my colleagues ben levisohn, andrew bary and elizabeth o'brien.en with, the market got really spooked this week by interest rates and inflation, but then even more serious concerns about geopolitics. >> that's right. we got our flakes reading, and it was hot. -- inflation reading, and it was hot. that that wasn't good. we had two hot readings to start off the year, but this third one for march really seemed to say, okay, the economy's running hotter than it should be, the fed is not going to be able to cut rates the way the market had expected. by thursday the market seemed to be okay with that. it was only on friday that we actually had a very large loss. and that was really due to these geopolitical concerns. there were reports that iran is about to attack israel, and that sent the market kind of into a free paul with the dow jones falling 2.4%, its worst week since march of 2023. jack: when people get worried about the middle east, oil goes up but commodities in general have been on fire. even copper,s which is usually sending a positive econom

three things investors ought to think about right now on the "barron's roundtable" then levinson andrew bary and elizabeth o'brien, there were not many happy ports in the storm near entire market except with reprint of the dow in the red it was an awful week for the s&p 500 dropping 3% the worst week in 3% it all fell in that the person happen since 2020 but there was a massive selloff in tech with the nasdaq finishing 5 then you felt it by the end of the week people were unloading what it worked and it started off with the fears of not cutting rates and geopolitical it's like we need to sell and 2020 was a pretty bad year for a few months there in the market it was tough. what are the things that normally happens with geopolitical fears, stock selling often the bond rally that did not happen. >> it was interesting market rallied on thursday and the two year yield hitting 5% that was assigned to investors that rates will be higher for longer and interest-rate decisions on may 1 we know it's not going to do a rate cut them but were hoping maybe in june and who knows if we get a rate cut this