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Stocks tumbled Tuesday after President Trump promised hundreds of billions in new tariffs in response to China trade retaliation.

All the sound and fury over tariffs and retaliation was met with a very small decline in major stock market indexes.

President Sergio Mattarella made the surprise announcement Sunday that he would refuse to appoint Paolo Savona as prime minister. Instead of calming markets, this sparked a selloff in stocks and bonds on Monday.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average went on a wild ride. In early trading, the index climbed more than 200 points, only to fall to midday lows of around a 600 point loss.

Investors were cheered by signs that the Trump administration’s trade policies appear to be producing cooperation and compromise rather than sparking a trade war. 

Stocks rose on Friday. Shares of luxury retailer Tiffany & Co, however, fell by nearly 6%. And Toys R Us was shuffled off to the Island of Misfit Toys.

Stocks of the biggest U.S. multinational companies were hit the hardest by a sell-off that accelerated after the Trump administration announced new steel and aluminum tariffs.

Monday’s gains were spread widely through the market with 10 of the 11 S&P sectors up. The energy sector saw the best performance of the day, boosted by rising energy prices.

In a wild end to a wild week in the stock market, the Dow Jones Industrial Average stocks fall by as much 500 points only to soar later.

With another morning plunge, followed by a rally, followed by a tumble, stocks put investors on a wild ride Wednesday.

After crashing downward at the open, stocks rose to end the day in positive territory, producing a wild day.

Not since before World War II has the Dow Jones Industrial Average seen a rise as powerful as what we saw in Donald Trump’s first year.

The stock market is the closest thing America has to an instant gauge on economic news. Even if it is an often fickle judge, the stock market bears watching when economically relevant news breaks.

First we controlled the election, next the presidency, now the stock market.

Huzzah, however, soon turned to Oops.

Shares of many of the companies whose CEOs rebelled against Trump saw there biggest declines in months.

The largest decline since September 2016.

Investors have clearly been spooked by the leak storm swirling around the White House.

Millennials who rushed to buy shares of the company behind Snapchat lost a lot of money this week.

No modern president taking office in an expanding economy has seen stocks rise by as much in his first 100 days in office as they did during Trump’s.

Despite the scary headlines about the “longest losing streak,” it’s the markets resilience that is truly remarkable. Many analysts and talkative investor-types had insisted the market would view the Obamacare replacement bill as a test of the Trump administration’s ability to enact its agenda. So when the bill seemed to be in trouble last week and, especially, when it went down in flames on Friday, stocks were widely expected sell off steeply. But that just keeps not happening.

Analysts are warning that Disney’s stock may run flat this year, not because it is doing so badly but because one of its properties, ESPN, has become a major drag on the entertainment giant’s budget.

Waking to the fact that the death of RyanCare won’t kill tax cuts or regulatory reforms, cooler heads are prevailing on Wall Street.

Many of the wizards of Wall Street predicted stocks would slump if Donald Trump won the presidency. Now they’re worried that stocks could be vulnerable if President Trump’s agenda stalls in Washington, D.C.

Despite investor confidence and soaring stock prices, Amazon’s fourth-quarter earnings in 2016 fell below expectations.

Weight loss company Weight Watchers International Inc. has seen $1.2 billion in value disappear over the last 11 months — leaving major shareholder and media mogul Oprah Winfrey with a staggering $117 million personal loss over the same time frame.

China’s stock market suffered an 8.48% crash on Monday that humiliated the country’s leadership and will almost certainly cause a major Communist Party crisis.

Sold to the public as a way to increase competition and save the average American family $2,500 a year, Obamacare actually created monopoly pricing for the insurance industry that allowed premiums to rise by $2,500 and tripled the value of their stocks.

In an almost unheard-of action for a Wall Street investment banking firm, UBS downgraded Tesla Motors Inc. (TSLA-$267.39) to a “sell”, driving the price of the shares down 5.5 percent, or -15.49.

Over 4,600 people are reportedly presumed dead in the 7.8 magnitude earthquake that struck Nepal Saturday and the numbers continue to rise, but nine Californians in various stages of rescue or distress remain alive at this point.

Shares of Viacom, the parent company of Comedy Central, slid 1.5% on Wednesday after The Daily Show host Jon Stewart announced he would leave the program later this year.