Earnings forecasts melt as US prepares to print Q1 GDP [Video]
|Market sentiment somehow improved on news that Donald Trump would ease auto tariffs by lifting some levies on imported auto parts, and to avoid aluminium and steel levies stacking up alongside the rest of the tariffs—probably as a marketing move as he gave a speech in Michigan marking his 100 days in office. As a result, carmakers around the world and major US indices posted gains yesterday.
Part of the gains was also due to hope that US corporate earnings would be resilient to tariff uncertainty, that Scott Bessent is eyeing July 4th to pass a multi-trillion-dollar tax cut package to help improve the new administration’s plunging approval ratings, and that the Federal Reserve (Fed) would step in if things worsened. But the majority of the news was less than ideal—to say the least.
Microsoft, Meta, and Qualcomm are due to release earnings today after the bell; Apple and Amazon report tomorrow. US GDP growth and jobs data, and Eurozone countries’ CPI updates are among key data that investors will watch today.
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