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The Tell: The next 45 days are the ‘most critical period in U.S. financial history,’ says stock-market expert who profited in 1987 and 2008 crises

After recovering a chunk of the losses racked up during the worst of the coronavirus-induced selloff last month, the stock market finds itself at a crucial inflection point, writes Alan B. Lancz. “The next 45 days may just become the most critical period in U.S. financial history,” he wrote in …

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Market Extra: Wall Street fears ‘flashbacks to 2008’ with forced selling in $9 trillion U.S. corporate bond market

After the most volatile week on Wall Street since the 2008 financial crisis as the coronavirus epidemic began to shut down swaths of the U.S. economy, the health of the U.S. stock and bond markets may now depend on how corporate debt fares in the coming months. The S&P 500 …

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Market Extra: Here are 5 reasons the stock market booked its worst decline since 2008, and only one of them is the coronavirus

The U.S. stock-market rally has unraveled, with a period of historic gains coming to a screeching halt, as fear that the coronavirus epidemic may reach America rattles Wall Street. The Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, -1.39% fell into correction on Thursday, widely defined as a drop of at least 10%, …

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