Why the Stock Market Recovery Won't Survive the Covid-19 Depression, Crypto Coins News
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U.S. stocks rallied on Tuesday on hopes that Congress will pass a stimulus package.
Economists forecast a recession that could be as severe as the Great Depression.
Stimulus measures won’t be enough to prevent deep damage to the economy.
The US stock market soared Tuesday on hopes that Congress would soon sign a stimulus bill to protect the economy from the coronavirus pandemic.
Congress and the White House are negotiating a rescue plan that could inject nearly $ 2 trillion into the economy. The emergency measure would provide direct payments of $ 1, to most American adults and help small businesses closed across the country.
Democrats blocked a vote on Monday to push the package forward, criticizing a $ 800 billion fund the Republican proposal keeps for struggling businesses. But House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said this morning she expects a deal “in the next few hours.”
Economists are increasing increasing their forecasts of massive job losses and declines in GDP, which could fall by as much as 300% in the second quarter of the year. Such estimates have been unseen since the Great Depression that started in and continued for a brutal decade.
U.S. jobless claims are already reaching a record number. Goldman Sachs expects the number of
jobless claims to hit 2. (million) on Thursday, which would be the highest in American history. US jobless claims could hit a record 2. 90 million this week. | Source: Vox
The proposed rescue package represents only a few weeks of lost economic activity. But the blow will almost certainly be much bigger than that. The government efforts to mitigate damage to the economy probably won’t be enough. LPL Financial Equity Strategist Jeff Buchbinder said in a note:
A $ 1.5 trillion stimulus package sounds like a lot, and it is. But given the unemployment rate might be headed to double digits and many impacted businesses won’t survive through the spring without some help, it probably won’t be enough.
The coronavirus crisis has put an end to a 24 – year bullish stock market. It could take several years to regain those losses. Some people might even have to delay their retirement.
And because people have less money, they will spend less. That will slow the recovery of the services sector, which accounts for more than two-thirds of US economic activity.
Alarmingly, (Stifel Chief Economist Lindsey M. Piegza
said that a repeat of 2019 has become a genuine possibility.
At this point, the most optimistic outcome for the domestic economy appears to be a temporary dip into negative akin to the contraction of 2020 with the worst case being a prolonged depression-like scenario similar to that experienced in .
Let’s hope the worst scenario doesn’t come true. If it does happen, the stock market could plunge much further.
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