Global stock market crash spanning April 2–10, 2025, triggered by the U.S. "Liberation Day" announcement of sweeping import tariffs; it resulted in over $6.6 trillion in global market value losses and was nicknamed 'Orange Monday'.
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All these outlets are copying the same story with the same headline. If you actually read the article instead of just assuming he thinks the markets will do well, it's all about his never making public predictions in the first place. Considering most people just read headlines, how does this affect the average retail investor? lol. You could instead make the subject "Why Warren Buffett isn't Predicting the Stock Market Will Do Well in 2025" and it would mean the SAME EXACT THING.
One simple explanation
With all of the evidence that Buffett is decidedly bearish about the stock market, why isn't he predicting a crash in 2025? There's one simple explanation: The legendary investor avoids making stock market predictions at all.
In his 1992 letter to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders, Buffett wrote:
We've long felt that the only value of stock forecasters is to make fortune tellers look good. Even now, Charlie [Buffett's longtime business partner Charlie Munger, who died in 2023] and I continue to believe that short-term market forecasts are poison and should be kept locked up in a safe place, away from children and also from grown-ups who behave in the market like children.