The Market Open from Monday has resulted in swings of several trillion dollars in the American markets, because investors have difficulty getting clarity about the rate policy of the White House.
Shortly after the opening of Market, a rumor on the social media platform X, that director of the White House National Council Kevin Hassett said that President Trump is considering a 90 -day break about all rates.
The rumor caused an explosion of $ 3 trillion in the S&P 500 index of its daily low point.
Minutes later CNBC reported that no one in the White House was acquainted with a so-called 90-day break, and shortly thereafter the White House itself placed on X and called the rumor ‘fake news’.
That was when the S&P 500 went further and the whole movement knew that only lasted 30 minutes to complete.
As reported by the Kobeissi letter, the move was probably the biggest swing of half an hour in the market capitalization ever seen.
“This single tariff head attributed to White House -advisor Hassett waved $ 6 trillion in S&P 500 Market Cap.
We have just witnessed the largest swing of 30 minutes in market capitalization in history.
You can’t make up for this. “
About half an hour after shooting the rumors, President Trump placed Truth Social to announce that the US would set an extra 50% on rates for China – on top of the rate of 34% has already been declared – unless China withdrew his retaliation compensation 34% rates.
“That is why, if China does not take its rise of 34% above their already long -term trade abuse by tomorrow, 8 April 2025, the United States will impose additional rates on China of 50%, with effect from 9 April. In addition, all conversations with China with China with regard to their requested meetings with the US will have been sought immediately! Negotiations with other countries.”
In the background, crypto -markets also suffer from a massacre, with data -aggregator platform Coinglass that reports more than $ 1.64 billion in liquidations in the last 24 hours.
At the time of writing, Bitcoin (BTC) acts at $ 78,350.
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