{"id":24485,"date":"2015-08-24T07:18:21","date_gmt":"2015-08-24T12:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=24485"},"modified":"2015-08-24T07:21:13","modified_gmt":"2015-08-24T12:21:13","slug":"welcome-to-black-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=24485","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to Black Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you haven&#8217;t been checking your 401K recently, now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2015-08-24\/summarizing-black-monday-carnage-so-far\">may not be the day to do it<\/a>, as markets are plunging around the globe.<\/p>\n<p>China&#8217;s Shanghai composite index had the <a href=\"http:\/\/americasmarkets.usatoday.com\/2015\/08\/24\/asian-markets-plunge-as-wall-st-declines-fuel-more-sell-offs\/\">largest one-day selloff since 2007<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Japan&#8217;s Nikkei average <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/asian-stock-markets-likely-to-be-a-sea-of-red-1440374704\">fell 4.6%<\/a>, the largest drop in two years. <\/p>\n<p>India&#8217;s Sensex <a href=\"http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/business\/india-business\/Sensex-crashes-over-1200-points-investors-lose-over-Rs-3-lakh-crore\/articleshow\/48651465.cms\">dropped over 1,200 points<\/a>, the biggest drop in seven years. <\/p>\n<p>And now everyone is nervously waiting for the NYSE to open&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you haven&#8217;t been checking your 401K recently, now may not be the day to do it, as markets are plunging around the globe. China&#8217;s Shanghai composite index had the largest one-day selloff since 2007. Japan&#8217;s Nikkei average fell 4.6%, the largest drop in two years. India&#8217;s Sensex dropped over 1,200 points, the biggest drop [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":5,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[39,40,140,2802],"class_list":["post-24485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-china","tag-economy","tag-japan","tag-new-york-stock-exchange"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24485"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24490,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24485\/revisions\/24490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}