Day: May 9, 2022

Stocks continue tanking.. Netflix down 71% since beginning of 2022

From CNBC:

Stocks fell sharply Monday, pushing the S&P 500 to breach the 4,000 level for the first time in more than a year as the market sell-off continued.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 653.67 points to 32,245.70, or 1.99%. The S&P 500 fell 3.2% to settle at 3,991.24, while the Nasdaq Composite lost 4.29% to 11,623.25.

The S&P 500 traded as low as 3,975.48 on the day, dipping below the 4,000 mark to its lowest level since March 2021 and pulling back 17% from a 52-week high as traders struggled to bounce back from last week’s big market swings. All sectors except for consumer staples dipped into the red.

Covid cases continue climbing.. death numbers exact to one year ago

Covid cases begin creeping up—death numbers exact to one year ago..

These are the latest Covid stats from the United States:

COVID CASES USA 7-DAY AVG
71,742 MAY 08 2022
42,015 MAY 08 2021

DEATHS 7-DAY AVG
607 MAY 08 2022
607 MAY 08 2021

Developing in the coming weeks.

South Africa cases are nearing records .. time will now tell if the new ‘normal’ means equal deaths and cases than previous years—or even more..

Preliminary 3.3 magnitude quake jolts South Carolina

There were no immediate reports of any damages or injuries.

The pre-dawn temblor lasted only seconds but a number of people took to social media to describe being shaken from sleep when the quake hit shortly after 1:30 a.m.

A seismic analyst monitoring the quake for the USGS Geological Survey’s National Earthquake Information Center in Colorado, called it the latest in a series of shakes in recent months but stronger than usual.
— Read on apnews.com/article/environment-south-carolina-columbia-earthquakes-a6a965a4ec71638f778bf4dc3856b94c

These are getting more common.. beyond a time we can call South Carolina earthquakes ‘rare’