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Inventory futures pointed to massive losses on Wall Avenue on Tuesday after President Donald Trump intensified his rhetoric on Greenland, threatening to impose new tariffs on international locations opposing the sale of the Danish territory to the US.

Treasury yields spiked and the U.S. greenback declined as Trump’s menace triggered a flight from U.S. belongings.

Futures information final pointed to a drop of 626 factors, or 1.3%, for the Dow Jones Industrial Average. The S&P 500 is poised to shed 1.4%, whereas the implied open for the Nasdaq was final pointing to a lack of 1.6%. The S&P 500’s projected loss could be the largest drop for the benchmark in two months.

Trump introduced in a Truth Social post on Saturday that eight NATO members’ U.S. imports will face escalating tariffs “till such time as a Deal is reached for the Full and Complete buy of Greenland.” The tariffs will begin at 10% on Feb. 1 and rise to 25% on June 1, Trump mentioned.

Trump then threatened to slap 200% tariffs on French wines and champagne, amid reviews that the nation’s president, Emmanuel Macron, is unwilling to hitch his so-called Board of Peace. Trump additionally hit out on the U.Ok., labeling the British authorities’s plan handy over sovereignty of the Chagos Islands — one in all which is the positioning of a U.Ok.-U.S. army base — to Mauritius as an “act of nice stupidity.” He mentioned the transfer was “one other in a really lengthy line of Nationwide Safety the explanation why Greenland needs to be acquired.”

The U.S. inventory market was closed Monday for the Martin Luther King vacation.

“With the US off yesterday the implications of the tariff threats over Greenland had but to completely percolate via monetary markets,” Deutsche Financial institution’s Jim Reid mentioned in a Tuesday morning word. “Markets have reacted however there’s clearly room for greater strikes if the rhetoric will increase additional.”

There’s “rising fears about some sort of retaliatory commerce escalation from Europe, with more and more sturdy feedback from a number of officers,” Reid added.

European leaders have described Trump’s contemporary tariff threats as “unacceptable,” and are reportedly contemplating countermeasures — with France mentioned to be pushing for the European Union to make use of its strongest financial counter-threat, generally known as the “Anti-Coercion Instrument.”

Trump, who is because of communicate on the World Financial Discussion board in Davos, Switzerland, on Wednesday, mentioned he had agreed to talk with European leaders on the convention to debate his Greenland ambitions.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent defended Trump’s proposed takeover of Greenland to CNBC Tuesday. “That may cease any sort of a kinetic struggle, so why not pre-empt the issue earlier than it begins?” said Bessent.

Tuesday was set to be a broad sell-off with few shares greater in early buying and selling. Know-how shares, most in danger from a transfer by traders into secure havens and a spike in yields slowing the economic system, led the losses. Nvidia, AMD and Alphabet have been all off by greater than 2%.

The Cboe’s Volatility Index, Wall Avenue’s “Concern Gauge,” jumped above 19, its highest ranges since November.

This week, quarterly monetary outcomes are anticipated from a variety of corporations, together with Netflix, Charles Schwab, Johnson & Johnson and Intel. Steerage from corporations this yr is essential to maintain bullish sentiment for U.S. shares. The S&P 500 is already anticipated to submit earnings development of 12% to fifteen%.

— CNBC’s Fred Imbert contributed reporting.