The shares are intense in the Wall Street Stock Exchange today (27.3.25) as the USA They proceeded to impose duties on automakersreinforcing concern about the economic impact of a trade war, despite evidence showing faster than estimated growth in the world’s largest economy.
A few days before the end of a quarter that will be the worst for the S&P 500 by 2023, the index swordd between profits and losses, according to Bloomberg. The automakers from Toyota Motor to Stellantis, Mercedes-Benz Group and General Motors were hit. Most of the large -scale companies have risen, with Tesla and Amazon leading the way. The bond market also reflects concerns about the impact of US duties on inflation, with short -term government bonds over -term.
The US economy expanded faster in the fourth quarter of 2024 than previously estimated, amid a strong increase in corporate profits, while an index of inflation was revised lower. Separate elements showed an increase in pending housing sales and another quite durable job market.
For Etoro’s Bret Kenwell, the data will not act as a significant impetus for investors, as their attention is firmly focused on the current economic landscape and not to what was a few months ago.
“Investors will want to see results in inflation level or better and a strong employment number to get some confirmation of the current economic environment,” Kenwell said.
The S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 showed a slight change. Dow Jones’ industrial average fell 0.1%. Advanced Micro Devices sank due to an analyst downgrade. Gamestop seeks to sell $ 1.3 billion convertible bonds to fund Bitcoin markets. Coreweave is alleged to plan to reduce its public registration to about $ 1.5 billion.
The yield on 10 -year government bonds increased by two basis points to 4.37%. The dollar fell 0.1%. The Peso of Mexico and the Loonie of Canada led the losses to the main coins.
Despite the power of the latest data, economists, consumers and businesses are becoming more and more cautious about the impact of a trade war. Trump signed a 25% duty on car imports and promised harder punishment in the EU and Canada if they join forces against the US.
“For markets, however, the question is whether something will be able to overcome the noise of duty history,” Chris Larkin told E*Trade from Morgan Stanley. “In the short term, the most likely scenario is more unstable transactions.”
The pessimism of individual investors on short -term stock prospects has declined in the latest climate survey of the US Association of Individual Investors. In the meantime, optimism and neutral climate have increased.
“With the shares having a respite of last week’s sales and early this week, we expected some decline in extremely high levels of downward climate in AAII’s weekly research,” Bespoke strategic analysts said.
Bespoke noted that while the downward climate decreased, this week’s measurement was still over 50% – and higher than 96.8% of all previous weekly measurements since 1987.