It's not a reflection of the economy. Capital markets are a place where firms go to acquire capital, people with excess capital buy securities, and firms (even

It's not a reflection of the economy. Capital markets are a place where firms go to acquire capital, people with excess capital buy securities, and firms (eventually) return that capital. The markets are only a reflection of the pricing of those securities, which sometimes but doesn't always correlate to what's going on in the economy.