Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ wallops stock markets worldwide
NEW YORK, United States — President Donald Trump’s fast-approaching “Liberation Day” sent stock markets swinging sharply worldwide on Monday.
On Wall Street, the S&P 500 rose 0.6 percent in another roller-coaster day, after being down as much as 1.7 percent during the morning. The reversal helped the index shave its loss for the first three months of the year to 4.6 percent, making it the worst quarter in two-and-a-half years.
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The Dow Jones Industrial Average also swerved higher after erasing an initial loss, and it climbed 417 points, or 1…