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US Market Commentary
Trump’s Delay Of EU Tariffs Sparks Rally On Wall Street
After moving sharply higher early in the session, stocks saw further upside over the course of the trading day on Tuesday. With the strong upward move, the major averages largely offset the steep losses posted last week.
The Nasdaq shot up 461.96 points or 2.5 percent to 19,199.16, the S&P 500 surged 118.72 points or 2.1 percent to 5,921.54 and the Dow jumped 740.58 points or 1.8 percent to 42,343.65.
The rally on Wall Street came after President Donald Trump announced he is delaying a threatened 50 percent tariff on imports from the European Union.
“I received a call today from Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, requesting an extension on the June 1st deadline on the 50% Tariff with respect to Trade and the European Union,” Trump said in a post on Truth Social on Sunday.
“I agreed to the extension — July 9, 2025 — It was my privilege to do so,” he added. “The Commission President said that talks will begin rapidly.”
Trump said in a subsequent Truth Social post this morning that the EU has “called to quickly establish meeting dates,” which he described as a “positive event.”
“I hope that they will, FINALLY, like my same demand to China, open up the European Nations for Trade with the United States of America,” he said. “They will BOTH be very happy, and successful, if they do!!!”
The move by Trump came as analysts previously suggested the threatened tariff on the EU was just a negotiating tactic and not where the eventual rate will wind up.
Positive sentiment was also generated in reaction to a report released by the Conference Board showing a substantial improvement by U.S. consumer confidence in the month of May.
The Conference Board said its consumer confidence index spiked to 98.0 in May after plunging to a downwardly revised 85.7 in April.
Economists had expected the consumer confidence index to inch up to 87.3 from the 86.0 originally reported for the previous month.
Sector News
Airline stocks turned in some of the market’s best performances on the day, with the NYSE Arca Airline Index soaring by 4.9 percent.
Substantial strength was also visible among semiconductor stocks, as reflected by the 3.4 percent spike by the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index.
Networking, computer hardware and banking stocks also saw considerable strength, moving higher along with most of the other major sectors.
Other Markets
In overseas trading, stock markets across the Asia-Pacific region turned in a mixed performance during trading on Tuesday. Japan’s Nikkei 225 Index rose by 0.5 percent, while China’s Shanghai Composite Index dipped by 0.2 percent.
Meanwhile, European stocks moved mostly higher on the day. The German DAX Index advanced by 0.8 percent and the U.K.’s FTSE 100 Index climbed by 0.7 percent, although the French CAC 40 Index closed just below the unchanged line.
In the bond market, treasuries extended the upward move seen over the two previous sessions. As a result, the yield on the benchmark ten-year note, which moves opposite of its price, tumbled 7.5 basis points to 4.434 percent.
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DISNEY IS AS GUILTY AS ABC – ABC NEEDS TO BE SOLD – PERHAPS TO THE DEMOCRATS OR PERHAPS COMMUNIST CHINA
FCC chair Brendan Carr sent a letter to Disney CEO Robert Iger stating, “Numerous reports indicate that Disney’s leadership went all in on invidious forms of D.E.I. discrimination a few years ago and did so in a manner that infected many aspects of your company’s decisions.”
ABC News does not fall under the FCC’s purview, but ABC’s eight-owned and operated stations are, and it wants to review whether they have violated any FCC equal employment opportunity regulations.
In addition, the FCC will also look at ABC’s policy that at least 50 percent of characters in TV pilots be from underrepresented groups.
For its part, Disney, in a statement, said, “We are reviewing the Federal Communications Commission’s letter, and we look forward to engaging with the commission to answer its questions.”
This is familiar territory for ABC News, which has already come under scrutiny from President Donald Trump. Last December, the news division settled its lawsuit with the president for $15 million over comments that anchor George Stephanopoulos made on a March 10, 2024 edition of his Sunday show, This Week.
As part of the settlement, the network included an editor’s note in the online article accompanying the broadcast, which stated: “ABC News and George Stephanopoulos regret statements regarding President Donald J. Trump made during an interview by George Stephanopoulos with Rep. Nancy Mace.”
The Associated Press reports that Disney has altered some of its D.E.I. positions in recent months. For example, it has changed the language at the beginning of some of its movies from “negative depictions and/or mistreatment of peoples or culture” to “this program is presented as originally created and may contain stereotypes or negative depictions.”
It joins NBCUniversal and Paramount Global as media companies with ties to news operations receiving the FCC treatment since the beginning of the second term of the Donald Trump administration.
The FCC does not have direct jurisdiction over NBCUniversal properties. Still, the news division could be affected by the outcome of the investigation due to its parent company, Comcast, cable and high-speed internet business, as they fall under the regulatory oversight umbrella of the FCC.
NBCUniversal is also expected to finalize the spinning off of its cable units into a separate company in the next few months, which will require government approval.
Meanwhile, Paramount Global is in the final stages of its merger with Skydance Media and needs government approval, too. On top of that, CBS News’ Sunday night newsmagazine, 60 Minutes, is facing a $20 billion lawsuit brought on by the president, who alleges the news network engaged in “deceitful” editing of a 60 Minutes interview with former Vice President Kamala Harris.
Carr made an official request for the unedited interview transcript, leading the network to publicly release the transcript and video footage of the interview on its website.
WARNER DISCOVERY IS AS GUILTY AS CNN – CNN NEEDS TO BE SOLD – PERHAPS TO THE DEMOCRATS OR PERHAPS COMMUNIST CHINA
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