Stock Market: The Worst Week In Years

It was the worst week in the stock market in years. The Dow Transportation Index, it had the biggest decline in over 3 years, down 6.9 percent. And that`s despite Crude Oil down 4.6%. That`s the worst week in about p months and over the last 2 weeks crude oil is down 8.5 percent.

The nasdaq was down 4.4% on the week. The worst week in 30 months. And the Russell 2000 which is an even broader measure, which has been weaker, was down 4.6% on the week.

The Dow Jones is now flat on the year, maybe slightly negative, but the Nasdaq is down, the Russell 2000 is down. In fact the Russell 200o index has the worst chart of them all.

It`s interesting that the most economically sensitive measures, which are the transports and the Russell are the weakest.

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Peter Schiff is an American businessman, investment broker and financial commentator. Schiff is the CEO and chief global strategist of Euro Pacific Capital Inc.