Investment Analyst: A HUGE Stock Market Crash Is Coming

Investment analyst and stock market guru Mark Mobius has been in the business a long time.  At 81-years-old, the market analyst says that a huge stock market correction is coming and it’s going to cause a crash and be painful for everyone.

According to Mobius, the former executive chairman at Templeton Emerging Markets, all the indicators now point to a great fall in the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones. “The consumer confidence is at an all-time high in the US, and it’s not a good sign,” he said. “The market looks to me to be waiting for a trigger that will cause it to tumble.”

Mobius continued saying, “I can see a 30 percent drop.” And he isn’t the only one warning of a massive crash.  Jim Roger’s latest prediction was that we were going to see “biggest crash in our lifetimes,” and possibly, very soon. One of the world’s richest men, Bill Gates, also said that a 2008-like financial crisis was a certainty.  Peter Schiff has also warned the next crash will be worse than the Great Depression.

“The bad news is, we are going to live through another Great Depression and it’s going to be very different. This will be in many ways, much much worse, than what people had to endure during the Great Depression,” Schiff says. “This is going to be a dollar crisis.” – Peter Schiff

And movement away from the United States dollar has already begun and Schiff has warned that those who don’t get out of the dollar will be wiped out.

Mobius, who is also a 40-year veteran investor and predicted the start of the bull market in 2009, warns that any drop could be strengthened by the increasing use of exchange-traded funds (ETFs), which account for nearly half of all trading in US stocks. The ETFs could cause further declines once markets fall. “You have computers and algorithms working 24/7 and that would basically create a snowball effect. There is no safety valve to prevent further falls, and that fall would escalate very quickly,” Mobius told the media. “ETFs represent so much of the market that they would make matters worse once markets start to tumble.”

But Mobius did say he’s not certain what the trigger will be that will cause the US stock market to crash horrifically. “You can’t predict what that event might be – perhaps a natural disaster or war with North Korea,” he said.

 

Facebook to emphasize friends, not news, in series of changes

By David Ingram and Paul Sandle  1-12-2018

SAN FRANCISCO/LONDON (Reuters) – Facebook Inc (FB.O) on Thursday began to change the way it filters posts and videos on its centerpiece News Feed, the start of what Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said would be a series of changes in the design of the world’s largest social network.

Zuckerberg, in a sweeping post on Facebook, said the company would change the filter for the News Feed to prioritize what friends and family share, while reducing the amount of non-advertising content from publishers and brands.

Facebook, which owns four of the world’s most popular smartphone apps including Instagram, has for years prioritized material that its complex computer algorithms think people will engage with through comments, “likes” or other ways of showing interest.

Zuckerberg, the company’s 33-year-old co-founder, said that would no longer be the goal.

“I’m changing the goal I give our product teams from focusing on helping you find relevant content to helping you have more meaningful social interactions,” Zuckerberg wrote.

The shift was likely to mean that the time people spend on Facebook and some measures of engagement would go down in the short term, he wrote, but he added it would be better for users and for the business over the long term.

Advertising on the social network would be unaffected by the changes, John Hegeman, a Facebook vice president, said in an interview.

Facebook and its social media competitors have been inundated by criticism that their products reinforce users’ views on social and political issues and lead to addictive viewing habits, raising questions about possible regulation and the businesses’ long-term viability.

The company has been criticized for algorithms that may have prioritized misleading news and misinformation in people’s feeds, influencing the 2016 American presidential election, as well as political discourse in many countries.

Last year, Facebook disclosed that Russian agents had used the network to spread inflammatory posts to polarize the American electorate.

Congress is expected to hold more hearings this month, questioning the role social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter Inc (TWTR.N) and Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) YouTube play in spreading propaganda.

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