Dow worst April since 1932

[malaise]

Everything he touches dies

[OLDMDDEM]

1. He needs to touch himself.

[malaise]

2. I almost added

just that 😀.

[OLDMDDEM]

4. I wasn't sure if I should have added it. It could be taken wrong.

[malaise]

5. Hehe

😀

[EYESORE 9001]

9. I know I took it 'wrong'

I had a vision of a tiny, shriveled, mushroom-shaped appendage dropping onto the ground

[Celerity]

36. First thing I thought of was his wee hands milking his infected mushroom

[RJ-MacReady]

13. lol

Lololol 😅😂😆

[Kid Berwyn]

3. Wait until they privatize Social Security!

Gosh, Harlan Crow will be so happy!

[OLDMDDEM]

6. I think that would be political suicide. Remember Bush Junior trying that?

[Greg_In_SF]

7. The Dow is down

4000 points year to date. In 2022, it dropped 7000 points. This math isn't adding up.

[ProfessorGAC]

17. The Largest Short Term Drop That Year...

...was from August 12 to September 30, or 7 weeks, where it fell 3,900 points.
Plus, I'm seeing a full year drop of only 3,191 points.
It appears it depends on the exact time frame under review.

[spanone]

8. K&R

[onenote]

10. Kind of a weird claim

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First, there are over a week of trading days left in the month. While the Dow will end down by the end of the month, the extent of the decline is yet to be known.

Second, none of the articles repeating this assertion give any information as to the amount by which the Dow declined in April 1932, or any other year. I did a bit of google searching which produced a couple of different sets of numbers from which the decline in the Dow in 1932 can be calculated -- one shows it as over 37% and the other puts it at around 23%. As I type this, the Dow is down around 6.6% for the month, using its close on March 31 as the starting point.

Again, there is every reason to expect the Dow to be down for the month, but the extent to which it is down now, at least, is much less than it was in April 1932.

[WarGamer]

11. Seems to have been a fictional claim.

[W_HAMILTON]

15. From WSJ -- you two like those rightwing sources, don't you?

https://www.wsj.com/finance/investing/dow-jones-stocks-worst-april-1932-74fe82ac

Now, please retract your mis(dis?)information.

[onenote]

18. I don't read the WSJ and I don't intend to subscribe

Since you apparently do both, why don't you share with us any specific information in the WSJ article about the extent of the decline in April 1932 and any other April months in which the market declined?

Also, please point out what mis or dis- information is in my post. Are there not a week of trading days left? Was the market not down around 6.6% for the month when I typed my post? Do you know where the market will end up at the month?

[WarGamer]

19. lol...

OP claims worst since April 1932. That's impossible since April isn't over yet. Thus... fiction.

[W_HAMILTON]

21. Yeah -- it could get a lot fucking worse. PS - Nothing the OP or article said is wrong/fiction, but your claim was.

[WarGamer]

22. Today's a new day... where's my calculator?

[onenote]

23. Despite the faith you put in the WSJ, it seems likely they weren't right.

The WSJ article's prediction was made when the Dow was down around 6 percent for the month. But the risk in predicting an outcome more than a week before the end of the month is that things change. The Dow recovered almost 2500 points between the date of the WSJ article you cited and today. The month ended up down around 3.2 percent. Now, I can't say for certain whether the Dow had a worse April than this year during the period from 1932 until this year, but the comparison to April 1932, when the market dropped by anywhere from 23 to 37 percent -- depending on the source -- looks a bit silly. And by overstating things, it masks the more important metric: the Dow has dropped by almost 8 percent since "Day One" of the orange idiot's presidency.

Another example that illustrates why the measuring stick should be back to January 21, not merely what happened this past month. The S&P 500 dropped almost 8 percent from "day one" but less than 1 percent during April.

Apocalyptic predictions -- like the one I saw here in early April saying that the Dow would drop all the way to 10,000 by the end of the month, don't help. Focus on reality -- it's bad enough that it doesn't have to be embellished.

[WarGamer]

24. Actually from open on April 1 to Close on April 30.. DOW was -2.88%

WSJ author is a complete moron.

[WarGamer]

25. Author was just a bit off... April 25, -2.88%

That's the worst April since...

2022.

[Skittles]

28. bottom line is

TRUMP IS TANKING THE STOCK MARKET because he is INCOMPETENT and has NO FUCKING IDEA WHAT HE IS DOING

[WarGamer]

29. I believe it could have been coordinated.

Trump was supposedly closer to Jamie Dimon this last campaign...

What if they discussed implementation of tariffs... and strategically shorted the market and then VOILA...

Trump will announce VICTORY in negotiations with foreign nations and cancel tariffs.

Market flies and BILLIONS are made.

[Skittles]

30. LOL

AMERICA IS A FUCKING JOKE BECAUSE OF DONALD FUCKING TRUMP AND HIS DUMBASS SUPPORTERS

[Skittles]

27. yes, they DO

glad I am not the only one who has noticed

[WarGamer]

31. Yup...

[littlemissmartypants]

32. An easy why to distinguish...

Misinformation from disinformation...

The 'D' in disinformation.

Think 'D'eliberate sharing of misinformation (basically anything untrue, not supported by fact/sources, can not be proven to be true) as 'D'isinformation.

That's how you differentiate the two.

Fun Fact.
❤️pants

[cliffside]

34. Heard this on CNBC at the time and agree, the month still had several trading days left. Dow 1932 dropped about 25% ...

that April, the percentage was not even close when the claim was made this April by the media, from the link posted above.

Dow Headed for Worst April Since 1932
https://www.wsj.com/finance/investing/dow-jones-stocks-worst-april-1932-74fe82ac

April finished with some possible bullish looking candles, we'll see what happens, posted this a few days ago ago. I must say the rumor on 4/7 of a pause in tariffs at key support on the SPX followed by a confirmation on 4/9 was very convenient/well timed.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/11216338

Three trading left in April, Possible monthly hammers, need follow through. The .236 retracement is from the 2009 low, the .50 from the 2022 low.

[Ping Tung]

12. Will Trump celebrate this as an "Historic Achievement" or a "Record Breaking Display of Prosperity"?

Or, will he just call it "fake news"?

[Greg_In_SF]

14. It *is*

fake news. The entire assertion is preposterous. In fact, it's not even close.

[Johonny]

16. Bessent out today pumping

Trade deals on the way . . . Sure.

[BannonsLiver]

20. Good to see our resident Trump/Musk bros got their cues to push back on this.

LIGMA!

[marble falls]

26. So much winning!

[Celerity]

33. April 2024 and April 2022 were worse for the Dow than April 2025, both in terms of points lost and percentage lost

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/%5EDJI/history/

April 2025 was down 1,210.39 points from the opening bell on April 1 to the closing bell on April 30 (-2.89 per cent)

April 2024 was down 1,992.01 points from the opening bell on April 1 to the closing bell on April 30 (-5.00 per cent)

April 2022 was down 1,763.68 points from the opening bell on April 1 to the closing bell on April 29 (the 30th of April 2022 was a Saturday, so no trading) (-5.08 per cent)

[malaise]

35. Thanks n/t