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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 Morningstar. On Monday, the CEO of the world’s largest asset manager, Larry Fink of Blackrock, said stock markets could fall by another 20% because of the tariffs and said the economy is probably...

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - MARCH 16: People walk past the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on March 16, 2023 ... More in New York City. Stocks fell again in morning trading as investors continue to show concerns over the stability of global banks following the collapse last week of Silicon Valley Bank. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)Getty Images The stock market selloff has laid bare a crisis of confidence on Wall Street over Washington’s policy direction, and tax-cut optimism — even the cuts themselves — may be not enough...

Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images Stock buybacks could counteract extended market declines, Citi said. The bank predicted $1 trillion in stock buybacks by 2025, up from 2024. Companies may shift spending from capital expenditures to buybacks amid Trump policy uncertainty. The stock market has a $1 trillion weapon to fight further price declines: stock buybacks. Analysts at Citi said in a Monday note that as the stock market continued to decline, it could present a too-good-to-ignore deal for companies to buy back their stocks at discounted levels. "Should large cap...