# In a live interview, Professor Nicholas Economides shares his outlook on the current state of financial markets, the impact of the government shutdown and Amazon's and Microsoft's earnings

1 Faculty News January 28, 2019 ![Yahoo Finance logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/yahoofinance.jpg?itok=iQnyXkp_)>

Excerpt from [Yahoo Finance](https://finance.yahoo.com/video/nyu-economics-professor-upcoming-fed-212709211.html) --"I think the concerns are a bit overrated. I don’t think China is the biggest driver of the US economy, so I don’t think that that should bring down the US stock market… it’s more psychology and more worries than real data that is driving the market."

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