After a rough few weeks in the stock market, Motley Fool podcast host Chris Hill has a question he hopes you can answer.
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This video was recorded on Dec. 6, 2021.
Chris Hill: It’s Monday, Dec. 6. Welcome to Market Foolery. I’m Chris Hill. It’s just me again. We’ll get other people in the mix tomorrow, I promise.
But right now, it’s just you and me. Because there is a question I need to ask you, but first, how are you doing? Are you all right? How is the holiday shopping going? Did you find that thing you wanted to get for what’s his name? Or what’s her name? You know who I’m talking about. O.K., well, then you got to keep looking. Hey, how is Hanukkah? Was it good? Good latkes and all eight candles lit last night? Good, pack the dreidel away until next year then. Hey, how’s school going? Are you ready for final exams? I know, but you know what, you’re not alone. Everyone in your class feels like that. Everyone in your grade feels like that. You’re not alone. But look, you’ve got to take breaks. You can’t just lock yourself away and say, well, I’m going to be in my room studying for the next five hours. That’s not going to work. You’re going to fry your brain and you’re not going to be as productive, so build in some breaks. Take some study breaks, take a walk, watch a show, get outside with other people. Go look at some decorations. You’re going to do fine. You’re going to do well in your finals, and then it’s winter break and you can relax. Do you study, but seriously, get outside every day and look around. Did you get a Christmas tree this weekend? I did, too. Yeah, normally, I’m like a mid-December guy with the tree. But after last year, I had to go early. It’s crazy, right?
Hey, speaking of crazy, can we talk about last week? Yeah, let’s talk about that for stock investors. Holy cow, Friday was a bad day, at the end of a bad week, at the end of a bad month. That was the worst four-week stretch in over a year. You weren’t imagining it. That really happened. That was just for the market in general. If you want to get a little more specific, we can talk about the Nasdaq, 3,300 stocks on the Nasdaq. Last week, 20% of them hit 52-week lows — 20%. So much red. Last Wednesday, every stock I own was down, everyone. Wait, no, I had one that was up, I had one in …….
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