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US stocks swung backmost to gains connected Friday arsenic investors weighed the chances of a reprieve successful the commercialized war, aft China deed the US with a retaliatory tariff hike but signaled it won't hike duties immoderate further.
The S&P 500 (^GSPC) roseate 0.5%, and the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC) climbed 0.8%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) moved up 0.5%.
China said Friday it volition rise duties connected imports of US goods to 125%, compared with the 84% antecedently planned, effectual Saturday. The determination is successful nonstop effect to President Trump's ballooning "reciprocal" tariffs connected China, the commerce ministry said, but it besides suggested it volition "ignore" immoderate retaliatory US hikes successful duties.
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Big Wall Street banks got archetypal 4th net play going successful earnest connected Friday, with results rolling successful from JPMorgan (JPM), Wells Fargo (WFC), and BlackRock (BLK). Their stocks roseate modestly pursuing those quarterly reports earlier the bell, intimately studied for signs of headwinds from the tariff turmoil. JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon said the US system is going done "extreme turbulence."
Read more: Live updates connected Trump tariffs fallout
Trump's fast-moving tariff argumentation has whiplashed stocks this week, which saw the large US indexes notch historical gains during Wednesday's league but past vessel connected Thursday. Despite that rout, the large indexes are positioned for their champion week successful months, mostly connected the backmost of the mid-week surge.
The volatility has besides thrust moves of Treasurys and commodities into the spotlight. The benchmark 10-year Treasury output (^TNX) continued a caller march higher, touching 4.5%. Meanwhile, the dollar (DX=F) scale tumbled, astatine 1 constituent reaching lows not seen since 2022. And golden (GC=F) is erstwhile again the "place to be" amid the turmoil, jumping to different grounds connected Friday.
Investors volition get the March speechmaking connected the Producer Price Index aboriginal successful the day, providing different portion of the pre-tariff ostentation puzzle.
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Why Wall Street's biggest carnivore isn't budging connected his calls aft Trump tariff pause
The lone carnivore connected Wall Street coming into 2025 is sticking to his bearish telephone arsenic tariff uncertainty continues to unsettle markets.
Yahoo Finance's Brian Sozzi reports:
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Stocks autumn arsenic China signals it volition 'ignore' US escalation successful commercialized war
US stocks fell connected Friday aft China roseate its retaliatory tariffs connected US goods, but hinted it volition disregard immoderate further escalation from the US.
The S&P 500 (^GSPC) fell 0.4%, and the tech-heavy Nasdaq (^IXIC) fell 0.4%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) dropped 0.5%.
China announced it volition summation duties connected US imports to 125%, but volition "ignore" immoderate further retaliatory hikes from Washington. On Thursday the White House clarified tariffs connected Chinese goods basal astatine 145%. Earlier this week President Trump paused tariffs connected immoderate 75 countries for 90 days.
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Oil connected way for 2nd consecutive play loss
Oil prices roseate somewhat connected Friday but are connected way for their 2nd play nonaccomplishment successful a enactment arsenic commercialized wars and OPEC+ spikes
Futures for West Texas Intermediate (CL=F) and Brent (BZ=F), the planetary benchmark, roseate implicit 0.1%. WTI is trading astatine the captious $60 per tube level, portion Brent declined to $63 per barrel.
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JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon weighs successful connected lawsuit cautiousness
JPMorgan (JPM) CEO Jamie Dimon gave it to maine consecutive connected the company's net media telephone this greeting erstwhile I asked astir the level of lawsuit cautiousness fixed everything going on.
Dimon said, "You know, radical are pulling backmost connected doing deals, not conscionable large ones, but mediate marketplace companies, and being precise cautious astir investment."
He (and CFO Jeremy Barnum) added connected the telephone that user spending is holding up.
Tesla banal ticks little aft China hikes tariffs again
Tesla banal (TSLA) fell 0.2% premarket aft China deed backmost astatine the US by raising its tariff connected US imports to 125% successful the latest escalation of the tit-for-tat trading war.
Bloomberg reports that Tesla has removed the enactment to acquisition caller Model S and Model X electrical vehicles from its China website. Existing inventory for the 2 models was inactive available, however.
The Model S and Model X are 2 of Tesla's pricier offerings and are apt to beryllium affected by tariffs. The models are imported into China arsenic Tesla's Shanghai mill lone makes Model 3 and Model Y vehicles.
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JPMorgan banal edges higher arsenic banks footwear disconnected net season
Shares of JPMorgan (JPM) and different Wall Street banks posted tiny gains arsenic investors assessed their archetypal 4th net earlier the bell.
JPMorgan booked a 9% emergence successful quarterly nett year-on-year, my workfellow David Hollerith reports. But its CEO Jamie Dimon warned the US system faces "considerable headwinds" arsenic the largest US slope acceptable speech 75% much provisions to screen aboriginal indebtedness losses. Its banal moved up 1.3%.
Meanwhile, Wells Fargo (WFC), BlackRock (BLK), and Morgan Stanley (MS) each nudged up little than 1% aft the banks reported a higher nett but imaginable risks emerged.
BNY CEO Robin Vince to Yahoo Finance: Uncertainty is the caller normal
I caught up rapidly with BNY (BNY) CEO Robin Vince this greeting aft net deed the wires.
Here's what helium told maine connected the taxable of a imaginable recession (emphasis added):
Dollar slides, becomes the latest unfortunate successful markets mayhem
The dollar (DX=F) is tumbling arsenic concerns turn that the escalating US-China commercialized struggle is taking the radiance disconnected the greenback arsenic the world's reserve currency.
Headwinds came from China's determination to rise its US tariff complaint from 84% to 125%, starting Saturday.
Bloomberg reports:
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Nvidia estimates get cut
Eyes connected Nvidia (NVDA) this greeting aft Citi expert Atif Malik chopped his estimates connected economical concerns. Could beryllium a motion of what is to travel connected the highflier.
Says Malik:
"We are lowering our GPU units for CY25/2026 by 3%/5% to align with our revised hyperscaler capex exemplary of +35%/+15% walk reflecting mostly little Microsoft (MSFT) capex concerns and higher hazard of intermission successful endeavor investments amid uncertainty astir the planetary system owed to ongoing commercialized war."
Yours genuinely and Madison Mills volition beryllium going much into the telephone unrecorded connected Yahoo Finance successful the 10 a.m. ET hour.
Tariff uncertainty muddies — and refocuses — net season
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JPMorgan net supply archetypal look astatine Wall Street tariff turmoil
Yahoo Finance's David Hollerith reports:
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The dollar mislaid crushed arsenic investors fled US assets, seeking harmless havens. The determination toward stableness chiefly bolstered the Swiss franc, yen, euro, and gold.
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Gold pushes to caller grounds arsenic tariffs thrust haven demand
Gold (GC=F) deed a caller precocious arsenic tariff uncertainty continues to stoke planetary recession fears. The commodity has seen accordant maturation successful the twelvemonth truthful far, with an summation of much than 20% implicit the past 3 months.
Bloomberg reports:
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