Wall Street Stalls as Traders Hold Breath for Trade Deal Crumbs and Mag7 Earnings Theater
US equities tap the brakes—because nothing gets the market’s heart racing like waiting for bureaucrats to agree on tariff fine print and FAANG+ stocks to justify their valuations.
Meanwhile, institutional investors perform their favorite ritual: pretending this earnings season will ’provide clarity’ before inevitably reacting to whichever CFO coughs sideways during a conference call.
Bonus cynicism: At least the algo traders are having fun with all this volatility—someone’s gotta profit from the indecision.