NEW YORK - President Donald Trump’s tariffs have spooked investors, with fears of an economic downturn driving a stock market sell-off that has wiped out US$4 trillion (S$5.3 trillion) from the S&P 500’s peak last month, when Wall Street was cheering much of Mr Trump’s agenda.

  • @danc4498
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    5218 hours ago

    Billionaires call this a fire sale. They get richer.

    • @cabron_offsets
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      1216 hours ago

      Not yet. Still a ways to go before proverbial (and maybe literal) blood in the streets.

    • @madeinthebackseat
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      917 hours ago

      We can only hope that they’re currently heavily leveraged with loans on equity holdings, such that they have to liquidate assets.

      • @danc4498
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        1017 hours ago

        Nothing will stop them from gathering up all the low price shares.

    • @blazeknave
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      215 hours ago

      Rothschilds and Waterloo, mortgage crises…