The Closing Bell: Stock Markets Fall Sharply On Growth Fears: S&P 500 Erases Gain For Year

Ted

FYI:
Regards,
Ted
WSJ Slant:
http://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-stock-futures-fall-on-growth-worries-1440073541

Bloomberg Slant:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-08-20/futures-indicate-s-p-500-to-fall-third-day-on-global-growth-fear-idk14t5h

Reuters Slant:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/08/20/us-markets-stocks-usa-idUSKCN0QP15320150820

MarketWatch Slant:
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/us-stock-futures-point-to-third-day-in-the-red-2015-08-20/print

WSJ Markets At A Glance:
http://markets.wsj.com/us

Sector Tracker:
http://www.sectorspdr.com/sectorspdr/tools/sector-tracker

Current Futures: (Very Negative)
http://finviz.com/futures.ashx

PRESSmUP

Close to being a rout....with the knife being twisted in the last hour. I don't like seeing that type of late action. Tomorrow will be interesting.

JohnChisum

Tomorrow will indeed be interesting.

Old_Joe

Maybe I'll get into GILD at $110. We'll see.

Old_Skeet

As I understand it companies can not step in and buy shares in their own stock in the last ten minutes of trading before market close. This gives big money and the flash crowd ability to take control in the market and really pulverize a stock thus driving it's price downward should they choose.

How deep will a stock get pummelled?

I wonder how much necked shorting is currently taking place under T+3?

And ... below is a link for those that would like data on SPY's days to cover its shorts.

http://shortsqueeze.com/?symbol=spy&submit=Short+Quote