Jimdamick
Well-Known Member
Stocks around the world plunged into hell Friday as investors feared that a trade conflict between the U.S. and China, the biggest economies in the world, would escalate. A second day of big losses pushed U.S. stocks to their worst week in two fucking years.dow pummets another 400+ today
all gains since november 2nd 2017 have been lost
Investors fear that if China responds in kind (they will, of course) to sanctions on $60 billion worth of Chinese imports the White House announced on Thursday, it will be a first step toward a full-blown trade war that could damage the global economy and slash profits at big U.S. exporters like Apple and Boeing.
The market's two biggest sectors slumped the most. Technology stocks have made enormous gains over the past year, but since they do so much business outside the U.S., investors see them as particularly vulnerable in a trade dispute. The sector dropped 7.9 percent this week.
Banks also fell sharply. Amid the trade-war rumblings, investors fled to the safety of bonds and drove down yields, a potential negative for bank profits. That marked a reversal from earlier in the week, when banks rose as the Federal Reserve raised interest rates.
It wound up being the worst week for U.S. indexes since January 2016. The S&P 500 index sank 6 percent. Among notable decliners was Facebook, which lost 13.9 percent, or $68 billion in value, as outrage mounted over its handling of user data. That's about as much as the company was worth in in 2012, the year of its initial public offering.
We all should have known that Trump will bring this country into a war, and in a fucked way, this economic war is a good one.
The 1st casualties this time are going to be the wealthy (nice), not the men and women of our military for the time being, although with Bolton, that has a better than good chance of occuring.
Personally, I have no stocks, but I am looking seriously at pot stocks (their going up/fuck Sessions), so watching millionaires lose money because of Trump leaves a very nice taste in my mouth.
I'm sorry for Joe the Plumber that voted for Trump (no, I'm not) that is losing his shirt with his 401K (tax break will make up for it right?)
So, I am sitting back and laughing at the economic disaster that Trump is creating.
You get what you vote for.