Why am I showing the stock market during World War II?  Well, we’ve entered World War III (different type of war, maybe), but sometimes patterns rhyme.  Looks like the ‘power that be’ knew about the Japanese attack well in advance as the market declined into December 7.  Interesting.

Stocks turned in a relatively lackluster performance during trading on Tuesday, with the major averages bouncing back and forth across the unchanged after ending Monday’s trading modestly higher. Despite the choppy trading, the S&P 500 reached a new record closing high.

The major averages eventually ended the session narrowly mixed. While the Dow dipped 96.36 points or 0.3 percent to 37,905.45, the Nasdaq climbed 65.66 points or 0.4 percent to 15,425.94 and the S&P 500 rose 14.17 points or 0.3 percent
to 4,864.60.

The choppy trading on Wall Street partly reflected a mixed reaction to the latest earnings news from several big-name companies.

The Dow pulled back off yesterday’s record closing high amid a steep drop by shares of 3M (MMM), with the conglomerate plunging by 11.0 percent after reporting better than expected fourth quarter earnings but […]

https://www.history.com/news/ufos-washington-white-house-air-force-coverup

1952 was the year America caught flying-saucer fever.

So when a rash of strange sightings was reported in the skies over Washington D.C. that summer, the press and the public demanded answers. Were these unexplained radar blips, crafts that in some cases outran jets, part of a nuclear-armed Soviet invasion—a very real threat at the height of the Red Scare? Or were they evidence of something far more mysterious?

The Washington, D.C. sightings of July 1952, also known as “the Big Flap,” hold a special place in the history of unidentified flying objects. Major American newspapers were reporting multiple credible sightings by civilian and military radar operators and pilots—so many that a special intelligence unit of the U.S. Air Force was sent in to investigate. What they found—or didn’t find—along with the Air Force’s official explanation, fueled some of the earliest conspiracy theories about a government plot to hide evidence of alien life.

Why am I showing the stock market during World War II?  Well, we’ve entered World War III (different type of war, maybe), but sometimes patterns […]