2025 stock market crash

High school (ages 12+)
Mathematics & Numbers

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Step 1 · Read the article

Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

https://smallwhale.org/articles/2025-stock-market-crash

Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. What is the market impact?Largest global market decline since the 2020 stock market crash
2. What happened on "Liberation Day" in 2025?On April 2, 2025, President Trump announced many new tariffs, making products more expensive and causing a big drop in global stock prices.
3. Why did the stock market crash in April 2025?The new tariffs scared investors, so they sold many stocks at once, which made prices fall faster than usual.

Protectionism: Economic policy of shielding domestic industries from foreign competition, often through tariffs.
Bond Vigilantism: A situation where bondholders sell their holdings due to concerns about a government's fiscal policies.
Market Volatility: The degree of variation in trading prices over time, indicating unpredictability.
Trade War: A situation where countries impose tariffs and other trade barriers on each other.