Business News for Kids – Today Shapes Tomorrow

Yield Curves?	How to read stock info?
Currency Manipulation and Tariff Impact?	Black Monday?
What is a Tariff?	Great Depression vs. Recession of 08′
How do Businesses raise money?	Depression vs. Recession
Emigration in the U.S.?	Consumer Price Index and Producer Price Index?
Stock Performance since 2008?	Consumer confidence?
Is Full Employment good?	Expansions and Contractions in service and manufacturing
Presidents and the Economy	CEO, CFO, Shareholders, and Board
How do we have a $17T deficit?	What is sales tax?
What is the debt ceiling?	Mergers and Acquisitions?
What is inflation?	ADR?
What is a credit score?	Buying back shares?
Basics of the Economy	Starting a Lemonade Stand
Does Studying Pay Off?	Supply and Demand
What is Currency and Foreign Currency Exchange rate?	Quantitative Easing?
What is stronger or weaker currency?	Working and Unemployed?
What does the dollar slide mean?	Bank Loans and 2008
How does money grow in a bank?	International Debt Rankings
What is a federal funds rate?	Fed Tapering of Q.E.
What is interest and APR?	New Federal Reserve Chair
	1st Woman Fed Reserve Chair

Published Every Monday Since 2007 | Volume 687| January 20, 2020

So far YTD…
Bulls (Markets UP) = 02…
Bears (DOWN) =01…and
Draw = 0

Market continue to rise – The DOW crosses 29K!

On Monday 20th markets are closed for Martin Luther King day celebrations. It is a federal holiday to celebrate his life and contributions made to advancement of civil rights using non-violent civil disobedience. He made the famous speech “…I have a dream…”Markets continue to break records!

For the first time the DOW crossed 29,000 closing the weak at 29,348. The DOW was up +479 or +1.66%, S&P500 was up +58 or +1.79%, and the NASDAQ was up +175 or +1.90% for the week ending Jan 17th. Oil closed down -$0.63 or -1.07% closing at $58.49 per barrel for the week.

In 2020 YTD, the DOW is +2.8%, S&P500 is +3.1% and Nasdaq is +4.6%

In 2019 DOW was up +22.3%, S&P500 up +28.9% and NASDAQ up +35.2%
In 2018 the DOW was down -6.7%, S&P500 down -7.0% and NASDAQ down -4.6%.
In 2017 the DOW was up 25.1%, S&P500 up 19.4% and NASDAQ up 28.2%