Posted on 05/02/2025 7:23:27 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
April was not the cruelest month for investors—although the tariffmageddon-obsessed naysayers may be smarting.
Despite a month of wild swings and gloomy forecasts, U.S. stock markets ended April nearly flat, brushing off predictions that Trump’s trade policies would trigger a historic collapse.
The S&P 500 finished the month down just 0.8 percent. The Dow dropped 2.1 percent, and the Nasdaq edged lower by 0.3 percent. That mild performance stood in stark contrast to a mid-April Wall Street Journal article that warned of a “Trump rout” and suggested the Dow was on track for its worst April since 1932.
It wasn’t.
In reality, April 2025’s small decline was less severe than in recent years. For instance, the S&P 500 dropped 4.2 percent in April 2024 and 8.99 percent in April 2022. So far from being the worst April in over 90 years, it was not even the worst in the last five years.
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Could it be the market is scared of Trump?
It was the Wall Street Bungee Jumpers Club that panicked, NOT PRESIDENT TRUMP.
That’s OK. I’m sure May will be the worst month since the Great Depression. And if not May, then maybe June. Just keep reminding people that they are miserable. Because if the media didn’t keep telling us how bad everything is, we’d never know.
The Wall Street Journal has always been the business journal of the those in power. Right now it represents the leftist, anti American establishment that has been trying to choke out the middle class and destroy the Republic since the 50s.
But now, it's a new era. It's a new golden age. It's out with the the old institutions and in with new things.
Trump defies doomsayers. As for the WSJ, they’re simply predicting the outcome they’d like to see.
Someone tell Karpov he can climb in off the window ledge now.
Unexpected...
I’m old enough to remember when the Wall Street Journal was pro-business and pro-America.
Looks like the paper should be suspect. This was evidently a sheltered opinion not shared by a lot of people using a lot of money to make real decisions.
Company earnings strong, unemployment low and steady, inflation steady and very close to FED target. We’ve gone from too much exuberance to too much fear.
So, everything is fine.
I used the momentary dip to exercise some buying opportunities for stocks I wanted in perfectly healthy companies. They’ve now recovered nicely.
>>>I’m old enough to remember when the Wall Street Journal was pro-business and pro-America.
Same here! I’ll wait for booyah Jimbo Cramer & his storefront Hedge buddies. Has WSJ been swallowed up by DEI with no depth or research?
I finally cancelled my 25 years subscription to the Journal last month. They’ve gone completely overboard with the Trump Derangement.
I gave up on them during Trump 1.o. Was with them about 40 years.
The WSJ hasn’t been worth a crap for a long time.
I mainly stayed with them for the back of the book stuff - reviews and features, that kind of thing. Their straight news pages have been praetorian media for a long time.
I did nothing but buy every time the market dipped in March and April and I am down 2.2%. Many of the stocks I bought are already coming back hard and I expect to be up by 10% or more by the end of summer.
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