- American actions are about to continue their burning free fall As the future have reported more fear on President Donald Trump’s prices. Administration officials and Trump himself reported on Sunday that they will not back up their aggressive position. Meanwhile, an inflation report is later due this week as well as bank profits.
On Sunday evening, Wall Street remained in Fear mode on President Donald Trump’s prices while the term contracts highlighted higher losses.
Dow The term contracts on the industrial average of Jones fell 1,302 points, or 3.3%, while the term contracts on S&P 500 flowed 3.9% and Nasdaq The future plunged 4.9%. This follows a devastating week that saw the worst sale since the first days of the COVVI-19 pandemic.
The 10 -year -old treasure yield fell from 8.5 base points to 3.906%, and American crude oil prices dropped by $ 59.72 per barrel.
On Wednesday, Trump announced a minimum rate rate of 10%and higher rates for 57 savings like China (34%), the European Union (20%) and Japan (24%). Fitch dimensions estimated that the effective rate rate could reach 25% on average – the highest in more than 115 years.
Former Treasury Secretary, Larry Summers, has disseminated caution in a X post Sunday, saying that there is a very good chance of more market turbulence similar to what was seen on Thursday and Friday.
These sessions have represented the fourth largest decrease of two days in the past 85 years, said Summer. The sale destroyed around 6 billions of dollars in market capitalization.
“A drop of this magnitude indicates that there are probably problems to come, and people should be very cautious,” wrote Summers.
Meanwhile, the Trump administration and the president himself defended the prices.
“I don’t want nothing to drop, but sometimes you have to take medication to repair something,” Trump told journalists when he asked him about the rout of the market.
He underlined the American trade deficit with China and said that he was ready to conclude an agreement, “but they must resolve their surplus”.
Earlier, the director of the national economic council Kevin Hassett said ABC News that more than 50 countries have contacted the White House to negotiate on the prices.
But for the moment, the Secretary of Commerce, Howard Lutnick, said that the prices will remain and will not be postponed. While the minimum rate of 10% came into force early Saturday, the Individualized samples will set up on Wednesday.
“They will certainly stay in place for days and weeks,” he said CBS.
In response to Trump’s radical rates, Jpmorgan Now sees a recession, GDP decreased by 0.3% this year. But the secretary of the Treasury, Scott Bessent, said on Sunday that there should not be a recession and qualified the sale of short -term reaction stock.
“One thing that I can tell you, as secretary of the treasure, which was very impressed to me is the market infrastructure, that we had a record volume on Friday. And everything works very well so that the American people can comfort themselves in there,” he said to Nbc.
Bessent also gaveNo indication that Trump will not back downof these aggressive prices.
Friday, the president of the federal reserve, Jerome Powell, warned that scanning prices could push higher inflation, which would cool anticipation for a drop in imminent interest rates.
The markets will receive an inflation update Thursday, when the report on the consumer price index for Mars will be released, giving an overview of the location of inflation before the last rates affect.
In addition, the results season for the first quarter results will start this week as JPMorgan, Wells FargoAnd Blackrock Report Friday.
Comments from senior executives on prices and their forecasts on how they will affect their companies will be under special control.
This story was initially presented on Fortune.com
