Dow Jones on Track for Worst April Since 1932

Tuesday, April 22, 2025

The Dow got crushed on Monday, dropping nearly 1,000 points as traders scrambled through a selloff that's dragging the index toward the worst April since 1932, according to Dow Jones Market Data.

Posted by reinheitsgebot at 07:30 PM | 38 COMMENTS | permalink

"The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped around 972 points, and is on pace for its worst April since 1932." www.wsj.com/finance/stoc ...

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-- MaddowBlog (@maddowblog.msnbc.com) April 21, 2025 at 9:18 PM

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The Dow got crushed on Monday, dropping nearly 1,000 points as traders scrambled through a selloff that's dragging the index toward the worst April since 1932, according to Dow Jones Market Data.

The------------- did that.

#1 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-04-22 05:48 AM

#1: Trumpf is pauperizing and demoralizing Americans across the spectrum and he has only been in office 100 days. The Dotard-in-Chief is cutting back on funding food banks, homeless shelters, and healthcare, while the US heads toward another Great Depression. Thank you Republican voters for thinking it's better to have a selfish, unqualified racist white oligarch in the White House rather than a competent woman of color who wouldn't have tanked the US economy and your own 401K plans. Gut arbet!

#2 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-04-22 06:49 AM

Very, very, likely Trump's deliberate impoverishment of the United States is his way of settling narcissistic injuries.

That is to say, more revenge.

Now what he is trying to avenge won't make sense to most sane human beings.

But Donald Trump is not sane.

If you can't accept the ever-growing evidence of that, you may not be quite sane either.

#3 | Posted by Zed at 2025-04-22 08:05 AM

Trump.
Convicted screwing around with money felon, thirty-four times.
Six bankruptcies, half of them running gambling dens.
And he effs up the economy?
Sooprise.

#4 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-04-22 08:38 AM

Felon 47 is the best thing that ever happened to Hoover's pathetic presidential legacy.

#5 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-04-22 10:28 AM

The S&P has dropped the most under Trump for any president at this point in their presidency since the S&P 500 was in fact created back in 1957. And indeed, it is not anywhere close, folks. It's not anywhere close under Trump. It's dropped " get this " 14 percent."

The second biggest drop, he noted, was the 7 percent decrease under former President George W. Bush as a result of the September 11 attacks.

www.rawstory.com

It's a hell of an achievement to suck more than W.

#6 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-04-22 10:43 AM

Trump is worse for the market than... checks notes... 9/11.

Congratulations, Republicans.
You Built That!

#7 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-04-22 10:54 AM

Thanks, Trumphumpers!

Make America the Great Depression Again!

#8 | Posted by Corky at 2025-04-22 07:49 PM

My late grandparents used to tell us grandkids about how bleak it was for them in the late 1920s and 1930s. All those tales of sacrifice seemed so remote and irrelevant to me then.

But now I see how bad luck compounded by bad decisions can do terrible things to the country. Add the banal stupidity and corruption of the Trump regime, and pretty soon you're looking at a recipe for disaster.

#9 | Posted by cbob at 2025-04-22 09:30 PM

Overwhelmed by WIN-NING! Yay we win so much... sooooo much winning... more winning than Bushturd2.

#10 | Posted by RightisTrite at 2025-04-23 01:22 AM

"Dow Jones on Track for Worst April Since 1932"

No American, MAGA or otherwise, should ignore. My Mother and Father both lived through the Great Republican Depression of 1929! They survived but the lives they lived were so much harder than mine that I don't honestly know if I could have built a decent life starting where they did. Today we have a President not old enough to remember the depression playing games with economic warfare who is too stupid to understand how economic warfare can turn into real warfare! Simply put: back China into a corner where their economic success wii end because of American tariffs? The stupidest thing America could do is to derail Chinese entrance into the same world Americans and Europeans live in!
The smartest thing we can do is tell our corporations to prove why they should be valuable and if they can't; replace them.Americans either believe in capitalism or they don't really believe they can win without tariffs then they don't really believe in capitalism or themselves! Because what is the central tenet of Capitalism; i.e: Belief in yourself!

#11 | Posted by danni at 2025-04-23 03:01 AM

Wow - hard to find an article that needs to be retracted so soon after it was published. Good job Dems.

#12 | Posted by ScottS at 2025-04-23 09:17 AM

This gruesome FT chart offers a helpful illustration of exactly what's spooking the White House. Normally, if the U.S. takes a nasty economic hit " such as during Covid-19 or the 2008 financial crash " it's swiftly counterbalanced by a stronger dollar and cheaper borrowing, easing the pain somewhat."
"But Trump's Liberation Day'-induced crash has done the unthinkable " hitting U.S. stocks, bonds and currency all at the same time."

www.politico.com

The putrid orange pedo is getting curb-stomped.

#13 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-04-23 09:23 AM

"#13 | Posted by reinheitsgebot"

Lol, you ------- libs never had any money in the market to begin with - to top it off, the -------s with pretend investments bragged about selling it all and missing out on the 2,000 point rally in the Dow the last 2 days.

#14 | Posted by ScottS at 2025-04-23 09:48 AM

Look at pedo scatberg's flailing attempt to defend the bankruptcy-prone------------. Lol

#15 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-04-23 09:58 AM

you ------- libs never had any money in the market to begin with

#14 | POSTED BY SCOTTS AT

That little bubble you live in is made of lies.

#16 | Posted by Zed at 2025-04-23 10:30 AM

"Dow Jones on Track for Worst April Since 1932"
No American, MAGA or otherwise, should ignore. My Mother and Father both lived through the Great Republican Depression of 1929! They survived but the lives they lived were so much harder than mine that I don't honestly know if I could have built a decent life starting where they did. Today we have a President not old enough to remember the depression playing games with economic warfare who is too stupid to understand how economic warfare can turn into real warfare! Simply put: back China into a corner where their economic success wii end because of American tariffs? The stupidest thing America could do is to derail Chinese entrance into the same world Americans and Europeans live in!
The smartest thing we can do is tell our corporations to prove why they should be valuable and if they can't; replace them.Americans either believe in capitalism or they don't really believe they can win without tariffs then they don't really believe in capitalism or themselves! Because what is the central tenet of Capitalism; i.e: Belief in yourself!

#11 | Posted by danni at 2025-04-23 03:01 AM | Reply | Flag:
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Yet when Pelosi, Schumer and Schiff were calling for tariffs you were all in. And btw, look at the market today. If you were smart enough, which I doubt, and put money in the market 5 years ago your investment would be up over 60%.
The people complaining about the market aren't involved with the market.

#17 | Posted by fishpaw at 2025-04-23 11:00 AM

That little bubble you live in is made of lies.

#16 | Posted by Zed at 2025-04-23 10:30 AM | Reply | Flag:

Um even you can look at what the market is doing. Just go to Google and type in Dow Jones. Let me know if you need any more help, ------.

#18 | Posted by fishpaw at 2025-04-23 11:05 AM

Um even you can look at what the market is doing.

#18 | POSTED BY FISHPAW

Trump makes the market crash repeatedly.

True or false?

#19 | Posted by Zed at 2025-04-23 11:08 AM

#18 | POSTED BY FISHPAw

Trump is making GNP contract,

True or false?

#20 | Posted by Zed at 2025-04-23 11:09 AM

#18 | POSTED BY FISHPAW

Fifty percent chance of a Trump recession this year.

True or false.

#21 | Posted by Zed at 2025-04-23 11:11 AM

"Um even you can look at what the market is doing."

The market is reacting to Trump surrendering to China on Tariffs.

Trump tariffs live updates: White House considers slashing China tariffs after Trump hints at deescalation
finance.yahoo.com

Stock market today: Dow, S&P 500, Nasdaq soar as Trump softens stance on Powell, China tariffs
finance.yahoo.com

#22 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-04-23 11:19 AM

"Yet when Pelosi, Schumer and Schiff were calling for tariffs you were all in."

So that's why Trump is caving on Tariffs.

Dems were calling for tariffs, so that means tariffs must be bad.

It's a shame nobody told Trump before Liberation Day!

#23 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-04-23 11:25 AM

The people complaining about the market aren't involved with the market.

#17 | POSTED BY FISHPAW

How do you know this? Is DOGE sharing inside trader data with you?

Even without directly investing in the stock market, individuals are indirectly affected by its performance. This impact stems from various factors, including retirement savings, consumer spending, and the overall economy.

While it's true that the richest Americans own most of the stocks, it's wrong to assume that nobody else is affected by how they are valued. Record numbers of American households are investing their savings in equities to secure their financial futures.

And let's not forget that the constituents of the stock market are the companies that produce goods and services, provide the population with jobs, and basically power the economy.

www.investopedia.com

Btw- I just checked the markets. Still down -2700 pts for the month

MAGA! Making America 1932 Again!

#24 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-04-23 01:05 PM

PRSIX
Spectrum Conservative Allocation Fund

Is only down 2.07%. I can live with that, if it means resetting our debt spiral.
( If a country has been importing more goods than exporting for a prolonged period, it could be going into debt)

just HODL

#25 | Posted by itchyp at 2025-04-23 10:27 PM

The main problem with trade deficits arises when they result in a very large international debt position

2012books.lardbucket.org
policy-and-theory-of-international-economics

By the late 1980s, the United States achieved the status of the largest debtor nation in the world.

-The trade deficit, when not financed as debt, is offset by foreign equity purchases, which I say is much worse.
We're selling off the instruments of wealth production to finance the trade imbalance. We're selling off our farmland to foreigners, how smart is that?

#26 | Posted by itchyp at 2025-04-23 10:42 PM

@#25 ... Is only down 2.07% ...

Back in the 80's I had car-pooled with a, at the time, a Wall Street veteran.

One of the things he told me, in our many enlightening discussions as we drove to our place of employ, was...

You give a price, or you give a date. But you never give both.

So, your current alias' comment, citing a percentage, does not seem to give any date boundaries for that percentage.

So, 2.07% in what timeframe?

#27 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-04-23 10:48 PM

@#25 ... Is only down 2.07% ...

Back in the 80's I had car-pooled with a, at the time, a Wall Street veteran.

One of the things he told me, in our many enlightening discussions as we drove to our place of employ, was...

You give a price, or you give a date. But you never give both.

So, your current alias' comment, citing a percentage, does not seem to give any date boundaries for that percentage.

So, 2.07% in what timeframe?

#28 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-04-23 10:56 PM

(apologies for the double post, my error.)

#29 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-04-23 10:57 PM

"You give a price, or you give a date. But you never give both."

That's just like, Heiesnberg's Uncertainty Principle, man.

#30 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-04-23 11:22 PM

"The people complaining about the market aren't involved with the market."

I mean...
You kinda have a point.
I'm half as involved with the market as I used to be, once the trailing stops kicked in.

#31 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-04-23 11:23 PM

@#30 ... That's just like, Heiesnberg's Uncertainty Principle, man ...

Yup.

And, back then, when he told me that, there did entail a discussion about Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle, as I related my scientific approach to his financial approach.

That was a most interesting carpool ride that day. :)

But I digress ...

#32 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-04-23 11:41 PM

Indeed, information theory is prevalent in trying to predict the market.

#33 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-04-23 11:45 PM

So, 2.07% in what timeframe?

-since the --------

#34 | Posted by itchyp at 2025-04-24 10:51 AM

So, 2.07% in what timeframe?
-since the --------

#34 | Posted by itchyp

And it's UP since 1983!

Let's pick some more arbitrary dates to make you feel better about destroying the stock market and people's savings.

#35 | Posted by Sycophant at 2025-04-24 10:58 AM

-since the --------

We have two Chinese sock puppets?

#36 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-04-24 11:00 AM

The main problem with trade deficits arises when they result in a very large international debt position
2012books.lardbucket.org
policy-and-theory-of-international-economics

By the late 1980s, the United States achieved the status of the largest debtor nation in the world.

#26 | Posted by itchyp

From YOUR link?

"The truth about trade deficits is that sometimes they are good, sometimes they are bad, but most times, they are benign (i.e., they just don't matter)."

We don't have a command control economy. Our national debt is not linked to the trade deficit.

#37 | Posted by Sycophant at 2025-04-24 11:03 AM

We're selling off the instruments of wealth production to finance the trade imbalance. We're selling off our farmland to foreigners, how smart is that?

Who's "We."

In America, if you own things, you get to do what you want with them. Including selling it to foreigners. So what exactly are you proposing?

Meanwhile, Trump is selling passports to the wealthy foreigners. Wealthy foreigners buying land in America and you love it.

#38 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-04-24 11:07 AM

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