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• @ericajoy.astrel.la Erica Joy Astrella on bluesky

  i hope everyone member of congress with a grandchild of switch playing age hears about this.  [embedded post]

• @danny.page Danny Page on bluesky

  Nintendo President Bowser upon hearing the tariff news: [embedded post]

• @megannicolett Megan Farokhmanesh on bluesky

  I reached out to Nintendo on Friday, the day after our interview, to ask for additional comment from Doug Bowser in light of the news to delay pre-orders.  They declined. www.wired.com/story/ninten...  [embedded post]

• @mgsiegler.com M.G. Siegler on bluesky

  That is such a Bowser thing to say...  [embedded post]

• @andrewrweb Andrew Webster on bluesky

  conducted an interview last week that included both the word “tariff” and “bananza” www.theverge.com/nintendo/643...

• @genki_jpn Genki on x

  Doug Bowser says Nintendo Switch 2 consoles have already landed in the US ready to go and they will have much less supply constraints compared to Switch 1! “We've have some time to build up inventories on a global basis so we really hope we can meet that demand” They've even [ima…

• @ballmatthew Matthew Ball on x

  Nintendo USA Pres on new Switch 2 price variability: Based on the “development into the game”, “breadth and depth of the gameplay,” “durability” and “repeatability” of play (i.e. lifespan), and more factors, highlighting there is no “benchmark” @GenePark https://www.washingtonpos…

• @wario64 @wario64 on x

  Doug Bowser on Switch 2 game prices: “What you see right there is variable pricing. We'll look at each game, really look at the development that's gone into the game, the breadth and depth of the gameplay, if you will, the durability over time and the repeatability of gameplay [i…

• @stealth40k @stealth40k on x

  Doug Bowser says Switch 2 will employ variable software pricing. “What you see right there is variable pricing. We'll look at each game, really look at the development that's gone into the game, the breadth and depth of the gameplay, if you will, the durability over time and [ima…

• @stealth40k @stealth40k on x

  Doug Bowser says the US Tariffs weren't factored into the $449.99 price tag of Switch 2. On delaying preorders: “The news is fresh (tariffs), and like many companies right now, we are actively assessing what the impact may be” https://www.theverge.com/... [image]

• @genepark Gene Park on x

  my interview with Nintendo's Bowser on why Mario Kart World is $80 https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...

• @charlieintel @charlieintel on x

  Nintendo President tells Washington Post Switch 2 games will have different prices “There's many [factors] that go into consideration of what is the right price point...so I think you can anticipate that there will be variable pricing, and we haven't set a benchmark.” [image]

• @kylebrussell Kyle Russell on x

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• r/technology r on reddit

  Nintendo Is ‘Actively Assessing’ What a Trade War Means for the Switch 2.  Nintendo of America president Doug Bowser tells WIRED the company …

• r/TwoBestFriendsPlay r on reddit

  Nintendo says tariffs aren't the reason the Switch 2 costs $449.99

• r/NintendoSwitch2 r on reddit

  Nintendo says tariffs aren't the reason the Switch 2 costs $449.99

• r/Switch r on reddit

  Nintendo says tariffs aren't the reason the Switch 2 costs $449.99

• r/Switch r on reddit

  Interview confirms Switch 2 Welcome tour $10

• @hunterwalk.com @hunterwalk.com on bluesky

  at this rate Big Tech is going to become Little Tech [embedded post]

• @vonderleyen Ursula von der Leyen on x

  Europe is ready to negotiate with the US. We have offered zero-for-zero tariffs for industrial goods. Because we're always ready for a good deal. But we're also prepared to respond with countermeasures. And protect ourselves against indirect effects through trade diversion. [vide…

• @tier10k @tier10k on x

  Seems like originated on twitter CNBC saw it, said they couldn't verify it but put the headline on the screen anyways Reuters then flashed it citing CNBC Cinema

• @deitaone @deitaone on x

  🚨 HASSETT: TRUMP IS CONSIDERING A 90-DAY PAUSE IN TARIFFS FOR ALL COUNTRIES EXCEPT CHINA

• @deitaone @deitaone on x

  @HighyieldHarry reuters

• @abetrade Adam on x

  congrats to Cointelegraph intern getting hired by CNBC.

• @chuckrossdc Chuck Ross on x

  I am now curious about whether “Walter Bloomberg” made any stock trades before this tweet about the 90-day pause that never was. https://x.com/...

• @byrnehobart Byrne Hobart on x

  I once made what turned out to be a dumb mistake that moved a large-cap stock a couple percent. But if the Hassett headline really is a misquote from the interview that's now floating around, Walter Bloomberg did that for the entire stock market.

• @chuckrossdc Chuck Ross on x

  Walter Bloomberg strikes again [image]

• @mattzeitlin Matthew Zeitlin on x

  RIP The Walter Bloomberg Pump, 10:13am-10:48am

• @daveweigel David Weigel on x

  Is this how people learn that Walter Bloomberg is just a guy who copies and pastes stuff, not a Bloomberg News service?

• @joepostingg Joe on x

  “Walter Bloomberg” just pump and dumped the entire stock market

• @deitaone @deitaone on x

  @Phil_Mattingly [image]

• @phil_mattingly Phil Mattingly on x

  today was the day i learned walter bloomberg is not, in fact, just pulling heds verbatim from the Terminal...and i clearly was not the only one...

• @danpolovina Dan Polovina on x

  Time to explain to your normie friends that there is a guy named Walter Bloomberg that can move markets by trillions of dollars on a headline and he has no relation to the more famous Bloomberg. If Vox was still Vox they'd do an explainer.

• @firstadopter Tae Kim on x

  What terminal is Walter's screenshot from? [image]

• @hadas_gold Hadas Gold on x

  This tweet, which may have cost people a lot of money, has now been deleted [image]

• @thestalwart Joe Weisenthal on x

  Remember who posted fake Hassett headlines in the Bloomberg style

• @unusual_whales @unusual_whales on x

  BREAKING: There was a fake news headline that Trump is reportedly expecting to announce a 90 day tariff pause It was shared on X, and CNBC and Reuters shared it. The White House has denied this now. This post has been edited to reflect that.

• @atrupar Aaron Rupar on x

  KILMEADE: Would Trump consider a 90 days pause in tariffs? HASSETT: I think the president is gonna decide what the president is gonna decide ... even if you think there will be some negative effect from the trade side, that's still a small share of GDP [video]

• @rapidresponse47 @rapidresponse47 on x

  Wrong. Fake News.

• @thestalwart Joe Weisenthal on x

  The White House really wants you to know that it did not say that thing that caused stocks to surge 10%

• @thestalwart Joe Weisenthal on x

  *WHITE HOUSE TELLS CNBC 90-DAY PAUSE ON TARIFFS IS ‘FAKE NEWS’

• @sarahmillerdc Sarah Miller on x

  LiNa kHaN wAs BaD fOr ThE sToCk MaRkEt

• @deitaone @deitaone on x

  wtf 🚨 *CNBC: NO ONE AT WHITE HOUSE IS AWARE OF 90 DAY PAUSE [image]

• @semaforben Ben Smith on x

  Incredible story: Social media mirage (verified account, aggressive interpretation of a Fox interview w Hassett) driving really massive moves in the market.

• @thestalwart Joe Weisenthal on x

  INSANE market action right now. Market exploded higher on a headline attributed to Kevin Hassett. And now nobody can figure out where it came from and the markets are diving again. An 8% surge and then a 3.5% plunge in a matter of seconds [image]

• @andrewyang Andrew Yang on x

  The Trump tariffs will go down in infamy as the dumbest economic move ever made.

• @spencerhakimian Spencer Hakimian on x

  Let's just say that before Wednesday, Trump claims that due to so many countries negotiating “great deals”, he is giving a 30 day extension on the reciprocal tariffs. Then what? Equities rally +10% into that news, but then every investor on earth derisks into that rally

• @jackfarley96 Jack Farley on x

  496 of the 500 stocks in the S&P 500 are down today [image]

• @mattzeitlin Matthew Zeitlin on x

  even before wednesday afternoon the S&P 500 was 8% off its all time highs largely due to tariff anticipation and escalation with canada and mexico, so in some sense the falls we're seeing now is a little less than it “should” be

• @cgasparino Charles Gasparino on x

  Here's how you make sense of what's happening: If Trump does nothing, clip you average tech stock by 15%. If he starts cutting deals, get ready for a pretty strong rally. Easy, peasy, right? Now try and predict what Trump is going to do

• @stockmktnewz Evan on x

  Here's how every stock in the S&P 500 is starting out trading today [image]

• @thestalwart Joe Weisenthal on x

  There have been a bunch of headlines out today about negotiations etc. And it's having ZERO effect on the market. S&P and NASDAQ both down over 4%. No visible boost at all.

• @atrupar Aaron Rupar on x

  the Dow lost 1,250 more points in the first 5 minutes of trading ... [image]

• @themainewonk @themainewonk on x

  If tomorrow, the S&P 500 falls more than 4% for the third day in a row, it'll be for the first time since the great depression. [image]

• @thestalwart Joe Weisenthal on x

  Worst day for S&P Advance/Decline gap since 2020 [image]

• @samstein Sam Stein on x

  The Dow closed at 43,621.16 on Feb 25 (the day of the below tweet). It opens at 38,314.86 today with more blood likely coming.

• @alexwickham Alex Wickham on x

  *S&P 500 SET TO ENTER BEAR MARKET AFTER FALLING 20% FROM RECORD

• @morningbrew @morningbrew on x

  Major averages at the open: 🔴 Dow -3.1% 🔴 S&P -3.5% 🔴 Nasdaq -3.9% 🔴 Russell -4.4% Buckle up.

• @atrupar Aaron Rupar on x

  Peter Navarro on CNBC calls tariffs “a beautiful situation” next to a stock ticker showing the Dow implied open down 900 points [video]

• @danprimack Dan Primack on x

  Got to wonder about the internal discussions at foreign companies that have committed to building new factories in the U.S. Yes, the products couldn't be tariffed. But many of the building materials would be, which means the economics have changed.

• @thestalwart Joe Weisenthal on x

  This is now the worst three-day performance for the S&P 500 since October 1987.

• @birdyword Mike Bird on x

  If the S&P 500 closes tomorrow where futures are right now, it will be the biggest three-day selloff in 38 years, a faster drop than any during either the global financial crisis in 2008 or the Covid-19 panic in March 2020. [image]

• r/Destiny r on reddit

  Nasdaq futures drop 5% on open.  Winning intensifies.

• r/StockMarket r on reddit

  Dow futures fall 1,500 points Sunday as Trump tariff market rout escalates: Live updates

• r/Economics r on reddit

  Dow futures fall 1,500 points Sunday as Trump tariff market rout escalates: Live updates

• r/FluentInFinance r on reddit

  Futures opened down 5% on Sunday, DOW falls 1,500 points - LIVE

• @megannicolett Megan Farokhmanesh on bluesky

  Nintendo's strategy to meet Switch 2 demand has been to diversify where they made hardware.  “That also applied to the early stages of tariffs,” Doug Bowser told me.  But Trump's announcement the day of Nintendo's big reveal “changed that.” www.wired.com/story/ninten...

• @djcows @djcows on x

  Japan has a lunch break for stocks?? [image]

• @trump_repost @trump_repost on x

  The United States has a chance to do something that should have been done DECADES AGO. Don't be Weak! Don't be Stupid! Don't be a PANICAN (A new party based on Weak and Stupid people!). Be Strong, Courageous, and Patient, and GREATNESS will be the result!

• @djcows @djcows on x

  the market crash looks so much nicer in ghibli [image]

• @alexwickham Alex Wickham on x

  JP Morgan chief Jamie Dimon urges quick resolution to Trump tariff policy Warns against a potentially “disastrous” fragmentation of long-term US economic alliances Warns of near-term inflationary impact Elon Musk posts a video of Milton Freedman making the case for free trade

• @mrmbrown Michael Brown on x

  Navarro on CNBC says Vietnam cutting tariffs to 0 “means nothing to us”, focus is on “non-tariff barriers”

• @gurgavin @gurgavin on x

  NVIDIA SHARES ARE NOW BELOW $90 IN 24 HOURS TRADING 🩸🩸🩸 $NVDA [image]

• @divestech Dan Ives on x

  Thoughts into today for tech stocks 👇 [image]

• @levie Aaron Levie on x

  From Jamie Dimon. It's unmistakably clear that these tariffs do not set us up to accelerate our economy right now. [image]

• @wsteaks Will Steakin on x

  Musk says US should move to “zero tariffs situation situation” “I hope it is agreed that both Europe and the United States should move, ideally, in my view, to a zero tariff situation...creating a free trade zone “That has certainly been my advice to the President.” [video]

• @jyarow Jay Yarow on x

  You get the sense that investors are still hoping/believing this is a giant set up for a negotiation.

• @asvanevik Alex Svanevik on x

  the most expensive formula in human history [image]

• @henrysgao Henry Gao on x

  Amid Trump tariff chaos, People's Daily published an editorial today urging everyone to “Focus on Doing Your Own Things”—a phrase that sums up China's core strategy. This thread breaks it down. It begins by acknowledging that U.S. tariffs do hurt, but “the sky can't collapse.” [i…

• @isabelletanlee Isabelle Lee on x

  Last week was the only third time this decade that the SPX shed more than 10% in two days. These are the index's 10 greatest two-day selloffs in this century. Great chart by @johnauthers https://www.bloomberg.com/... [image]

• @birdyword Mike Bird on x

  FX markets have opened in New Zealand, if you fancy parsing global market sentiment through the behaviour of seventeen guys trading in Auckland (I do) [image]

• @dougboneparth Douglas A. Boneparth on x

  Tariffs are clearly working. I'm able to buy my favorite stocks at much lower prices.

• @mattbruenig Matt Bruenig on x

  After all the efforts of surrogates to give other rationales, Trump literally just thinks that when you buy more from a country than they buy from you, that means you are giving them money, and he intends to stop that. [image]

• @bobeunlimited Bob Elliott on x

  There are no signs the new administration is willing to scale back their tariff efforts. Typically a near immediate 20% decline in equity markets would cause policymakers to rethink their actions, but the new admin has shown no indications of any give yet. Thread.

• @sonalibasak Sonali Basak on x

  JAMIE DIMON ANNUAL LETTER: He addresses tariffs head on. “My most serious concern is how this will affect America's long-term economic alliances,” he writes. “The recent tariffs will likely increase inflation and are causing many to consider a greater probability of a

• @thetranscript_ @thetranscript_ on x

  $JPM CEO Jamie Dimon Last month: “America First is fine. America alone—if we end up alone because, you know, we're tearing the world asunder—we will have made a mistake”

• r/anime_titties r on reddit

  Asian stocks see their worst drop in decades after tariffs

• r/unusual_whales r on reddit

  BREAKING: Nikkei 225 futures just suspended trading after hitting circuit breakers on the downside

• r/IndianStreetBets r on reddit

  brace yourself.  asian blood bath started

• r/stocks r on reddit

  Japan stocks plunge over 8%

• r/worldnews r on reddit

  Nikkei 225 and Topix plunge 6% on open, futures trading suspended due to circuit breaker

• r/taiwan r on reddit

  Asian stocks see their worst drop in decades after Trump tariffs

• r/stocks r on reddit

  Hong Kong's Hang Seng down nearly 10%, Taiwan's Taiex index down nearly 10%, Nikkei 225 down 6.38%, mainland's China CSI 300 down about 5%

• r/GlobalNews r on reddit

  Trump tariffs latest: Asian markets plunge after US tariffs as Trump calls them ‘medicine’ - BBC News

• r/NoShitSherlock r on reddit

  Trump tariffs latest: Asian markets plunge after US tariffs as Trump calls them ‘medicine’ - BBC News

• r/Economics r on reddit

  Which countries are negotiating?  And what will that imply??

• r/inflation r on reddit

  50 country's are supposedly going to negotiate with the USA, that will curb the problems ahead but how much?

• @raaleh Riley on bluesky

  Step right up for one of the last <$2000 iPhones ever [embedded post]

• @tier10k @tier10k on x

  Good place to start filling long-term bags (with non-perishable food, ammo and medical supplies)

• @apompliano Anthony Pompliano on x

  There are only two times I can remember the consensus view being this offsides as it is with tariffs: 1. Everyone thinking bitcoin was worthless pre-2019 2. Everyone thinking inflation wouldn't be a problem after printing trillions of dollars during the pandemic How can you

• @bitcoinpierre Pierre Rochard on x

  They said tariffs would cause inflation, but bitcoin is now more affordable. The experts are always wrong.

• @rnr_0 Romano on x

  Just checked ETH Fell for it again didn't you?

• @tyler Tyler Winklevoss on x

  For the first time in history, bitcoin is not moving in lockstep with the stock market. It's now behaving like a hedge to geopolitical uncertainty. When the stock market plunged during Covid, so did bitcoin. And this was always case over the last 10+ yrs. But not this time.

• @deedydas Deedy on x

  Margin call Monday is upon us! Many public market investors borrowed so much money and are overleveraged. In the last 48hrs since the Trump tariffs, SP500 and Bitcoin are both down 10%+. This may force them to sell triggering a vicious downward spiral. Markets may be very red.

• @jacobkinge Jacob King on x

  Bitcoin isn't tanking because of tariffs. It's collapsing because the U.S. government is quietly about to unleash new HARSH stablecoin regulations that will obliterate Tether—erasing it from existence. It's about time. For those who aren't aware, Tether props up nearly 85%+ of [i…

• @choffstein @choffstein on x

  waiting for the bitcoin bros to argue that by having as asset that sells no goods or services and zero future cash flow actually makes it immune to tariff-based market shocks

• @sunnyright Sunny on x

  One Taiwanese company alone pledged $100 billion in investment in the US last month, to help create American manufacturing jobs and grow the US economy. https://pr.tsmc.com/... In response, Trump imposed tariffs on Taiwan and is crashing their economy.

• @typesfast Ryan Petersen on x

  So far Taiwan, Israel, India, Cambodia, and Vietnam have all said they will eliminate all tariffs on U.S. goods if they can strike a trade deal.

• @mat_sherman Mat Sherman on x

  May I introduce you to TSMC Arizona? [image]

• r/taiwan r on reddit

  TW0050 (Top 50 TW stocks) Down 10% in first minutes of trading, trading halted