the handwriting to US producers should be clear. An increase in defaults on farm loans, foreclosures etc. I would imagine that John Deere stock should take an extra hit today. Maybe it will wake some up but it's a horse gone from the barn at this point.

as most of Asia are big users of soy for obvious reasons (e.g., cooking oil, tofu, miso, soy sauce, sprouts, edamame, etc).

80% of Buicks are sold in China. Many are made completely in China for Chinese consumption and aren’t available anywhere else but not all of them.

That's about 1100 points on the DOW.
https://www.Investing.com
Lots of info here including markets across the world. But some peculiarities about the site, I explain some of them at
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143432216#post6

Anyway, on the right hand side, the "U.S. 30" is the Dow futures, and the "U.S. 500" is the S&P 500 futures. When the markets are open, they are synonymous with the regular Dow and S&P 500.

Another one: https://www.cnn.com/markets/premarkets

Rumors on the Street are that BRDS is working on a big jobs posting very shortly after 830 AM ET full of good news that will stablize the markets :ROFL:

Will see if they close today with the correction.

(and some of the mass firings might start showing up in the UE numbers and it's not just civil servants, but all those grants/contracts that were eliminated that had people associated with them - we will see)

might take a few more market days... (For thread readers who don't know - a bear market happens in an index when it goes down by 20% or more from a recent high -- the Russell 2000 small cap index, probably the 4th most cited U.S. index after the Dow, S&P 500, and NASDAQ -- entered bear market territory yesterday.

I don't know if we're going to get a back and forth with some tariffs on some countries being relaxed, and the market goes up, followed by some tough talk and retaliatory tariffs and the market goes down ... so I'm expecting a few up days along with many down days.

I don't expect a bad jobs report, given that the survey week was around March 12, and given the low unemployment insurance claims numbers (I know that the jobs report unemployment rate is a different animal)... but we'll see when you issue your report in less than 45 minutes and then sort it out.

investing.com - Dow & S&P 500 futures down 3.5% now (Dow down 1400 points) 752 AM ET

(I would think the "bargain hunters" would swoop in initially). But will have to see what happens with the NASDAQ since it is tech heavy and China is now threatening heavy metal restrictions.

I did also see a breaking that the 10-year Treasuries have been dipping below 4% this morning will have to watch that too!

Yes, about 45% of my reinvestable assets are in fixed income, and about 2/3 of that in intermediate term bond funds, so that's important to me. When intermediate interest rates go down, bond fund values go up. At yesterday's close, VCOBX, one of them, was up 3.2% total return YTD, while the S&P 500 index was down 8.2% YTD. So that's helped cushion the blow.

and putting some part of their portfolio into bonds - at least until things settle down... IF they ever settle down!

from its Feb. 19 all time high, so only needs another 2.6% more down.

So, I'll be working this weekend on what fixed income asset I have to sell in order to BUY a broad-based EQUITY fund for when it reaches the 20% down point. It might be U.S. total market index fund, or that and and some small cap value index fund (VSIAX).

If/when it falls to 30% down, I'll do more of the same.

It's called buying the market on sale, and has always worked.

And agree that what is bound to happen is - "bargain hunting"!!!

I have a little text file with this for the Dow (closed at 38,315 today) -

It's a couple thousand away...

must b through the roof, no?

up 35.2% from yesterday -- well I do know that up 35.2% isn't good

At investing.com it's on the right side panel "S&P 500 VIX"

"Chinese authorities also said they will immediately restrict exports of seven types of rare earths, start an anti-dumping probe into medical CT X-ray tubes from the US and India, and halt imports of poultry products from two American companies. Additionally, it’s adding 11 American defense companies to an unreliable entity list, and imposing export controls on 16 US firms."

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-04/china-imposes-34-tariffs-on-all-us-imports-as-retaliation

We are really f**ked economically because of these jackasses.

I guess the mishandling of the pandemic wasn't enough for the idiots in this country who either voted trump, or refused to vote for VP Harris.

THERE WAS NO LESSER OF TWO EVILS EITHER. and anyone who present that as an argument is full of it.

MFN for China.

in a deal"

Why in the heck would a social platform be part of any deal tariff deal.

but when it comes to what the GOP loves spouting about - the "CCP" (Chinese Communist Party), his GOP buddies might actually break from him on that issue.

the Blue Chips have always been symbolic of the U.S.'s global status, and those corporations that manage to be listed there, have their bragging rights.

as they are not only broad but often have stocks that make up good-sized funds entities (and have a tie to the FTSE).

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143432822

Link to tweet

https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm

for anyone reading the thread ...

Household survey numbers -- the survey that produces the unemployment rate and labor force participation rate among many others

https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.a.htm

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Payroll jobs from the Establishment Survey: January: +111k, February: +117k, March: +228k
https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.b.htm

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The whole enchilada
https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/empsit.pdf