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Average August angst
Nasdaq closing below its 20 day moving average for the first time since April. The last time the Nasdaq 100 QQQ fell 2%+ on the first trading day of August was… last year. The QQQs actually fell 2%+ on each of the first three trading days of August last year for a 3-day drop of 7.6%.
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About the author
David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific's leading geo-politics and economics portal.
He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.