The markets do not earn small gains as technological stocks increase and Trump provides mixed signals on the rates

• Stock markets increased the fourth consecutive day When technology companies gained earnings and investors interpreted President Donald Trump’s Friday’s comments on tariff negotiations.

Stock market markets slightly increased on Friday at the back of the gains in technological shares such as Alphabet and Nvidia as well as conflicting messages by President Donald Trump on rates. The S&P 500 increased by 0.75%, Dow Jones was flat and heavy weight Nasdaq skipped 1.25%.

Alphabet, the search company of the search giant Google, coup The predictions of analysts during the first quarter and grew their year -on -year level in the first quarter of 12% to $ 90.2 billion. From the closing of the market from Thursday to Friday afternoon, its stock increased by 1.5%. AI chip maker, Nvidia, saw an even greater leap of 4.3% after an executive he said On Thursday that the technology giant has not seen a mess in the demand of its chips.

Meanwhile, in a wide interview with Weather Posted on Friday, Trump promised a potential relief to investors when he said he has made “200 offers” on rates. He refused to say which countries and promised that the initial negotiations would end for three to four weeks.

For his part, in what could be a bassist signal for the world markets, he stated that he would consider “total victory” if foreign import rates would be between 20% and 50% in a year.

The small increase on Friday in the stock market follows three days of positive jumps, as the markets seek to regain their losses after Trump “Day of release. “On April 2, the President filed a 10% base tax on exports from all countries and led China through a rate crescendo, which culminted in a tax of 145% on Chinese exports. The Trump’s tariff plan promoted markets in the midst of investors’ fears in a trade war.

Xi Jinping, the President of China, retaliated against the United States with reciprocal rates, and Trump has done so since program That taxes against the People’s Republic “will be substantially reduced”. In his interview with WeatherTrump said he has been in contact with Jinping. Chinese officials, however, have repeatedly denied they have been in negotiations with the Trump administration and they have recently had exempt Some imports from the United States from their own retaliation rates.

The markets have also monitored Trump’s comments on the Federal Reserve, the Central Bank of the United States. The President has repeated it critical Jerome Powell, the Fed chair, not to reduce interest rates quickly enough. Trump’s criticism came to a boiling point when he suggested Last week he had proposed to shoot Powell, lowering the Fed independence from the executive branch. The 47th President has again traveled his rhetoric and he said I had no “intent” of shooting the Fed Chair.

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