The DOW is lurching back up again?

They were quiet yesterday because it went up 100 points, but the 2 days prior to that they were creaming their jeans over the impending doom of our economy.

There are a number of factors that indicate that we're heading for a recession. Those include the inverted yield curve a couple of days ago, the shrinking in major economies such as Germany and the UK, the slowing down of the US economy, the uncertainty caused by Trump's trade war with China, etc.

The stock market reacts to those concerns.

Only because Trump delayed his newest round of tariffs because big retailers whined about Christmas shopping!

Good, we need to make up the thousand points it's dropped since last week.

The world is already in a economic slowdown. So far USA is not much affected.

---Trade War with China

---Possible invasion of North Korea, a nuclear power

---Increased deficit due to tax cut for billionaires

---America now hated in the world

---Lowest rate of home ownership in 60 years

Apparently statistically (you know, scientifically, oh wait, cons don't "lahk sigh-ince", so never mind about that) the up-down stock market is an early sign of a recession.

The Dow wasn't the reason for the concerns about recession. The inversion of the yield curve, which has been a much more successful predictor of recessions, was.

Nice Cherry picking, we're in deflation

The Dow has been seeswaing for about a year and a half now. It goes up and then it goes down again. Volatility, in general, isn't good, and in this case the downs have erased all the gains over that period.

Moreover, the possibility of a recession coming isn't undone by one upward swing of the market.

Who cares? Ordinary people cannot afford shares or bonds anyway, and there will always be a next "recession" in the current capitalist system

It isn’t a straight-line fall. One indicator is a warning, not the first downward step, and the market will try to rally as investors adjust their algorithms. Not to mention that the stock markets are just one small part of the economy and have minds of their own.