US tariffs press stock exchange courses: How to react correctly
Donald Trumps Import tariffs shake through the stock exchanges tremendously worldwide. No matter which guiding index you look at: from the German Dax to the US S&P 500 and the Japanese Nikkei to the Chinese CSI 300 Developments have been red -red since the end of last week. The Dax started again on Tuesday with a plus, but many savers should be unsettled when you look into your depot. The ordinary profits of the past few years have shrunk, sometimes even set. How should you react now?
If the courses of a broad portfolio – i.e. with sufficient diversification across countries and industries – fall, investors should keep calm and do not sell shares. With such a procedure, those affected otherwise only realize any losses and cannot benefit from later increasing courses in their shares, funds or ETFs. Successful investing in volatile markets requires a high mental strength, says asset manager Heiko delete. « Panic sales are the most common reason why investors remain behind the market development in the long term. »
Savers therefore do well to put up a sensible investment plan for themselves and to stick to it – no matter where the courses march. The professional recommends: « Check your strategy regularly, but don’t let your daily price fluctuations get out of the question. » And not even if it goes down for several days or weeks.
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Dax started again with plus
The DAX started after three deep red trading days on Tuesday with a plus. In doing so, he tied to the tendency of the previous day when he started to recover from the particularly violent crash on Monday morning. President Donald Trump’s aggressive US customs policy remains high in the focus and uncertainty, even if the first bargain hunters are already careful again.
In the early trade, the German leading index recently increased by 1.8 percent to 20,150 points. The MDAX won 1.3 percent in the morning to 24,967 points and the leading index of the EuroRegion, the EuroStoxx 50, recovered somewhat from its crash with an increase of 1.1 percent to 4,709 points.
Around 24 hours earlier, at the start of the stock market the day before, the DAX was apparently in free fall as a result of the US customs flood of the past week. With just under 18,500 points, the first bargain hunters had struck again – after more than 17 percent minus since last Wednesday evening. The remarkable annual plus, which had added up to almost 18 percent by mid -March, has now completely dissolved, but the upward trend since 2022 was defended on Monday. Dpa
Suitable time horizon
A look at the recent past shows that the important leading indices -like 2000, when the Dotcom bubble burst, in 2008, when the financial crisis tired or in 2020, when the Corona pandemic spread -could catch up again in the following months and years. The index funds (ETFs) on the MSCI World, which are also popular with German, marketed and scattered worldwide and – when looking over the past decades, could generate an average annual return of around eight percent.
If you consider buying a stock ETF, you should plan at least ten years and in no way come into the situation of having to sell with loss because the money is urgently needed. Those who do not aim at at least this time horizon for the investment may be better served with other, such as fixed -interest offers.
Conversely, if you have freely available funds and a suitable nervous costume, you can buy shares in the event of falling stock exchange courses that meet the respective strategy. It is never predictable whether and when the courses will increase or whether they fall further.
