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Dow drops 1,400 as US stocks lead worldwide sell-off after Trump's tariffs ignite a COVID-like shock (apnews.com)

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Everything from crude oil to Big Tech stocks to the value of the U.S. dollar against other currencies fell. Even gold, which has hit records recently as investors sought something safer to own, pulled lower. Some of the worst hits walloped smaller U.S. companies, and the Russell 2000 index of smaller stocks dropped 5.9% to pull it more than 20% below its record.

Wall Street had long assumed Trump would use tariffs merely as a tool for negotiations with other countries, rather than as a long-term policy. But Wednesday’s announcement may suggest Trump sees tariffs more as helping to solve an ideological goal than just an opening bet in a poker game. Trump on Wednesday talked about wresting manufacturing jobs back to the United States, a process that could take years.

If Trump follows through on his tariffs, stock prices may need to fall much more than 10% from their all-time high in order to reflect the recession that could follow, along with the hit to profits that U.S. companies could take. The S&P 500 is now down roughly 11% from its record set in February.

“Markets may actually be underreacting, especially if these rates turn out to be final, given the potential knock-on effects to global consumption and trade,” said Sean Sun, portfolio manager at Thornburg Investment Management, though he sees Trump’s announcement on Wednesday as more of an opening move than an endpoint for policy.

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[–] venotic@kbin.melroy.org 49 points 1 day ago (3 children)

tariffs merely as a tool for negotiations with other countries

Again, he doesn't know or care about how tariffs work. It's a tax. Not a negotiation. The dumbfuck doesn't know HOW to negotiate unless it's to benefit himself. Wall Street are equally as stupid.

To negotiate with another country, you simply visit them or contact them to actually you know - negotiate the best course of options or actions to take to make things a win-win for everyone. Something Trump never had.

[–] IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works 39 points 1 day ago (1 children)

He's adding tariffs to uninhabited islands, and islands that do no trade with the US. He has no idea how any of this shit works.

[–] ExtantHuman@lemm.ee 19 points 1 day ago

Someone must have thrown a fish to a penguin there once, giving US a 100% trade deficit...

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