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U.S. Stocks Sell Off on Concerns About Trade
Wall Street Journal ^ | March 22, 2018 | Michael Wursthorn and Riva Gold

Posted on 03/22/2018 2:49:13 PM PDT by reaganaut1

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Tariffs are bad for consumers, for workers in industries whose costs are increased, for workers in export industries, and investors.
1 posted on 03/22/2018 2:49:14 PM PDT by reaganaut1
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The markets don’t like uncertainty and nothing is more uncertain than a trade war.


2 posted on 03/22/2018 2:50:51 PM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: reaganaut1

This is going to be a giant mess.


3 posted on 03/22/2018 2:51:32 PM PDT by Poison Pill
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Tariffs. We’re all gonna die.


4 posted on 03/22/2018 2:52:29 PM PDT by Pelham (California, a subsidiary of Mexico, Inc.)
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Investors buy low sell high now is a money maker time to many people spook to easy everything is long term except tech.


5 posted on 03/22/2018 2:52:37 PM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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I proudly voted for President Trump and I'll be the first to say he couldn't possibly be more WRONG on this one.

A trade war is NOT a negotiating tactic. Shaking my head here ......

6 posted on 03/22/2018 2:54:58 PM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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Yeah tariffs thats it!

Never mind the House passing the GDP-crushing omnibus spending monstrosity,
that has no effect on a market economy. It's gotta be Trump and those tariffs.

7 posted on 03/22/2018 2:57:38 PM PDT by John 3_19-21 (New Media creed: "This story is so perfect, no need to verify it!".)
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Tariffs are bad . . .

Right it's all about trade nothing having to do with Facebook's unethical behavior with user data. Even though Tech has been driving the market and FB has popped the Tech bubble.

8 posted on 03/22/2018 2:57:54 PM PDT by stig
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Poppycock. A trade war has been conducted against US product for years, with countries heavily subsidizing their own industries for make-work and dumping substandard product on the US. We’re not starting anything, we’re just fighting back for a change.


9 posted on 03/22/2018 3:03:10 PM PDT by blueplum ( "...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017)
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The markets don't understand Trump. He negotiates by firing off the worst possible threat.

When buying a piece of property, you offer an insulting price nicely. The seller thinks you are ignorant...a nice but ignorant rube.

But then he comes down a little bit..and you make a stupid counter offer and show him the cash.

His appetite is whetted. He sees the cash and thinks you are stupid.

You keep pulling down to his point of no return. He has one, otherwise he would not be selling.

Pull him down to his absolute lowest price...and then evaluate the investment.

Does it make sense at that price. If so, execute.

If not, thank the other side profusely and walk away.

10 posted on 03/22/2018 3:09:02 PM PDT by RoosterRedux (Churchill: Success is not final, failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts.)
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Definitely a good time to buy if you believe in the Trump economy.


11 posted on 03/22/2018 3:12:27 PM PDT by JerryBlackwell (some animals are more equal than others)
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great buying opportunity for stocks.

i am not worried.

part of MAGA means getting treated fairly by other nations. if that means a bunch of rich wall street guys can’t go on a third cruise this year, so be it.

if tariffs were forever, that’d be one thing. if they are changed when nations start treating us fairly, then i am fine.

just say five hundred steel workers were hired to start up an idle plant in illinois. those five hundred will add tons of auxilary jobs and business to cities nearby...maybe even more than make up for the tariff.

if i am wrong, i’ll be glad to see the tariffs lifted. but i know trump is right when he says our manufacturing has been decimated the last thirty years or so.


12 posted on 03/22/2018 3:17:15 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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If I were a Wall Street trader, I’d be more panicked by the @#$%! budget bill for FY 2019 that the Congress is expected to pass at any moment. Perhaps the WSJ reporters should have asked a few folks on the floor about that monstrosity.


13 posted on 03/22/2018 3:17:17 PM PDT by agave (Jesus: Bigger Than the Beatles)
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14 posted on 03/22/2018 3:18:39 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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Tariffs are Patriot candy. More tariffs please. Lots more.


15 posted on 03/22/2018 3:20:31 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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Well we’ve been in a trade war for 3 decades dumb a$$. How many times do you have to be told this?


16 posted on 03/22/2018 3:21:31 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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Why aren’t the Gook tariffs portrayed as bad and harmful?


17 posted on 03/22/2018 3:22:19 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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“Tariffs are bad for consumers”

Then go complain to the Europeans and Chinese for placing them on us.


18 posted on 03/22/2018 3:22:44 PM PDT by ScottfromNJ
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We are in a f-—ing trade war now! We are finally fighting back!


19 posted on 03/22/2018 3:22:58 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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All impediments to trade are harmful. We were on the verge of removing a block of those impediments across Asia and putting Chinese tariffs in the gun sites. Then Trump pulled the plug. Now Chinese tariffs are just going to ratchet up. Boeing is the biggest decliner today on fears of retaliation from China.


20 posted on 03/22/2018 3:38:46 PM PDT by Poison Pill
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