Wall Street’s three main indexes touched two-week highs on Monday, boosted by technology stocks on signs that the Trump administration is taking a measured approach on tariffs against its trading partners.U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration is likely to exclude a set of sector-specific tariffs that are on track to be imposed on April 2, according to media reports over the weekend.
Investors scooped up battered technology shares, with Nvidia up 3.3% and Advanced Micro Devices adding 6.2%, which sent the broader chip index higher by 3.1%. Other megacaps such as Meta Platforms jumped 3.2% and Amazon.com rose 2.8%.
The S&P 500 consumer discretionary index led sectoral gains with a 3.3% advance, aided by Tesla’s 9.4% surge.Speaking on the repercussions of Trump’s fluctuating trade policies, Chris Zaccarelli, chief investment officer for Northlight Asset Management, said “we think the biggest impact is that the uncertainty has at least slowed down or potentially frozen a lot of the business activity.”
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“And there’s a concern that future earnings (a few) quarters from now will be lower because of this chilling effect.”Financial markets have whipsawed over the past several weeks as traders have been confronted by fears of a sharp U.S. economic slowdown after Trump announced a series of tariffs last month on some of its main trading partners including China, Mexico and Canada.
Several companies have also cited tariff uncertainty as they lowered their forecasts for the upcoming quarters. Data compiled by LSEG as of Friday showed, earnings of companies included in the S&P 500 are expected to grow by 10.5% in 2025, down by 3.5 percentage points since the beginning of the year.
However, U.S. stocks appear to have found a floor after weeks-long selloff that pushed the benchmark S&P 500 and the tech-heavy Nasdaq down by 10% from their record highs – commonly known as correction.At 11:55 a.m. ET the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 566.80 points, or 1.35%, to 42,552.38, the S&P 500 gained 93.71 points, or 1.65%, to 5,761.27 and the Nasdaq Composite gained 363.10 points, or 2.04%, to 18,146.78.
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The domestically focused Russell 2000 index added 2.2% to hit a two-week high, while the CBOE Volatility Index ,
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