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Speaker 1: Bloomberg Audio Studios, podcasts, radio news.

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Speaker 2: It has been a wild few weeks in markets. In

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Speaker 2: late February, the Nasdaq one hundred index hit another record high,

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Speaker 2: topping out months of gains that followed the election of

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Speaker 2: Donald Trump.

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Speaker 1: There really was sort of a sugar rush across Wall Street,

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Speaker 1: even across Main Street with a lot of retail traders,

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Speaker 1: and there was this excitement in certain corners that deregulation,

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Speaker 1: low taxes, in embrace of cryptocurrencies would really boost markets

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Speaker 1: and would boost the American economy.

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Speaker 2: Charlie Wells covers Personal Finance for Bloomberg, and he says

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Speaker 2: that now that picture is changing because those gains that

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Speaker 2: followed Trump's s election, well.

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Speaker 1: They have been entirely erased. So from the moment that

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Speaker 1: he was elected until now, we're really seeing a reversal.

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Speaker 2: There By last week, the S and P five hundred

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Speaker 2: had wiped out all the value it's added since election day,

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Speaker 2: three point four trillion dollars worth. The Nasdaq one hundred

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Speaker 2: tumbled around three percent Monday morning, extending a selloff that's

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Speaker 2: put it into correction. Territory investors were watching over the weekend.

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Speaker 2: When Trump was asked on Fox News' Sunday Morning Futures

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Speaker 2: about the possibility of a recession.

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Speaker 1: I hate to predict things like that.

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Speaker 2: There is a period of transition because what we're doing

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Speaker 2: is very big recession predictions. Aside, the market volatility is

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Speaker 2: expected to continue as investors struggled to price assets in

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Speaker 2: a new world order created by the administration shifting tariff

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Speaker 2: plans for China, Canada, and Mexico.

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Speaker 1: So there was that idea of the Trump bomb, and

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Speaker 1: now there's a sense that people might need to prepare

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Speaker 1: for a Trump slump.

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Speaker 2: I'm Sarah Holder, and this is the big take from

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Speaker 2: Bloomberg News today on the show. Is the Trump bump

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Speaker 2: becoming the Trump slump? And in an era of market whiplash,

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Speaker 2: what do experts say you should do with your money?

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Speaker 2: The optimism boosting markets after the election has started to

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Speaker 2: give way to pessimism. So I asked Bloomberg's Charlie Wells

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Speaker 2: to explain the shift. How much of this current volatility

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Speaker 2: is about Trump's tariff plan and how chaotically it's been

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Speaker 2: rolled out.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so, Well, a lot of the more recent selling

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Speaker 1: off that we've seen in the market does have to

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Speaker 1: do with Trump's tariff policies, and on the campaign trail

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Speaker 1: he talked about tariffs. It almost sounded as if he

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Speaker 1: were kind of using tariffs in his second campaign, that

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Speaker 1: he was using the wall and building the wall in

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Speaker 1: the first campaign. It was the sort of panacea, a

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Speaker 1: kind of thing that would you fix the American economy,

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Speaker 1: it would fix drugs, it would fix crime, et cetera.

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Speaker 1: And if you kind of zoom out from the Base

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Speaker 1: to Wall Street, a lot of people sitting at those

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Speaker 1: trading desks weren't taking those threats of tariffs seriously. They

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Speaker 1: really thought that the bark there would be louder than

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Speaker 1: the bite. But what we saw was that Trump was

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Speaker 1: pretty serious. So when those tariffs came into effect, you

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Speaker 1: saw a deep sell off, But then you had indications

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Speaker 1: We ultimately saw a delay on a number of those tariffs,

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Speaker 1: and so that created this kind of like jagged line

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Speaker 2: Did Trump delaying imposing tariffs on Mexico and Canada until

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Speaker 1: Fits and starts? I would say and I think this

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Speaker 1: gets at a bigger issue that we're not really hearing

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Speaker 1: But what we know about executives is that they like certainty.

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Speaker 1: They like to know what's going to happen, because they

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Speaker 2: You know. Trump has said his decision to change course

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Speaker 2: on tariff's at least momentarily didn't have anything to do

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Speaker 2: with the negative market reaction we were seeing. What do

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean some of the timing on this was striking.

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Speaker 1: So this does have to do with the fact that

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Speaker 2: Right we saw with the release of China's Deepseek AI

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Speaker 1: Made exactly, and that was this idea that you know,

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Speaker 1: and along comes this kind of cheaper Chinese alternative that

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Speaker 2: I want to take a closer look at some of

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Speaker 2: these market swings we've been seeing across stocks, bonds, crypto.

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Speaker 2: Where are we seeing the most volatility and where are

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so you're seeing a lot of volatility and some

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Speaker 1: And you know, before the market sentiment shifted a few

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Speaker 2: What about stability? Are there any stocks, currencies, bonds that

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Speaker 1: Yeah, So you know, the big take here is that

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Speaker 1: some stability there. A take too from a lot of

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Speaker 1: experts in this is that when there is more volatility,

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Speaker 1: companies that are more necessary, they're not as discretionary. So

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Speaker 2: So, with everyone from CEOs to consumers stealing themselves from

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Speaker 2: more economic uncertainty, what do experts say investors should do?

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Speaker 2: That's after the break. Well, Charlie, on your beat, you

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Speaker 2: speak with a lot of experts on personal finance. You've

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Speaker 2: drawn from their expertise already in this conversation. But what

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Speaker 2: are they saying generally about how everyday investors should be

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Speaker 2: thinking about the market right now. People who might be

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think there's a little bit of a divide here.

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Speaker 1: The overarching take is stay the course, don't make any

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Speaker 1: drastic changes. But sometimes I'll push these analysts, sometimes I'll

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Speaker 1: push these advisors to ask, all right, let's say someone's

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Speaker 1: they had some interesting ideas over the past couple days.

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Speaker 2: Tell us what are the ideas?

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Speaker 1: good conversation, and she talked about looking at specific industries

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Speaker 1: But she made an even better point, which is, don't

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Speaker 2: But do your homework tech stocks, should you buy, should

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Speaker 1: Yes, this is such a good question. And one of

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Speaker 1: A lot of people don't. So if you look under

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Speaker 1: The divide here is do you sell or do you hold?

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Speaker 1: And I think one of the points an advisor from

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Speaker 1: we know, you know, Wall Street will do from time

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Speaker 1: that some analysts have. The others would say, you know what,

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Speaker 1: maybe you've kind of juiced enough out of that tech orange.

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Speaker 1: Drink that and take that energy you've got. And I'm

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Speaker 1: really making a metaphor here, but go on me exactly.

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Speaker 1: I like that take take that immunity defense and go

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Speaker 1: invest in a healthcare stock, which you know is probably

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Speaker 2: This is a really silly question that I'm sure a

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Speaker 2: lot of the personal finance experts you speak to would

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Speaker 1: I think that is something that so many people are

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Speaker 1: the overarching message that I hear from advisors is sure,

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Speaker 2: What about people considering making big purchases right now, like

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it's tricky. I looked into cars, and

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Speaker 2: And I think because of the tariffs on Mexico.

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Speaker 1: That's exactly right, because of tariffs on Mexico and Canada's

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Speaker 2: I'm curious about how your sources are interpreting this moment.

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Speaker 1: That is really tricky. I think that there again is

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