As tariffs and the White House’s economic policies are expected to keep increasing prices across America will the US stock market continue to drop all year? U.S. stocks struggled on Tuesday, with the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq touching one-month lows as U.S. households get more pessimistic about the economy because of inflation, tariffs and other policies coming from Washington. 🇺🇸 The increase in pessimism was broad-based and carried across both higher- and lower-income households, as well as older and younger ones.