{"id":107986,"date":"2019-09-24T21:14:59","date_gmt":"2019-09-24T21:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/discover\/?p=107986"},"modified":"2019-09-24T21:14:59","modified_gmt":"2019-09-24T21:14:59","slug":"trump-impeachment-and-weaker-u-s-consumers-rattle-wall-st","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/discover\/trump-impeachment-and-weaker-u-s-consumers-rattle-wall-st\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump impeachment and weaker U.S. consumers rattle Wall St."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>American markets fell Tuesday upon news of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/politics\/live-news\/trump-ukraine-09-24-2019\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">impeachment<\/a> against Trump. The White House is shrugging off the latest development as &#8220;nothing new,&#8221; but shortly after Tuesday&#8217;s closing bell, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced the launch of a formal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/politics\/live-news\/trump-ukraine-09-24-2019\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">impeachment inquiry<\/a>. Earlier that day, Trump&#8217;s speech at the U.N. did nothing to comfort jittery investors when he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/politics\/live-news\/trump-un-speech-09-24-2019\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rebuked China&#8217;s trade practices<\/a>. If that wasn&#8217;t enough to spook investors, the U.S. consumer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-economy-confidence\/u-s-consumer-confidence-plunges-in-september-idUSKBN1W91XJ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">confidence<\/a> rate for September fell by the most in nine months, even below expectations. Nervous investors extended the losing streak of the S&amp;P (-0.85% at 2,966) and the NASDAQ (-1.46% at 7,993) to three days, but pushed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/dow-utilities-surge-toward-record-high-as-10-year-treasury-yield-falls-for-7th-straight-day-2019-09-24\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dow utilities<\/a> by 1.2% to record highs. The DJU closed at $874.74.<\/p>\n<p>Things were a little quieter on this side of the border with the TSX slipping 0.41% to 16,798. Tuesday&#8217;s session began with <a href=\"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/BB-T\">Blackberry<\/a>&#8216;s earnings <a href=\"https:\/\/business.financialpost.com\/technology\/blackberry-posts-second-quarter-net-loss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">missing<\/a> badly. The cybersecurity stock plunged 22% to close at $7.68. In contrast, cybersecurity ETF, <a href=\"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/CYBR-T\">CYBR-T<\/a> slipped 1.58% on Tuesday to $26.22.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American markets fell Tuesday upon news of impeachment against Trump. The White House is shrugging off the latest development as &#8220;nothing new,&#8221; but shortly after Tuesday&#8217;s closing bell, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced the launch of a formal impeachment inquiry. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":345019,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cwp_meta_box_check":"No","cwp_rev_product_name":"","cwp_rev_product_image":"","wppr_links":[],"cwp_rev_price":"","wppr_options":[],"wppr_pros":[],"wppr_cons":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[178],"tags":[227,126,228,215,229,212,220,218,169],"class_list":["post-107986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily","tag-blackberry","tag-china","tag-cybersecurity","tag-dow","tag-impeachment","tag-nasdaq","tag-trade-war","tag-trump","tag-utilities"],"wppr_data":{"cwp_meta_box_check":"No"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockchase.com\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}