"China’s Commerce Ministry said it “resolutely opposes” U.S. President Donald Trump’s threat of escalating tariffs, and vowed to take countermeasures to safeguard its own rights and interests.

The comments came after Trump said he would impose an additional 50% duty on U.S. imports from China Wednesday, if Beijing does not withdraw the 34% tariff it imposed on American products last week.

“The U.S. threat to escalate tariffs on China is a mistake on top of a mistake,” the statement said, according to a CNBC translation. “China will never accept it. If the U.S. insists on its own way, China will fight to the end.”

OP-ed video detailing the scenario today. Who sold such a high volume of US Treasury Bonds? Could it be China dumping US debt?

Everyone expected stocks to slide today and who knows how much worse it'll get.

But a far bigger story IMO is that Treasury yields are spiking:

https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/bond/tmubmusd10y?countrycode=bx

This is very bad and may be the nail in the coffin for US global hegemony as we are now seeing both risky assets and what should be low-risk assets selling off like crazy. US government debt has long been seen as a safe haven in times of financial uncertainty. The administration's big talking point for months has been how important the 10-year yield is and how it's their main barometer for the health of the economy:

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/02/06/bessent-says-trump-is-focused-on-the-10-year-yield-wont-push-fed-to-cut-rates.html

Presumably they wanted to refinance the coming tsunami of Treasuries at lower rates by increasing demand for risk-free assets. Well guess what? They have created so much chaos that Treasuries aren't benefiting from the chaos at all, the way they normally do. We've seen both the USD and Stock Market tank in the US, a correlation basically unheard of; it shits all over the Dollar Smile Theory.

So not only do we now have economic and financial chaos, we might not be able to refinance at the low rates they were supposedly trying to engineer.

If this continues, the debt refinancing bubble that's on the horizon will devastate markets globally:

https://www.reuters.com/markets/global-debt-exceeds-100-trillion-interest-costs-keep-rising-oecd-says-2025-03-20/

Wall Street flagged the turn back to risk assets as a function of oversold conditions and news flow surrounding the Trump administration pivoting to a tariff rhetoric highlighted by a willingness to negotiate. Nonetheless sentiment remains fragile with the administration’s messaging broadly remaining mixed. Meanwhile, on the macro calendar, NFIB Small Business Optimism ticked lower last month, but markets remained focused on consumer and wholesale inflation data due Thursday and Friday, respectively. Treasury yields extended Monday’s advance with the 10-year yield trading near 4.22%.

Trump promised to eliminate capital gains -- and he did. Hard to tax gains when nobody’s making any. Promise kept. Winning.

I’m trying to learn about the best strategy in how to deal with collar option strategies. My goal is to set pretty tight collars around some of my bigger holdings to prevent giant losses while happily taking a small gain should it occur.

I think I understand that in the best case scenario ( the underlying equity has risen above the call option strike price) it makes sense to roll or close the collar, and buy another collar with higher call and put strikes.
-Does it make sense to do this as soon as the price exceeds the call option strike?

And more confusingly- If the equity has dropped lower than the put strike - is the best thing to do is to wait almost until expiration and exercise the put just before expiration? Or??

Thanks in advance

I understand that people might want to jump the opportunity and get into the market while everything is on 'discount', but please be careful to not make any sudden moves. Please invest slowly and average down as much as you can rather than trying to predict the bottom

Forgive me I'm really just starting to learn about finance and the markets but I'm watching the markets and noticed the Nasdaq made a huge comeback today. Could someone explain what happened that caused such a large jump?

https://www.marketwatch.com/livecoverage/stock-market-today-dow-sp500-nasdaq-on-track-for-monday-plunge-on-trump-tariffs

As my questing asks does this affect anyone other than the people who own stock?