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Roughly $11.1 trillion has been wiped away from the U.S. stock market since Jan. 17, the Friday before President Donald Trump took the oath of office and began his second term, according to data from Dow Jones Market Data.

Some $6.6 trillion of that figure was lost on Thursday and Friday alone — the largest two-day wipeout of shareholder value on record, Dow Jones data showed.

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[–] in4apenny@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 4 hours ago

Wow, $11 trillion is a lot. Really puts the $36 trillion sitting liquid in offshore tax havens into perspective (yet seems to be missing from every conversation about money.)

[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 16 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Go woke go broke? Seems like when you go conservative you get absolutely ripped.

[–] frunch@lemmy.world 8 points 2 hours ago

It was projection once again. It turns out being anti-woke is indeed the path to poverty

[–] Guns0rWeD13@lemmy.world 7 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

so weird to be cheering for our own demise, but is it really our own demise? i don't own stocks. do you? and where does 11 trillion actually go? to another country's market? fiat currency is so weird. it's almost as if it's all just smoke and mirrors that don't actually reflect reality. did anything physically change since dumptwat announced tariffs? capitalism just seems like a giant lie divorced from reality. let's burn it all down.

[–] cows_are_underrated@feddit.org 6 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

In terms of where the money foes its quite easily. The majority will just evaporate. A lot of people and company's may shift their invested money to European (or somewhere else) companys whichay rise a bit in value, but the majority of the money is just gone. The value of a company is a mix of how profitable they are and a lot of how much people think a company will be profitable in the future and therefore are investing into it (its like the typical production and demand thing. If more people want to buy something it rises in value).

[–] Guns0rWeD13@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

where the money foes its quite easily. The majority will just evaporate.

the thing that didn't exist in the first place evaporated. that doesn't sound weird to you?

also "how much people think a company will be profitable"... you just described a confidence game and gambling.

It is like you said. Its artificial value. Its value generated, by how much people are willing to pay for a share of it. And as you rightfully realised, its basically gambling. You can make predictions based on the current trend (what ever trend it may be),but its still gambling.

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 3 hours ago (1 children)
[–] brysmi@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

Oh, is it tee time already?

[–] ThomasCrappersGhost@feddit.uk 14 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

How does this compare to 2008?

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 17 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

28 September 2007 S&P 500 was $1526 per share

27 February 2009 it was $735

31 January 2025 it was $6040

Today it is $5074

[–] dryfter@lemm.ee 13 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Ok, so 2008 was a 52% loss in almost a year and a half.

Right now it's only a 16% loss in a little over 2 months.

Someone far smarter than I am could maybe figure out the monthly decline percentage and compare 2008 losses vs now. Don't get me wrong, it's a shitload of money, but it doesn't look like the stock market is anywhere close to reaching 2008 levels of loss.....yet.

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 17 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Roughly

3.05% per month in 2008

7.75% per month today but the time period is much smaller

[–] cows_are_underrated@feddit.org 1 points 2 hours ago

We will see how bad it will actually become and if it can match 2008 levels.

[–] Zier@fedia.io 13 points 9 hours ago

Let's see if he can make that number $111 Trillion lost by the end of May 2025.

[–] kreskin@lemmy.world 31 points 11 hours ago

Putin will be pleased.

[–] Rhoeri@lemmy.world 48 points 13 hours ago (10 children)

At least there’s no genocide in Palestine, right?

Right?

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[–] Gxost@lemmy.world 33 points 12 hours ago

Now I know why Trump, during his rally, said people would ask him to stop winning.

[–] KingGordon@lemmy.world 80 points 15 hours ago (5 children)
[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 14 points 9 hours ago

"Drill, baby, drill"

Stock market: "To the ~~moooooon~~ cooooooooore!"

[–] alvvayson@lemmy.dbzer0.com 33 points 13 hours ago

The US stock market has been liberated of 11 trillion dollars and counting.

What a party, what a party.

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