Wall Street He accumulated profits despite living one of the most turbulent weeks remembered in the stock market, marked by the tariff escalation between the US and China within the commercial war initiated by President Donald Trump.
Friday’s session ended with advances around 2 % in the main indicators, and in the calculation of the last five days the NASDAQ TECHNOLOGY It accumulates a 7.3 %rise, while S&P 500 progresses 5.7 %and Dow Jones a notable 5 %.
China rose on Friday to 125 % tariffs on all The United States goods As a culmination to the exchange of commercial affronts between both governments, but the markets were encouraged before Trump’s “optimism” on an agreement with Beijing.
White House spokeswoman, Karoline LeavittHe did not want to affirm if there are already contacts between governments, but he said that Trump trusts a commercial treatment with China, which Washington imposes 145 % tariffs while extending a truce to other countries.
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Shortly before, the values had dropped after the survey of the Michigan University On consumer’s confidence, who threw worse levels of the expected, a reflection of increasing fears to an increase in inflation.
A ‘tariff truce’ received with euphoria
The week has been dominated by volatility, with the VIX index shooting 50 % while the markets fell, but in turn The Treasury Bonus At 10 years, considered an active refuge, 4.5 %, an unusual and worrying behavior exceeded on Wednesday.
However, the announcement of the truce in The tariffs Higher on Wednesday was received with euphoria in Wall Streetand the strong climb helped to compensate for previous losses, with the help of the most moderate rise today.
- That Wednesday, after the announcement of the ‘ARANACELARIA TRUGU‘, Nasdaq shot 12 %, something not seen since 2001, in the bubble of the’ Puntocom ‘; The S&P 500 was made by 9.5 %, its highest increase since the financial crisis of 2008, and the Dow Jones 7.9 %, the best since 2020, after the Covid-19 Pandemia.
Meanwhile, and between fears that The commercial war It leads to a recession, the March inflation fact in the US was better than expected, as the consumer price index (CPI) fell four tenths to 2.4 % interannual.
He Texas oil It closes its second consecutive week in red and stands at 61.50 dollars; Gold rose 2 %, up to about $ 3,200; The euro changed to 1.13 dollars, 1 % more than yesterday, and the bitcóin shot 5.6 %, up to almost $ 84,000
