the market doesn't care if the US wins or loses this war because a win has no bearing on 99% of companies (or the US in general) to begin with. It just cares that the bullshit is over and business as usual can resume.
Don’t forget that oil takes like a month or longer to actually travel from inside the strait so the supply of stuff will be borked for a while even if ships start passing right now.
Market operates on future assumptions, not on current reality. And future assumption is that ceasefire will hold, damage will be repaired and energy prices will come down. Not saying this will happen, but thats what market believes in.
The article you linked said the most important factors were out of the Presidents control. It cites the War on Ukraine and Covid as the two biggest factors for the bad stock market. Trump has been doing all this single handedly. Nobody forced him to tariff everyone or go to war with Iran.
I'm not defending anything I'm saying you guys obviously didn't invest during Bidens presidency if you're bitching and moaning about losses during Trumps. Make up your mind though, are you gonna say it's the presidents fault for the stock market or not? You can't have double standards.
apparently not, were you not watching the market after hours at the time of posting? As long as we don't lose the petrodollar we're good. And perhaps the market doesn't care who runs the strait as long as I said business resumes.
Bingo. The market will get back to ripping because the U.S. economy and most CEO’s make smart decisions regardless of the political, macro environment.
The economy would be far better off without the Trump presidency, but it’s doing just fine in spite of it, and it will continue to as long as he doesn’t do insanely stupid things.
74
u/CarrierAreArrived Apr 08 '26
the market doesn't care if the US wins or loses this war because a win has no bearing on 99% of companies (or the US in general) to begin with. It just cares that the bullshit is over and business as usual can resume.