BLACK MONDAY REDEUX: Interesting Day or Financial Crisis?

BILL ACKMAN versus JIM KRAMER

By Staff Reporters

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Interesting Day?

Markets: Last week’s market bloodbath will go down in the history books. The S&P 500’s 10% plunge on Thursday and Friday, after President Trump announced massive tariffs, ranks among the steepest two-day decline in the last 70 years, on par with Black Monday in 1987, the post-Lehman Brothers rout in 2008, and the Covid plunge in March 2020. More than $6 trillion was wiped out from stocks over two days, and the NASDAQ entered a bear market, down 20% from a previous high.

Trading restarted at 9:30 am ET for what Bill Ackman predicts will be “one of the more interesting days in our country’s economic history.”

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Monday Crash?

On the other hand, CNBC host and market commentator Jim Cramer just warned that America is in store for another “Black Monday” market crash similar to the record 1987 collapse if President Trump doesn’t curtail his tariff plan.

Cramer — who noted that the 1987 crash saw the Dow Jones Industrial Average fall by 22.6% in a single day — said the bloodbath could be repeated after the brutal two-day sell-off following the announcement of Trump’s sweeping tariffs against nearly 90 countries.

If the president doesn’t try to reach out and reward these countries and companies that play by the rules, then the 1987 scenario … the one where we went down three days and then down 22% on Monday, has the most cogency,” Cramer said on his show Saturday, referencing the worst single-day fall in the history of the Dow.

QUESTION: Who is correct; Ackman or Cramer?

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IPO: Ackman Fund Postponed

By Staff Reporters

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Bill Ackman’s fund postpones IPO

The billionaire hedge fund boss and frequent main character on X has delayed the stock market debut of the closed-end fund Pershing Square USA, which was scheduled for early next week, a notice on the New York Stock Exchange’s website said.

The decision to wait came days after Ackman said in a letter to investors that the firm was downsizing its expectations for the share sale from a target of about $25 billion (which would have made it the largest-ever IPO of its kind) to something between $2.5 billion and $4 billion.

Ackman has a similar fund already trading shares in Europe and has hinted he might take his larger firm, Pershing Square, public as soon as next year.

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