I have a private chrome extension wich help me to grab the image & URL quickly for a particular pattern (I have plans to publish this extension). I curate the content from various design inspiration sites I visit daily.
I started this project as a solution to capture and organize web patterns that I like.
First off, never claiming to understand the whole stock market or being an expert. I'm am amateur trying to make sense of this. But here is what I know very tersely (at work, can't write a paper here.)
China is highly leveraged and their stock market was crashing. Their very high spending is often accepted because of their continuing growth which people have been assuming was a lie for the past 7(?) years. They always say it's 7% growth. With a stock market crash people think that maybe people are waking up that the growth isn't there and China won't be able to sustain much longer. Thats not good for apparently many far reaching reasons.
Oil is crashing for many reasons which you could speculate about but not know for sure. The reality for the US markets is that many smaller oil companies are highly leveraged because oil was so expensive and they were funded with the idea it'd stay above something like $50/barrel. Their methods are more expensive than say Saudi Arabia's methods which allow them to sell much cheaper (although they need revenue which they're offsetting by selling bonds). Here is where I'm lost a bit, but somehow this is tied to the banks again who might be in trouble if they all start failing.
Not to mention people have been calling a correction for almost a year now based on debt levels, global banking issues, global economic issues, high P/E ratios, etc. to happen sometime around now till next year.
The stock market fear indicators on money.cnn.com[0] were at extreme levels for several days in Jan. Plenty of issues with fear and emotions in the markets right now. Some of which are well placed fears.
Apple was going down a lot during those periods of fear well before their earning call which is what has been sealing the deal. I think during that major sell off people thought it was the "top" and were getting out.
