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Stocks tumble in Wall Street’s worst day since April after Trump threatens more tariffs on China
On Friday, the S&P 500 sank 2.7%, its worst day since April, after President Donald Trump threatened a large tariff increase on Chinese imports on his social media platform.
Upset over China's rare-earth export curbs, President Donald Trump wrote on Truth Social that other countries were "extremely angry" and said there seemed to be no reason to meet Xi Jinping.
Four out of five S&P 500 stocks fell, with Levi Strauss plunging 5.4% despite strong profits and Dell Technologies sinking 5.2% amid big tech and artificial-intelligence sector losses.
U.S. crude sank 4.2% to $58.90 and Brent crude dropped 3.9 to $62.66 as indexes across Europe and Asia fell.
The Federal Reserve has penciled in several more rate cuts through next year, while the University of Michigan's preliminary survey found consumers' inflation expectations edged down to 4.3%.
Additional tax announcement created an advantage scenario for a relevant increase of instability in financial assets, at a low visibility on the American economy