Money Tips Daily By Charles Kelly, Former Ifa And Author Of Yes, Money Can Buy You Happiness.

6 Trump tweets wipe $500 billion off U.S. stocks in one day - $83 billion a tweet! The stock market lost over $300 billion in value in 15 minutes due to six tweets from President Trump. He even joked about the Dow being down later in the day as investors lost over $500 billion on Friday. The Dow Jones closed 623 points down on Friday following the Trump tweets calling Fed the “enemy” and imposing new tariffs on Chinese imports from September. Forbes reported that in the course of 2 minutes on Friday President Trump unleashed 6 tweets about Fed Chairman Powell’s speech at the central bank’s Jackson Hole annual economic policy symposium and China announcing that it would impose 5% to 10% tariffs on $75 billion of U.S. exports to China. The stock market reacted immediately and intensely negatively to Trump’s first set of tweets sending the Dow Jones 30 Industrials down about 400 points in 15 minutes and 500 points within an hour. While the Dow and other indexes were essentially flat to up a bit during and after