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4-minute readPresident Trump calls tariffs 'medicine' as stock market plungesPresident Donald Trump spent the weekend at a golf tournament in Florida as the stock market continued to plunge.The worst market crash was seen in 1929 and led to the Great Depression. It was caused by speculative investments, excessive debt and banking system weakness.The Dot-Com Bubble collapse caused a global financial crisis from 2007 to 2009.COVID-19 caused a sharp and rapid decline in the market, but it also was short-lived and regarded as one of the shortest plunges in history.The U.S....

Keeping a cool head can be pivotal amid market turmoilPresident Trump calls tariffs 'medicine' as stock market plungesPresident Donald Trump spent the weekend at a golf tournament in Florida as the stock market continued to plunge.Have you checked your 401k balance since President Donald Trump announced widespread tariffs last week on what he called “Liberation Day”?Chances are, it’s down — maybe way down.The markets have lost more than $11 trillion since Trump’s inauguration and more than half of that happened on Thursday and Friday, according to global investment research company...

People on Wall Street react to sinking stocks from tariffsPeople on Wall Street reacted to the stock market downturn from Trump's tariffs announcement with a mix of worry and optimism.Stock markets in New York and around the globe have dropped since President Donald Trump introduced tariffs on most imports, causing Americans to rethink their financial investments.After the opening bell on Wall Street on April 3, the Dow fell sharply in early trading and did not rebound later in the day, mirroring global markets and adding to the jitters for many Americans.The...

President Trump calls tariffs 'medicine' as stock market plungesPresident Donald Trump spent the weekend at a golf tournament in Florida as the stock market continued to plunge.The mass tariffs President Donald Trump announced last week sent the stock market tumbling.The S&P 500 and Nasdaq are now in a bear market.Economist and financial institutions are even more concerned about the possibility of a recession in the U.S.President Donald Trump's mass tariffs have sent the stock market tumbling in recent days and has sparked vocal concerns from economists and financial institutions over...

The left-wing Podemos MP, Cristina Gómez, has proposed expropriating flats from large US property owners in the Balearics in response to the imposition of tariffs by Donald Trump’s government. She made the announcement on Monday prior to the plenary session of the regional parliament, where she also put forward some measures that, in her opinion, would make it possible to lower the current price of housing on the islands. “If the United States has decided to defend its security and autonomy by turning inwards in the commercial sphere, it may...

The dollar has not been immune to the intense volatility that has gripped financial markets this year, particularly in the wake of President Donald Trump’s inauguration last January. That same month, the euro dipped as low as $1.02 amid speculation about potential parity between the two currencies. However, by mid-March, the euro staged a strong rebound, rising to $1.094. The latest blow came with last week’s announcement of the U.S. tariff policy, pushing the dollar down further. The currency is now trading at $1.10 per euro, marking a 6.25% depreciation...

For the second day in a row, the stock market plummeted, marking the worst week since March 2020.Tim Clarkson, Van Clemens financial firm stockbroker and vice president, wants to remind people the markets are volatile and going through difficult periods is a part of the process.Clarkson has been steering clients toward the best financial strategies for 40 years.“Clients have been really nervous now for the last two months, and even more nervous, obviously, when they see the stocks plummeting like this. It’s scary,” Clarkson said. “I’ve been through this many...

Getty Images; Chelsea Jia Feng/BI The stock market is in meltdown mode amid the trade war. Most advice in times like this is, "don't panic," but it can be hard to keep a cool head. Market pros say have some advice if you're worried about your portfolio amid the sell-off. The stock market just capped off a historic two-day plunge amid the panic caused by President Donald Trump's trade war. On Friday, The Dow Jones Industrial Average cratered by more than 2,200 points, the Nasdaq 100 ended in a bear...

Where does the money generated from tariffs go?The Trump administration predicts tariffs will generate billions of dollars, but where will that money go?Aerospace and defense manufacturer Textron lost the most ground in the sell-off.CVS may be the best positioned to weather a recession.Companies across industries saw earnings prospects sink on downturn fears.It's been a tough week on Wall Street and Rhode Island's biggest publicly traded companies have not been spared in one of the worst market sell-offs in years.The 10 largest publicly traded companies all saw their stock price fall...

What is Trump trying to accomplish with his tariffs? It is often unclear what the president’s endgame is, which adds to the uncertainty surrounding his trade wars. He has given different reasons for his sweeping import taxes, and sometimes they contradict each other.Trump has said that tariffs can raise money for the U.S. Treasury, protect U.S. industries, draw factories to the United States and serve as a negotiating tactic to get other countries to bend to his will, whether it means getting them to reduce their own tariffs or to...