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Major market changes in April /may 2010?

I am doing my stock project for school. I need a list and explanation of 3 or 4 major things that have caused the Dow Jones Industrial average to fall in the last month and a half. any worldly issues or anything that could have affected the stock market!

The Housing Bubble started it all in 2007.

That created a debt crisis in the US.

Credit has been tightening, and remains tight. Banks are real strict now on who they will loan to and for what purpose.

The economy went into a tailspin, people began losing their jobs, and hiring has still not begun to pick up. The consumer is two-thirds or more of our economy and GDP. But the consumer has curtailed spending.

One important thing is the Fed or the Gov’t has lost all credibility in handling the debt crisis. They have not fixed anything, but created more debt and printed more paper fiat dollars to handle the debt crisis. Essentially, they have rewarded (bailed out) the people that got us into this mess. Some people made bad decisions and should have to bear the burden of those decisions, not you and me. That’s the reason there’s a bankruptcy court. They SHOULD go out of business, lose their jobs and their savings, not effect the innocent consumer. If it threatens the system, then maybe the system needs to change also, but the gov’t has no legitimate (constitutional) authority to redistribute wealth or bail out anyone. Did you know the gov’t owned half of General Motors? There is no provision for gov’t to own private industry. Did you know the Federal Reserve owns the Red Top Inn franchise?

There is an inverse correlation to the US Dollar and the Dow right now. When the USD goes up, the Dow goes down. Since the Euro is the greatest contributor to the USD index, then you could say as the Euro rises, so does the Down. But the Euro has been tanking for weeks, putting pressure on the Dow.

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