Analysts Investors: Wall Street and Earnings Season

analysts investors: The tariff tiff is a reminder that Wall Street is being whipsawed by a number of factors, including geopolitical risks, signs of sluggishness in the domestic economy and the Federal Reserve's monetary policy, which could all combine to dent economic growth and corporate profits, according to Market Watch. However, it remains unclear which of those factors could provide the most potent catalyst for an economy that is in its tenth year of expansion and a bull run that is nearly just as long in the tooth. Last week's performance is perhaps a taste of what's ahead, analysts and investors told Market Watch, as the first-quarter earnings season concludes and the market wrestles with the U.S.-China trade standoff. Lately, stocks have been sensitive to trade rhetoric and policy announcements, with equities tumbling on Monday after President Trump allowed tariffs on 200 billion of annual Chinese goods to be raised to 25% from 10%. The president also declared his readiness to impose higher tariffs on another roughly 300 billion of goods, or nearly all the remaining products Americans buy from the world's second-largest economy. It was a week that saw the Dow log its fourth straight weekly decline, marking the longest such skid since 2016, finishing Friday's session off 0.7%. Meanwhile, the S&P 500 logged a weekly loss of 0.8% and the Nasdaq ended the five-day stretch 1.3% lower, according to Fact Set data. The Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, -0.38% the S&P 500 SPX, -0.58% and the Nasdaq Composite Index COMP, -1.04% each fell more than 2.4% that day, and reacted to a series of rhetorical volleys between the U.S. and Chinese officials, who announced retaliatory measures, for the rest of the week. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.