Jeff Sommer
Strategies columnist and Senior Staff Editor at The New York Times
New York Times Strategies columnist [email protected]
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1 week ago |
nytimes.com | Jeff Sommer
Until now, it had always taken decades of consensus building to bend the trajectory of trade policy, Professor Irwin said. When the country changed course in earlier times, Congress played the dominant role. Even when it began delegating authority to negotiate trade deals to the president in the 1930s, Congress set the direction of U.S. tariffs: downward. Now, it's unquestionably the president who has taken the United States on a new and hazardous path.
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2 weeks ago |
nytimes.com | Jeff Sommer
Recessions usually make bear markets much worse, Ned Davis Research, an independent financial research firm, has found. Bear markets accompanied by recessions had a median duration of 528 calendar days and a market decline of 32.8 percent, the firm has found, using Dow Jones industrial average data since 1900. Bear markets that occurred without recessions had a median duration of 224 days and a decline of 23.3 percent.
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2 weeks ago |
einvestidor.estadao.com.br | Jeff Sommer
Nestes primeiros meses da administração Trump, tem sido vantajoso proteger suas apostas. O mercado de ações dos EUA tem enfrentado problemas. Há duas semanas, por um dia, o S&P 500 foi relegado ao território duvidoso que Wall Street chama de “correção”, significando que as ações caíram mais de 10% de seu pico. O mercado se recuperou um pouco, mas assistir às ações dos EUA lutando dia após dia é uma receita para indigestão.
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2 weeks ago |
advisorstream.com | Jeff Sommer |Ron Phillips
By Jeff Sommer April 4, 2025 The mood has darkened in the U.S. stock market, and no wonder. Pessimism about the Trump tariffs has set off painful declines. But the picture has been less dire for people with investments outside the U.S. stock market. Holding plenty of bonds and including stakes in international stock markets were keys to stability and, maybe, even modestly positive returns in the first three months of the year.
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2 weeks ago |
nytimes.com | Jeff Sommer
People have avoided huge losses by holding old-fashioned, well-balanced investments, an approach our columnist is banking on for the future. The mood has darkened in the U.S. stock market, and no wonder. Pessimism about the Trump tariffs has set off painful declines. But the picture has been less dire for people with investments outside the U.S. stock market.
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