Washington – Trump Calls Stock Selloff ‘a Correction,’ Says Federal Reserve Is ‘crazy’

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    A headline scrolls on a television screen on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2018. Stocks are extending their slump on Wall Street, led by drops in big technology companies, as rising bond yields draw investors out of stocks. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)Washington – U.S. President Donald Trump said Wednesday’s stock market selloff was in fact a long awaited “correction,” and that the Federal Reserve, which has been raising U.S. interest rates, has gone “crazy.”

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    Trump’s use of the word “correction” to describe the selloff could be significant. A stock market correction is defined as a fall of at least 10 percent from the high point of the last 52 weeks.

    “Actually it’s a correction that we’ve been waiting for a long time, but I really disagree with what the Fed is doing,” Trump told reporters before a political rally in Pennsylvania.

    “I think the Fed has gone crazy,” Trump said.

    U.S. stocks tumbled on Wednesday, with the S&P 500 and the Dow marking their biggest daily declines since Feb. 8, and technology stocks were at the center of the carnage as rising U.S. Treasury yields sent investors fleeing from risky assets.

    U.S. long-dated Treasury yields rose again in extension of a trend over the last few weeks fueled by solid U.S. economic data that reinforced expectations of multiple interest rate hikes over the next 12 months.


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    ayinglefunadorf
    ayinglefunadorf
    5 years ago

    You had 2 good years left over from Obama. Its over now. Stocks going down big and you going down with them just like Nixon did.

    ayinglefunadorf
    ayinglefunadorf
    5 years ago

    This makes Trump responsible for 2 out of 3 of the largest drop in history. What a looser. Now he blames the Feds. Obama and Hillary is laughing.

    BH-Baby
    BH-Baby
    5 years ago

    The Chair of the Fed. Jerome Powell.

    Went to Georgetown Preparatory School.

    (Same uber expensive and exclusive boarding school in the US. BTW: Same school as Justice Brett Kav!)

    Appointed by TRump.