{"id":189905,"date":"2026-02-23T11:29:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T16:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/23\/dow-sinks-more-than-700-points-as-tariff-uncertainty-roils-markets\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T11:45:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T16:45:14","slug":"dow-sinks-more-than-700-points-as-tariff-uncertainty-roils-markets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/23\/dow-sinks-more-than-700-points-as-tariff-uncertainty-roils-markets\/","title":{"rendered":"Dow sinks more than 700 points as tariff uncertainty roils markets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/02\/23\/investing\/us-stocks-trump-tariffs\">Dow sinks more than 700 points as tariff uncertainty roils markets<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/02\/23\/investing\/us-stocks-trump-tariffs\">https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/02\/23\/investing\/us-stocks-trump-tariffs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-23 11:29:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.cnn.com\">www.cnn.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Certainly! Here&#8217;s an unordered list summarizing the key points from the article:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; The stock market experienced significant declines on Monday with the Dow down 742 points (1.5%), the S&#038;P 500 down 1.04%, and the Nasdaq Composite down 1.2%, reflecting heightened uncertainty due to President Trump&#8217;s new proposed tariffs.<br \/>\n&#8211; Following Friday&#8217;s Supreme Court ruling that struck down Trump&#8217;s earlier tariffs, the president announced a new set of tariffs, this time at a rate of 15%, causing confusion and market volatility.<br \/>\n&#8211; The VIX, known as Wall Street&#8217;s fear gauge, rose by 14% on Monday, indicating increased market uncertainty and volatility.<br \/>\n&#8211; The announcement of new tariffs, along with questions about potential refunds, has created a challenging outlook for investors.<br \/>\n&#8211; Amid market fears, gold prices shot up by 2.9% to surpass $5,200 a troy ounce as investors turned to safe-haven assets.<br \/>\n&#8211; The VIX surpassing 20 points signals elevated volatility, with more than 70% of stocks in the S&#038;P 500 falling on Monday.<br \/>\n&#8211; The technology sector continues to struggle, with the tech-heavy Nasdaq down around 6% since late October despite hitting a record high.<br \/>\n&#8211; Analysts suggest the key issue is not just the tariff level but the unpredictable nature of future policy changes, affecting investor confidence. <\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story and ongoing market reactions to the new tariff proposals are expected.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dow sinks more than 700 points as tariff uncertainty roils markets https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/02\/23\/investing\/us-stocks-trump-tariffs Publish Date: 2026-02-23&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":189906,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/gettyimages-2262155822.jpg?c=16x9&q=w_800,c_fill","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189905"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189905"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":189907,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189905\/revisions\/189907"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}