{"id":117432,"date":"2025-07-23T16:19:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T13:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ironfx-com.wp-dev.int.theitops.net\/?p=117432"},"modified":"2025-07-23T16:19:38","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T13:19:38","slug":"equities-report-us-trade-deals-in-focus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ironfx-cn.com\/en\/equities-report-us-trade-deals-in-focus\/","title":{"rendered":"Equities report: US Trade deals in focus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

US stock markets moved higher with the Nasdaq,S&P 500 and Dow Jones moving higher since last week .In today\u2019s report we are to discuss the ongoing trade deal bonanza, Microsoft\u2019s recent vulnerability and conclude the report with a technical analysis of S&P 500\u2019s daily chart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trade deals in the spotlight<\/strong><\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The US\u2019s August 1st tariff deadline is looming and with just over one week to go until they go into effect, some nations are still trying to reach a deal with the US. Yet with the tariff deadline looming some nation\u2019s have managed to secure a trade deal with the US.In particular, President Trump stated on his TruthSocial account yesterday that \u201cWe just completed a massive Deal with Japan, perhaps the largest Deal ever made. Japan will invest, at my direction, $550 Billion Dollars into the United States, which will receive 90% of the Profits\u201d and that \u201cJapan will pay Reciprocal Tariffs to the United States of 15%\u201d. In turn the announcement of the trade deal with Japan has spurred a positive market sentiment that further trade deals may ensue prior to the August 1st deadline. Specifically, optimism is rising that the EU may secure a trade deal with the US prior to the deadline, with President Trump stating per CNBC that \u201cWe have Europe coming in tomorrow, and the next day, we have some other ones coming in\u201d. Thus the comments by President Trump may have provided support to both the European and American Equities markets. Furthermore, US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent stated that \u201cWe are making good progress with the EU,\u201d which may have further improved the positive market sentiment.However, the EU is also preparing for a \u201cno-deal\u201d scenario with Bloomberg reporting today that the EU has readied a 30% tariff on approximately $117b worth of US goods. Nonetheless, the possibility of a trade deal occurring with the EU prior to the deadline may have provided support for the US Equities markets. Although should a deal not occur it could have the opposite effect. In our opinion, the EU may be unwilling to provide the US with the sort of trade deal it requires, yet could offer other forms of concessions to avoid the 30% tariff being implemented on the 1st of August.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Microsoft (#MSFT) \u201cSharePoint\u201d vulnerability emerges<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Microsoft issued an alert on Saturday about \u201cactive attacks\u201d on self hosted SharePoint servers. The hack appears to have been a \u201czero-day\u201d exploit and has allegedly been carried out by Chinese state-backed groups and has per Reuters affected roughly 100 organizations which include some government\u2019s according to the Shadowserver Foundation. The degree and severity of the exploit does not appear to have been fully analyzed at the time of this report and thus should a wide variety of company servers find themselves compromised and face further cyber attacks, it could potentially weigh on Microsoft\u2019s (#MSFT) stock price if they fail to take swift action or if more exploits are discovered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Earnings reports ahead<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

We make a start with the earnings paragraph today by noting that Verizon\u2019s (#VZ) earnings are due out on Monday, LockheedMartin(#LockheedMT) and General Motors (#GM) on Tueday, Tesla (#TSLA), Google (#GOOG) and IBM (#IBM) on Wednesday followed by Deutsche Bank (#DB) and Intel (#INTC) on Thursday and ending the week is Volkswagen (#Volkswagen) on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Technical Analysis<\/u><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

US500 Daily Chart<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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