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(Reclaims scheduled column originally published on April 4, no changes) * Two-day sales farm S&P 500 with more than 17% of the record high * Nasdaq-composed confirmed Bear Market on Friday * Coming week See tariff date, Inflaside data, bank earnings by Lewis Krauskop New York, April 4 (Reuters) -Tariff-Stunde Another of Potential Tarif livestock import levies that keep investors about after the worst week for US stocks since the start of the Coronavirus crisis five years ago. Investors will look at signs. The stock market may be close to at least a short -term bottom after Trump’s rates beat global asset prices this week. The benchmark S&P 500 has submitted its biggest weekly decline since March 2020 and the Nasdaq composite ended with more than 20% on Friday from its record high in December, confirming that the technical heavy index is in a bear market. The Dow Jones industrial average fell by more than 10% this week from its record high in December, which was a correction for the Blue Chip index. More volatility could submit before the Trump deadline on April 9 for his reciprocal global rates to take effect, following his announcement of the levies in the Wednesday in a tail spin, which caused the fear of a global recession. “The playbook on this is very, very unclear to everyone,” says Jeffrey Palma, head of multi-asset solutions at Cohen & Steers. “There are all the questions about rates, retaliation rates, where it ends and where they shake.” With the steep slide at the end of the week, the S&P 500 was down by more than 17% from the 19 February Time Closing. In the two days after Trump’s tariff announcement, S&P 500 businesses lost about $ 5 trillion market value, the largest amount ever in a two-day stretch, according to Lseg data. “The markets could be their own worst enemy,” said Matthew Miskin, co-chief investment strategist at John Hancock Investment Management. “This kind of withdrawal … can shake confidence and it can actually lead to poorer economic activity.” Trump’s rates would amount to the highest trade barriers in more than a century, including a 10% baseline rate for all imports and higher targeted duties on dozens of countries. The trade fight escalated on Friday when China returned to US goods with extra rates of 34%. Investors have downgraded their economic and earnings forecasts, with JPMorgan analysts increasing the risk of a global recession this year to 60% from 40%. Some investors have expressed the hope that Trump will negotiate with some countries in the coming days. Others were questionable that Trump would make any concessions. Despite Trump’s opportunity to turn, “it was not lost to us that the window was shrinking and that consumer confidence had done some damage to the consumer and the confidence of the business world, regardless of the negotiated endpoint to follow,” the Citi strategist Scott Chronert said in a note on Friday. One sign of gloom: The CBOE volatility index, an options-based benchmark of investor anxiety, has registered its highest closing level since April 2020. Beare sentiment in the American Association of Individual Investors Survey has reached 61.9%, the highest lecture since 2009 during the financial crisis. With rates delaying the outlook, investors are wary of financial forecasts, as US businesses kick off quarterly reports in the coming week. According to Lseg Ibes, S&P 500 earnings were expected to rise by 7.8% in the first quarter of the year ago. Companies that will report next week include major banks JPMorgan and Wells Fargo which is due on April 11. “We see a lot of uncertainty in the earnings prospects at the moment,” said RBC Capital Markets Streets said in a Friday note, in which their 2025 earnings forecast for the S&P 500 is hampered. Officer with Truilt Advisory Services. “If you had something that was very positive at the moment, you could see a short-term spark because people are the negative result,” Lerner said. In the coming week, the monthly report of the consumer price index on Thursday could help set a baseline for US inflation before the impact of rates, which are expected to contribute to the price of the price. Investors this year have more cut in interest rate cuts in the Federal Reserve in the wake of the tariff announcement, with Fed Fund Futures, which, according to the LSEG data, constitutes 100 basis points of relief. Fed chairman Jerome Powell said on Friday that rates are ‘bigger than expected’ and that economic falls, including higher inflation and slower growth, are likely to be. Palma, of Cohen & Steers, said it is critical that markets show some stability in the coming days. “We had two very, very big days in terms of sharp market movements,” Palma said. “What we really don’t want to see is that it starts to create a vicious cycle that destabilizes the financial system.” (Reporting by Lewis Krauskopf, additional reporting by Noel Randewich in San Francisco; editing by David Gregorio)