{"id":102385,"date":"2025-04-21T23:03:03","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T17:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/21\/us-stocks-plunge-on-trade-war-fears-and-fed-criticism-investors-turn-to-safe-havens-like-gold\/"},"modified":"2025-04-21T23:03:03","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T17:33:03","slug":"us-stocks-plunge-on-trade-war-fears-and-fed-criticism-investors-turn-to-safe-havens-like-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/21\/us-stocks-plunge-on-trade-war-fears-and-fed-criticism-investors-turn-to-safe-havens-like-gold\/","title":{"rendered":"US stocks plunge on trade war fears and Fed criticism, investors turn to safe havens like gold."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US stocks witnessed a sharp decline on Monday as trade tensions escalated and President Trump openly criticized the Federal Reserve. The major indexes recorded substantial losses, prompting investors to flock to safe-haven assets such as gold. The market turmoil was fueled by apprehensions regarding the Fed&#8217;s autonomy and the economic consequences of trade disputes, which in turn led to heightened uncertainty among investors. This uncertainty, in turn, resulted in a weakening US dollar and raised concerns about the possibility of a looming recession.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US stocks witnessed a sharp decline on Monday as trade tensions escalated and President Trump openly criticized the Federal Reserve. The major indexes recorded substantial losses, prompting investors to flock to safe-haven assets such as gold. The market turmoil was fueled by apprehensions regarding the Fed&#8217;s autonomy and the economic consequences of trade disputes, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":102386,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/msid-120488417imgsize-1027770-6.jpg",1280,720,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/msid-120488417imgsize-1027770-6-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/msid-120488417imgsize-1027770-6-300x169.jpg",300,169,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/msid-120488417imgsize-1027770-6-768x432.jpg",640,360,true],"large":["https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/msid-120488417imgsize-1027770-6-1024x576.jpg",640,360,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/msid-120488417imgsize-1027770-6.jpg",1280,720,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/msid-120488417imgsize-1027770-6.jpg",1280,720,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"","author_link":"https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/index.php\/author\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/index.php\/category\/just-in\/\" rel=\"category tag\">JUST IN<\/a>","tag_info":"JUST IN","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102385"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanillanews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}