What's going on with the US stock market lately?

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Ron Resnick

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Yes, Christian, you are correct! I am sure Tom will intervene soon, but in the meantime stop the politics!

This means Priaptor, JeffreyT, ddk, Pb Blimp and Rockitman!
 

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Priaptor, I did take Jeff's earlier post as humor and I wrote my comment as he wrote his follow up. Had I the benefit of reading the follow up, I would not have written my post. I am not trying to rationalize anything. Politics keeps getting injected into this thread. Thanks for answering the tariff question.

The DOW has been more or less flat for the year after a meteoric rise since November 2016. My uninformed opinion is that the tariff discussions create uncertainty, and that uncertainty is causing stagnation in the indexes. If the tariffs were so detrimental to the future economies, would not the DOW have gone down by a couple of thousand points? My guess is that investors are mixed about the overall effect of tariffs or even intrigued by the unlikely possibility of true free trade without any tariffs. I agree with the view that these are unconventional negotiations, but then I am not in the investment industry.

There seem to be many topics open for discussion on this audio site. Perhaps it is not just an audio site. I like the movie and photo threads that NorthStar opened.

There's a real rationale behind the tariffs the least of which is telling our partners that this President is serious about his demands. This isn't something that Trump just sprung on everyone the market already knew it was coming since the election and adjusted for it. It's the media pundits who seem to have lost all sense of reality not the markets.

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