Preliminary consumer sentiment surprises to the downside

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[tanyabischoff]

I've always been fascinated by investing, but when I tried stock investing early last year, it hasn't been as successful as I expected. However, I keep seeing good news about the stock market. What are the best strategies for less risk and more gains?

[rabidgoon]

If this is America being great again, I would prefer going back to not being great.

[Notaco]

If you're surprised
You're not paying attention
It's called trumpflation

[pferlito]

Other than destroy 5 trillion in wealth, what has he done?

[MikiCab]

This is no surprise to anyone. I am putting off major purchases like a new car because car prices are skyrocketing. I bought a car in Nov 2024 and was going to buy a second car in first quarter of 2025 but will put that off until all this uncertainty is over.

[kyrey]

Lol the economy is going to fall off a cliff once the tariffs in April take effect. Inflation will really start to kick in! People not saving their money now and/or working more to get more money now are going to be in a world of hurt! Things are going to become unaffordable very soon! Not expensive, but UNAFFORDABLE!

[glennmiddleton]

You would need acting lessons from Al Pacino to look surprised. Only MAGA is surprised a tweet raging President knocks consumer and business confidence.

[Cannonball]

Oh boy, and Wall Street’s just ignoring this. Because they’re married to Isaac Neutron 😂

[Lynnpjjbdndji]

If that's a suprise you have been living in a Cave !!!

[PrudentStudent]

Blah blah blah the Trump effect and his MAGA Idiotcracy.

[reekinronald]

I don't get it? Why is consumer sentiment down? All so very strange.

[rolandjeronimus]

Creating a level playing field to produce domestically means that you no longer buy raw materials internationally for the best price/quality ratio, but buy raw materials domestically and produce them domestically for the price that they cost domestically. This will usually be more expensive or of lower quality than buying on the competitive world trade, otherwise you would not have had to buy the raw materials abroad. More expensive or inferior raw materials result in more expensive goods or goods of lower quality. More expensive goods have to be paid for. For export, these goods are no longer competitive in terms of price or quality. For the internal market, these goods are also not attractive because they are too expensive or of lower quality. To be able to buy the more expensive goods, you need higher incomes. Higher incomes make production costs higher, etc. etc. So closing off world trade is almost always negative for citizens.

[Mike-inmu]

This is new great america yay lmao ... I think America is done ! Lets move to some other stable country !

[harrychu]

Umich is known as one the most liberal institutions in the US along with being a massive recipient of taxpayer funded grants such as those cancelled by DOGE.

[erichaller]

Is anyone else sick and tired of all this winning ?

[cryp]

"President Obama are you hearing this" ?

[JeffPresley-unox]

Kamala got 42 voters.. and they’re all on here!!! 😂😂😂. Thanks for trying out, you didn’t make the team

[willtwain]

Rantelli lives in MAGA bubble. People are horrified about his president.

[DudeGamer]

He is only interested in the rich, I mean, look at his policy, $5 million gold card, have you heard him talk at length about his plan on helping middle and lower class in his Oval Office briefings? Think about it, go ahead, none... It's all about helping big corp CEO with his tariffs and of course the $5 million gold card.

[sco]

The Trump economy is gonna go through some things.