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Brian Stewart, our director of news here at Seeking Alpha. Welcome back to the show as we close out almost another month and head into April.
Hey, how you doing?
Great to have you. So lots of news of tariffs. Curious what's coming in the week ahead with this April 2nd date. What are you most focused on this week and looking ahead to next week?
So as long as you mentioned tariffs, we might as well get that out of the way. The big news in the last day or two has been auto tariffs have kind of creeped up as the main headline. So GM is down about 7% as we're talking today. Ford and Toyota are both down about 3%. So there's a new kind of sector that's being sucked into the tariff debate as the kind of moving target that tariffs have become.
They're the new kind of face of it. I think one of the interesting things to take away, and I think this is just sort of general investing advice, is like I said, GM's down 7%, but Ford's only down 3%. So there's going to be winners and losers, or you could say more loser, less loser, in some of these situations. And so it makes it a stock picking situation.
So if you're looking at a particular sector that might be affected by these tariffs, you might want to look under the hood of some of those companies and see which ones are most exposed. As an individual investor, as you're looking at it, you might want to just use the stock price as a gauge of that kind of Like I said, GM's underperforming, going down faster than some of its major competitors.
So obviously the market has determined that GM is the most exposed to the tariffs that are coming in. So as an investor, you're coming in with that information as sort of your first take on it. And then I think your goal as an investor is to see to what extent the market might have overreacted to the situation.
So take a look at GM as just an example, see if you feel like that exposure is now priced into the market or view whether or not you think that the likelihood of the full tariff impact as priced in by the market is likely to happen.
not necessarily a strictly car company, but as promised last week, a stock that we may be talking about every week is Tesla, which did see some improved numbers this week, but a stock that's been in the news for its volatility and questioning of where it's headed long term or also short term and near term as well. What are you seeing out of Tesla this week?
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