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BREAKING: EU Adopts Tariffs on €21 Billion of US Goods in Metals Fight
EU member states overwhelmingly approved retaliatory duties worth €22 billion on US goods on Wednesday, as global trade tensions soar following Donald Trump’s sweeping levies on US imports. 26 of the bloc’s 27 member states voted to impose “rebalancing” duties of between 10-25% on a range of American products, including …
Wall Street’s ‘Exceptionalism’ Bet Cracks as Dollar, Stocks, and Bonds All Sink
https://www.benzinga.com/government/regulations/25/04/44710975/wall-streets-american-exceptionalism-trade-falters-as-dollar-stocks-bonds-all-slide The 'American Exceptionalism' trade is faltering as U.S. assets face a broad selloff. Investors are liquidating dollar-denominated holdings, including Treasuries, amid escalating trade tensions with China. The U.S. dollar, stocks, and bonds are all declining simultaneously, challenging the notion of U.S. market stability. This shift comes just months after …
(04/9) - Interesting Stocks Today, China Strikes Back With Tariffs! (Again)
This is a daily watchlist for short-term trading: I might trade all/none of the stocks listed, and even stocks not listed! I am targeting potentially good candidates for short-term trading; I have no opinion on them as investments. The potential of the stock moving today is what makes it interesting, …
Best places to get up to the minute news in this chaotic market?
Where do you guys get up to the minute news notifications? I.e. if I want to know that Reuters just blasted some fake news out there and the market is going to pump 4T. Or trump just blasted some new tariffs on a penguin infested island? Etc. Ideally something with …
The market is up 90% in the past five years
That’s well above the 10% annual return average. Why is everyone on here acting like the world is ending… when everyone’s 401Ks are still well above the average annual return on stocks when looking at the past five years? Everyone with half a brain cell knew the market was on …
Is Trump purposely trying to get countries to dump US treasury notes?
After seeing the news today about T notes being sold at a discount it got me wondering. I don't know enough about the national debt and deficit and treasuries and all of that but it seems to me perhaps he's purposely trying to make our debt to other countries disappear …
China expresses 'grave concern' at WTO about Trump tariffs
https://www.reuters.com/world/trump-tariffs-live-markets-selloff-us-reciprocal-tariffs-kick-2025-04-09/ China told the World Trade Organization that the United States' decision to impose what it has called reciprocal tariffs on Beijing threatens to further destabilize global trade. "The situation has dangerously escalated. ...As one of the affected members, China expresses grave concern and firm opposition to this reckless move," …
Breaking: China announced additional tariffs on US goods
China will impose 84% tariffs on U.S. goods from Thursday, up from the 34% previously announced, the finance ministry said on Wednesday. The finance ministry said it would impose additional tariffs on US goods from April 10 https://www.reuters.com/world/trump-tariffs-live-markets-selloff-us-reciprocal-tariffs-kick-2025-04-09/
No inversion: bond markets
The shock over the bond market isn’t how high it is exactly but how traditionally the bond market is an inversion of the equities markets. So you’d usually see bonds down while equities are up. And then in an equities dip or downturn bonds are a nice hedge/flight to safety …
The idea that a stock market crash only hurts the rich is outdated nonsense.
I’m really irritated by the many careless articles that keep repeating the claim that since "the top 10% owns almost 88% of all stocks," only the rich are affected by a stock market crash. That logic is flawed. Yes, the top 10% hold the vast majority of stocks, but that …