Investor uncertainty over tariffs create volatile stock market
Investor uncertainty has sparked volatile stock market trading. Market watchers note that the Trump administration’s fluctuating policy stances, particularly on tariffs, are causing unease among investors. According to some analysts, this unpredictability leaves investors unsure of how policies will affect corporate profits.
Uncertainty isn’t in short supply these days — and investors have taken notice.
See-sawing policy from the White House has given investors whiplash on many fronts — with tariffs being among the biggest question marks, market experts say.
Uncertainty makes investors jittery — and stock markets volatile — because they don’t know how policy and other events will impact companies’ ability to make money, said Barry Glassman, a certified financial planner and founder of Glassman Wealth Services.
Worried consumers might pull back on spending, crimping profits, for example. Tariffs raise costs for certain companies to import or produce goods — and it’s unclear how other nations might retaliate.
Brad Klontz, a certified financial planner and behavioral finance expert, said he thinks the stock market turmoil ties into something more primitive than corporate profits: Human psychology.
“Quite frankly, it’s all based on emotion,” said Klontz, managing principal of YMW Advisors in Boulder, Colorado, and a member of CNBC’s Advisor Council. “We like to feel like we can predict the future. When we feel the future is unpredictable, when we don’t have faith in our leaders, that’s when we start to panic,” Klontz said. “There’s a ton of fear” right now, he added.
MacDailyNews Take: If only we had seen how President Trump’s trade policies played out globally and how the markets reacted and responded previously.
Anyone who thinks Apple won’t get significant, meaningful U.S. import tariff exemptions hasn’t been paying attention. Profit from the panic of the uninformed and misinformed.
Expect specific exemptions from U.S. import tariffs for important Apple products. – MacDailyNews, February 2, 2025
Even with a myopic reactionary atop Apple’s org chart for far too long, we buy — and will continue to buy — AAPL on these overreactive dips.
Currently, we dream sub-$200 dreams every night, but we’ll take the sub-$210 prices we got last week with big smiles!
The engine Steve Jobs built is unparalleled. Apple has the capital and revenue generating capacity to overcome anything and everything its current leadership misses.
The stock market is a game. You either understand the “rules” and play it well, and get paid, or it’s better to sit on the sidelines and watch it for entertainment. – MacDailyNews, July 22, 2015
“Be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.” – Warren Buffett
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