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The S&P 500 lost more than $2 trillion in market capitalization within 15 minutes in reaction to Trump tariffs. (decrypt.co)
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[–] [email protected] 23 points 17 hours ago (4 children)

As of 8:45 PM ET, Dow Jones futures were down 1.26%, S&P 500 futures fell 1.16%, and Nasdaq 100 futures declined 1.20%.

Stock market indices fluctuate regularly. If you multiply a small normal percentage change in a national index by the size of an entire national economy you'll get a big number like $2 trillion to make an alarming headline.

There's a saying in stocks, if you want to see the trend, zoom out. If you're trying to push a narrative, zoom in. There's a reason alarmist publications pick very small time intervals when discussing how markets are affected by government actions.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

As of 8:45 PM ET, Dow Jones futures were down 1.26%

(A) That was a temporary partial recovery. (B) That was Dow Jones, not the S&P. Nobody cares about the Dow Jones. It's not a real stock index.

you’ll get a big number like $2 trillion to make an alarming headline.

The 2 trillion drop from the article represented about 4% of S&P Market Cap. And as of now the S&P is again down 4% percent today. A 4% drop is an alarming headline. And it is only the first day.

Edit:

You were given the earliest notification of the 4% market drop in the entire lemmy/reddit ecosystem right here on [email protected] and you wasted it by pretending it didn't happen.

Now the drop is up to 5% of S&P market cap and 6% of NASDAQ. Did you really think that Trump imposing even larger tariffs than the Smoot Harley tariffs that triggered the 12 year Great Depression wasn't going to affect the stock market?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Anyone refering to market prices generating or erasing money, leave alone value, has serious misconceptions about the economy. Also we need to stop the worship of market capitalization. The market price only reflects the price of currently traded stock. Have someone announce they are going to buy up or dump 20% of any stock and see it flying or tanking.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I mean, yeah, it's totally imaginary value. But then again, so is all money... The current financial system is a nonsensical house of cards propped up mostly by how bad most everyone wants it to stay standing

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

it’s totally imaginary value

That 'totally imaginary value' bought me a new car in January when I was Trump-proofing my life.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

This was my first thought as well. $2T sounds life a lot but but I had no idea how much is actually in the market. Apparently $2T is nothing because even my index fund for the S&P 500 went up today.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

Apparently $2T is nothing because even my index fund for the S&P 500 went up today.

That price yesterday was determined at market close 4pm EST and before the tariff announcement.

The $2 trillion loss was in futures trading after the market closed yesterday. It represents 4% of the total market cap of the S&P index. As of right now, the S&P is still down 4% for the day.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

Well, damn.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Yup. Dotcom and Housing crisis saw the entire market drop over 50% each in ~3 years until lowest point, but since the 90s, the market has only gone up overall… 3000%. This is a blip, enjoy the sale.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

The SP500 did not break the high of the Dotcom era for more than a decade. It did so briefly in 2007. And you know what happened next. It stayed below that high for another several years.

That's based on raw values. Adjusted for inflation I'm certain the Dotcom bust lasted until the mid-2010s. That's about when the tech industry really took off again too.

Also it's not up 3000% since the 90s. More like 800% give or take. The entirety of that being between the years 1990 to 2000 and 2015 to 2024. If one has only started paying attention to the markets the past several years would one be familiar with the paradigm of "enjoy the sale". The past decade has been the greatest bull market ever. Things had basically gone parabolic where gains were exponential and losses were only small and brief. It's no wonder people are spoilt.

Long term investors (read: the average person) must be willing to expect time frames on the order of a decade of stagnation. These periods can and do happen. Just because the past 10 years has been a fever dream doesn't mean we should forget lessons of the past 100 years.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

They VOTED for this OVERWHELMINGLY!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

and a lot of them will remain unaffected, as they have no stocks or mutual funds to tank.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago

Didn't vote for him but also have no stocks or mutual funds to tank. Yay?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago

Trump described the measures as “reciprocal tariffs,”

Is it really reciprocal, if the trade deficit stems from the problem that many US-made products are bad or useless in other countries?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

markets reversed violently as Trump unveiled tariff rates nation by nation during his "Make America Wealthy Again" event.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

but not quite 'LMAOROTFBTCSTCNDBFOOTWIFOAGWLLBGWTHROOTSAIAKBAYB'?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 16 hours ago

If my brain was properly caffeinated, potentially. Currently don't have the energy to go beyond a ROFLMFAO

[–] [email protected] 0 points 16 hours ago

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