Stock market today: Live updates

Going forward, investor Keith Lerner believes that the market «deserves the benefit of the doubt.»

«This bull market has earned the benefit of the doubt, and even if it’s a slower trajectory higher and with some hiccups along the way, I still think the trend is one that moves up over the duration of the year,» the Truist Wealth co-chief investment officer said on CNBC’s «Squawk on the Street» Tuesday morning.

Lerner pointed to strong corporate earnings as a driving force behind the market’s current resilience.

— Lisa Kailai Han

Copper futures hit a record high after Trump abruptly announced 50% tariffs on all imports of the metal during a White House Cabinet meeting.

The copper futures contract for September jumped 10.5% to $5.8955 per pound. Shares of copper miner Freeport-McMoRan jumped more than 5% in response the president’s announcement.

— Spencer Kimball

Elon Musk told Wedbush analyst Dan Ives to «shut up» after he laid out a plan to reign in the Tesla CEO.

Ives said Tesla’s board of directors should approve a pay package that would give Musk 25% voting control of the electric vehicle maker. But the package would come with strings attached.

The board would have oversight over Musk’s political activities and the CEO would be required to spend a certain amount of time at Tesla, Ives said in a post on X.

In response, Musk said: «Shut up, Dan.»

— Spencer Kimball

JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon gave a positive review of the U.S. tax policy changes signed by President Trump last week to CNBC’s Leslie Picker.

«The Administration and Congress took an important step by enacting long-term, internationally competitive tax policy that provides the predictability needed to support business confidence, investment and job growth,» Dimon told Picker.

The «big beautiful bill» extended some of the corporate tax benefits that were implemented during Trump’s first term and set to expire at the end of this year, and the bill also changed some rules around expensing new projects.

— Jesse Pound

The rally for mining stock Newmont is due to cool off, according to Goldman Sachs.

The investment firm downgraded Newmont to neutral from buy, with analyst Hugo Nicolaci saying in a note to clients that the stock now looks fairly valued relative to the price of gold and its peers.

«On our LT gold price of US$2,850/oz NEM is trading on ~0.95x NAV, or pricing ~US$2,675/oz gold (peer average ~0.95x NAV and ~US$2,775/oz),» the note said.

Shares of Newmont are up more than 60% year to date.

Bank stocks were lower on Tuesday, after HSBC downgraded some of the bigger names on Wall Street over a «more cautious stance» on larger firms.

Shares of JPMorgan Chase slipped more than 3%, alongside Bank of America. Goldman Sachs pulled back roughly 2%. HSBC analyst Saul Martinez downgraded all three stocks in a Monday note.

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— Brian Evans

Inflation expectations over the next year have returned to January levels, before President Donald Trump launched his global trade war that economists feared would spike prices, according to a New York Federal Reserve survey released Tuesday.

The central bank’s monthly consumer survey for June showed respondents expect inflation a year from now to be running at 3% rate, the same as in January and down from the peak of 3.6% in March and April.

However, respondents still expect hefty price increases for energy, rent, education and other items.

— Jeff Cox

President Donald Trump said on Truth Social that the Aug. 1 start date for the tariffs laid out in letters to countries on Monday is a firm timeline that will not change.

«There has been no change to this date, and there will be no change. In other words, all money will be due and payable starting AUGUST 1, 2025 – No extensions will be granted,» the post said.

— Jesse Pound

President Donald Trump’s latest moves on tariffs could be a catalyst for stocks to lose steam in the near-term, according to Wolfe Research.

«Investors seem to be dismissing the upside risk to inflation. But someone ultimately has to pay the tariffs—likely showing up in CPI, profit margins, or (realistically) a combination of both,» Wolfe Research chief economist Stephanie Roth wrote in a Tuesday note.

«While we still expect the economy to hold up, this raises near-term risks to the equity rally so far and reinforces our base case that the Fed stays on hold this year given the looming inflationary impact,» she added.

— Brian Evans

Oppenheimer Asset Management remains bullish on U.S. equities at this time, the firm’s chief investment strategist John Stoltzfus wrote in a Monday note.

Specifically, the firm prefers cyclical stocks over their more defensive counterparts. These cyclical sectors include information technology, consumer discretionary, communication services, industrials and financials.

«We anticipate continued positive corporate earnings growth, a key driver of equity valuations,» Stoltzfus wrote. «Our intermediate- and longer-term outlook for the U.S. economy and the stock market remains decidedly bullish. We believe U.S. economic fundamentals remain on solid footing. As the drag of tight monetary policy eases, job growth and consumption and business fixed investment demand should continue to exhibit resilience. In addition, should the economy appear to falter, the Federal Reserve has the ability to move swiftly to cut rates further to provide economic stimulus and reinvigorate demand.»

— Lisa Kailai Han

Here are some of the biggest movers in premarket trading.

Sunrun, First Solar, Enphase Energy — Solar stocks were under pressure on Tuesday morning after President Donald Trump issued an executive order calling for the roll back of green energy subsidies, including to «build upon and strengthen» some of the changes in the recent tax bill.

Datadog — The cloud security stock fell more than 2% after a Guggenheim downgrade to sell from neutral, citing risks from its exposure to OpenAI as a key customer.

JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America — Shares of the three major banks were set to open lower following downgrades from HSBC. 

Check out the full list of movers here.

— Jesse Pound

Shares of Nvidia gained 0.8% on Tuesday morning.

This marked a reversal for the graphics processing unit manufacturer from Monday’s session, when it shed 0.7%.

Nvidia’s rebound was part of a broader move higher on Tuesday morning as stock futures clawed back some of their losses from the previous session.

— Lisa Kailai Han

The timeline for trade negotiations between the U.S. and other countries appears to have changed once again, but that likely won’t dent investor confidence, said Thomas Matthews, head of markets for Asia Pacific at Capital Economics.

«Our base case remains that the uncertainty around tariffs won’t be enough on its own to bring the US economy to a crashing halt. If so, its unlikely to be enough to dampen investors enthusiasm for US equities,» Matthews said in a note to clients.

However, the same may not be true for Federal Reserve officials.

«It’s been clear in recent weeks that many FOMC members are not confident cutting rates until the inflationary effects of tariffs are clearer, and we doubt they’ll cut this year. That would be bad news for Treasuries given current pricing. But it might, eventually, give the dollar a boost, even if whatever is behind its apparent risk premium takes longer to fade,» Matthews said.

— Jesse Pound

Shares of Amazon rose slightly in Tuesday’s premarket session as the e-commerce seller’s annual four-day Prime Day sales event commenced.

The stock was last trading nearly 0.4% higher.

Amazon’s Prime Day promotion runs from July 8 to July 11 this year. This is the first year the event has run for four days; previously it was typically scheduled for two.

— Lisa Kailai Han

The setup for equity markets continues to look bullish, Piper Sandler wrote in a Monday note to clients.

«The combination of better-than-expected economic data, easing global trade tensions, and supportive monetary policy is underpinning this bull market. Technically, our measures of market breadth and trends continue to show improvement on a week-over-week basis,» the bank said.

Piper Sandler added that small-cap stocks look especially compelling from here.

«Based on the broadening market breadth, we continue to believe that a catch-up trade is unfolding for SMID-cap stocks, with SMID-Caps outperforming over the last several weeks,» the bank wrote.

— Lisa Kailai Han

Asia-Pacific markets swung between gains and losses Tuesday as investors assessed U.S. President Donald Trump’s latest tariff threats on 14 trading partners.

Japan’s Nikkei 225 benchmark ended the day 0.26% higher at 39,688.81 while the broader Topix index moved up 0.17% to 2,816.54.

In South Korea, the Kospi index increased by 1.81% to close at 3,114.95 while the small-cap Kosdaq added 0.74% to 784.24.

Mainland China’s CSI 300 index advanced 0.84% to end the day at 3,998.45 while Hong Kong’s Hang Seng Index increased by 1.09% to 24,148.07.

Over in Australia, the S&P/ASX 200 benchmark ended the day flat at 8,590.70 after the Reserve Bank of Australia unexpectedly stood pat on interest rates at 3.85%.

Meanwhile, India’s benchmark Nifty 50 and the BSE Sensex were flat as of 1.50 p.m. Indian Standard Time.

— Amala Balakrishner

Lower yields on U.S. Treasury debt have proven the latest fuel for a «melt-up in risk assets,» and the looming tariff deadlines are «unlikely to matter much,» HSBC chief multi-asset strategist Max Kettner wrote to clients on Monday, before President Trump released letters announcing sharp tariffs on Japan, South Korea and others starting in August.

Melt-up ingredients range from «the big beautiful bill, some U.S. trade deals (e.g. Vietnam, potentially), a U.S. labour market that’s been defying the doom-and-gloom calls — not only last month but in the entire second quarter» to lower Treasury yields that are «still being far away from the Danger Zone.»

Possible «pain trades,» which would move against conventional wisdom and harm portfolios positioned the other way, include a stronger U.S. dollar, U.S. and global economic growth that fail to soften and flatter government bond yields in developed markets, London-based Kettner wrote.

Kettner worked to dispel doubts about U.S. stocks, saying: tariffs may have an effect on corporate profits, but will be mitigated by the weaker U.S. dollar, helping large cap companies but especially megacap stocks the most; policy uncertainty is likely to dissipate relative to the second quarter; the U.S. stock market is expensive relative to the rest of the world «because it makes the most money … compared to history, as well as compared to the largest equity markets globally on a crosssectional basis, the U.S. looks fairly valued.»

— Scott Schnipper

Companies tightened their purse strings over dividend increases in the second quarter amid worries over the economy, according to a report from S&P Dow Jones Indices.

Dividend net changes – that is, increases minus decreases – for U.S. domestic common stocks rose $7.4 billion in the second quarter of this year. That compares to a $16 billion increase in the year-ago period and a $15.3 billion gain in the first quarter of 2025.

«Dividend growth has continued, but is noticeably slower than had been hoped for, though it is in line with expectations given the economic certainties,» said Howard Silverblatt, senior index analyst at S&P Dow Jones Indices, in an e-mail.

He added that while this uncertainty doesn’t seem to have stopped increases, it seems to have capped the size of these hikes.

Silverblatt noted that dividend increases may be limited as companies take a wait-and-see approach toward global government policy that’s constantly changing and worries over employment and inflation.

He also said that the third quarter is expected to start with an improvement from major banks, which have lifted their dividends in light of the Federal Reserve’s stress test results.

— Darla Mercado

U.S. President Donald Trump announced new tariffs on 14 countries to go into effect Aug. 1 that were more severe than investors were expecting. Those countries hit by new tariffs are Bangladesh, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cambodia, Indonesia, Japan, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Serbia, South Africa, South Korea, Thailand and Tunisia.

The countries were hit with import duties that are similar to, and in some cases even higher than, what Trump first announced back in April in his so-called «reciprocal» tariffs. Japan, for example, was hit with a 25% levy that’s a little bit above the 24% rate Trump initially said in April. Malaysia was hit with a 25% tariff rate, also higher than the previous 24% level.

— Sarah Min, Kevin Breuninger

Stock futures opened lower Monday night.

Dow Jones Industrial Average futures declined by 87 points, or 0.19%. S&P 500 futures and Nasdaq 100 futures dipped 0.16% and 0.15%, respectively.

— Sarah Min