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Wednesday, February 07, 2018

Thursday: Unemployment Claims

by Calculated Risk on 2/07/2018 06:43:00 PM

Thursday:
• At 8:30 AM ET, The initial weekly unemployment claims report will be released.  The consensus is for 235 thousand initial claims, up from 230 thousand the previous week.

S&P 500
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By request, here is a stock market graph. This graph shows the S&P 500 since 1990 (this excludes dividends).

The dashed line is the closing price today. The market is essentially unchanged year-to-date, and down about 6.7% from the recent high.

Corrections of 10% or so are usually fairly common (2017 was an unusual year), and this isn't  even 10%.

Still not scary - at least not yet.