this post was submitted on 14 Mar 2025
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The U.S. stock market has lost over $5 trillion in value in three weeks as the S&P 500 fell 10% from its record high.

The decline, driven by concerns over Trump’s trade policies and slowing economic growth, has led to weaker consumer sentiment and cautious corporate outlooks.

Barclays strategist Emmanuel Cau noted rising uncertainty among investors.

The selloff has also hit AI-related stocks, with Nvidia down 17% and the Magnificent Seven ETF falling 16%.

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[–] beeng@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (2 children)

Pushing down assets is deflationary because nobody has money to spend, therefore they will get a good rate on their gov debt refinancing by the end of the year. That's what I heard.

[–] Jhex@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

And that makes as much sense as destroying your house to save on insurance

[–] beeng@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 11 hours ago

Least the bank won't take your house.

[–] faberyayo@lemm.ee 6 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

All theories on this sound reasonable, but I still think Trump isn't playing some 4D chess game, I think he is just dumb.

[–] beeng@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 14 hours ago

Just got to be president of United States through being dumb. Life is just Hollywood films 😅