There are times when the market stops behaving the way it usually does.
The stocks that are supposed to protect you fail to do so, and other certainties fall by the wayside.
We are living through one such time.Consider what happened on Friday.
Almost every asset class fell at the same time: Gold, silver, Bitcoin, as well as equities.
And that’s the commodity behind much of the market’s problems.
There are times when the market stops behaving the way it usually does. The stocks that are supposed to protect you fail to do so, and other certainties fall by the wayside. We are living through one such time.Consider what happened on Friday. Almost every asset class fell at the same time: Gold, silver, Bitcoin, as well as equities. The only thing headed north was the price of oil. And that’s the commodity behind much of the market’s problems.