Investors wading back into tumultuous markets this week face an unusual challenge: playing unruly stock indexes while cracks are visible in the world’s largest market for interest rates. The Dow industrials dropped 10% last week, even after posting their largest gain since 2008 on Friday with a 9.4% advance. Friday’s gains came alongside increases in the price of oil, which suffered its steepest weekly percentage loss since 2008—a sign of normal market functioning.
Source: Wall Street Journal March 15, 2020 09:33 UTC