Macquarie Asset Management, an investment management company, released its “Macquarie Core Equity Fund” investor letter for the second quarter of 2025. A copy of the letter can be downloaded here. The US large-cap equity market surged in Q2 2025, with the S&P 500® Index rising 10.94%. The equity market’s strength was due to reduced concerns over the possibility of President Trump quickly imposing harsh tariffs. Later, the administration put a pause on the tariff implementation. In this environment, the Macq ...

Concerns about tariffs among businesses globally have continued to rise significantly over the last six months, according to a new report. The most recent edition of GlobalData’s Tariffs Sentiment Polls report shows that 37% of 444 businesses polled are significantly more concerned about tariffs than they were six months ago. The figure represents the first notable slowdown in rising concerns for nearly half a year, with it having remained in the mid-50s since April. Despite that, it shows that busines ...

US stocks are trading at record levels with earnings season right around the corner, and improving expectations for Corporate America’s profit growth indicate that the rally can keep going. Among the companies in the S&P 500 Index that provided guidance for their third-quarter results, more than 22% were expecting to beat analysts’ expectations — the highest reading in a year, according to data compiled by Bloomberg Intelligence. In addition, the share of firms issuing worse-than-expected profit forecasts ...

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All right, great pleasure. We bring in Joe Leavia, counselor to the Treasury Secretary. Joe, welcome as always.Um, our good friend, yours and mine, Steve Moore, wrote a piece today in the Wall Street Journal. Trump's tariffs on aluminum kill US factory jobs. They're costly for companies that use the metal to make things, including recyclers.I just wanted Steve's going to be on in a moment after you after the break. You have a thought on that. What is the rebuttal from the administration.Larry, Steve is a gr ...

关税政策对行业的影响 - 2025年2月宣布对钢铁和铝征收25%关税后，纳斯达克指数上涨1.1%，道琼斯工业平均指数上涨0.2%，标普500指数上涨0.6%，国内钢铁公司克利夫兰克里夫斯、美国钢铁公司和纽柯钢铁股价显著上涨 [3] - 2025年6月宣布将钢铁和铝关税提高至50%后，道指期货下跌0.52%，标普500期货下跌0.57%，纳斯达克100期货下跌0.73%，但克利夫兰克里夫斯股价在盘前交易中上涨26.2%，纽柯钢铁上涨14.1%，钢铁动力公司上涨13.4% [3] - 2025年5月提议对国外电影征收100%关税，导致网飞股价在盘前下跌3.3%，早期交易中下跌2.5%，华特迪士尼下跌1.5%，华纳兄弟探索公司下跌2.7%，影院运营商喜满客影城下跌5.4%，IMAX下跌5.9% [4] 特定行业市场反应 - 2025年1月和2月宣布对制药和半导体征收25%及以上关税后，美国上市制药股如礼来、诺华、诺和诺德、辉瑞和莫德纳在2月最初上涨，但到4月全球制药股包括阿斯利康、葛兰素史克和罗氏下跌6%或更多 [5] - 2025年5月关于通过“最惠国”政策降低药品价格的评论导致阿斯利康股价下跌达5%，葛兰素史克下跌3.2%，辉瑞在盘前交易中下跌2.3% [5] - 半导体行业因英伟达宣布投资50亿美元并与英特尔合作，推动英特尔股价上涨超过22%，并助推标普500指数在2025年9月18日上涨0.5%至6631.96点，纳斯达克综合指数上涨0.9%至22470.73点 [11] 市场整体波动与表现 - 2025年4月2日“解放日”签署行政命令宣布国家紧急状态并授权全面关税后，标普500指数在七周内下跌近20%，美国股市在两天内损失约6.6万亿美元市值，Cboe波动率指数(VIX)飙升至45.31，为2020年4月以来最高收盘水平 [6] - 2025年4月9日宣布“关税暂停”后市场出现反弹，分析师指出若永久关税税率从2025年8月的有效15.8%降至5%，将意味着增长预测的重大升级 [7] - 尽管有关税和制造业疲软的阻力，2025年9月18日华尔街指数创下历史新高，标普500指数上涨0.5%，道指上涨0.3%，纳斯达克指数上涨0.9%，小型股罗素2000指数飙升2.5% [11]

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Let's stay on bonds and stocks and markets because we've got new highs across the board for equities. Nearly all major averages on pace for new records. The market seems to have adjusted to tariffs.But what happens if the Supreme Court rules that the tariffs are actually illegal. Would that hurt America's massive debt load. Let's talk about that and more.Joe Leavone is well known to our audience as a markets guy, but now serves as counselor to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessant. Joe, good to have you on the p ...

Chair problem more than once talked about how unusual the situation is because there are really conflicting risks here, both in inflation risk and unemployment risk at the same time. How unusual is that if you go back through history. Is that a really strange situation to face.Well, it's completely unprecedented for a member of the administration on leave to be a governor of the Fed. That's completely unprecedented. It's completely unprecedented for the president on a basis that many people regard as pretex ...

[Music] Welcome to Market Catalyst. I'm Julie Hyman. We are 30 minutes into the US trading day.Let's get to the three market catalyst we're watching this hour. First up, full coverage on the Fed as the central bank kicks off its rate cutting cycle. Plus, Nvidia and Intel striking a deal.We'll break down what it means for both chip companies. And we get a read on the state of the consumer as Olive Garden parent reports earnings. We'll break down those numbers.Plus, let's get a check of the markets right now. ...