The S&P 500 fell 1.4% on Thursday, marking its lowest point of the year and sliding into a market correction, as it is now down 10.1% from the all-time high it reached less than a month ago. The Dow Jones Industrial Average also hit a year-to-date low, closing down 537 points.

President Donald Trump doubled down on his escalating tariff plans. "I'm not going to bend at all," Trump said in the Oval Office during a meeting with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte. The comments came as major stock indexes continued to tumble,

Second, the U.S. stock market recovered remarkably quickly from the tariffs imposed during the first Trump administration. Specifically, while the S&P 500 declined 19.8% over a three-month period between September and December 2018, the index had already recouped its losses and reached a new high by May 2019.