The word
"selloff" refers to a situation where a large number of people sell their investments or assets quickly and at the same time, causing the price to decline.
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A «no» vote from the Greek referendum last Sunday, the vast stock market
selloff in China, and the volatile movements in the price of U.S. crude oil have made it clear the worldwide economy is collectively riding the brakes.
We favor taking advantage of temporary equity
market selloffs in the current environment of low volatility and solid corporate earnings.
A perfect example is the market
selloff of 2008 to 2009.
The Federal Reserve — unfazed by
recent selloffs in emerging markets or disappointing U.S. job gains in December — said it would scale back its bond - buying program for the second time in six weeks, pressing ahead with a strategy to wind down the purchases in small and steady steps.
After surging as much as 20 % last week, many pundits now believe a medium - term low is in place, blaming the recent
selloff on tax related selling — digital currency owners who made money in 2017 are having to convert crypto into fiat money to pay their taxes.
We went close to a bear market in August 2015, officially entered one in February of this year and then saw frantic currency and
equity selloffs after the Brits voted to leave the European Union in the final week of June.
The digital currencies are experiencing a massive
selloff as prices have fallen by as much as 10 % this morning.
Should all Chinese exchanges be forced to cease operations as a result of this ban, we can expect to see a
massive selloff of cryptocurrencies, which might plunge the crypto market into a long drawn bear market for the foreseeable future.
April 23 - U.S. stocks index futures treaded water on Monday, ahead of a bevy of earnings from the world's biggest companies and as wary investors watched U.S. bond yields approach peaks that have sparked
stock selloffs in the past.
In recent weeks, the social - media giant has been enduring a firestorm and stock
selloff after data - mining company Cambridge Analytica reportedly used the personal details of up to 87 million Facebook users without authorization.
Australian bitcoin company Digital CC Limited, which trades as «digitalBTC», experienced a
big selloff on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) last Friday.
In Europe, futures trading implied a
sharp selloff for German, French and British stocks.
Investors fear that China's volatility could spread to global markets, causing
major selloffs worldwide.
Tuesday's surge cut the market's overall losses from the big
selloff from 8.3 % to 6.2 %.
We view long - term government bonds as useful diversifiers against volatility and equity market
selloffs sparked by such shocks.
The
global selloff of stocks in February triggered by worries over a potential interest rate hike by the US Federal Reserve also influenced market reactions to recent events as well.
If the market hits $ 400, there will be heavy resistance as a result of the overhead supply caused by the big one -
day selloff on November 4th.
It was a risky move — taking credit for something unpredictable opens up the potential of getting blamed for it too — and one that has backfired a bit amid this
latest selloff.
Worries over slowing growth in the world's second - largest economy has
triggered selloffs in global markets.
Last week we saw a
continued selloff in energy stocks and a slump in commodity prices, specifically oil.
Its shares fell by nearly 7 percent on Monday, their worst one - day drop in about four years, and sparked a
tech selloff on Wall Street.
This allowed equity markets to recover from a sharp
selloff earlier in the week.
A bigger
selloff occurred last week when fearmongering media outlets misreported a total crypto ban in South Korea.
In many ways, the
steep selloff of oil is linked to the divergence between the U.S. and Chinese economies.
The possibility that such a large number of foreign owners will flood the market in a
huge selloff if the market turns bad has been raised by some observers.
It had been closing in on 3,000 in mid-2007 before the most recent
selloff took more the tech index down more than 20 percent.
Fast forward to 2016 and most Canadian investors will have enjoyed a double win with that strategy: capital gains on the underlying stocks (especially if they were sold before the big
selloffs began starting last August), plus currency gains as the loonie started to lose ground to the greenback.
January's
cryptocurrency selloff got fresh impetus on Tuesday when Bitcoin slumped as much as 20 percent, as the prospect of regulatory crackdowns appeared to spread.
Market
selloffs like the one we have just lived through are dramatic, but can provide opportunities.
This could indicate hotels along with travel & leisure stocks may have fundamentals shifting in their favor despite the
larger selloff of stocks.
Market Update: Wall Street
Extends Selloff as Oil - Price Volatility Sparks Exodus from Energy Stocks
Prices would later recover to $ 15,000 before another
brisk selloff drove the cryptocurrency to $ 13,000.
Even though it's bearish on a longer - term basis, Morgan Stanley predicts credit markets will rebound from their ongoing
selloff over the next two months, citing an economy that continues to grow.
The
resulting selloff in the market was short - lived, as investors quickly returned.
After all, the stock — despite the recent
selloff driven by disappointing sales of the new iPhone 8 — has surged 33 % this year, adding $ 200 billion in value, and prompting predictions that the Colossus of Cupertino will soon boast the world's first $ 1 trillion market cap.
This makes markets more vulnerable to
temporary selloffs sparked by the bubbling over of risks, including those related to rising trade tensions and North Korea's missile launches.
Weak institutional demand and increased regulatory scrutiny have also contributed to the latest round of
selloffs going all the way back to mid-February.
The two -
week selloff in tech shares that wiped hundreds of billions in value from the sector's biggest names is over for two of the highest flying chipmakers.
Global markets are cautiously recovering from Tuesday's
ugly selloff with the very bearish sentiment still being the most important short - term factor.
Reasons include an overhang of excess capacity, the
commodity selloff, the U.S. dollar's surge and China's economic slowdown.
Coupled with expectations of rising interest rates, this has led to a
modest selloff in gold.
A downside earnings surprise means watching the tape with possible delight and waiting for a
further selloff at the end of the quarter.