A wildly swinging stock market in the last hour amid confusion about pausing tariffs or not.

I'm David Bruncatchew in Los Angeles. Stock market indicators started way down today, but then shot into positive territory for a brief moment.

And as we speak, are back deeply into negative story, at least for the Dow and the S&P.

Hard to believe that about a half hour ago, the Dow had been up three and a half percent for a

brief second. Marketplace is Nova Safo. Is here with more. Yeah, we're getting a lot of confusing

messages from the White House. White House National Economic Council Director, Kevin Hassett,

told CNBC this morning that a 90-day tariff pause for all countries

except China was under consideration. But then CNBC reported that other White House

advisors were unaware of any such pause. The back and forth highlighted the confusing

set of messages coming from the White House and the uncertainty that's created. Over the weekend,

Treasury Secretary Scott Besson said some 50 countries have reached

out to negotiate raising the possibility that deals could be cut soon to lower the tariffs announced

last week.

But the president speaking to reporters on Air Force One, David, on Sunday, appeared in no hurry

to strike deals, saying he's aiming for zero deficits with other nations. The president also

seemed unfazed by the global market reaction so far. And David, this morning, he said he called

on the Federal Reserve to lower interest rates. All right, Nova, thank you. Okay, so here are the

indicators at the moment. The Dow is now down 428 points, 1.1%. The SMP is down not so much, 4 tenths percent,

but the NASDAQ index just turned ever so slightly positive up eight points.

Overnight, the Hangsang Index in Hong Kong fell 13 percent, the biggest drop since the 1997 Asian financial crisis.

But that drop is partly due to the fact that the market

was closed Friday for a holiday. Here, the so-called stock market fear gauge. The VIX index

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