talk about what's going on in the market and the important lessons for investors.

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0:00.0

Welcome to Industry Focus. The Podcast that dives into a different sector of the stock market each day.

0:11.0

I'm your host Emily Flippin. I'm Jason Moser. I'm Nick Seyphle. I'm Dylan Lewis. And today

0:16.0

we're talking financials. Today we're talking consumer goods.

0:19.0

Wild-C-C-C-Chert Wednesday. And we're talking energy. And today we're talking tech. Let's dive in.

0:27.3

It's Friday March 28th and we're talking about the market sell-off.

0:30.5

I'm your host Dylan Lewis and I'm joined by Motley Fool Premium

0:33.3

analyst Ben Ra. Ben it's it's been kind of a rough week. Yeah it's been it's

0:38.8

been rough. I mean they're calling this the worst week since 2008 and I mean there's a couple arguments that you can make

0:49.0

you can make the argument that you know it's a buying opportunity there are definitely a lot of people who think well

0:54.3

there's a lot of you know prices are getting better now the prices were so high

0:58.8

for such a long time and now things are coming back to earth.

1:03.0

So, you know, some people think of it as a panic.

1:05.7

I wouldn't really call it a panic when there's people who actually think of it as an opportunity.

1:10.8

I think in the real panic you have people who you know are really hating life

1:16.5

who really wants the past trends to to continue I don't see that now I

1:22.0

really don't see this as a panic. I think you know when you look at the market last year went up like 30% 33% if you include dividends. A lot of that was really multiple expansion that really wasn't earnings

1:35.0

dramatically better than 2018.

1:37.8

So you can characterize this as the market just kind of coming back to earth in the way.

1:44.0

Yeah and I mean it's easy to be level-headed here at Motley Fool HQ because we're

1:49.0

surrounded by so many people who are saying you know this is a buying opportunity

1:52.4

or you know we're is a buying opportunity or, you know, we're

1:53.2

prepared for this. We understand that we're going to have those years where the

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