U.S. Recession Fears Fuel Stock-Market Plunge
WSJ What’s News
The Wall Street Journal
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🗓️ 5 August 2024
⏱️ 12 minutes
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| 0:21.0 | Fears of a U.S. recession sparked a global market meltdown. |
| 0:28.6 | And the question on everyone's mind, did the Federal Reserve wait too long to cut interest rates? |
| 0:34.8 | It's still not clear that inflation has been fully pushed back towards the Fed's 2% goal. |
| 0:41.3 | So I think it's still too early to think that the Fed has to break the |
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| 0:55.7 | on Israel. |
| 0:56.7 | It's Monday, August 5th. |
| 0:58.7 | I'm Francesca Fontana for the Wall Street Journal. |
| 1:01.6 | This is the PM edition of What's News, the top headlines and |
| 1:05.1 | business stories that move the world today. |
| 1:09.8 | A steep sell-off started in Japan's stock market and spread across the globe as US |
| 1:15.0 | index is plunged and volatility spiked. The Dow Jones industrial average lost |
| 1:19.8 | more than a thousand points, while the S&P 500 lost 3% and the Tech Heavy NASDAQ fell 3.4%. |
| 1:27.0 | Here to walk us through the market's mayhem is W.S.J. reporter, Jack Pitcher. |
| 1:31.8 | Jack, we've seen volatility and unexpected moves in the market |
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