Markets notch small gains as tech stocks rise and Trump delivers mixed signals on tariffs

• Stock markets rise for fourth consecutive days As tech companies have seen acquired and investors interpret President Donald Trump's comments on tariff negotiations.

Stock markets rose slightly on Friday behind those obtained in tech stocks such as Alphabet and Nvidia as well as conflicting messages from President Donald Trump in tariffs. The S&P 500 reached 0.75%, Dow Jones was flat, and the tech-heavy Nasdaq jumped 1.25%.

Alphabet, the parent's giant search company, defeated analysts for its first quarter and raised the topline year-to-year in Q1 of 12% to $ 90.2 billion. From the market close Thursday to Friday afternoon, its stock rose 1.5%. AI chip manufacturer Nvidia saw a larger jump of 4.3% after an executive Says Thursday the giant tech did not see a pullback demanded for its chips.

Meanwhile, in a wide interview with Time Published on Friday, Trump promised potential relief to investors when he said he made a “200 deals” on tariffs. He refused to say which countries and promised that the initial conversation would end in three to four weeks.

On the contrary, what could be a bearish signal for global markets, he said he would consider it “total success” if tariffs on foreign imports would be anywhere between 20% and 50% a year.

The little Friday climb to the stock market follows three days of positive jumps as markets look to recover their losses after “Trump's release. On April 2, the president opened a base 10% tax on all exports of countries and target China through a crescendo of tariffs, which ended up in a 145% of the experts. Trump's tariff plan prompted tank markets amid fears of investors an all-out trade war.

Xi Jinping, the president of China, reacted against the US with reward tariffs, and Trump had since Broadcast Taxes against the People's Republic are “dropping significantly.” In his interview with TimeTrump said he was in contact with Jinping. Chinese officers, however, are repeated -repeating declined that they have been negotiating with the Trump administration and recently exempted Some US imports from its own revenge tariffs.

The markets also closely monitor Trump's comments at the Federal Reserve, the US Central Bank. The President repeatedly criticized Jerome Powell, the head of the Fed, as interest rates were not quickly cut off. Trump's criticism reaches a boiling point when he suggested Last week he was considering the firing of Powell, covering Fed's long freedom from the Executive Branch. The 47th president has since walked back in his rhetoric and said he had no “intention” to shoot the fed chair.

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