A dealer reacts whereas engaged on the ground of the New York Inventory Trade on Feb. 25, 2025.
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The S&P 500‘s fast 10% decline from a document excessive into correction territory has worn out trillions of {dollars} in market worth.
The market worth of the S&P 500 at its Feb. 19 peak was $52.06 trillion, in keeping with FactSet. Thursday’s decline put the index’s market worth all the way down to $46.78 trillion.
That makes for a complete lack of about $5.28 trillion in about three weeks.
The S&P 500 has gone from a document excessive to down 10% in lower than a month.
The decline has come within the shadow of President Donald Trump‘s burgeoning commerce battle with a number of of the US’ main buying and selling companions, with headlines about tariffs at occasions seeming to drive market strikes. There have additionally been indicators of slowing financial development, with weak shopper sentiment surveys and tepid outlooks from retailers like Walmart.
“Our interactions with shoppers point out that the temper music is altering. Whereas many see recession discuss as untimely, considerations about erratic coverage from the brand new administration abound, with the ‘uncertainty tax’ hitting development expectations,” Barclays strategist Emmanuel Cau mentioned in a observe to shoppers.
One other contributing issue to the decline seems to be the unwind of the expansion commerce associated to synthetic intelligence. Since Feb. 19, Nvidia is down 17% and the Roundhill Magnificent Seven ETF (MAGS) has fallen 16%.
The run up in these AI-related shares earlier than the correction had raised concern that the inventory market was too richly valued, with a number of names at occasions having their very own market caps above $3 trillion. Even now, the S&P 500 is buying and selling at 24.1-times its trailing 12-month earnings, in keeping with FactSet, which is nicely above its long-term common.
Correction: Since Feb. 19, Nvidia is down 17% and the Roundhill Magnificent Seven ETF has fallen 16%. An earlier model misstated the date and a share.
