Heavy losses for tech stocks had the Nasdaq Composite flirting with a correction, defined as a 10% drop from a recent high, as major indexes renewed a slide tied to economic jitters.

Wall Street’s sell-off is kicking back into gear on Thursday, and a U.S. stock market rattled by uncertainty about the economy and President Donald Trump's tariffs is nearly all the way back to where it was on Halloween.

The S&P 500 is dangerously close to breaking a key level. The market benchmark was down 1.9% to 5731.79. That’s barely above its 200-day moving average of 5730.76. The S&P nearly tested the level during Tuesday’s selloff,

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Stock futures are little changed Wednesday night after the major averages rebounded on hopes for concessions on President Donald Trump's tariffs. Futures tied to the Dow Jones Industrial Average traded 13 points higher, or less than 0.1%. S&P 500 futures shed 0.01%, while Nasdaq 100 futures dipped 0.2%.

Stocks racked up more losses on Wall Street Tuesday as a trade war between the U.S. and its key trading partners escalated, wiping out all the gains since Election Day for the S&P 500.

Heading into 2025, most Wall Street strategists were predicting further gains after missing last year’s 23% advance for the S&P 500.

SINCE 2018, gold’s annual returns have outpaced those of the US stock market standard S&P 500 for four of the seven years. According to data from Curvo, the

Specifically, the S&P 500 declined 19.8% over a three-month period between September and December 2018, but the index had recouped its losses and reached a new high by May 2019. That's because the market tends to overreact to good and bad news.

The S&P 500 was down slightly year to date before last Friday's rally, which boosted the index into positive territory. Surprisingly, the Mega Cap Growth ETF is only down 1.5% year to date because gains in Eli Lilly, Visa, and Meta Platforms have largely offset sizable losses in Tesla, Broadcom, and Alphabet.

The S&P 500 continued to slide in response to President Donald Trump’s tariffs, but the market benchmark was holding above a key level—for now. The S&P 500 was down 1.9% to 5740. Its low of the day was 5732.

The S&P 500 advanced 1.1% on Wednesday, March 5, as the White House announced it would delay tariffs affecting U.S. automakers.