Synopsis
Uncertainty is what the stock market hates most. The way the tariff crisis is panning out globally, chances are that the markets will be in a state of uncertainty for much longer than most of us imagined. Look at how President Trump responded on the Iran issue, suggesting he is open to a military option. So, one or the other Trump-induced crisis will continue to roil the street. Now, in such conditions, there is a likelihood that money will flow to stocks of companies which may not show very high growth, but always have a steady growth, whatever the economic conditions may be.
What is uncertainty? To answer that, let’s take a look at what happened in the last 72 hours. Late Friday night, the US Customs and Border Protection announced that smartphones, laptops, semiconductors, and certain other electronic items are exempt from the tariffs imposed by President Trump. Now imagine the plight of investors who sold Apple stock because they thought (and rightly so) that the company would be hurt because it imports a large
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