No, Fox News Did Not Remove its Stock Ticker to Hide Market Collapse from Trump’s Tariffs
By Sarah Komar
What happened: Liberal social media users are falsely claiming that Fox News removed its live stock market ticker to hide the market fallout stemming from President Donald Trump’s April 2, 2025, announcement of sweeping new import tariffs.
Context: When Trump announced the new tariffs, including an across-the-board tax of 10 percent and additional tariffs on specific countries, global markets went into free fall.
A closer look: As the market tanked, some liberal social media users claimed that Fox News removed its onscreen stock-market ticker “for the first time ever,” in a supposed bid to hide the damage and protect Trump.
An April 3 X post from progressive user @acnewsitics, where the claim apparently originated, said, “Hey, how come Fox News took the Dow ticker off of their screen today?” The post received 2.2 million views and 82,000 likes in four days.
Liberal political activist and retired crime novelist Don Winslow said in an April 3 X post: “Dear @FoxNews[:] For almost three decades you have always had the stock market ticker on screen during all of your shows. Today - after three decades - it was removed. Why??” The post received 5.4 million views and 277,000 likes in four days.
Actually: A NewsGuard review of archived versions of Fox News programming on April 3 found that the ticker had not been removed.
The “Dow Watch” stock ticker appeared for several minutes at a time during multiple shows. For example, the ticker appeared at the bottom of the screen during the second half of “America’s Newsroom,” which ran from 10-11 a.m. Eastern Time. During “The Story With Martha MacCallum,” which ran from 3-4 p.m. Eastern Time, the live ticker was shown for seven minutes.
Moreover, the “Dow Watch” ticker was never a permanent onscreen feature on Fox News’ programming, a network spokesperson told NewsGuard.
“FOX News Channel has never featured a continuous stock market ticker throughout its history and claims that it was removed are inaccurate,” the spokesperson told NewsGuard in an April 7, 2025, email.
A NewsGuard review of dozens of episodes of Fox News programming prior to April 2 confirmed that the ticker did not appear onscreen at all times ahead of the tariff announcement.