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/r/Stocks Weekend Discussion Saturday - Apr 19, 2025
This is the weekend edition of our stickied discussion thread. Discuss your trades / moves from last week and what you're planning on doing for the week ahead. Some helpful links: * [Finviz](https://finviz.com/quote.ashx?t=spy) for charts, fundamentals, and aggregated news on individual stocks * [Bloomberg market news](https://www.bloomberg.com/markets) * StreetInsider news: * …
Just wondering how those people are doing — those who kept piling into SPY, VTI, VOO, etc last year
The sentiment was that anything index is literally better than gold, as proven by historical data. I was negged into oblivion as a troll for suggesting a possible downturn can blindside you. Where are those people now?
TRUMP SLUMP is real and a very Trumpy kind of thing.
So who saw this mess coming? I didn’t vote Trump because I think he’s an embarrassment… being a convicted felon, rapist, crook, human POS … but people said, “oh he’s gonna rock the markets” … I don’t think this what they meant!
WSJ Exclusive: Trump Advisers Took Advantage of Navarro’s Absence to Push for Tariff Pause
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-tariff-pause-navarro-bessent-lutnick-b9e864fb >They needed to get the president alone. > >On April 9, financial markets were going haywire. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick wanted President Trump to put a pause on his aggressive global tariff plan. But there was a big obstacle: Peter Navarro, Trump’s tariff-loving trade …
Cash (CDs) and Cash (dollars) and foreign currency EFTs
Whether you think the end of NATO, the threat of a resurgent Soviet Union, and the end of the dollar as a reserve currency would be good or bad, they now seem rationally like realistic possibilities. **How stupid would it be go to dump stocks, dump buffer-EFTs (at a 10% …
Genuine question regarding restrictions on individual companies
I'm invested in NVDA and I'm having a really hard time understanding how the free market works in this scenario. The trump administration banned exports of NVDA H20 chips to china for security reasons. So I was wondering... - Can NVDA open a factory in another country, like China as …
Aren't we already in trouble when it comes to JPow?
There seems to be a shift from people thinking that we're about to implode to people thinking the bottom is already in, as "Trump will cut back on tariffs and declare victory". I also see the fear and greed index slowly recovering along with the stock market indexes. On the …
Holding foreign currencies via ETF?
Worried about USD losing value (assuming Trump gets his way with the Fed and things go really bad) and am looking to hold more foreign currencies. I've never bought any before but read that I can invest via ETF (e.g. "buying" GBP through FXB) - but is this a secure …
Trump will study whether to fire Fed Chair Powell, adviser says
[https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-study-whether-fire-fed-145547980.html](https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-study-whether-fire-fed-145547980.html) WASHINGTON (Reuters) -White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett said on Friday that President Donald Trump and his team were studying the matter when asked if firing Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell was an option. "The president and his team will continue to study that matter," Hassett told reporters at …
GPN to Acquire Worldpay from FIS, why did $GPN tank after the announcement?
The knock on GPN has been its low/mid market ceiling for success and that its competitors, including FIS/Worldpay, have far larger portfolios, making GPN susceptible to macro impacts. This acquisition makes sense on paper from a business perspective, I'm surprised the news caused such a large drop in share price