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Stock Market Volatility April 2025: Tariffs and Fed News Explained 

In recent weeks, U.S. stock market volatility has spiked to levels only reached during the early stage of the COVID-19 pandemic (Spring 2020) and the global financial crisis (2008-2009). This heightened volatility reflects investor reactions to rapidly changing political and economic developments concerning trade policy and Federal Reserve independence.

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Market Outlook Spring 2025

In our outlook for 2025, we wrote about the following factors that we thought would impact investment returns this year: Artificial Intelligence Investments and Commercialization of AI Applications, Labor Market Conditions, Inflation, and Fiscal and Monetary Policy. We provide our latest thoughts on each of these topics in this update, after a quarter characterized by a lot of market-moving news and a corresponding increase in stock market volatility.

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