Posted on 10/12/2025 5:29:32 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
U.S. stock futures rose Sunday night, rebounding from Friday’s sell-off after President Donald Trump said trade relations with China “will all be fine.”
Dow Jones Industrial Average futures rose by 358 points, or 0.8%. S&P 500 futures and Nasdaq-100 futures climbed 1% and 1.2%, respectively.
Those moves come after Trump’s Truth Social post on Sunday suggested to investors the president may not follow through on his threat to post a “massive increase of tariffs” on China. That comment on Friday brought the U.S. trade war with China back to the fore, and sent stocks tumbling in a rout that wiped out $2 trillion in market value.
“Don’t worry about China, it will all be fine! Highly respected President Xi just had a bad moment. He doesn’t want Depression for his country, and neither do I,” Trump wrote. “The U.S.A. wants to help China, not hurt it.”
Vice President JD Vance echoed those sentiments over the weekend. He told Fox Newsthat the U.S. will negotiate if Beijing is “willing to be reasonable,” though he added that the U.S. has “far more cards” if not.
Those comments could encourage investors to return to the market after Friday’s sell-off, especially in technology names that got hit with the worst of the selling. Many tech companies rely on rare earths from China for the manufacture of semiconductors and electric vehicles, among other goods.
“Tech stocks were front and center in the sell-off as investors fear this situation with US/China would put a major dent in the AI Revolution thesis and bring us back to the dark days of April,” Dan Ives, global head of technology research at Wedbush Securities, wrote in a Sunday note. “We believe the bark will be way worse than bite here and Trump...
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I used the opportunity to buy more ETH and BTC on the dip - as much as I could afford.
You are breaking the rules!
You are supposed to buy-high and sell-low! 🤡
Don’t we have to wait till Monday?
Trump has leak inside the administration. Someone created a brand new crypto wallet and timed the Crypto crash to the minute Trump was making the announcement. The proof and news of it is breaking out in the crypto community. As much as the Trump family is involved in crypto, maybe it leads back to him. Insider trading of the market crash kind should get USG FBI attention at a minimum. DOJ ought to find out whose wallet sparked the crash as Trump made the announcement.
Friday pissed off a lot of traders. On expiration Friday keep your mouth shut until after the market closes. You dont need to yap about China that you know will spook the market on a day options expire.
Buffet’s primary strategy is to buy and hold.
That means you ignore the daily fluctuations in the market and play the long game.
Over time, the market always rises. 1987’s Black Monday was a golden buying opportunity.
AI nonsense
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