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News & Current Events Apr 13, 2026 at 12:11 AM

Dow futures drop 500 points after Trump announces Strait of Hormuz blockade as talks fail

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Dow futures pare losses after Trump announces Strait of Hormuz blockade as talks fail: Live updates
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Dow futures pare losses after Trump announces Strait of Hormuz blockade as talks fail: Live updates
All three major averages are coming off their best week since November on hopes that the conflict will soon come to an end.

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Diligent_Source_2988 9 hr ago +521
Will it open on taco Tuesday 
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Correct_Emu7015 9 hr ago +156
Of course, pump and dump cycle #341 will be settled by then Place your bets!
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One_Breath_6984 8 hr ago +43
Really getting sick of these grifting, pump and dump scumbags in this White house.
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supercali45 8 hr ago +12
He will TACO the blockade on Tuesday like clockwork
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TheGringoDingo 6 hr ago -1
Hey, at least he didn’t threaten a human and cultural genocide this time? We have standards around here, and the line is apparently somewhere before threatening genocide/mutually assured destruction. We’ll see about genocide and ending the world as we know it next week, or whatever.
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viktor72 9 hr ago +5
I need to book some plane tickets so it sounds like I will just wait til Tuesday.
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nobunseedsplease 9 hr ago +364
I’m convinced all announcements he makes, true or false, temporary or not, are all for the sake of earning money for the people around him.
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sonic_couth 9 hr ago +113
It should be part of joirnalist’s questions. -Among your friends, who benefits the most from this action?
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vincethered 9 hr ago +87
An average politician would answer like this: “hardworking American families are my friends and that’s who stands to benefit”. Trump would say something like  “Who are you with? The Failing New York Times? You know that’s an ugly question from a third rate reporter from a failing disgraceful newspaper. You’re horrible and you’re ugly too.” Journalists can’t force politicians to answer honestly.
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caligaris_cabinet 8 hr ago +17
That’s if it’s a female reporter. A male reporter he will stammer and mumble his way through until he takes the next question from a friendly reporter
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redyellowblue5031 8 hr ago +16
If they’re black, suddenly they’re “low IQ”. Weird.
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TheCh0rt 4 hr ago +1
"I'm going to call you Shirley because Shirley you would not ask me such a stupid question"
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BrofessorFarnsworth 8 hr ago +15
"Among the people in the Epstein files, who benefits most from this action?"
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The_Bitter_Bear 8 hr ago +9
With how much he's clearly not well I question how much is deliberate by him vs everyone else in his orbit just using the information or "advising him" in order to benefit. I absolutely believe there's fuckery abound of course. I just don't believe for a moment there's not a very long list of folks who deserve to end their days in a cell along side President Pants Shitter. 
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PleaseHelpFlorida 8 hr ago +7
It's always a weekend announcement with a crash on Monday. By Thursday or Friday it's pumped back up.
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Annihilator4413 8 hr ago +23
Oh absolutely. This is essentially the highest level you could possibly go with insider trading. Trump let's his buddies know when and what stock to buy. Trump makes an announcement he KNOWS will drop stock prices. Then Trump makes announcement that bounces stocks back up. But it's going to be *really f****** funny* when he pulls this same stunt and stocks bounce like a dead cat, meaning they *stay* low... because then our economy will be truly FUCKED lol.
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Aspergian_Asparagus 8 hr ago +9
That’s the thing I’m wondering, at what point does their stock manipulation/insider trading scheme stop working and we’re just mega-ultra-fucked? I guess most folks are okay with it right now cuz they can probably make a lil money themselves, since it’s somewhat predictable. But there HAS to be a limit where it just isn’t an effective scheme anymore.
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BreesusTakeTheWheel 8 hr ago +4
It is starting to get to that point. Trump is having to actually pull some stunts since the market stopped reacting to his crazy tweets. That’s what the ceasefire was all about. He came up with that because the market wasn’t reacting to anything he was saying anymore.
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dogeatingbanana 7 hr ago +3
Trust me, there's nothing "earned" here. These motherfuckers 3 card monte hustlers on the sidewalk.
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TheRadBaron 6 hr ago +1
Americans will invent any story in their heads as long it helps them deny that they have chosen to be ruled by a cruel idiot. The selfish financial schemes of an imagined 5D chess Bond villain genius is way more palatable than the flailing of an incompetent shortsighted sadist. It doesn't matter if the markets have been behaving unpredictably to Trump's announcements for months, or that the administration has a million better ways to game the market than with vast geopolitical statements, everything *has* to be a scheme. It can't be that the president is too surrounded by sycophants to handle foreign policy, or that Israel maneuvered Trump back into the quagmire - it has to be a rational and selfish financial scheme, always.
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dingo596 2 hr ago +1
I am not so sure, I just Trump is just that stupid. People are profiting but are just opportunists. There are easier way to manipulate the market than a war. All the disasters, u-turns and threats are what happened when people who don't know how the world works gets into these positions. The peace talks in Pakistan failed not because it was good for their stock positions but because JD "couch enthusiast" Vance doesn't know how high level diplomatic talks are handled.
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schleppylundo 9 hr ago +71
So we buy now and sell tomorrow?
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weakplay 9 hr ago +34
Selling Friday would have been the play. I considered it, but then my greedy pig side won and I held. Pigs get slaughtered.
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ruler_gurl 8 hr ago +8
Selling options would be the play, that way you maintain your holding period. I've sold dozens of tranches of calls over the last year because he's clearly all about volatility which he and his cronies profit madly from.
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whatproblems 8 hr ago +7
soon as i buy guarantee its going to keep dropping and dropping then when i sell it’ll rip
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Magus44 4 hr ago +2
Please let me know when you do both, ta.
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RetardedChimpanzee 8 hr ago +2
Market is at a low that we haven’t seen since Thursday! Should panic sell everything.
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Falmarri 4 hr ago +1
My damn puts expired friday
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DrunkonKoolAid 9 hr ago +38
Damn, it's almost like he is setting up the next grift
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ARoodyPooCandyAss 8 hr ago +18
This piece of shit never tells the truth no point in taking anything he says seriously
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Ecstatic_Wasabi_5166 9 hr ago +19
Blockade will cripple global shipping, huge implications for my industry.
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Citizen-Kang 9 hr ago +27
Here we go again... Investigations into this nonsense when Generalissimo Mango exits the stage are going to be wild...
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azreal75 9 hr ago +20
They’ll have some kind of truth and reconciliation commission with no prosecutions. A couple of Epstein pedos will probably be the sacrificial lambs but there will be no real justice for the criminals that prosper under the pedophile regime.
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Citizen-Kang 8 hr ago +3
Maybe I'm being a bit naive here, but I think it has been so egregious this time, that some significant heads will roll. Yes, our track record on holding the rich and powerful to account has been an embarrassment, but I want to believe it will be different this time.
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azreal75 7 hr ago +3
Has the democratic establishment distanced themselves from aipac? No. What makes you think they will be different this time then.
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Forgettheredrabbit 8 hr ago +3
Unfortunately, conservatives will paint any prosecution of these individuals as left-on-right persecution and use it to underscore their propaganda about Democrat policies always leading to authoritarianism. Which is obviously bs, and they should still be charged for their crimes regardless, I’m just less than optimistic about the results.
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luckylukiec 9 hr ago +23
Here we go all the stupid stockbrokers buying his pump and dump for the 3000th time
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Forsaken-Fail2579 8 hr ago +11
How much is Barron's short position this time?
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Accomplished-Run221 7 hr ago +4
At this point I would not bat an eyelid if he announced he was putting catapults full of playdoh on warships.
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Stinkstinkerton 8 hr ago +4
Even the greedy morons responsible for this pedophile pile of shit pretending to be president knew he was not fit for the job in the first place . They went ahead and installed the f***** anyway.
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boat_car_guy 7 hr ago +4
Well then, that confirms it. Our president is indeed, just as dumb as he looks in this situation.
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ZarglondarGilgamesh 7 hr ago +3
Let’s cut the foreplay and get to the Mad Maxxin already
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Cristoff13 5 hr ago +2
"For reasons long forgotten two mighty warrior tribes went to war and touched off a blaze which engulfed them all. Without fuel they were nothing. They'd built a house of straw. Suddenly their machines sputtered and stopped. Their leaders talked and talked and talked, but nothing could stem the avalanche...." Considering how dependent our civilization is on the black fuel, a scenario like this is easy to predict.
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seimalau 5 hr ago +3
The Pam Bondi curse continues
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ChuckNorrisUSAF 8 hr ago +5
I heard we were “winning”. Can someone confirm that…
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boourdead 8 hr ago +2
“Hey Pam hows that dow doin?”
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RichardThund3r 7 hr ago +2
They must not have said thank you.
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TauCabalander 7 hr ago +4
Trump doesn't have the cards.
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apoca1ypse12 6 hr ago +2
toxic a****** doing toxic shit while expecting others to respect him. classic toxic narcissist shit to do
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thebarkbarkwoof 5 hr ago +2
Don't worry everybody. He sold short!
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RobutNotRobot 4 hr ago +2
Go down to zero. End this capitalist nightmare before it destroys the world.
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drewts86 9 hr ago +1
At this rate we’ll never be able to distract from the Epstein files by talking about the Dow being over 50,000.
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AnonSpartan7 8 hr ago +1
It’s going to go back up. Nothing new under the sun in the Dump Dystopia.
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BarracudaCritical227 8 hr ago +1
He's hellbent on destroying America for Putin
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Every-Comfortable632 7 hr ago +1
Hell yeah. Another chance to buy some taco dip
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brickyardjimmy 7 hr ago +1
He's flipping a switch and, no doubt, he and his pals are feasting on their foreknowledge to rip off the stock market and every single person in the world who has money in it or just plain money at all for that matter in the biggest most audacious bank heist of all time. He can just keep flipping it and skimming great milky hunks of cash off the top of the wave every time. He just scoops it up with a big super powered hoover vac. It's hard to describe the kind of disgust I feel for this because there's not really a word for it. It's next level disgust. And, on the other hand, I'm in awe at the dimensions of this robbery taking place in broad daylight, right in front of us. He is like a global sized reverse santa claus who keeps stuffing his magic sack fuller and fuller of wealth. It's impressively evil.
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unclejimm 7 hr ago +1
Countdown #10 there's always a Countdown with Trump
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kevendo 5 hr ago +1
Dow goes down, oil goes up. Oil goes down, Dow goes up. Buy low, sell high on both ends. See-saw, see-saw.
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bapakeja 4 hr ago +1
Just as he planned. It’s shorting time for his buddies. I really hate this timeline
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Money_Tune6300 3 hr ago +1
Release epstein files
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yohosse 2 hr ago +1
Shit was starting to to green too. 
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the_eluder 7 hr ago -5
A 500 point drop was meaningful in the 80s.
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budhunter87 8 hr ago -24
It’s all good we need to do this can’t support terror. I for one want to feel safe. Free from terrorism
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farmer15erf 8 hr ago +7
Terrible rage bait attempt
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budhunter87 8 hr ago -11
No just remember 9/11 and can’t have that in the world
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farmer15erf 7 hr ago +2
We are bombing Iran in their turf, not the other way around. 9/11 was made by Bush to promote Cheneys pocket book.
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budhunter87 7 hr ago -6
And I seen Bigfoot and yeti mating
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sunburn74 7 hr ago +3
Go look up number of US citizens killed in any foreigner led terror attack over the last 10 years. Probably the same number killed in the war in the last month.
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budhunter87 7 hr ago -2
We have to defend the little guys out there and stand up to terror like trump and vance said maybe no matter the cost.
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KenzieWitch 6 hr ago +3
They are the terror.
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budhunter87 6 hr ago +1
You must mean saviors
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sunburn74 6 hr ago +2
What little guys are you talking about? My understandind is that in the last 10 years the number of civilian american's killed by foreigner terror of all countries is around 13 or so. We've killed 2000 civilians in iran and lost 13 of our own soldiers +almost 400 wounded. Stopping terrorism is not a reasonable aim of this war and doesn't justify the billions spent and the lives lost so far. We have spent 33 billion so far. Assuming iran was the cause of all 13 people who died last decade from foreign terrorism (they are not by the way), you're talking paying 2.5 billion USD to prevent one death. Does that seem a good use of money when you can spend way less in the US right now on the people who live here and save lives (food, housing, healthcare, employment, education, etc etc)?
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budhunter87 6 hr ago +1
I joined around 9/11 where thousands died. So I support my country and leader and Israel
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sunburn74 6 hr ago +2
I don't want US deaths by terrorism either. But we gotta make wise choices. 9/11 was one thing (and even in hindsight the costs of the iraq and afghanistan wars didn't really justify what we wanted it to justify). Iran was posing no threat at all to us.
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budhunter87 6 hr ago +1
The innocent people of Iran pose no threat but irgc and the other terrorist organization do and massacre their own people in iran
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budhunter87 6 hr ago +1
Same with Iran supporting terror in Lebanon
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