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Wall Street logged the best week since 2023 despite tariff turmoil and wild market swings. Rate-hedged ETFs, gold and silver miners and semiconductors led the weekly gains.

After a brutal last week on Trump tariff concerns, Wall Street attempted to bounce back on April 7. Invesco QQQ Trust QQQ added 0.24% in the key trading session and advanced 1.2% after hours.

President Donald Trump introduced and enacted a two-step tariff strategy on April 2, marking the beginning of his 'Liberation Day' plans. A baseline tariff of 10% was imposed on imports from various countries starting April 5 (read: 6 Trade-Resilient ETFs for Investors).

The stock market is forward-looking and not directly tied to the economy. Investors aren't foolish, as they try to price in upheavals before they hit. The current market selloff is assessed to be driven by fear, especially in the tech-heavy Nasdaq ETF or QQQ. The resilience of top US companies and ongoing trade negotiations offer potential for market stabilization.

The Nasdaq 100 has suffered its worst quarter in nearly three years.

Right now, there is a lot of uncertainty in the stock market. While stocks have bounced off their recent lows, the major market indices are still well off their highs and prone to volatility.

In this article, I answer the question, "Should I buy QQQ or JEPQ?" Both funds track an index primarily made of tech stocks and carry significant volatility, with one of the two incurring losses YTD. The answer relies on investors' outlook of markets, which I see as mixed for various reasons.

Broadly speaking, U.S. companies remain devoted buyers of their own shares. New data from S&P Dow Jones Indices confirms that 2024 buybacks among members of the S&P 500 surged 18.5% on a year-over-year basis.

The stock market has been ugly (particularly growth stocks), and it could get much worse. Thankfully, however, there is another way. Income investing focuses on big, steady dividend and interest payments, thereby allowing investors to worry far less about price volatility (as long as those big income payments keep coming in). This report shares 5 big safe yield strategies (including a variety of top income ideas), and then concludes with an important takeaway about succeeding in this market.

Many retail investors love to examine the favorite holdings of active fund managers and buy some of those stocks for themselves. That's not a terrible strategy, but obviously the outcomes hinge on how good the active manager is.