Wall Street indexes split amid mixed earnings, crude slides
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General Motors and other U.S. companies give updates on how much President Trump’s tariffs are impacting them.
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Wall Street experienced a record-breaking revenue surge in the year’s second quarter, investment bank Goldman Sachs announced Wednesday morning, following the market uncertainty caused by President Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs in April.
The company has already made cost-cutting strides this month, axing about 9,000 employees in its latest round of layoffs. Analysts surveyed by Visible Alpha see about $73 billion in operating expenses in Microsoft's fiscal 2026, which implies 11% growth.
The majority of the new tariffs announced closely reflect the rates proposed in April; Laos and Burma are set to face the highest levy at 40%. Meanwhile, goods from Cambodia and Thailand will face slightly lower rates of 36%. Additionally, Brunei, Japan, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Moldova, South Korea and Tunisia will see a 25% tariff hike.
Markets had dismissed tariff risks under the assumption that Trump would follow an earlier pattern and back off, in what became known as the so-called TACO trade. That allowed stocks to reach new record-high territory recently, marking a stunning rebound from the collapse triggered by his “Liberation Day” reciprocal tariffs in April.
With the deadline for tariffs now moved to August 1, investors are pinning their hopes on negotiations to stave off an all-out trade war. "Market volatility is likely to pick up, but the latest development does not constitute an escalation in the trade war," UBS analysts said.
On Wednesday morning, as markets worldwide shuddered on news that President Donald Trump was likely to fire Jerome Powell, James van Geelen at Citrini Research wasted no time in blasting a “macro trade” alert to his some 50,