Trump triggers retail investors to dump the Magnificent Seven
Tech stocks plunged yesterday after President Trump announced in a “proclamation” that he was imposing a new 25% tariff on imports of computer chips from foreign countries. Every single one of the Magnificent Seven tech stocks was down by the closing bell yesterday. Meta suffered the worst, down 2.47%. Oracle (not in the Mag 7 but closely related) was down 4.29%, perhaps because it is the hyperscaler most dependent on imported chips for its AI data center business.
The S&P 500 closed down 0.53%.
However...