The fall of the stock market is not as “significant” as the business moves

The White House on Monday minimized the weeks Stock market armchairinsisting that they move recently by Business leaders Suggest a brighter perspective for the American economy.

“We are seeing a strong divergence between the animal spirits of the stock market and what we are really seeing to develop from companies and business leaders,” said a White House official to journalists on Monday afternoon.

“The latter is obviously more significant than the first one in what is reserved for the economy in the medium and long term,” said the official, who was granted anonymity.

In economics, the term “Spirit of animals“It is used to describe situations where human emotions, instead of pure logic, dictate the decisions of investors.

The White House seemed to be using the term to suggest that the sale of the sale of the sale was driven by irrational fears and negativity.

He Dow Jones industrial almost 900 points fell on Monday and Nasdaq registered its worst session since 2022, while the S&P 500 lost 2.7%.

He Sad negotiation day extended and intensified a dairy That has entered its third week.

But experts pointed out several factors that promoted investors to eliminate shares, in the boss among them, huge 25% tariffs in imports from Mexico and Canada. President Donald Trump Tax and then stopped these rates last month, just to impose and stop them partially again last week.

Check the uncertainty about Trump’s commercial policy are the massive shots of thousands of federal employees, an effort supervised by multimillion -dollar advisor Trump ELON ALMIZCLE.

The result was an abrupt investment of aggressive optimism and high risk tolerance that helped boost market profits at the end of last year.

“You have certainly seen some of the animal spirits that were feeding the concentration of the stock market in the discoloration of autumn,” said Scott Lincicome, vice president of General Economy and Commerce of the Cato Libertarian Institute.

“People are now looking for more downward risks, at higher potential prices, and also all uncertainty,” Lincicome said in a recent interview with CNBC.

“And that, I think, dates back to the president.”

Trump, meanwhile, has stopped pointing to financial markets as barometers of the economic health of the nation, something that he did regularly during his first term in office.

On the other hand, the White House has promoted a series of recent commitments of business leaders to invest hundreds of billions of dollars in the United States in the coming years.

Some of the greatest promises come from Applewhich announced an investment plan of $ 500 billion, Soft banks, TSMC, and Eli Lilly.

In a separate statement on Monday afternoon, the White House spokesman Kush Desai said those industry leaders were responding to Trump’s electoral victory and the enthusiasm for his economic agenda.

“President Trump delivered historical work, salary and investment growth in his first mandate, and is ready to do it again in his second term,” Desai said.