Stock Market plumeting?

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gmack24

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I've been really busy lately and don't have cable so can anyone explain to me why the stock market is so low?
 
normal ups and downs, don't worry about it. the market is almost always profitable over a long term if you diversify your options.
 
yeah my friend is always like "we are going into another depression". Im like shut the fuck up. That thought scares me
 
too many defaults on sub-prime mortgages. the (overvalued) mortgages were bundled and sold to investors as securities, which is how it's affecting other sectors, and other countries.
 
Ok, explain how you got started in stocks. Did your grandparents or parents just pass you down their stock options? Or did you make your own money and then get into stocks? Because to do that, you would need a shit load of money to actually get anywhere.

 
If you put a bit away every month or so, its amazing how much you can actually invest. I just have a CD I slowly am contributing to, and while it does go up and down, overall my investment grows. Stocks are investments with added risk, so as long as you realize that and stay long term over short term, you usually do alright.
 
Housing market stalls, Price of housing drops, Home owners with large mortgages walk away from their homes and buy new ones. (no point in paying a $400,000 mortage on a house worth $250,000). The bank is then left with a property instead of actual money. Houses are sold for less, Banks lose a significant amount of money, Bank increases interest rates to regain some lost funds. People pull money out of stocks and pay off bank debt to escape rising interest rates, and in the end the stock market goes in the shitter.
 
first off the market is not low. the dow is at 13267 which is prior to this years highs the highest it hAS EVER BEEN. yes we did hit 14000 this year and pulled off but the sub prime market is only a small sliver of the entire picture. ehich right now is being over hyped by a media machine that has nothing more interesting to report.

bottom line is market is cheap, corporate earnings are good it is a great buying oppertunity right now.
 
It's already been explained before why it's going down, but in light of the great gains they've made in recent past, it will all settle down into normality soon.
 
well we had an up 2 months where every other day was like a new closing bell record for the dow. dont worry it will start going back up again. just teh normal cycle of money
 
exactly--give the housing market about two years and it will get back up to where it was before. lots of people did not have fixed rates when they got a mortgage on their property, hence all of the foreclosures.
 
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