Video showing stock market fall as Trump announces tariffs goes viral

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Khaleda Rahman

National Correspondent

A video showing stocks falling as President Donald Trump announced sweeping new tariffs on Wednesday has gone viral on social media.

The video, posted by the FactPost account on X, formerly Twitter, showed coverage from CNBC tracking stocks in real-time during the Trump’s announcement that he was placing elevated tariff rates on dozens of countries that run trade surpluses with the United States.

As of early Thursday morning, the clip had garnered more than 400,000 views and almost 5,000 likes on the platform.

The S&P 500 rose 0.7 percent in regular trading Wednesday, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average added 235 points, or 0.6 percent, and the Nasdaq composite climbed 0.9 percent, The Associated Press reported.

But futures trading showed all three indexes heading for sharp declines in Thursday trading, with the S&P 500 down 3.6 percent and the Nasdaq down by 4.5 percent.

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