small but significant thing I've noticed on Fox Business on days when the market is tanking and Trump is president -- they only show the Nasdaq ticker in the corner, not the Dow, to give people the impression that the stock market isn't down as much as it actually... is (the Dow is currently down more than 1,100 points)show more

Just like Trumps advisors told them to do.

See a stock that setting up for big gains? Let’s help you be the first one to it.

Data manipulation about the market manipulation

Fox News treats their viewers like mushrooms. They feed them shit and keep them in the dark.

Today makes yesterday look even more like an insider trading grab. Pump the market, goes right back down after they take out their gains. Next will be canceling capital gains taxes for this year.

Did they used to show the Dow? (I'm assuming that's what you mean.)

Normally they cycle back & forth between Dow & Nasdaq. Lately on days like today they just show Nasdaq. The only explanation I can think of is that the point number is smaller so if unsavvy viewers just scan the screen they might not think market is down as much as it really is.

Fox News and the entire right wing media industrial complex are geared toward keeping their viewers ignorant, engaged, enraged 24/7. It's why Trump administration officials are constantly on their programs. They spew propaganda with no pushback. It's why Fox is America's RT.

To be fair, the Dow is a pretty bad index for the market since it's weighted by price. The S&P 500 is used by most of the financial press. Not Nasdaq, though!

Kind of like how you breathlessly post every time the market dips but are suspiciously quiet when it goes up?

You realize the NASDAQ is much more of a riskier index and it goes down and up at a greater percentage, right?