2025-07-19
5 分钟Hey, listeners. It's Saturday, July 19th.
I'm Francesca Fontana for The Wall Street Journal, and this is What's News in Markets,
our look at the biggest stock moves of the week and the news that drove them.
Let's get to it.
The stock market shrugged off the latest tariff threats from President Trump to start this week,
and it looked like investor focus was primarily on the economic data and earnings,
including a bunch of bank earnings, which I'll talk about in a bit.
On Tuesday, we got June's consumer price index, which showed that inflation picked up last month.
And while the headline number came in line with forecasts,
price increases for goods like furniture and major appliances indicate to analysts and economists that Trump's trade policies may be raising the cost of living.
Then, on Thursday, investors welcomed better-than-expected retail sales and weekly jobless claims.
June's 0.6% rise in sales largely reversed the drop that we saw for May,
suggesting that tariff-driven price rises and broader uncertainty aren't deterring shoppers.
All in all, the major indexes ended mixed for the week.
The Dow finished 1% lower while the S&P 500 and NASDAQ,
both of which notched new record closes during the week, ended higher.
The S&P 500 gained 0.6% and the NASDAQ gained 1.5%.
First up, we had a flurry of bank earnings Tuesday and Wednesday.
The long and the short of it?
Results were strong.