Stock indexes have been posting records recently -- but not the kind of records investors like. The S&P 500 on Friday delivered its worst performance since the start of the pandemic back in 2020. And both the S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) and the Nasdaq (NASDAQINDEX: ^IXIC) on March 31 completed their worst quarter since 2022.

A stock market rout, historic in scale, has swept across the globe wiping more than $10 trillion off major markets, as concerns about the economic damage unleashed by U.S. President Donald Trump's tariffs spiral.

Stocks continued to tumble in the U.S. Friday as financial markets suffered their biggest two-day drop since 2020.

The U.S. stock market has gone taken a nosedive since President Donald Trump announced tariffs for many countries around the world. Here's what to know.

U.S. stocks ended another tumultuous day lower as markets reel from President Donald Trump’s latest threats to crank his tariffs higher. The S&P 500 sank 0.2%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 349 points,

With the S&P 500 falling at this rate, the stock market could be at risk of triggering a circuit breaker.

Warren Buffett has a seven-word bit of advice for people during stock market turmoil. United States stocks tanked on April 4, following a sell-off after China retaliated against the U.S.'s newly-announced tariffs. The Dow Jones fell by 2,231 points, or 5.5%, and the S&P 500 dropped 5.97% lower. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite fell by 5.82%.

The new tariffs include a combined 104% levy on China. The move raises the risk of a recession and of breaking the political and economic alliances that made much of the world stable for business after World War II.

The Nasdaq Composite, the S&P 500 and the Russell 2000 are either bleeding into bear-market territory or teetering on the edge.

Global markets on Thursday were severely rattled by President Donald Trump’s historic tariff announcement, which threatens to throw the US and the rest of the world into a recession.

This week brought significant daily declines across major stock markets.The drops followed President Donald Trump's Wednesday announcement on tariffs, which include a 10% baseline tariff for all imports from all foreign countries,

S&P 500 rebound collapses in biggest U-turn since at least 1978. Investors can’t shake tariff jitters. Here’s the unsettling reason the world’s most important market is getting hammered by Trump’s tariffs.