Trump's import duties are also crushed by US stocks. On Friday, the three main indices wrote five to six percent. In a week of Nasdaq Composite, it dropped by more than 10 % and loses over 20 % to the maximum of last December, so it entered the bear trend. The DOW index fell 5.50 % on Friday to 38,314.86 points, wider S&P 500 wrote 5.97 % to 5,074.08 points, and the NASDAQ Composite technology market index decreased by 5.82 % to 15,587.79 points. The volatility index VIX fired by 50.93 % to 45.31 points and the yield of 10 -year US government bonds decreased by about five and a half Basic points to 4.002 %. The decrease in the Dow Index has been the most significant since June 2020, when investors responded to the Covid-19 pandemic, and the S&P 500 even fell the most significantly since March 2020. In the S&P 500, all titles except 14 were in the S&P 500. Lululemon Athletica (+3.15 %) and Nike (+3.00 %) or Target retailers (+1.53 %). Nike was also the only profitable title in the Dow Index, while the most significantly weakened the securities of the Boeing Air Technology (-9.49 %).
S&P 500-April 4, 2025, Source: Finviz over ten percent at the end of the week, Tesla (-10.42 %) were written away, Apple securities (-7.29 %) and Nvidia (-7.36 %) or Palantir Technologies (-11.47 %) also weakened significantly. «Paradoxically, the bulls are not killed by external intervention, but domestic ideology,» says Emily Bowersock Hill of Bowersock Capital Partners. «In the short term, stocks can be close to DNA, but in the long run, duties and related developments can still do great damage,» she added. On Wednesday evening, Donald Trump announced the so -called reciprocal duties on imports from individual countries. The minimum import duty to the US is to reach 10 %. According to the head of the White House, the step is to balance the terms and conditions. Trump pretends that he does nothing from the markets on the markets. The calculation of the «Customs», which allegedly applied against the US, is based on the deduction of imports of a country from the US since its export to the US and subsequently dividing this result by the volume of US exports. «This is really bizarre, because the relationship to customs policy is minimal in this respect. It is also striking that the US administration has failed to come up with anything more sophisticated after many weeks of planning,» wrote Dominik Rusinko in commentary. Investors are now waiting for individual countries to stand towards the newly introduced clients. According to some top representatives, the European Union is willing to negotiate with the US, but if the agreement is not possible, it is ready to accept countermeasures. According to economists, this could further deteriorate the prospects of the world economy. China has not yet tried to negotiate and has announced the introduction of mirror duties 34 % on imports of goods from the US. In a week of Dow, the Dow dropped by 7.86 %, S&P 500 wrote 9.08 %and Nasdaq Composite lost 10.02 %. Dow is losing almost 15 %on the record maximum, S&P 500 over 17 %and NASDAQ Composite more than 22 %. But there are also optimists who see a unique opportunity to shop in the current market turbulence. For example, Edward Yardeni, Veteran Wall Street and President Yardeni Research, leaves the target value for the S&P 500 for 6,000 points this year, believing that Trump will eventually retreat, but he will still be called the winner because he will make small concessions on important US business partners. More articles and videos can be found at www.investicniweb.cz