Dow futures drop 250 points as a moody rainbow, Trump hit Walmart star-news.press/wp

American stock Futures has been sunk early on Monday, with S & P 500 drop 1%, NASDAQ sliding 1.5%, a dow jones industrial average down 244 points, or 0.6%. Vix pointed at 13%, and gold also pushed more.

Follows a fall Fresh Saber Rattle from White House over Walmart (Wmt) Tariff connected Returns in prices And consequential reduction from Moody – the last major grade agency to reduce the US AAA status.

What is behind a reduction

Moody’s Friday Decision on off the US’s last remaining triple-credit rating It all means the end of the era -simbolic. Although the markets are long in the risks of growing deficits and political dysfunction, the move is formalized what investors already doubt: American debt is no longer in fact, let alone in fact. Moody joins S & P and Fitch, and both installed American years earlier. (While Moody published an explanation behind the decision, the Agency does not allow the extensive summary of its materials, which is why not quoted here.)

But time-enforcement is still important, helping to explain the steep rise on Monday in state yields, with a 30-year-old yield that is pushed above 5%. Such spikes in yields may have serious effects in the markets by increasing borrowing costs, which can withdraw capital estimates – especially for stock growths with steep multiplication, hence, sharp in NASDAQ as opposed to other large indices.

Historically, Navid in Yields launched “rotation” outside the stock, tightening credit standards, and in some cases of the previous recession. Unlike 2011, when the S & P was reduced paradoxically caused rally in the cash register, this time a little sense for safe refuge anywhere.

The danger is that higher rates begin to do their journey more aggressive through earnings and balance sheets. As companies roll over due to debt at higher borrowing costs and households similarly facing detention loans, in the cloud of economy, paradoxically, slowly accelerated pace.

Moody’s call can be scheduled – the last indicator, as analysts say. But it is also a reminder that the conditions worse in the ordinary scene.

Jefferies says Moody’s Moverit will move the flight of capital from us

In concrete published early on Monday, Investment Bank Jefferies (Jez) Noted: “Tariff war has already led numerous investors for investment investment testing in the United States and look for alternatives. The evaluator will add an out-of-order argument away from the US and Europe and Asia.”

Memo continued: “In our conversations with big accounts of real monetary accounts, there was a clear sense of coming away from the US, although most accounts haven’t pulled the trigger yet.”

White House Attack Walmart over the tariff

U.S. Treasury Minister Bessent said Sunday that He had a call with Walmart director In which Walmart agreed to absorb some tariff costs. However, numerous news reports on the invitation were agreed in the week before, and the company’s position was not changed.

President Donald Trump too claimed During the weekend, which Walmart made “billions of dollars” more than expected last year – the figure that does not stand in control. In reality, Walmart’s growth in the last few years was stable, but far from explosives, with the monitoring of earnings near Wall Street expectations.

It is simply: Walmart’s size, age, and in the type of Ultra-Marn-Margin Business Walmart is in, only I don’t see surprised to billions. The company is ripe. Its profit represent only teen-sitting slices of sales prices. Moreover, Walmart’s forecasts are incredibly closely monitored and accompanied, another reason, the chain does not tend to be analysts for a bowl with stunning victories and unforeseen upside down.

For example, Walmart’s Firm Q1 2025 Performance reflected very modestly growing sales, digital growth, and some gains food grocers, not wild straps. The execution appears focused on the rejection of the blame for inflationary pressure actually initiated by Trump’s own tariffs.

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