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Signs of Trade Deal Hope Fuels Markets
AFRMAffirm(AFRM) ZACKS·2025-05-09 07:35

Thursday, May 8, 2025Markets rose today on hopeful sentiment regarding trade deals with U.S. partners, after an agreement with the UK that kept the baseline +10% tariff in place. The UK is far from the U.S.’s top trading partner, but the hope is that other deals will be coming down the pike in the coming days and weeks. The 90-day tariff suspension ends (at this point) on July 10th of this year.Whether more deals do land or they don’t, the Dow gained +254 points today, +0.62% (although it had been up +655 p ...