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This market metric shows the sell-off is getting scary

The plunge on Wall Street was breathtaking. But there is one indicator that investors should really be worried about.

There’s one indicator that tells you just how scary the sell-off on Wall Street was on Thursday night following US President Donald Trump’s declaration of a tariff war.

No, it’s not the 4.8 per cent decline in the S&P 500, the most important proxy for risk assets in the world. Thursday was Wall Street’s worst day in almost five years, wiping more than $3 trillion off American markets.

Source: https://www.afr.com/chanticleer/market-carnage-shows-trump-is-risking-a-confidence-crisis-20250404-p5lp3b