Last week, U.S. stocks lost $6.6 trillion in value during a two-day washout after President Trump announced large tariffs on countries around the world. As markets continue to swing, Wall Street leaders are speaking out, including billionaire investor Bill Ackman and JPMorgan Chase executive Jamie Dimon. Host Kate Linebaugh talks with Gregory Zuckerman about the market chaos and how investors are responding. Further Listening: -Trump’s Tariffs Force a New Era in Global Trade -Trump 2.0: Trade Wars and Deportation Battles Sign up for WSJ’s free What’s News newsletter . Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Since President Trump announced sweeping tariffs last Wednesday, markets around the world have tanked.
The Dow plunged more than 2,300 points, S&P sank 322, NASDAQ tumbled 962. Now Asian markets also plunged overnight.
U.S. markets losing trillions, over $5 trillion in just a matter of days. European markets are also down about 4.5% across the board. Economists warn that we'll tip the world's largest economy into a recession here.
Carnage, panic, bloodbath doesn't even begin to cut it. Our colleague Gregory Zuckerman has been covering markets for The Wall Street Journal since 1996.
This is the most disturbed and discouraged and disheartened I've seen people on Wall Street about policies in Washington, D.C. How many market downturns have you seen? I've seen a lot of crises. I covered the 1998 long-term capital collapse, covered the tech meltdown, covered 2008, and the housing collapse, the coronavirus crisis. So I've seen a lot of financial crises in my career.
How does this one compare? This is unique. This is the first time one can argue it's been self-inflicted. It's a series of decisions that have resulted in a financial crisis. I've never seen that before. This is the first time I've ever seen government officials create a crisis.
And now, Wall Street is starting to push back on Trump's tariffs. Welcome to The Journal, our show about money, business, and power. I'm Kate Leinbaugh. It's Monday, April 7th. Coming up on the show, the tariff sell-off and Wall Street's pushback. So going back to Trump on the campaign trail, he openly touted his love for tariffs.
Then they will pay a very stiff tariff when they send their products into the United States for the privilege of... What were Wall Street executives saying during the campaign?
Wall Street executives were a little bit self-delusional, I think, during the campaign. They heard the talk about tariffs, but they weren't focused on them. They were instead focused on things like lowering taxes, which Donald Trump is still promising, and working on eliminating or weakening regulations.
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