This is about US stock market. The stock market is reactive to macroeconomic and geopolitical events or conditions– events/conditions that impact the national, or even the global economy (not events that impact only one or more of your companies such as the retirement of a key executive). To answer this one, you will need to develop a sense of macroeconomic events/conditions that impacted the market during the entire duration of the simulation. Your goal in answering this question is to pick and explain the macroeconomic/geopolitical event that you believe most impacted the stock market – on what were investors most focused? Be sure to explain how this event impacted the stock market.

Please do this based uppon a situation that has happend within the past 5 months.