Are the three most important things investors should be thinking right now. The u. S. Stock market plunged this past thursday and swung wildly on friday. Was it just a hiccup or a sign to take profits . Big banks are weathering the economic downturn better than feared. Why its time to size up their shares. And billionaire Warren Buffett just went on a shopping spree for stocks in japan. How u. S. Investors can follow his lead. On the barrons roundtable, my colleague, ben levisohn, carlton english and al root. Ben, the stock market actually fell late this past week. I had forgotten it can do that sort of thing. What happened and how worried should i be . Well, ask three wall street strategists, and youre going to get at least five different answers about why stocks fell. But really this had to happen. Stocks just had an amazing august led by tech stocks. They just kept going up and up and up, and they started september the same way. And it needed a cleansing. Stocks had to drop. And so
Welcome to you cough into the weekly environment so im now its a way in Lagos Nigeria has a look at what we have coming up on the show today. Well find out how people use anecdotes that might be because theyll be roasted. How women can be out of cycling blasted weight. And why volunteers and they call it was a lot. To begin the show in senegal a country that is home to some 15000000 people about 4 decades ago a forest in the northwest of the country to combat the problem of coastal erosion changed the lives of farmers there but now yes lisa population growth and other factors are putting a strain on this for us lets go see. A down to fall harvest of. Plans thats not something that former money so takes for granted his one of over 20000 farmers living in the near his region of Northwestern Center go many live clues to the clues and still potentially faces facts of the rose and sand storms thats a belt of trees is helping to protect them. Almost 200 kilometers long its 500 metres wide at
Activist investor nelson pelts disclosed his firm, what that thens for the stock, and a rough week for banks. Reports of suspicious transactions and backlash against wells fargo ceo, but there could be some positive factors ahead. My colleagues, ben levisohn, carlton english. Ben, im going to start with you. Weve been chatting this week about the market, and you kept on saying stocks are behaving in a weird way. Whats so unusual in. The week started pretty badly, fears about covid resurgence in europe that really knocked the market down. It built with the questions about economic stimulus and the likelihood that we wont get any, fears about the economy, about the election. And the market kept dropping, and it really looked like good news wasnt going to matter much. Nikes earnings were great, it didnt help the overall market. Darden, which owns the olive garden, it reinstated its dividend, this is a restaurant stock. But, again, that didnt have any big effect on the market. And even whe
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