Summary
Donald Trump announced new tariffs against China, Mexico, and Canada, sparking market turmoil as the measures were set to begin this weekend.
Following the announcement, major indices plunged, with the Dow Jones, NASDAQ, and S&P 500 suffering significant losses, reflecting investor anxiety across global markets.
Canada, Mexico, and China vowed retaliatory tariffs, with officials warning that these measures could escalate trade conflicts and significantly harm economic stability.
Critics argue the tariffs will harm consumers and businesses, creating global trade uncertainty and risking prolonged economic challenges in the United States.
I’m looking at both the dow and the nasdaq, and they look fine. Where is this “plummet” the article is referring to? Not that I think the tariffs are good, but let’s be truthful.
Not exactly what I would classify as a plummet, but we were seeing green numbers for the day and then they subsequently turned down once this was announced.
Still too early to say whether we’re going to be looking at any form of sharp downturn.
Right? -0.5% yesterday, -1.0% for the week. Totally normal and not deserving of any kind of adjective.
Certainly not saying Lady Trump’s actions won’t kill the stock market, but this ain’t it yet.
Starting just after 11 AM EST, the S&P went down over 1%. It’s not a steep plunge; that kind of swing happened on Monday for AI, too, IIRC.
Not sure what the article is talking about. I’m sure once tariffs are announced it will drop tho. But that’s a problem for monday.
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Going down less than one percent is the opposite of a ‘plummet.’ It is literally indistinguishable from a normal daily fluctuation.
Furthermore, the market has overall gone up since.
OK but they did fall rapidly, and one can only surmise it’s because of the announcement of more tariffs.
DJIA shorts are up 347% seems a lot of people are leaning towards a downside
Hold on now, that was a NASDAQ loss of nearly 0.75%. If the Americans do that 134 times in a row, all their money will be gone! How would they buy their eggs? /s
(1 - 0.0075)^134 ≈ 36.5%
If you’re going to “well, ACKchyuallllly” someone, it helps to have any idea what you’re talking about.
The DOW “plummeted” 337,47 points from 44.882,13 to 44.544,66, a reduction of ~0,75%. Given the drop wasn’t percentage based but was additionally expressed as a percentage of the previous closing price for context, it would require an additional ~132 similar drops to reach zero.
Now, you’re probably noticing I listed the DOW and ~132 drops here versus NASDAQ and 134 drops prior. That’s because I was making a joke and was not much concerned about details. This is because, unlike certain individuals, I am not one of the most insufferable types of people: the pedant.
Right. The S and P 500 went down 0.5% yesterday, it’s a pretty typical trading day and still up over the last five days, month, six months and the year.
Trumps a lunatic, but one thing he does understand is business.
Trumps a lunatic, but one thing he does understand is business.
This is mostly a branding thing, he’s not actually particularly good at running businesses.
I’ll give him that he’s somewhat of an expert in avoiding any form of accountability.
Mother fucker bankrupted a casino. He knows absolutely nothing about business.
Bankrupted three casinos: Trump’s Taj Mahal, Trump Marina, and Trump Plaza.
He seems to understand shell companies, tax avoidance, cheating your contractors, and strategic bankruptcy. He understands shilling for sponsors buying and selling favors, fleecing the rubes. I guess those are business strategies but there’s no evidence he understands ethical business.
Could this finally be the term that Trump speedruns the economy crash so the Republicans can be properly blamed for it happening due to their policies and leadership, rather than the Dems always inheriting a timebomb and wasting a whole ass term fixing it?
Trump is already running with the line that the helicopter/plane collision was somehow Biden’s fault, even though Trump and “Justin Hammer” fucked with the FAA. That’s probably why they are speedrunning this collapse, they want to claim they inherited a mess, and shift blame for the consequences of their actions.
Which is one of two reasons why they keep screeching this “DEI Hires did 9/11!” nonsense
- It’s the only card they have for claiming Biden is responsible for Trump’s blunders
- It’s to manufacture consent for Trump’s plan to repeal the Civil Rights Act “in the interest of public safety”
The FAA’s diversity hiring programs under Biden were the same as they were under Trump.
Also, the more important fact that Dei doesn’t mean “hire women and gays at the expense of merit”…so the whole DEI thing was always based on ignorance of the systems.
Just to be clear that’s not what happened this last time. Biden deliberately took away all of the covid provisions that were holding the economy up. And while the inflation wasn’t directly caused by the government at the time, democrats did nothing about it except wait for studies to come out showing it was price gouging so they could say it wasn’t their fault.
Are egg prices plummeting?
Where are all of the “I’m worried about the economy” voters at? Come on be loud and proud!
One of the funniest things I read was a WSJ article on tariffs, in the comment section. Along with a lot of copium about how they, personally, don’t buy such items, some dumbass bitching that WSJ - that’s right, the Wall Street Journal - is showing their bias against donvict.
The ONLY gloom and doom articles I saw in WSJ during Biden’s high inflation term were in the opinion section. Your bias is clearly showing …
Apparently, reporting on items likely to be affected by the donvict taxes on goods is “bias”. That WSJ, always known for their extremist progressive WOKE agenda and their “TDS”. LOL
Tariffs are the opposite of a “free market” measure and absolutely choke an interconnected economy. Look at the damage done to Cuba or North Korea by sanctions, it’s the same principle. Getting to the real meat of why this is happening is like a forensic case study. Doesn’t even benefit Trump unless he basically immediately reverses it and gives the old “see they capitulated to my demands” based on whatever random thing he dredges up.
It helps folks who are positioned to buy the dip.
Just another opportunity for the oligarchs to buy more of our country at a discount!
As long as the stock/asset/etc. actually goes back up, yeah. And yeah, you can short a decline as well.
If you are a non-Trump voter in a red state, especially if you work for the flagship company or industry in that state, I would like to apologize on behalf of all Canadians for what our government is about to do. We don’t want to do it but it is the only way to deal with a bully.
I would like to apologize on behalf of all Canadians for what our government is about to do.
Awfully nice of you Canadians to apologize in advance for defending yourselves - eh?
It’s what we do. We understand that most Americans didn’t vote for him and that those who did don’t understand tariffs or just how much the damage that he and the billionaires are doing to the government is going to hurt regular Americans, including his base, for decades to come. It sucks but here we are.
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We don’t want to do it but it is the only way to deal with a bully. I think tariffs are bad for the people of the country that levies them. If another country puts a tariff on things my country sells, I’m for unilaterally disarming. Let the other country’s people enjoy the dubious industry-protecting benefits of that tax, and let us enjoy the benefits of buying whatever is a good deal.
I think it’s nonsense to think that when people freely trade money for goods, the person receiving the money “wins” and the person receiving the goods “loses”. They made the trade because it was good for both parties.
I’m American, and we’re pursing the opposite of what I think is good policy.
And hedge funds keep betting against the fucking economy. 401ks, savings, and pensions will all be effected. They want to steal your money.
Yea! That’s the way Republicans and Trump support the economy!
I wonder if we outsiders have to rebuild the American economy with foreign aid and a new Marshall plan in 2029…
I hope so, for the love of God please… America cannot be left to its own devices, Americans will die if that happens.
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2069436850145993
50 States, 50 Protests, 1day
Feb 5 @ your downtown.
Looks like the link was taken down…
It opened for me.
‘Significant losses’ being 30 points?
Yeah these people know jack shit about market variations.
Donald Trump is such a fucking loser. An absolute grifter and would be better in the ground than breathing.
Fuck Donald Trump and his band of loser magas.
I wholeheartedly agree. I’d say he’d make good worm food but the orange ass makeup his nonce ass wears would be hazardous
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Came here to make sure people saw some comments about cashing out and waiting this out.
I’m selling.
The upside if somehow our trade partners fold and we get sweater trade deals is the market would see a bump. Doubt it would be huge and you would have time to buy back in and suffer a small loss of growth.
This downside if this backfires is the dollar becoming weaker and opening the door for other powers to insert themselves as the economic fintech lubricator. This could see the market tumble.
Here are some numbers to consider.
The US sold $441 billion worth of goods and services to Canada in 2024.
Canada sold $482 billion worth of goods and services to the US in 2024.
The US has a populating of 334.9 million people.
Canada has a population of 40.1 million people.
Per capita, every American man, woman, and child spent $1,316.81 on Canadian goods and services.
Candians spent $12,019. 95 on American good and services.
Who isn’t pulling their weight in this trading relationship?
This isn’t about illegal immigration and it isn’t about the 20 lbs of fentanyl that tried to cross the border from Canada.
This is about the billionaire class raising taxes on the poor and raising prices for Americans.
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MAGA must be beside themselves with all this…. winning.
