Dow Jones industrials fell more than 1,500 points on Monday. This marked the largest single-day point drop in history. Melissa Armo, Owner of The Stock Swoosh, explains her outlook on the market amid this volatility.
"I would not panic at this point," says Armo. "When you look at it in the whole--in the bigger picture--it's really not that terrible."
The deadline for a budget resolution before a government shutdown is on February 8th. Armo says this looming deadline could be impacting investor confidence.
Farmers Insurance became the latest property insurance company to pull out of Florida on Tuesday despite repeated efforts by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis and the Legislature have made to try to calm the volatile market that is making homeownership less affordable.
Nearly 30,000 people in Mississippi were dropped from the state's Medicaid program after an eligibility review that the government ended during the pandemic.