By Jennifer Saibil

The broad market S&P 500 index is down 10% this year and off 14% from its peak, but it has climbed a bit from the low point it touched after President Donald Trump's broad tariff announcement tanked Wall Street a few weeks ago. The word out of the White House keeps changing, and the markets keep reacting.

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