(CNBC) U.S. stocks declined on Friday, with benchmark indexes posting sizable weekly losses, as crude’s ongoing slide rattled investors.
“This started a week or so ago, we’d recovered from the October low to a level that is arguably overvalued, and when we’re overvalued everything has to go right, and what’s not going right is what’s happening to the price of oil, and what that means for Russia, Europe and the U.S.,” said Hugh Johnson, chairman of Hugh Johnson Advisors.
“Everybody likes to say the price decline in oil is good news for the U.S. economy, but the real issue is this is really bad news for Russia, and by implication, bad news for Europe, which does a lot of business with Russia,” said Johnson.
