After a roller coaster of a week, the S&P 500 (^GSPC -3.19%) ended in a crash on Friday, after falling by more than 10% in just 24 hours. Many investors are understandably worried about what comes next, especially once businesses and consumers start seeing the impact of President Trump’s tariffs.
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The S&P 500 has been crashing this year, and amid that panic, investors have been piling money into gold. Often seen as a safe haven, gold usually attracts investors in times of fear, with the belief that it can be a safe place to park your money amid market uncertainty.
However,
WARREN BUFFETT must be feeling smug right now. Months before American stockmarkets started sliding from record levels in late February, as investors began to question President Donald Trump’s stewardship of the world’s largest economy, the nonagenarian billionaire was cashing out of equities. In 2024 his industrial conglomerate, Berkshire Hathaway,
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Chinese President Xi Jinping has an array of tools beyond tariffs he could use to inflict damage on the U.S. in an escalating trade war, but the most consequential could be cutting off access to critical minerals, according to experts.
As trade tensions with China escalate,
Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) has been one of the biggest winners of the generative artificial intelligence (AI) boom. The stock advanced 1,000% between the launch of ChatGPT in November 2022 and January 2025, when its price peaked at $149.43 per share.
Nvidia stock has since fallen 35% due to escalating trade tensions and concerns about the sustainability of AI infrastructure spending.
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It looks like another wild day is in store for Wall Street on Thursday, with the three major indexes all dropping more than 2.23% in early trading. The red opening comes a day after one of the biggest single-day rallies in history, following President Trump’s announcement he was pausing reciprocal tariffs on most countries for 90 days.
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Instead, market participants should think in terms of deals — there are good deals and there are bad deals, with few in-betweens. Exhibit A comes courtesy of the Trump administration’s aggressive …
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Inflation slowed sharply in March, new data showed Thursday, underscoring the continued strength and resilience of the economy ahead of President Trump’s aggressive trade moves.
In any other timeline, such news would stoke optimism that Americans’ cost of living is no longer surging.
By Durratul Ain Ahmad Fuad
KUALA LUMPUR, April 10 (Bernama) — ASEAN is prepared to collaborate constructively with all partners, including the United States (US), to discover balanced, forward-looking solutions that promote a more resilient and sustainable global economy, said Finance Minister II Datuk Seri Amir Hamzah Azizan.
He said ASEAN is committed to not imposing any retaliatory measures in response to the recent US tariffs.
