Stock Market Today: Stocks extend slide amid renewed tariff concerns
The S&P 500 is looking to snap a four-week losing streak heading into a 'triple witching hour' Friday.
U.S. equity futures moved lower in early Friday trading, with the S&P 500 facing a fifth consecutive weekly decline, as investors continue to worry that President Donald Trump's tariff, immigration and budget-cutting policies will harm growth prospects in the world's biggest economy.
Updated at 9:00 AM EDT
Tariff tumult
Another social media message from President Trump, promising to follow-through on his threat to impose so-called reciprocal tariffs on U.S. trading partners next month, as triggered another pullback in stock futures heading into the opening bell.
The S&P 500 is now called 46 points lower, with the Nasdaq priced for a 200 point slide and the Dow set for a 320 point pullback
Seems Donald Trump is deliberately manipulating the stock market every time he babbles about “Liberation Day” and his tariffs on April 2nd. pic.twitter.com/ovum63CyBI— Art Candee
