03/31/2025

Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ Sends Stock Markets Reeling Worldwide

Wall Street saw significant market fluctuations

President Donald Trump's fast-approaching “Liberation Day” has stock markets swinging sharply worldwide on Monday.

On Wall Street, the S&P 500 was up 0.3 percent in another roller-coaster day, after being down as much as 1.7 percent during the morning. It’s coming off one of its worst losses of the past couple of years on Friday, and it’s on track to finish the first three months of the year with a loss of nearly 5 percent. That would make this its worst quarter in 2.5 years.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average also swerved higher after initially falling, and it was up 296 points, or 0.7 percent, as of 2:45 p.m. Eastern time. Slides for Tesla, Nvidia and other influential Big Tech stocks had the Nasdaq composite down 0.6 percent.

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