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The S&P 500 rose 2.1% on Tuesday, May 27, 2025, after President Trump postponed new tariffs on imports from Europe.

A tariff reprieve from U.S. President Donald Trump, a surprise bounce in U.S. consumer confidence and a slide in government bond yields sparked a rally across most markets on Tuesday, particularly U.S. assets, with Wall Street, Treasuries and the dollar all outperforming. In my column today I look at how much the dollar may need to fall if the Trump administration is to succeed in making a significant dent in the U.S. trade deficit. Long bond blues stress the 'bedrock': Mike Dolan 2.

NEW YORK (Reuters) -Traders in the options markets are bracing for industry-wide volatility when AI-chipmaker Nvidia reports results on Wednesday, with defensive options contracts on a major semiconductor ETF drawing heavy trading. For VanEck Semiconductor ETF, the largest semiconductors ETF with some $22 billion in assets, about 2.4 put options changed hands daily over the last 10 days against every call option traded, the most defensive the trading has been in about 10 months, according to Trade Alert data. Call options convey the right to buy shares at a fixed price in the future while put contracts offer the right to sell the shares at a given price.

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -Spanish bank BBVA plans to invest more than 100 billion pesos ($5.19 billion) in Mexico through 2030, it said in a statement on Tuesday. The investment is part of BBVA's long-term bet on the Latin American nation, the firm added. "The 100 billion pesos that we are announcing is not only an investment," BBVA chair Carlos Torres Vila said in the announcement.

Consumer confidence in the U.S. rose for the first time in five months amid optimism about trade deals and improving expectations about business conditions.

Investing.com -- OPEC has slid back into the driver’s seat of global oil markets after the oil cartel’s aggressive output hikes put the squeeze on U.S. shale growth. But with the market now bracing for oversupply through mid-2026, the cartel must now balance its appetite for market share without triggering a price rout that could backfire on its own members.

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Shares of online advertising giant Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOGL) jumped 2.7% in the afternoon session after the major indices rebounded (Nasdaq +2.0%, S&P 500 +2.0%) as President Trump postponed the planned 50% tariff on European Union imports, shifting the start date to July 9, 2025.

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(Bloomberg) -- Dip buyers in the dangerous world of long-dated Treasury debt are enjoying a rare pay day.Most Read from BloombergUAE’s AI University Aims to Become Stanford of the GulfNY Wins Order Against US Funding Freeze in Congestion FightInvestors over the past week poured $1.8 billion into BlackRock Inc.’s iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF (ticker TLT) — the most among all the 630 ETFs that Bloomberg tracks — just as longer-maturity government bonds sold off on fears over America’s debt t