The stock market selloff is about more than weak economic data

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The latest leg of the sell-off accelerated overnight as Japan's Nikkei 225 dropped more than 12% in its biggest-ever daily loss after a surprise interest...

) yield fell another 10 basis points to hover near 3.69%, and is now down about 60 basis points in less than two weeks. Volatility has spiked, too, The CBOE Volatility Index, known by its ticker as simply the VIX dropped more than 12% in its biggest-ever daily loss after a surprise interest rate hike from the Bank of Japan. Yardeni Research president Ed Yardeni told Yahoo Finance he thinks the "large extent" of the selloff in US stocks is attributable to the moves in Japan.

"I don't necessarily buy the fact that the market is voting that the economy is just weakening outright overnight," Charles Schwab senior investment strategist Kevin Gordon told Yahoo Finance. "I think it takes a little bit longer, for us to get a sense of that." To Gordon, the recent market reaction to the jobs report was in sync with sentiment showed by investors following big tech earnings. In both cases expectations were likely too upbeat compared to the actual data.

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