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I have a feeling that after tomorrow, they won't be bragging about the Dow. (Original Post) edhopper 11 hrs ago OP
"LOOK WHAT JOE BIDEN DID" durablend 11 hrs ago #1
Will it be Biden's fault again? Or will he reach all the way back to Obama? OGBuzz 11 hrs ago #2
I don't know Metaphorical 11 hrs ago #3
Futures market shows Dow dropping over 600 points Dave says 11 hrs ago #4
"the exchanges don't seem to be tied to anything rational these days." pat_k 10 hrs ago #6
And alarming how much of the AI infrstructure edhopper 9 hrs ago #11
True edhopper 9 hrs ago #10
No, they'll just lie and say the market is doing great. hamsterjill 10 hrs ago #5
On the bright side, a market downturn might actually shorten the war. tinrobot 10 hrs ago #7
Hard to say what the impact will be gulliver 10 hrs ago #8
As Of This Moment, Dow Futures Are Down 0.2% ProfessorGAC 10 hrs ago #9
I don't know Arthur_Frain 9 hrs ago #12
Oil up 10% edhopper 6 hrs ago #13

Metaphorical

(2,619 posts)
3. I don't know
Sun Mar 1, 2026, 02:34 PM
11 hrs ago

The exchanges don't seem to be tied to anything rational these days.

I'm waiting for the sell-off of US Treasuries. That's where this is going fast

Dave says

(5,380 posts)
4. Futures market shows Dow dropping over 600 points
Sun Mar 1, 2026, 02:36 PM
11 hrs ago

But impact on NASDAQ and S&P relatively minor.

pat_k

(12,984 posts)
6. "the exchanges don't seem to be tied to anything rational these days."
Sun Mar 1, 2026, 02:49 PM
10 hrs ago

Last edited Sun Mar 1, 2026, 04:09 PM - Edit history (1)

Artificially propped up by the Magnificent 10 (Nvidia, Microsoft, Apple, Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, Tesla, Broadcom, Palantir, AMD) and growing number of circular, incestuous deals -- and a massive influx of our tax dollars from the felon's regime.

No Mercy, No Malice
How Does the End Begin
October 17, 2025

https://www.profgalloway.com/how-does-the-end-begin/

The top 10 stocks in the S&P 500 account for 40% of the index’s market cap. Since ChatGPT launched in November 2022, AI-related stocks have registered 75% of S&P 500 returns, 80% of earnings growth, and 90% of capital spending growth. Meanwhile, AI investments accounted for nearly 92% of the U.S. GDP growth this year. Without those AI investments, Harvard economist Jason Furman noted, growth would be flat. As Ruchir Sharma concluded in the Financial Times, “America is now one big bet on AI,” adding, “AI better deliver for the U.S., or its economy and markets will lose the one leg they are now standing on.” This concentration creates fragility, and how the end begins becomes more visible.
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The AI infrastructure build-out has accelerated recently with an estimated $1 trillion in new commitments. Some firms are making deals with money and assets that don’t yet exist. See: OpenAI promising Oracle $300 billion — money it doesn’t have — for infrastructure Oracle hasn’t built. In other cases, revenue comes from “circular financing,” where dollars rotate between firms, obscuring true market demand. See: Nvidia’s $100 billion investment in OpenAI, which OpenAI will use to buy … Nvidia chips. Circular financing deals were common toward the end of the dot-com bubble, when similar deals contributed to a crash that destroyed 77% of Nasdaq market value. If we are on the precipice of a bubble popping, Nvidia and OpenAI will likely be ground zero. But the fallout would be widespread, as an ecosystem that resembles an ouroboros lives and dies by a shared narrative.


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edhopper

(37,263 posts)
10. True
Sun Mar 1, 2026, 04:02 PM
9 hrs ago

But sometimes reality smacks them in the face. Disruption in oil and trade might wake them up. Only so much growth you can count on from AI.

hamsterjill

(17,385 posts)
5. No, they'll just lie and say the market is doing great.
Sun Mar 1, 2026, 02:38 PM
10 hrs ago

They don't tell the TRUTH about anything.

The whole damn SOTU was about the fact that prices are lower. I don't know about you, but I haven't paid less for anything of late. Everything that my family buys has increased in price.

So, they will just spin it as a "win" and keep talking and the MAGA dumbasses will continue to fall for it.

tinrobot

(12,040 posts)
7. On the bright side, a market downturn might actually shorten the war.
Sun Mar 1, 2026, 03:02 PM
10 hrs ago

He's made 180 degree turns before because of the stock market.

gulliver

(13,895 posts)
8. Hard to say what the impact will be
Sun Mar 1, 2026, 03:18 PM
10 hrs ago

No one knows for sure. I certainly hope the market at least stays stable, as I know that people's retirement income (and, indirectly, pensions) depend on it. I don't want the economy to go down for any reason.

When Trump said Iran had a couple of weeks, I think the smart money assumed bombings would commence in a couple of days. The huge buildup was obvious and very much on the minds of investors.

ProfessorGAC

(76,429 posts)
9. As Of This Moment, Dow Futures Are Down 0.2%
Sun Mar 1, 2026, 03:24 PM
10 hrs ago

So, the early data leans toward your prediction being solid.
We shall see.

Arthur_Frain

(2,292 posts)
12. I don't know
Sun Mar 1, 2026, 04:21 PM
9 hrs ago

The Dow doesn’t respond in ways that make sense much anymore. War is good for the economy though, so sadly, I expect it to surge.

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