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Pumped In S$41K As Trump Tariffs Sunk The Market
By Finance Gnome  •  April 11, 2025
Wow the past week has been wild to say the least. Like plucking a guitar string and watching it vibrate. Markets are just whipsawing every day since Trump tariffs took effect. I’m not much of a market fortune teller, so I follow a set of guidelines when deciding whether to buy or sell assets in our long-term Family Retirement Portfolio. Tariffs started on 2 April after market close, and the very next day was carnage in the markets. After taking the weekend to digest what was happening and working out the rebalancing amounts, I pumped as much as S$41K into the stock market on Monday 7 April. Not a relatively small sum for our portfolio, considering total portfolio value was at S$378K prior to purchase. That works out to almost 11% cash injection. Source of funds came from reserve cash as well as some from annual bonus payout. So far,...
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By Finance Gnome
Hi, I’m Calvin! I’m a lucky husband and father of two wonderful kids. I work as an aerospace engineer at my 9 to 5. I’ve been investing since 2011, but my investing journey started off pretty terribly. Many of the stocks I bought lost me loads of money, call it tuition fees. Thankfully most of the time, I managed to bail out before losing everything.
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