Subject: Daily Skimm: How you doin'?
From: "theSkimm" <[email-masked]>
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Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2018 06:28:01 -0400 (EDT)

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OCTOBE= 12, 2018

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QUOTE O= THE DAY

"000000" - Kanye's iPhone password. It needs to be (harder, better, faster) str=nger.

STOCKS TO STOCK

The Story

The stoc= market is getting a lot of attention this week.

Yes, WTF is going on?

Earlier this week, the Dow Jones – which aver=ges the stock prices from 30 major US companies – fell more than 8=0 points, the third-biggest drop in its history. Yesterday it fell another=500. And the CBOE Volatility =ndex – which measures how scared investors should be about the=market – is basically at code red. Tech stocks are especially struggling.

Comforting. Why is this happening?

Depends who you ask: some people think investors are spooked by the US-China tr=de war and pulling their money out of the market. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin thinks this is a=l pretty standard. President Trump blames the Fed for raising interest rates.

Tell me about that.

The Federal Reserve takes the US's economic temperatu=e and prescribes interest rates. The goal? Keep the economy growing nice a=d steady – not too fast, not too slow. ICYMI the economy has been =a href="https://link.theskimm.com/click/14732139.2673162/aHR0cHM6Ly9za2l=bXRoLmlzLzJRSWxiVzE/5bae7b412ddf9c633bb801b8B8d96280a" target="_blank" s=yle="color:#00b2a9;text-decoration:none;">sh*tting rainbows this yea=. So the Fed's been upping interest rates for the past few years. But inve=tors don't like that. Neither does Trump, who wants the Fed to back off so=he can keep humblebragging about the stock market.

So this is bad...?

Not necessarily. Even with this dip, the market is pr=tty much back where it was earlier this summer. And it's definitely not as=bad as China's been feeling i=.

Give it to me straight. Should I take all my retireme=t money out of stocks?

Stocks typically have high payoff in the long-term, e=en if they're volatile in the short-term. So most economists are telling people to chill.

theSkimm

The US economy has been riding high for a while now. =BD if this is just a minor hiccup or if the stock market is having more of=a down trend.

REPEAT AFTER ME...

What people are thinking about…

Hurrican= Michael. Earlier this week, it made landfall as the strongest hurrica=e to hit the continental US since 1992. It's since been downgraded to a tr=pical storm but has killed at least six people. It has left over 1 million without power in six stat=s and multiple neighborhoods destroyed. But it should leave the coast and =ove into the ocean soon. Meanwhile, Indonesia is still reeling from the 7.5-magnitude quake and tsun=mi with waves as high as 20 feet that hit the island of Sulawesi last mont=. Tens of thousands were left homeless, thousands of buildings damaged. Th= ground liquefied and swallowed up buildings and people. The official deat= toll is 2,073. But the number of people missing could be as high as 5,000= And search and rescue efforts are set to end today.

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What to say when you're feeling like Olivia Benson...

News for you. Yesterday, Washington's Supreme Court r=led that the death penalty was

What to say when your friend asks 'do we need men?'...

Maybe not. Thanks to gene editing, lady mice are maki=g perfectly healthy babies

What to say when you catch your co-worker in a lie�=A6

Dishonesty won't get you far. Right, Billy McFarland?

SKIMM READS

"Fruit of=the Drunken Tree" by Ingrid Rojas Contreras

Pablo Escobar. Female friendship. A secret. Check, ch=ck, check. This book – set in Colombia in the late '80s and '90s =E2�� follows two girls who form an unlikely friendship during the risi=g violence brought on by drug lord Pablo Escobar. Think: "Narcos" meets "L=ttle Women." Get it here.

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