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Wow, what a week (and month) it’s been for stocks. After hitting record highs in February, stock markets have plunged on fears of a new trade war. Even after Thursday’s (10 April) big rebound, the FTSE 100 index is down 6.3% in a week and 7.6% over a month. Meanwhile, the US S&P 500 has dropped 0.4% and 6.2% over those periods, respectively.
My family portfolio is heavily weighted to US stocks and UK shares, so it’s taken a few hard knocks. Indeed, some of our holdings have fallen so far and fast, I’ve been baffled by these recent market moves.
My biggest FTSE fallers
Earlier today, I produced a list of the 20 biggest FTSE 100 fallers over the past month. Alas, I found four of my family’s blue-chip holdings in this list of laggards and losers. Here they are (sorted from biggest to smallest price decline over the past month):
| Company | Business | Market value (£bn) | One month | One… |
