Everything from crude oil to Big Tech stocks to the value of the U.S. dollar against other currencies fell. Even gold, which has hit records recently as investors sought something safer to own, pulled lower. Some of the worst hits walloped smaller U.S. companies, and the Russell 2000 index of smaller stocks dropped 5.9% to pull it more than 20% below its record.

Wall Street had long assumed Trump would use tariffs merely as a tool for negotiations with other countries, rather than as a long-term policy. But Wednesday’s announcement may suggest Trump sees tariffs more as helping to solve an ideological goal than just an opening bet in a poker game. Trump on Wednesday talked about wresting manufacturing jobs back to the United States, a process that could take years.

If Trump follows through on his tariffs, stock prices may need to fall much more than 10% from their all-time high in order to reflect the recession that could follow, along with the hit to profits that U.S. companies could take. The S&P 500 is now down roughly 11% from its record set in February.

“Markets may actually be underreacting, especially if these rates turn out to be final, given the potential knock-on effects to global consumption and trade,” said Sean Sun, portfolio manager at Thornburg Investment Management, though he sees Trump’s announcement on Wednesday as more of an opening move than an endpoint for policy.

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    I’ve never liked the argument crypto is good for diversification.

    A lot of the studies on it are from pre-Covid when crypto was on a rocket ship, so the lack of correlation is actually a false signal.

    I do own a bunch of crypto, but not as a diversification tool.

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      All Crypto is a scam designed to make you lose money, unless you can posess enough of it to manipulate its value and use it to take money from others.

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        Yeah I used to cynically buy shitcoin volatility…

        I’m kind of bagholding some btc right now though.

        Crypto is scammy for sure

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        Not really.

        A lot of coins are scams, yes. But the concept of cryptocurrency has very valid uses in replacing the current fiat system perpetuated by governments.

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            most of them, yes. most of them don’t have any real purpose than making a select few rich. but there’s also a few (1 or 2 so far as I know) that’s purpose is private payments over the internet, a purpose for which most of the others are basically useless

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            Yeah, I can tell you know nothing about what you’re talking about; just meming for the upvotes.

            I’m just going to block you and move on. I encourage any sane adult to do the same, lest they lose more brain cells by reading your drivel.

            Goodbye.

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          Sunken cost falacy has you shilling for scammers.

          Sell your shitcoins and free yourself, you’re not getting that money back bud.

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            No. You just don’t understand the impact of cryptocurrency beyond what you’ve seen scammers push.

            I’m going to ignore you now. Goodbye.

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      If you look at the cryptocurrencies, they all go up and down with each other.

      Really puts into perspective how far-reaching the investor class actually is.

      It’s funny though, because to them, all those “nerd” coins might as well be the same.