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On April 3, 2025, U.S. President Donald Trump announced new tariff rates for exports arriving in the land of the stars and stripes, which will take effect that same month. Following the announcement, the reaction in stock markets worldwide was immediate, with declines marking that day on the calendar as one of the worst in the last five years. So much so that, while on March 19 the market capitalization of Apple was nearly *** trillion U.S. dollars, on April 3, following the announcement, it began a sharp decline to *** trillion. A similar situation was experienced by Microsoft (ranked second), which suffered losses exceeding ** billion U.S. dollars.

Lean times for Meta Platforms and Facebook

Among the companies that make up the powerful GAFAM group, Meta Platforms is the most weakened in 2025. The emergence of other social networks like TikTok, controversial statements by former employee Frances Haugen, and the not-so-successful bet on the metaverse have taken a toll on its stock market performance, and it currently ranks below the top five on the list.

NVIDIA: from promising option to brilliant reality

NVIDIA has seen the value of its shares grow spectacularly during 2024, and all signs point to the pattern repeating in 2025. This company enjoys great renown in the semiconductor market and specializes in the development of graphics processing units that have become essential for many artificial intelligence applications.