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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Jack Spear.

One for the record books on Wall Street today.

It was the worst single day for the U.S. financial markets in five years.

All the major U.S. stock market indexes falling nearly 4% or more following yesterday's announcement by President Trump of steep tariffs on goods imported into the U.S.

Virtually no sector of the market was safe today.

Everything from tech shares to oil fueling the shock, Bitcoin, the U.S. dollar, and gold also fell lower today.

Even as markets are reeling, President Trump is defending his tariff announcement.

NPR's moralized from reports he's predicting his tariffs will cause trillions of dollars to flood into the U.S.

On his way from the White House to Florida for a charity golf event, Trump said he wasn't surprised by the market reaction to his tariffs.

The Wall Street Journal estimates that the market drop equal to loss of $2.7 trillion,

but President Trump insists that the markets ultimately are going to surge.

The thing that people have to talk about, we're up almost the $7 trillion of investment

coming into our country, and you'll see how it's going to turn out. Our country's going to boom.

U.S. trading partners are promising to retaliate with tariffs of their own, which are, in

effect, an import tax paid by American consumers, who economists say may pay as much as $2,100 a year

more per family. Mara Liason, NPR News.

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