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The White House rolled out a series of new tariff announcements this week, yet the S&P 500, Nasdaq, bitcoin, and Nvidia have all notched all-time highs over the last 24 hours. Meanwhile, the VIX — Wall Street’s fear gauge — has collapsed well below its long-run average after surging to historic highs in April.
Financial market participants have pushed out yet again the end date for the effort to shrink the size of the Federal Reserve's large balance sheet, the minutes of the U.S. central bank's June 17-18 policy meeting showed on Wednesday.
U.S. stocks are higher in afternoon trading Wednesday as Wall Street weighs the latest developments in Trump's trade wars.
The stock market and bond market are forecasting different scenarios for the U.S. economy. The former projects optimism — higher equity prices, earnings growth, broad enthusiasm — but the latter sees weakening growth. Apollo chief economist Torsten Slok highlighted this disconnect in research published this week.
A mixed day of trading left the U.S. stock market split, as Wall Street’s momentum slowed after setting record highs in each of the last two days
Stocks are off to a sluggish start on Wall Street, while Delta Air Lines led a rally in airline stocks after releasing a solid outlook for the rest of 2025.
US stocks fell on Friday after President Trump threatened Canada with a 35% tariff on its imports to the US and floated higher blanket levies. Late Thursday, Trump on Truth Social posted a letter to Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney,