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Personal Finance and Investing

Tomconroy

(7,611 posts) Mon Sep 20, 2021, 08:13 AM Sep 2021

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Dow Jones Futures Down 630.today [View all]

The market is always terrible in September. I heard Joe Kernan once say the tradition dates back to the 19th century when market investors would pull their money out to make short term loans to midwest farmers to pay for bringing in the harvest.
No idea why it still happens, but it usually does.

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Dow Jones Futures Down 630.today [View all] Tomconroy Sep 2021 OP

Debt crisis mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2021 #1

Market is trending down, mostly because of the unvaccinated are damaging the economy. Doodley Sep 2021 #2

Good summer though, for a change. Tomconroy Sep 2021 #3

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