Response to COVID-19: Assessment of the Bubbles in U.S. Stock Market
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- DOI
- 10.2991/aebmr.k.220307.300How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Covid-19; U.S. Stock market; Price bubble
- Abstract
At present, COVID-19 pandemic has profound influence on every aspect of human society. Due to economic globalization, the pandemic exert negative impact on real economy of all countries, and inevitably lead to higher unemployment rate. International stock market also fluctuate frequently. However, uncommon phenomenon has been noticed in the U.S. stock market. After 3 days’ market crash in March, 2020, the US stock has kept trading higher. Therefore, this research identifies the current stock market’s opportunities and risks under the background of the global pandemic situation. Some investors contend that in the stock market there lies great opportunities, owing to the negative effects of periodicity and pandemic, while others claim that it is the fake boom that releases wrong signals for investors due to the Fed’s policy. Through the research on GDP and employment rate under pandemic, FED’s intervention under pandemic and further impacts, the impact of real estate on the stock market, and stock index, this study aims to explore whether there lies a potential stock market bubble under its current prosper appearance. The results indicate that the U.S. is suffering from a high unemployment rate, potential great GDP loss, stock market bubbles, high inflation rate, the risk of overvaluing, etc. This study reveals that a bubble exists in the U.S. stock market. Therefore, the investors need to recognize the potential risks and conduct a reasonable portfolio.
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- © 2022 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press International B.V.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license.
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Hua Bai AU - Jing He AU - Ruorong Liu AU - Jing Sun AU - Di Wu PY - 2022 DA - 2022/03/26 TI - Response to COVID-19: Assessment of the Bubbles in U.S. Stock Market BT - Proceedings of the 2022 7th International Conference on Financial Innovation and Economic Development (ICFIED 2022) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 1823 EP - 1829 SN - 2352-5428 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/aebmr.k.220307.300 DO - 10.2991/aebmr.k.220307.300 ID - Bai2022 ER -