
The leader of the fall among the major US companies was Apple, whose shares fell immediately by 6%. This led to the fact that the company only lost a lot of money over the past night - almost 158 billion dollars! Reports about it USA Today.
The US presidential candidate (more precisely, the candidate for the Republican Party) Donald Trump said that such a fall would lead to a serious increase in unemployment in the United States and a new crisis wave. At the same time, Trump says that the official statistics authorities are misleading Americans today, saying that unemployment in the United States does not exceed 6%. According to Trump and analysts of his companies, the real unemployment rate in the country is about 21%, and among young people up to 27 years - about 42%.
It should be noted that not a single “international” consulting group made any predictions about a significant subsidence of the American stock market. In addition, not a single “independent” rating agency thought to lower the sovereign rating of the United States and the rating of American companies ...