Stock Futures went into the red within minutes.

[madaboutharry]

I think he timed the announcement for the end of the trading day so the news shows wouldn't show a ticker while he was talking.

I think things will be very, very bad tomorrow.

Edit: At 4:54 est the NASDAQ is down -502.25

[obamanut2012]

1. 100% agree

[Bernardo de La Paz]

2. Headline: "Stock futures tumble as Trump unveils higher tariffs than expected." . . . nt

[ImNotGod]

3. tRump just threatened to ban stock futures from all government contracts if they don't go up

[BoRaGard]

4. Everything King Kraznov (R-Felon) touches turns to Krap

Midas had a thing with gold, republicon Krasnov has it with krap.

[Disaffected]

5. Dow down 155 (0.44%)

Nothing too unusual about that.

[Mike 03]

7. In after-market trading?

Bloomberg is reporting that the markets reversed -1% in after-markets trading during the speech. Their analysts think it is because there will be no carve-outs or exemptions.

Unless they've reversed again, I think Bloomberg is probably right.

[Disaffected]

8. Yes, at the time of posting.

Off 206 now, about 0.5%

I guess Bloomberg's guessing is about as good as anyone's (with Trump involved, guessing is about all you can hope for).

[W_HAMILTON]

11. Off almost 1,000 now, about 2.5%.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/02/stock-market-today-live-updates-trump-tariffs.html

Note: these are not guesses -- they are based on actual trading that has already occurred and will be reported once the DJIA opens tomorrow.

[Mike 03]

6. Yep.

It will be interesting (but not necessarily predictive) to watch Asian and European markets overnight.

[madaboutharry]

9. 6:30 pm....

Dow Futures
41,368.00
- 1,124.00
2.65%

S&P 500 Futures
5,488.50
- 223.75
3.92%


NASDAQ Futures
18,826.50
- 931.50
4.71%

Maybe this is on purpose.

[COL Mustard]

12. I hate to sound like a conspiracy theorist.....

But it seems like the administration is deliberately trying to drive down prices. The stock market will tank tomorrow because of these tariffs, residential real estate will likely decline because of the mass layoffs of Civil Service employees, farms will be put in danger because of the reciprocal tariffs and the cancellation of USAID contracts, etc. The idea seems to be to drive down values across the economy. The question is who will benefit from the reduced prices? I'm sure it won't be Joe or Jane Doe.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

15. No. tRump likes stock market. He is actively trying to drive down the US DOLLAR, not the markets

But driving down the Dollar makes US markets less attractive which means foreign money gets pulled out and new foreign money is withheld. That also applies to other investments like real estate, housing, manufacturing plants, etc.

[beaglelover]

10. Dow is down over 1,000 right now.

[ashredux]

13. Blood in the street.... There will be a cascading effect.

[orangecrush]

14. Isolaationism

The FSB has been working to establish this in the US forever.