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.

  • hedgehogging_the_bed@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    I’m not good and not a boi/boy/guy/whatever, but thanks I guess.

    I was more interested in getting to the fact that everyday American don’t rely on the stock market directly. If you are hurting directly in this downturn, you needed to have less volatile investments to begin with. Americans do have some small direct market investments but they are dwarfed compared to their other stores of value and to the quantity of money in the market from non-consumer level individuals.

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      24 hours ago

      When you say ‘don’t rely on the stock market directly’ you’re aware of the second and third order effects from a market crash right?

      The president just crashed the market harder than Covid for no reason, and you’re telling me i need less volatile investments? What investment would that be out of curiosity?