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More Tariffs

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Friends

As you know, tariffs are the
Presidents favorite blunt instrument to influence behavior, but markets aren’t
particularly fond of them. The President’s threat to impose tariffs on Mexico
if they don’t become more active/helpful in the immigrant crisis sent stocks
tumbling down.

For
the day, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 355 points to finish the day
at 24,814. The S&P was down 37 points to close at 2,752. Gold was up $18 to
trade at $1,310 per ounce, while oil was down $3.33 to trade at $53.26 per
barrel WTI.

The correction that we
referenced earlier in the week continues and trade war headlines continue to
feed the bears. It was a difficult month of May and now we enter the dog days
of summer. Stay tuned, we’ll try to keep you cool and informed over the coming
months.

Have a great weekend
everyone.

Jim

Comment section

Engage. Enrage. Enjoy.

  • Perhaps if the US continues to hold other nations’ feet to the fire, the markets will respond positively in the future. Obvi only if tariffs start working! We haven’t had a POTUS with balls like this before so the markets demonstrate fear of the unknown rn. We are the ones who supposedly hate Trump and swoon over Beto. (Beto is a guy that was once in the race btw). Lol

    • Short term pain for long term gain. Is there a nurse in the house?