1.How The Market Survived the Spanish Flu?

Sell-off lasted 6 months and took DOW 34% lower (-40% from highs set some months before the flu), stocks rallied 25% in less than 2 months following the trough. It took 18 months to erase the flu sell-off.
The corona cycle likely will be faster and swifter because there was not electronics, twitter or texting back then!

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1.U.S. Dollar Move Tops Past Historical Crisis

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/what-12-trillion-dollar-margin-call-looks

1.Trump Considers Delay in Mortgage Payments…Look for Massive Rental Relief.

Debt Deferrals – Trump Considering Plan to Let Homeowners Delay Mortgage Payments– “We’re thinking of the potential of several months of payments for a lot of homeowners” says the MBA.   Also NYers with student debt, medical debt & other state-referred debtwill have payments frozen for at least 30 days. Dave Lutz at Jones Trading.

Since 2008 The U.S. has become renter nation.

WSJ

https://blogs.wsj.com/dailyshot/2020/03/18/the-daily-shot-cracks-appearing-in-the-us-labor-market/

1.S&P Plunged 29% in 18 Trading Days.

The S&P 500 index has now plunged 29% in the 18 trading days since the peak in February 19 and is below where it had first been on March 1, 2017 – which was over three years ago. In other words, the S&P 500 unwound three years’ worth of gains in 18 trading days.

S&P 500 Plunged Most Since 1987, Gave Up in 18 Days the 42% Gains of Past 3 Years. Boeing Shares Collapsed-Wolf Richter

1.Thursday NYSE Down Volume Hit 80%

Every Time The Market Finished Higher 12 mos. Out