economic recessionAll the while, as those forces played out on the surface, investors were showing their displeasure in another way for a solid week. According to data compiled by, fund managers pulled loads of money of out stocks even before Friday's sell-off.
and there are relatively few corporate earnings reports to move the dial, there doesn't seem to be much relief on the horizon.— which some experts point to as supporting the stock market with a newly accommodative monetary policy — will be powerless to help the market if the economy keeps trending lower, one expert says.
With all of that established, here's a deeper dive on the three-pronged monster that attacked stocks on Friday. After all, the more you know about each component, the better-equipped you'll be to navigate any patch of extended weakness.On Friday, the spread between the 3- and 10-month US Treasurys fell into negative territory — or"inverted" — for the first time since 2007.