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Cracks appearing on the surface of the market’s stunning bull run

August 18, 2017

Via: CNBC

Are the markets in trouble?

Not yet, but there’s some cracks. We’ve seen something in the last two weeks we haven’t seen in some time: a succession of selloffs.

Last week, we saw a familiar phenomenon: a brief 1 percent dip in the market that turned around within a couple days. But on Thursday we had another bout of selling that is starting to do some technical damage. The small-cap Russell 2000 and the Dow Jones transportation index have both broken through their 200-day moving averages, a major technical indicator.

Almost half of all NYSE stocks are below their 200-day moving average.

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