It's Tariff Tuesday. How is your portfolio doing?

[CFordUNC]

If only there had been warning signs of this inevitability.

Yeah but pronouns or something!

 

[aGDevil2k]

Moved the bulk of my IRA from a target 2045 (which is 9 years after I hope to retire) to a more conservative 2025 index. Did that in January so it should blunt some of it, but it's going to be really fucking nasty for a while. It will bounce back, but this is why IRAs shouldnt be the main vessel for stable retirement

 

[nrsair]

My fun portfolio is back to where it was last September after hitting all time high in mid-February. Not looking at the retirement accounts. Best performer since then has been Coca Cola which I sold about half of because I thought RFK would have pose significant problems. Took the proceeds and put it into tech and some crypto-adjacent stuff… all seemed reasonable at the time but was almost instantly proven to be the wrong decision lol.

 

[uncgriff]

That $500k CD at 5.9% interest rate I bought 5 months ago is looking pretty sweet. Should mature just in time to pick up the broken pieces of the trump market

 

[CFordUNC]

That $500k CD at 5.9% interest rate I bought 5 months ago is looking pretty sweet. Should mature just in time to pick up the broken pieces of the trump market

Damn. Great move on your part!

 

[dcf2]

this business will get out of control and we'll be lucky to live through it

 

[altmin]

Dow -750 and still falling

 

[CFordUNC]

 

[nycfan]

Series of updates at WSJ indicate a bit of a freakout

 

[ChileG]

Is it time yet for Trump to claim that he got additional concessions and the tariffs are again off the table (like he did last time)?

 

[Wheels81]

 

[CFordUNC]

This thread must have some sort of mysterious force field around it whereby it is completely inaccessible to our board Trumpers. You’d think they would be here celebrating all of this winning that they promised us.

 

[Calheel]

Market is doing that midday recovery thing, when the investors think Trump isn't really that crazy, is he? That is usually followed by a late day sell off.

 

[lawtig02]

Market is doing that midday recovery thing, when the investors think Trump isn't really that crazy, is he? That is usually followed by a late day sell off.

Isn’t that usually about Europe buying the dip at the end of their day?

 

[Duke Mu]

Isn’t that usually about Europe buying the dip at the end of their day?

Right. Trump makes Euro and Chyna rich!!

Welp - retirement is pushed back another 5 years...lol

 

[Healing]

Market is doing that midday recovery thing, when the investors think Trump isn't really that crazy, is he? That is usually followed by a late day sell off.

It’s become so predictable, the human instinct to bargain with self and reality.

 

[PandemicBlue]

We'll see how all this works out in the end. If there is pain for a while but at the end, we end up with trade deals with our trading partners that are equally as fair to America as they are to them, then it will definitely be worth it.

The US has been unfairly treated for years when it comes to trade. Surely, we have the toughness required to push back against the unfairness now that we have a president with the balls to actually push back. Or we can just stay the world's pushover and see how much longer we can afford to be used as the world's piggybank.

 

[Healing]

Goodness, the lack of perspective.

 

[Bobfripp]

We'll see how all this works out in the end. If there is pain for a while but at the end, we end up with trade deals with our trading partners that are equally as fair to America as they are to them, then it will definitely be worth it.

The US has been unfairly treated for years when it comes to trade. Surely, we have the toughness required to push back against the unfairness now that we have a president with the balls to actually push back. Or we can just stay the world's pushover and see how much longer we can afford to be used as the world's piggybank.

You want trade deals? Negotiate. You want market chaos? Tariffs.

 

[superrific]

We'll see how all this works out in the end. If there is pain for a while but at the end, we end up with trade deals with our trading partners that are equally as fair to America as they are to them, then it will definitely be worth it.

The US has been unfairly treated for years when it comes to trade. Surely, we have the toughness required to push back against the unfairness now that we have a president with the balls to actually push back. Or we can just stay the world's pushover and see how much longer we can afford to be used as the world's piggybank.

You understand nothing about how tariff rates are set. The US has not been unfairly treated at all. In fact, the US has agreed to virtually all tariffs that American companies pay. Tariff rates that were on average 22% globally in 1947 are now about 5% today. And the global trade system benefits the US far more than any other country in the world.