On Jan. 27, Nvidia ( NVDA -2.84%) fell 17%, erasing over $590 billion from its market cap. It marked the greatest single-day market-cap destruction for a company in U.S. stock market history. While the growth stock recovered nearly half of those losses the following day, there are still lessons to be learned from this historic market event.

Once Trump confirmed the Mexico tariffs would be delayed a month, markets bounced back some, with the Dow closing down just 0.3%, the S&P 0.8% and the Nasdaq 1.2%. After more than 90% of the S&P’s 500 constituents were negative early Monday,