John :au: :hb:<p>US <a href="https://fairdinkum.one/tags/stocks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>stocks</span></a> <a href="https://fairdinkum.one/tags/plunged" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>plunged</span></a> today, with the S&amp;P 500 suffering its biggest <a href="https://fairdinkum.one/tags/decline" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>decline</span></a> since March 2020.</p><p><a href="https://fairdinkum.one/tags/Shares" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Shares</span></a> of multinational companies <a href="https://fairdinkum.one/tags/tumbled" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tumbled</span></a>. Nike &amp; Apple dropped 13% &amp; 10%, respectively. Tech shares dropped, with chip-makers Nvidia off 7% &amp; Elon Musk’s Tesla down 5%.</p><p>When asked about the market reaction to the tariffs, Trump said: “The markets are going to boom. The stock is going to boom. The country is going to boom." </p><p><a href="https://fairdinkum.one/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://fairdinkum.one/tags/auspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>auspol</span></a> <a href="https://fairdinkum.one/tags/PutinsPuppet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PutinsPuppet</span></a> <a href="https://fairdinkum.one/tags/DepressionIncoming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DepressionIncoming</span></a></p>