{"id":107198,"date":"2018-10-31T22:06:34","date_gmt":"2018-11-01T02:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=107198"},"modified":"2018-10-31T22:06:34","modified_gmt":"2018-11-01T02:06:34","slug":"shocktober-is-over-global-stocks-lose-8-trillion-most-since-lehman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=107198","title":{"rendered":"Shocktober Is Over &#8211; Global Stocks Lose $8 Trillion, Most Since Lehman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/themillenniumreport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/2018-10-31_6-45-18.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-70338\" src=\"http:\/\/themillenniumreport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/2018-10-31_6-45-18.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"860\" height=\"108\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<h2><u>October&#8217;s Carnage at-a-glance&#8230;<\/u><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Nasdaq 100 worst month since Oct 2008<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>S&amp;P worst month since Feb 2009 (lowest monthly close since April)<\/li>\n<li>FANG stocks crashed 21% in October &#8211; the biggest monthly drop on record<\/li>\n<li>Semis plunged almost 15%, the biggest monthly drop since Nov 2008<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Most Shorted&#8221; stocks down 13.8% in October &#8211; worst month since Jan 2016 (or best for shorts)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>S&amp;P Financials dropped over 7% in October &#8211; worst month since Jan 2016<\/li>\n<li>GSIBs (Global Systemically Important Banks) dropped over 10% in October, worst month since June 2016 (Brexit)<\/li>\n<li>China worst month since Jan 2016<\/li>\n<li>European stocks worst month since Jan 2016<\/li>\n<li><strong>Hedge Funds were hammered as Goldman&#8217;s VIP Basket plummeted 11.5% in October &#8211; its biggest drop ever.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Stocks and Bonds both fell on the month (first time since Feb 2018)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>This is the worst October for Junk bonds since 2008 (HYG saw record volume in October)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>USD&#8217;s biggest monthly gain since Nov 2016 (Trump election)<\/li>\n<li>USD and Gold both rallied for first month since Feb 2017<\/li>\n<li><strong>Gold&#8217;s biggest monthly gain against Yuan since June 2016<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Oil&#8217;s worst month since July 2016<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2018-10-31\/shocktober-over-global-stocks-lose-8-trillion-most-lehman\">http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2018-10-31\/shocktober-over-global-stocks-lose-8-trillion-most-lehman<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=107198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=107198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=107198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=107198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}