Merchants look ahead to insurance coverage market Accelerant to start buying and selling through the firm’s IPO on the New York Inventory Trade (NYSE) in New York Metropolis, U.S., July 24, 2025.
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Select a snug seat and seize your popcorn. These 5 days will principally be the Olympics for market watchers:
- Meta Platforms, Microsoft, Amazon and Apple are reporting earnings.
- The U.S. Federal Reserve’s rate-setting committee is assembly.
- The non-public consumption expenditures value index, the Fed’s most well-liked inflation studying, comes out.
- U.S. jobs information for July might be launched.
And looming over all these monetary and macroeconomic occasions is U.S. President Donald Trump’s August 1 deadline for his new tariffs.
As Kim Forrest, founder at Bokeh Capital, mentioned, “What is not occurring on this week?”
Here is the best state of affairs for buyers.
The Magnificent Seven corporations reporting earnings this week and the U.S. economic system safe gold at their respective occasions. (The Fed is predicted to maintain charges unchanged — whether or not this qualifies the central financial institution for a medal is up for debate).
Huge buying and selling companions of the U.S., corresponding to South Korea and India, safe a cope with the White Home and be a part of the European Union and Japan on the podium, whereas Beijing extends its tariff suspension with Washington.
If these occasions occur, U.S. shares will most likely have legs clear hurdle after hurdle — and the S&P 500 can proceed topping report tables.
— CNBC’s Sarah Min contributed to this report
What you should know right now
Trump publicizes a commerce settlement with the European Union. Most European items, together with vehicles, exported to the U.S. will face a 15% tariff, Trump mentioned Sunday. The bloc additionally agreed to buy $750 billion price of U.S. power, he added.
The Fed is able to begin decreasing charges, Trump mentioned. On Friday, the U.S. president mentioned Fed Chair Jerome Powell informed him “the nation is doing effectively,” which Trump took to imply “he will begin recommending decrease charges.” Futures markets disagree.
Good week for the S&P 500. The broad-based index rose Friday to shut at a excessive — its fifth report in a row final week. The Nasdaq Composite and Dow Jones Industrial Common additionally superior. The Stoxx Europe 600 misplaced 0.29%.
Palantir joins rank of high 20 most dear U.S. corporations. After rising greater than 2% on Friday to hit a market cap of $375 billion, Palantir bumped Residence Depot out of the listing. The software program supplier has greater than doubled in worth this 12 months.
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And eventually…
U.S. President Donald Trump talks to reporters after touring the Federal Reserve’s $2.5 billion headquarters renovation undertaking on July 24, 2025 in Washington, DC.
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Below Trump, Uncle Sam is changing into an energetic investor
The Trump administration has taken direct stakes in corporations on a scale hardly ever seen within the U.S. outdoors wartime or financial disaster, pushing a Republican Social gathering that historically championed free-market capitalism to embrace state intervention in industries seen as vital for nationwide safety.
Extra interventions might be on the horizon because the Trump administration develops a coverage to assist U.S. corporations in strategic industries towards state-backed competitors from China.
— Spencer Kimball
