S&P falls for seventh day, suffers biggest weekly plunge since 2008 crisis – Reuters

The S&P 500 fell for the seventh straight day on Friday and the benchmark index suffered its biggest weekly drop since the 2008 global financial crisis on growing fears the fast-spreading coronavirus could push the economy into recession, although stocks regained some ground right at the end of a volatile session.
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10-year Treasury yield falls to new record low amid coronavirus fears

The 10-year U.S. Treasury yield plunged to a fresh record low on Friday as investors dumped riskier assets and searched for safer options amid the coronavirus outbreak.
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‘It really reminds me of 1987,’ says longtime strategist Jim Paulsen about this week’s market plunge

Leuthold’s Jim Paulsen said on “The Exchange” that this pullback is similar to the market crash in 1987.
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A historically bad weak for the market saw everything except panic

In a market that raced to its fastest correction in history and the worst week since the financial crisis, it’s easy to imagine a frantic dash for the exits in which everyone is selling everything at whatever price they can get.
— Read on www.cnbc.com/2020/02/28/a-historically-bad-weak-for-the-market-saw-everything-except-panic.html

El-Erian says ‘continue to resist’ buying the stock-market dip after virus-inspired plunge – MarketWatch

Economist Mohamed El-Erian sticks to his advice against reflexively buying the dip a day after the stock market suffered its biggest one-day drop in two…
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The Dow just logged its worst 2-day percentage drop in two years — here are 5 reasons the stock market is tanking, and only one of them is the coronavirus – MarketWatch

The U.S. stock market rally is starting to unravel, with a period of historic gains coming to a screeching halt, as fears the coronavirus epidemic may reach…
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