Stock Market Plummets as Trump Announces New Tariff War
Donald Trump announced new tariffs will take effect this weekend—sending the stock market crashing.
Donald Trump announced new tariffs will take effect this weekend—sending the stock market crashing.
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I mean far be it from me to speak in defense of Trump's idiotic trade war but I don't know in what world 30 points off the SNP500 is considered "plummeting". The DOW fell 350 points!!! Yes, and it's still sitting quite comfortably near all time highs at $44,544. That's barely a blip on the radar.
Stock market is a load of bull anyway. Just a glorified casino based on socio-theoretical math
Companies can make record profits all the time but it will never trickle down to benefit normal people as long as they have a choice to keep it.
stock value is also strictly based on perceived value rather than real value. companies are incentivized to lie about their performance to inflate their stock value for their biggest shareholders
The lies would also happen if it was about the current value of the company.
But that it is about the perceived value or future value is simply a logical consequence: If you assume the company will be much better off in 2 years, you will buy those socks, just like everyone else. So it goes up without the company actually being any better.
They can't lie about the dividends they paid out, and dividends are a big part of perceived value. To lots of people, they are the only important part.
look into how many "high value" stocks actually render dividends. dividends are an extremely minor part of these "financial markets"
More than half of the top ten companies by market cap do pay dividends: Apple, Microsoft, Nvidia, Meta, Broadcom, and Walmart.
Not all do, of course. That's exactly why some of those "high value" stocks are probably in a bubble, and soon to become not so high value.
So are 401Ks but not many have a choice.
It's has always seemed insane ro me that those of us lucky enough to have IRAs of any type, some with employer match, never move the stock market. Once or twice a month, millions of people add money to the stock market and there is no change. You'd think you could place index bets for it to go up when those hit the market, but their value has clearly been captured by day trading ahead of time. So stupid.
Most of those are in diverse packages, though. So yeah, millions of people add in once or twice a month, but it's across tons of companies/industries. And it does move the market, but there's also tens of trillions of dollars in the market so the amount moved isn't super noticeable to anyone really but those that watch the market for a living.
well, making tons of money on the stock market isn't even tied to making record profits, since it's nothing really more than a popularity contest between rich hacks.
An honest reporting would use percentage movement, in which case this drop was .7%. Typical activity. The first circuit breaker put in place to prevent a stock run begins at a 7% drop, and that only stops things for 15 mins because it's not even critical yet at that point.
But to the average person who knows little about the stock market, 350 points sounds like a lot, so it gets views, especially when it's supposedly connected to another event that "caused" it.
May drop a bit more Monday. Big 3 autos are a small segment of S&P now. Tesla may face retaliation. NORAD fees is the nuclear option. "declaration of war" official statement, and US companies standing by their Canadian supply chain is the key "unknown", but either way means Canada is a friend, that undermines Trump, or enemy that undermines US economy/S&P.
I appreciate the reassurance. I just started a rollover to my new job which means everything has to get sold. I don’t have a lot in retirement, but that’s what I’ve got.
Hopefully, in the grand scheme of things it won’t be a huge deal any more so than the general collapse of society.
Presumably, if you're selling low, you're also buying low into your new plan. Does it not wash?
Indeed! Indeed. That's the hope. Not my goal to cash out.
Of course this won't help if we're all starving but for today I'm still trying to plan for a future.