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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Stocks Soar!

All the way up to 40,157 from the Biden-Era dull-drums of 44,850

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

4D chess all along! I knew he was a secret genius. Libs were triggered for no reason! It was all part of the plan.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago

Here's a headline. Donald trump orchastrates a stock market crash. Uses his social media company to signal the buy, and release the tariff news. Insiders and truth social followers get rich as markets pump 10% immediately after tweet is released.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The four major indexes are still down 5 to 30% from yoy average rn.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The China tariffs went into effect right?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

AFAIK all of the 10% tariffs are currently in effect, as well as the 140% China tariffs, except for types of goods, and also the upward bump was 2 days ago when this post was made.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm getting really tired of the media misrepresenting reality. Stocks are still down compared to a year ago.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Still down compared to a month ago, but the post was a few days ago where there was one short upward trend for like a couple hours.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

... Meanwhile, the bond markets are continuing to freak the fuck out, and the yield curve has now inverted and univerted three times before an actual 'official' recession has begun.

For those that don't know, a yield curve inversion is when short term bonds offer a higher yield (interest rate) than long term bonds.

That... it not how that is supposed to work.

Generally speaking, a longer term bond should be riskier due to the amount of things that can possibly go wrong in that longer amount of time, as compared to a shorter term bond that pays itself back in less time, with less time for unforseen nonsense to happen.

Every single US official recession in the last ... 50, 100 years? has occured after first, the yield curve inverts, then it uninverts, and then an 'official' recession follows quite rapidly.

....Except fucking now.

Now we are in a situation where the yield curve has inverted then uninverted three fucking times without an 'official' recession actually starting.

This is unprecedented.

As of right now, the 6 month T Bill and the 5 year T Bond have roughly the same yield, and everything in between has a lower yield, the lowest point being the 2 yr.

... Its supposed to be basically a line going upward on the y axis of yields, as you move rightward on the x axis from shorter to longer term debt/bonds.

The bond market right now is more or less saying we are gonna be in for 2 years minimum of economic decline.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Trump's gonna default on the bonds and the debt to try to reset everything. Ya'll are fucked.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The casino model of doing business except in this case the “license to print money” is literal. No one can screw it up, right? Nah, let’s declare bankrupt and stiff all our creditors, and our debt will be taken care of. Smart. Business. Move

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

in this case the “license to print money” is literal. No one can screw it up, right?

Ask Robert Mugabe

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

... yeah.

Shits gonna get real bad.

Like Great Depression 2.0 bad, but this time shanty towns are all classed as illegal homeless encampments and Trump has publicly stated multiple times his plan for the homeless is literally concentration camps in the middle of nowhere or outskirts of cities, that kind of bad.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 days ago

*Global stocks soar as Donald Trump pulls a dump & pump scam with all of his billionaire buddies.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Are investors idiots? He's just going to change his mind again in three days

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Are investors idiots?

A lot of investment is driven entirely by HFT algorithms and AIs now. The brokers oversee the broad strategy, but the trading is just a dozen different multi-billionaire hedge funds chasing one another's tails. Market buy-ups and sell-offs are triggered by a handful of headlines and aggregator engines, snowballing up or down based on computers responding to other computers.

And because the market is increasingly liquid - as more mega-investors like Buffet cash out in pursuit of future buying opportunities - you'll see sudden sharp inversions caused by the sheer amount of buying power that's being pent up and released between announcements.

He’s just going to change his mind again in three days

Very difficult to price that as a risk variable. And in the meantime, there's a ton of money to be made speculating on which way his wind will blow next.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

Tbf, all these headlines miss that indexes like the S&P 500 are still far down from pre-tariff-mania. Investors are more or less updating their views for how screwed the markets are, rather than betting that everything is fine.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 days ago

90 days to save up your hard earned money so you can buy the dip again...and again...and again. This is what the old shit stain is doing.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 days ago (1 children)

From the article:

The commerce secretary added on X that he and Treasury secretary Scott Bessent “sat with the President while he wrote one of the most extraordinary Truth posts of his Presidency”

Next time I'm feeling down, I'll just remember that someone felt the need to post on Xitter that he helped Trump write down his best posts on some shit social.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago

The normalisation of that insane shit is something the mass media has to bear a large portion of the responsibility for.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Have we forgotten that he has done this each month since he was Inaugurated?

He crashes the the stock market with talk of tariffs. The wealthy buys options on the decline, and buy on this massive dip, and in a few days, HitlerPig announces that the countries on his list have responded to his tariff threats, so he is postponing them for a month or so.

The stock market recovers a bit, and the wealthy will make fortune. In a month, he'll do it all over again. This was thebthird cycle since Inauguration.

It's deliberate market manipulation.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

It I not ~~illegal~~ Market Manipulation if the president does it

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yup, reverse pump and dump. Knew he was gonna fold his pussy flaps

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

On his neck

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago

Dead cat bounce is a real thing. At best its just increased volatility, which is not good.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 days ago

Not specifically directed at OP, but I am sick of those truncated graphs.

Also, fuck Trump. Not in a goof way.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

That’s why the orange toupee said that they were wining millions a day… buy the dip, sell the rip

[–] [email protected] 38 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Speaking from experience in Canada, the 90 days is meaningless. Welcome to the dance of constant tariff threats every two weeks only to backpedal when the market crashes.

He does not have the attention span to wait 9 days let alone 90. This man is a toddler with a flamethrower having a tantrum.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

This man is a toddler with a flamethrower having a tantrum.

More like one flamethrower in each hand.

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