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Faber advises buying gold and shares of gold miners
by Mark DeCambre
Market Watch
The U.S. stock market is in free fall.
A little over a handful of days into 2016 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average has lost 5.2% of its value for the year, the S&P 500 index has dropped about 5%, and the Nasdaq Composite Index has tumbled nearly 6.4%.
But perma-bear Marc Faber says it could be a lot worse. The Swiss investor who publishes the Gloom, Boom & Doom Report told MarketWatch that the stock-market downturn could result in the S&P 500 hitting lows not seen in five years.
Faber’s dour forecast is that the S&P 500, which ended Thursday trading at 1,943, amid a China-fueled global market rout, could plunge to its 2011 low.
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