But just as the market quickly bounced back from its Delta fears, history appears to be repeating itself: Investors are taking a breath and sensing a buying opportunity.
The market opened in the green and after a brief mid-morning dip regained its strength around noon.
In the early afternoon, the Dow was up 0.9%, or nearly 300 points, higher. The broader S&P climbed 1.5%. The Nasdaq outpaced them both, rising almost 2%.
Other asset classes that were battered Friday — notably oil and cryptocurrencies — also recovered.
US oil prices settled up 2.6%, or nearly $2, at $69.95 per barrel, having given back some of their earlier advances. Although that doesn’t totally make up for Friday’s drop, it takes back a some of the losses.
Bitcoin was up nearly 6% in the afternoon.
Treasury bond yields, which fell Friday as investors were gunning for safety, reversed course and rose Monday. The 10-year US government bond yielded 1.53% in the early afternoon.
“Investors are trying to make sense of the latest Omicron Covid strain, but at this point more seems to be unknown than known,” said analysts at Bespoke Investments. “Clouding things even more, we’re unlikely to have definitive answers in the immediate future.”
But if the market hates one thing, it’s uncertainty.
Even as investors anxiously await details on the Omicron variant and its potential to disrupt the recovery, they should remember that ” the economy should enter 2022 with a tailwind of strong wage growth, falling unemployment and huge gains in asset prices,” said David Kelly, chief global strategist at JPMorgan Funds.
“This week’s economic reports, and particularly Friday’s jobs report, should provide further evidence that the economy is gathering momentum in the fourth quarter,” he added.
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