Re:Trump temporarily drops tariffs to 10% for most countries
by mfitton on Wednesday April 09, 2025 @04:36PM
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Do you think normal people (think, your average investing American) are trading based on this news? They probably shouldn't be... I would think that by far most of the trading these past few days has been institutions, so, a big transfer from some financial institutions to others?
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Re:Trump temporarily drops tariffs to 10% for most countries
by delusional on Wednesday April 09, 2025 @05:30PM
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Aren't your 401k's tied up in stocks and bonds? Index funds too will probably have been fleeced too on the volatility.
Re:Trump temporarily drops tariffs to 10% for most countries
by kcb on Wednesday April 09, 2025 @06:12PM
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But surely you didn't sell off your 401k.
Re:Trump temporarily drops tariffs to 10% for most countries
by stubish on Wednesday April 09, 2025 @09:31PM
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Managed funds and ETFs will have needed to rebalance, buying and selling assets to get the proportions back to what they are supposed to be.
Re:Trump temporarily drops tariffs to 10% for most countries
by rsynnott on Thursday April 10, 2025 @06:36AM
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> Do you think normal people (think, your average investing American) are trading based on this news?
We ~know that they were: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/the-market-pummeled-401k-acco...
As always, normal people sell low and likely buy high (I'd bet that a lot of the already-fading market euphoria yesterday was retail trading).