Japan stocks dive 4,451 points, more than Black Monday in 1987 (asia.nikkei.com)
from Gsus4@mander.xyz to world@lemmy.world on 05 Aug 2024 06:53
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MediaBiasFactChecker@lemmy.world on 05 Aug 2024 06:54 next collapse
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ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de on 05 Aug 2024 07:54 next collapse

Well it’s also caused the US market to dive, even overnight. Looks like the big correction is finally biting down.

Raiderkev@lemmy.world on 05 Aug 2024 08:13 collapse

Robinhood killed 24 hour trading. Dip is apparently being bought now that premarket is open. Very sketchy tho.

Speculater@lemmy.world on 05 Aug 2024 10:26 next collapse

I think at this point anyone still on Robinhood knows what they’re getting into. If after turning off the buy button you didn’t get a big boy broker, that’s on you.

0x0@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 05 Aug 2024 11:40 next collapse

I think the real Robinhood is rolling in his grave. And his merry men as well, they’re all spinning in their collective, fictional graves.

Syntha@sh.itjust.works on 05 Aug 2024 12:44 next collapse

The other brokers didn’t need to turn off the buy button because they didn’t extent free credit to anyone with a pulse

Marsupial6233@lemmy.world on 06 Aug 2024 10:00 collapse

Which ones would you recommend?

Speculater@lemmy.world on 06 Aug 2024 11:01 collapse

I use Fidelity and Vanguard. Fidelity’s trading app is fantastic.

ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de on 05 Aug 2024 20:41 collapse

What’s robinhood have to do with the market dunking overnight? I can’t fathom any real relation.

Raiderkev@lemmy.world on 06 Aug 2024 01:59 collapse

It’s the largest 24 hour brokerage in the US. There was too much sell volume, that their execution venue had to stop it which is a pretty big deal.

ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de on 06 Aug 2024 07:14 collapse

Largest by individual accounts, maybe. No way were enough robinhood users watching Japan’s market in the dead ass of the middle of the night to sell off all those billions worth of stocks to make such a dive. Those hits were taken due to institutional sellers.

LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.world on 05 Aug 2024 09:53 next collapse

People are freaked about WW3 breaking out

CaptainSpaceman@lemmy.world on 05 Aug 2024 11:07 next collapse

Usually war is a way to stop a recession/depression since its so profitable.

The economy has been fucked far longer than the current conflicts that might actually start ww3

Gsus4@mander.xyz on 05 Aug 2024 11:47 next collapse

It is only profitable for a few in some places. War is not net good for “business”

Coreidan@lemmy.world on 05 Aug 2024 12:12 next collapse

In a stagflation scenario war is great for business. Otherwise you have no business at all.

Gsus4@mander.xyz on 05 Aug 2024 12:18 collapse

Isn’t WW2 the only example of this in practice? (and then only where the war did not reach, like the US or pre-1940 nazi germany)

Coreidan@lemmy.world on 05 Aug 2024 12:24 collapse

Ya it’s a pretty good example since WW2 was a stagflation scenario. It’s exactly the same scenario we are headed into. There’s a lot of similar polarities. Some may even argue that the next world war will break out precisely because of stagflation.

As we descend further and further into economic depression (we’ve been in a recession for years) you’ll see the gears of war begin to spool up.

Gsus4@mander.xyz on 05 Aug 2024 12:29 collapse

One would think we’d have learned to fix this inevitability by now…or is it intentional, to “fix the stagflation”?

CaptainSpaceman@lemmy.world on 05 Aug 2024 12:59 next collapse

The economy squeezes the proles for every penny they have, inflating the money faster than wages to ensure only the rich can afford to maintain.

Once the proles have been squeezed dry, have a major conflict and help save the failing banks and restore a “golden era” for a time.

Then do it all over again by starting to squeeze the masses.

HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club on 05 Aug 2024 20:05 collapse

Part of the problem is getting everyone on board. Economic prosperity is a great way to justify keeping a government in charge. Major economic downturns usually cause a change of government and unrest with the government in general. Without a good economy as justification to keep a government in power, many governments turn to “defense” as a reason to stay in power.

jj4211@lemmy.world on 05 Aug 2024 19:16 collapse

Ferrengi rule of acquisition 34. The best rule 34.

Gsus4@mander.xyz on 05 Aug 2024 19:24 collapse

Sounds like the oligarch commandments.

It’s like Hyperneoliberalism:

“Nothing bad ever truly happens, guilt is subjective, nothing is real, everything is allowed, but if you take anything from me, it is the worst possible crime in all of history.”

LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.world on 05 Aug 2024 18:39 next collapse

Girl, have you been following THIS WEEK’S news? Like right now is unlike any other time.

War is historically used to pillage other people when times are rough. It doesn’t stop a recession; it doubles it and gives it to their opponent.

CaptainSpaceman@lemmy.world on 05 Aug 2024 19:07 collapse

Stop was a strong word, ill agree. But it is a tool in the arsenal of TPTB when shit turns downward because the economic scam that it is modern capitalism eventually unravels

UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world on 05 Aug 2024 19:59 collapse

Usually war is a way to stop a recession/depression since its so profitable.

When you’re selling into a war market, you can make a lot of money. When you’re in that war market you tend to lose a lot of your expensive durable capital very quickly, which can get very expensive.

tiredofsametab@kbin.run on 06 Aug 2024 09:05 collapse

"currency carry trade" was something that came up in a lot of discussions I saw.

Kalkaline@leminal.space on 05 Aug 2024 11:22 next collapse

I wish I knew how the VIX worked, that shit is going to be up so much today.

Gsus4@mander.xyz on 05 Aug 2024 11:28 collapse

Nice call, I checked it and it is already above the levels of the Ukraine war. It’s a COVID-level or 2008-level event already.

finance.yahoo.com/quote/^VIX/

I think volatility is just a name used for variance of a basket of commodities, stocks, bonds that reflects an added price due to risk/uncertainty.

tiredofsametab@kbin.run on 05 Aug 2024 11:32 next collapse

Headline is a bit disingenuous as it is the most points (because the total points is higher) but only the second highest percentage (1987 still 1st).

Passerby6497@lemmy.world on 06 Aug 2024 13:32 collapse

Thank you for posting this, that was my first assumption reading the headline. Anytime I see numbers without a percentage in a headline, or vis versa, I’m immediately suspicious.

After all, there are 3 types of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.

breckenedge@lemmy.world on 05 Aug 2024 13:07 next collapse

Do we know where the sales mostly came from?

Random speculation: Could be banks needing to pull out of the market due to the Fed signaling September rate cuts due to the higher-than-expected unemployment report. This will cause a drop in yield for savings, which would cause people to reduce what they have in those accounts.

Saik0Shinigami@lemmy.saik0.com on 05 Aug 2024 14:28 next collapse

Random speculation: Could be banks needing to pull out of the market due to the Fed

Japan stocks

I mean… it could be. But most foreign stock markets aren’t directly tethered to the Fed.

skyspydude1@lemmy.world on 05 Aug 2024 21:02 collapse

Directly? No. Heavily? Absolutely.

jj4211@lemmy.world on 05 Aug 2024 19:21 next collapse

Well, they announced a rate hike in Japan, so that would seem to be a more immediate cause.

In fact, there’s some analysis that suggests that Japan’s rate hike contributes to the dip in the other markets. Evidently it was a thing for people to borrow yen, use that to get other currencies, and then buy stock and sell the stock to repay the loans. Since the yen has climbed 14% versus the USD in the past few days, those loans suddenly became awfully expensive.

werefreeatlast@lemmy.world on 06 Aug 2024 05:05 next collapse

Probably a Pentium based TI 85 calculator program thing.

Aceticon@lemmy.world on 06 Aug 2024 12:20 collapse

Most of the money banks “have” they created it themselves (it’s called Fractional Reserve Lending and there’s a wonderful paper on it by somebody at the Bank Of England called “Money creation in the Modern Economy”).

The whole “banks lend out depositors’ money” thing hasn’t been true since the 80s.

Also nowadays most of the money in leveraged investments comes from the Money Markets (so rich people and pension funds) rather than banks.

That said, your point still stands since a reduction of deposits might impact banks’ reserves (basically central banks force them to have the equivalent of about 3-5% of their loans as reserves), it would force a wider retrenchment of their loans, but by itself the impact of that on the entire leveraged investment universe should be limited because they’re not the main players in the Money Markets.

werefreeatlast@lemmy.world on 05 Aug 2024 13:13 next collapse

Buy low guys!

Gsus4@mander.xyz on 05 Aug 2024 13:53 next collapse

When they sell low, we buy high :D

UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world on 05 Aug 2024 19:58 collapse

This, but unironically.

riodoro1@lemmy.world on 06 Aug 2024 07:36 next collapse

Can we just stop with the stock bullshit. I want this economy to die so much.

Agent641@lemmy.world on 06 Aug 2024 08:21 next collapse

Line go down?!

Gsus4@mander.xyz on 06 Aug 2024 08:47 collapse

Line go down 🐻

gandalf_der_12te@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 06 Aug 2024 13:21 collapse
gandalf_der_12te@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 06 Aug 2024 12:45 next collapse

Japanese people are overworked and I’m worried for their health. It’s good when they get a break from the economy.

Etterra@lemmy.world on 06 Aug 2024 13:25 collapse

Oh hey look a bunch of sheep - human and electronic - are reacting self destructively for no good reason. Must be any day ending with a ‘y.’