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ruet

(10,215 posts) Fri Feb 27, 2026, 04:14 PM 20 hrs ago

Stocks on Track for Monthly Losses After PPI Inflation Surprise

Source: Yahoo Finance

US stocks sank on Friday after a measure of wholesale inflation came in hotter than expected and Block's (XYZ) surprise shakeup turned the spotlight on AI disruption risks.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) led the way down with a loss of 1%, or more than 500 points. Meanwhile, the Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC) fell 0.8%, while the S&P 500 (^GSPC) dropped 0.4%, respectively, on the heels of sharp closing losses for the tech-heavy indexes.

The Dow snapped an eight-month win streak, with the blue chip index losing more than 2% in February. The Nasdaq and S&P 500 also declined more than 2%, and 1.5% respectively for the month.

Read more: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/live/stock-market-today-dow-sp-500-nasdaq-fall-to-end-losing-month-as-ai-worries-buffet-markets-210030002.html

I hate Yahoo for constantly doing this but the title of the story from the main page is as indicated in my title. Having said that...

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Stocks on Track for Monthly Losses After PPI Inflation Surprise (Original Post) ruet 20 hrs ago OP

Could the tarrifs account for this? samsingh 19 hrs ago #1

Inflation we can do it 19 hrs ago #2

Tarrifs cause inflation samsingh 19 hrs ago #3

Surprise! ananda 19 hrs ago #4

"I hate Yahoo for constantly doing this but the title of the story from the main page is as indicated in my title...." progree 18 hrs ago #5

My favorite was... ruet 17 hrs ago #7

Another reason to be glad I shifted to Defiance Large Cap ex-Mag 7 ETF pat_k 17 hrs ago #6

samsingh

(18,388 posts)

1. Could the tarrifs account for this?

Reply to ruet (Original post)

Fri Feb 27, 2026, 04:31 PM

19 hrs ago

we can do it

(13,016 posts)

2. Inflation

Reply to samsingh (Reply #1)

Fri Feb 27, 2026, 04:48 PM

19 hrs ago

samsingh

(18,388 posts)

3. Tarrifs cause inflation

Reply to we can do it (Reply #2)

Fri Feb 27, 2026, 05:02 PM

19 hrs ago

ananda

(34,721 posts)

4. Surprise!

Reply to ruet (Original post)

Fri Feb 27, 2026, 05:07 PM

19 hrs ago

Not

progree

(12,868 posts)

5. "I hate Yahoo for constantly doing this but the title of the story from the main page is as indicated in my title...."

Reply to ruet (Original post)

Fri Feb 27, 2026, 05:42 PM

18 hrs ago

Last edited Sat Feb 28, 2026, 08:29 AM - Edit history (1)

Yes, it gets worse...

That "stock market today" page (that's the title one sees after clicking the finance.yahoo.com page headline, and looking at the story that pops up), which changes throughout the day, and, speaking of the finance.yahoo version, never starts with "stock market today"

Sigh. And now the worse part --

That "stock market today" page has at least a dozen stories below it from throughout the day, but few have stand-alone versions with URLs. So I have to instruct readers to go to the stock market today URL ( currently, for Friday, https://finance.yahoo.com/news/live/stock-market-today-dow-sp-500-nasdaq-fall-to-end-volatile-month-as-ai-worries-buffet-markets-211239963.html )
and scroll down the page, or do a search on the page for "Private credit fears keep hammering the financial sector" if that's the story I want to direct readers to.

I deal with that all the time in my "S&P 500" pinned thread in the Economy Group ( https://www.democraticunderground.com/111699775 , it's also in my sig line ), where I, in a typical day cover what's at the URL, and then have a section, "SCROLLING DOWN THE PAGE" and list the ones of interest for the day.

Not too bad for a one-day report, but I also want to refer to some of those stories long-term (that page keeps an archive of many of the main economic reports of the last 2 months in the "Calendar" section, and it really is silly that there, I also often have to direct people the same way, ~~whether~~ rather than giving them some URL that takes them direct to the story.

ruet

(10,215 posts)

7. My favorite was...

Reply to progree (Reply #5)

Fri Feb 27, 2026, 06:28 PM

17 hrs ago

all of the tarriff stories, for months and months, used the same comment section. So you had to wade through thousands of months old comments to read anything current. Brilliant!

pat_k

(12,922 posts)

6. Another reason to be glad I shifted to Defiance Large Cap ex-Mag 7 ETF

Reply to ruet (Original post)

Fri Feb 27, 2026, 06:18 PM

17 hrs ago

S&P is down 1.43% on the month. XMAG is up 1.46%

Frankly, whatever happens to the fund, I feel good about divesting from the evil empire stocks.

Note: XMAG is basically the S&P excluding the "Magnificent 7" (Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia, and Tesla)

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