{"id":1052422,"date":"2025-04-07T13:08:11","date_gmt":"2025-04-07T17:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1052422"},"modified":"2025-04-07T13:08:12","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T17:08:12","slug":"%f0%9f%9a%a8cnn-this-is-the-stock-markets-worst-start-to-a-presidential-term-in-modern-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/%f0%9f%9a%a8cnn-this-is-the-stock-markets-worst-start-to-a-presidential-term-in-modern-history\/","title":{"rendered":"\ud83d\udea8CNN: This is the Stock Market\u2019s Worst Start to a Presidential Term in Modern History"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"449\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png?w=1024\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1050776\" srcset=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png 1101w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png?resize=300,132 300w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png?resize=768,337 768w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png?resize=1024,449 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Key Point:<\/strong> \u201cThe S&amp;P 500 had lost 15% of its value since Inauguration Day as of Sunday night. And that doesn\u2019t even count the massive losses set for Monday\u2019s opening bell \u2026 The awfulness of the past two days of trading were matched only by the 1987 crash, the 2008 financial crisis and the Covid crash of 2020.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/04\/07\/investing\/stock-market-trump-tariffs\/index.html\"><strong>CNN<\/strong><\/a><strong>: This is the stock market\u2019s worst start to a presidential term in modern history<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By Harry Enten and Matt Egan<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>The S&amp;P 500 had lost 15% of its value since Inauguration Day as of Sunday night. And that doesn\u2019t even count the massive losses set for Monday\u2019s opening bell.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The current market wipeout hit a crescendo after Trump\u2019s \u201cLiberation Day\u201d event, where he shocked and alarmed the business world by promising to increase tariffs at an unprecedented pace. <strong>Indeed, two-thirds of the 15% fall in the S&amp;P 500 has been since Liberation Day.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>The awfulness of the past two days of trading were matched only by the 1987 crash, the 2008 financial crisis and the Covid crash of 2020.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>JPMorgan has raised the chance of a recession to 60%.<\/strong> It had previously been 40%. Goldman Sachs has raised it from 20% to 45%. HSBC puts it at 40%.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The last time real GDP had two consecutive negative quarters in the first year of an elected presidency after not having a recession the year before? 1953, as the United States was coming out of the Korean War.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Confidence is a fragile thing and the steep market selloff could easily spook CEOs and consumers alike. <strong>The hole blown in Americans\u2019 401(k) plans and investment portfolios is so massive that it will be hard to ignore. And if consumers stop spending, all bets are off in this economy.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Key Point: \u201cThe S&amp;P 500 had lost 15% of its value since Inauguration Day as of Sunday night. And that doesn\u2019t even count the massive losses set for Monday\u2019s opening bell \u2026 The awfulness of the past two days of trading were matched only by the 1987 crash, the 2008 financial crisis and the Covid [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":293,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1052422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>\ud83d\udea8CNN: This is the Stock Market\u2019s Worst Start to a Presidential Term in Modern History - Democrats<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/\ud83d\udea8cnn-this-is-the-stock-markets-worst-start-to-a-presidential-term-in-modern-history\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Democrats\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-04-07T17:08:11+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-04-07T17:08:12+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Black-Logo-White-Fill-For-Email.png?w=1024\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Shelby Reese\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Shelby Reese\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/%f0%9f%9a%a8cnn-this-is-the-stock-markets-worst-start-to-a-presidential-term-in-modern-history\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/%f0%9f%9a%a8cnn-this-is-the-stock-markets-worst-start-to-a-presidential-term-in-modern-history\/\",\"name\":\"\ud83d\udea8CNN: This is the Stock Market\u2019s Worst Start to a Presidential Term in Modern History - 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