All three major indexes dropped Monday morning, as the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the bellwether S&P 500 fell more than 1% and the tech-heavy Nasdaq sank more than 2% by midmorning, before storming back in a rocky session that ended with the Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P in the green and the Nasdaq in the red.

Seasonality and bearish sentiment could create an opportunity for investors next month — but policy uncertainty remains.

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During the first three months of 2025, the S&P 500 lost 4.6%, marking the worst quarter in two-and-a-half years. The tech-heavy Nasdaq composite ended the first three months of the year with a 10.4% decline, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average shed 2.2% over the same period.

President Donald Trump has changed his tune again on tariffs as investors nervously await a new batch of import taxes to be unveiled on Wednesday. The stock market has had an especially tough March, and a quiet period for earnings has meant bad news out of Washington looms even larger than normal.

US stocks rebounded Monday to cap a volatile month and quarter as trade-war worries mount in the run-up to President Trump's tariff bonanza later in the week. Markets wrapped up March on a woeful note after a rough month and quarter beset by Trump's fast-evolving tariff policy.

The S&P’s 9% loss since last Friday makes this stocks’ worst week since March 2020 and the fifth-worst week of the last 20 years, trailing only losses sustained in October 2008 and early 2020.

The stock market cratered Thursday as fears of global economic slowdown driven by President Trump’s new tariffs spurred Wall Street’s worst day of losses since the outbreak of the

In Trump's second term, investors have been dismayed to see how much volatility the administration can stomach as it pursues its trade war.