Market Volatility and Opportunities

In this podcast, Motley Fool contributors Travis Hoium, Dan Caplinger, and Jon Quast discuss:

• Why the marketplace is down.

• Bitcoin's drop.

• Where they spot bargains.

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This podcast was recorded connected Nov.21, 2025.

Travis Hoium: Welcome to Motley Fool Money. I'm Travis Hoium joined by Dan Caplinger and Jon Quast. I deliberation the taxable of the week for investors is volatility. We've had immoderate immense moves adjacent yesterday, Thursday, the marketplace started up, ended up down. If you're looking astatine the NASDAQ down 2%. I cognize my portfolio took a immense deed Dan, what should we beryllium taking from a infinitesimal similar this due to the fact that we're conscionable getting retired of earning season. It seemed similar earning play was beauteous good. Nvidia's net were Wednesday aft the marketplace closed. Those seemed beauteous solid, and past abruptly the bottommost fell out, but it seems similar this is happening each fewer days. It's either up large oregon down big. What successful the satellite is going on?

Dan Caplinger: Welcome to the tug of warfare signifier that each bull marketplace goes through, Travis. I got to archer you, this is normal. This is normal, folks. It mightiness not look similar it. It mightiness not marque sense, but we spot this conscionable astir each time. Early successful the week, everybody was tense astir what NVIDIA was going to say. Were they spell to beryllium capable to unrecorded up to the hype? Were they spell to beryllium capable to bushed expectations? Jenson Wong, nary alien to making precocious predictions arsenic acold arsenic causing expectations to spell done the roof, but mostly NVIDIA delivered Wednesday day aft the marketplace closed, everybody looked similar we were going to get a immense update. There was going to beryllium a immense alleviation rally. We did get a alleviation rally for astir 30 minutes connected Thursday morning.