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Roughly $11.1 trillion has been wiped away from the U.S. stock market since Jan. 17, the Friday before President Donald Trump took the oath of office and began his second term, according to data from Dow Jones Market Data.

Some $6.6 trillion of that figure was lost on Thursday and Friday alone — the largest two-day wipeout of shareholder value on record, Dow Jones data showed.

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[–] ThomasCrappersGhost@feddit.uk 11 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

How does this compare to 2008?

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

28 September 2007 S&P 500 was $1526 per share

27 February 2009 it was $735

31 January 2025 it was $6040

Today it is $5074

[–] dryfter@lemm.ee 5 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Ok, so 2008 was a 52% loss in almost a year and a half.

Right now it's only a 16% loss in a little over 2 months.

Someone far smarter than I am could maybe figure out the monthly decline percentage and compare 2008 losses vs now. Don't get me wrong, it's a shitload of money, but it doesn't look like the stock market is anywhere close to reaching 2008 levels of loss.....yet.

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 5 points 55 minutes ago

Roughly

3.05% per month in 2008

7.75% per month today but the time period is much smaller

[–] Zier@fedia.io 9 points 4 hours ago

Let's see if he can make that number $111 Trillion lost by the end of May 2025.

[–] kreskin@lemmy.world 23 points 7 hours ago

Putin will be pleased.

[–] Rhoeri@lemmy.world 32 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

At least there’s no genocide in Palestine, right?

Right?

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[–] Gxost@lemmy.world 21 points 8 hours ago

Now I know why Trump, during his rally, said people would ask him to stop winning.

[–] KingGordon@lemmy.world 60 points 10 hours ago (3 children)
[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 13 points 5 hours ago

"Drill, baby, drill"

Stock market: "To the ~~moooooon~~ cooooooooore!"

[–] alvvayson@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 9 hours ago

The US stock market has been liberated of 11 trillion dollars and counting.

What a party, what a party.

[–] MeekerThanBeaker@lemmy.world 13 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

You mean libation day, right?

ಠ_ಠ

You mean libation day, right?

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 21 points 10 hours ago (1 children)
[–] tiefling@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 7 hours ago

The best you've ever had!

[–] Chivera@lemmy.world 21 points 9 hours ago (1 children)
[–] essell@lemmy.world 5 points 7 hours ago

Certainly there's bleeding

[–] 0x01@lemmy.ml 33 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

Curious how does that stack up historically with the largest drops in history percentage-wise?

I checked out the investopedia article:

  • The Dow had its sixth-worst week of the 21st century; it fell 7.9% over the week and 9.3% in the last two days.
  • The Dow shed 2,231 points on Friday, its third-largest one-day point decline on record. 
  • The Nasdaq Composite has dropped 11.4% since Trump’s tariff announcement, also its worst 2-day stretch since March 2020.
[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 21 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

Of some note is that the market was only allowed to tumble for two of those five days following the announcement of the tariffs. That almost assuredly makes a difference here.

[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 7 points 5 hours ago

Can't wait for next week lmao

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 48 points 10 hours ago (4 children)

The top 10% wealthiest Americans own over 90% of stocks...

https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/stock-market-ownership-wealthiest-americans-one-percent-record-high-economy-2024-1?op=1

I do feel bad for the people who left their 401k in the market instead of government securities. trump has been saying he'd do this dumb shit since the campaign.

[–] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 27 points 10 hours ago

But bitcoin is going to...oh.

Oh well, at least gold is.... Oh.

GME to the moon!

[–] errer@lemmy.world 10 points 9 hours ago (7 children)

Not exactly sure how one is supposed to transfer one’s 401k to government securities on such a short timescale…

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[–] Zippygutterslug@lemmy.world 20 points 9 hours ago (1 children)
[–] PotatoLibre@feddit.it 5 points 7 hours ago (2 children)
[–] 5in1k@lemm.ee 8 points 2 hours ago

That’s a lot of words to say Americans should expect a rapid decline in their standards of living so we can drive down the price of our own labor due to people being desperate.

[–] GaMEChld@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago

That seemed like rambling wheels within wheels nonsense.

[–] Hayduke@lemmy.world 13 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

Liberating the fuck out of our wealth. <teamAmericaTheme.wav>

[–] AtHeartEngineer@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

We use .flac around here /s

[–] breakingcups@lemmy.world 4 points 7 hours ago

Into the hands of billionaires, who will be the only ones left able to buy up whatever they deem still has value.

[–] grasshopper_mouse@lemmy.world 7 points 10 hours ago

So much winning!

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