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Despite the noise around tariffs and inflation fears, the US economy seems to be holding its position yet. June retail sales have received is stronger than expectedand weekly requirements out of work dropped below the forecasts.
Add the hard start of the profit season, and you have a recipe for record highs: S&P 500, and NASDAQ scored fresh tops.
So, is the economy resistant before changing the Trump administration trading? Are we just in the eyes of the storm, from August 1 – Trump’s tariffs – comes on the horizon?
Remember that economic data is always a step. The real -life -impact tariffs may not appear for months, especially if businesses and consumers accumulate ahead of time and Foreign exporters reduce prices.
Even when new tariffs get, the effects can be muted at first when the stocks are clear.
However, investors can still calm down that markets are withdrawal – not just fear and assumptions.
And so to borrow the line in Starship: US economy is still built on native data … not on rock and role.
– Lim Hui Jie
What do you need to know today
Netflix Posts salary beat. Revenue for the streaming giant In the second quarter of 2025, he increased by 16%. The company has also updated the full -year revenue forecast, noting that the profit would be from $ 44.8 billion to $ 45.2 billion, which compared to the range of $ 43.5 billion to $ 44.5 billion, reflecting the weakening of the US dollar, “healthy”.
S&P and NASDAQ storm to new records. American shares rose on Thursday of -was’ wages and economical data, with S&P 500 0.54% for record closure 6 297.36 – ninth this year. Technological heavy Nasdaq Composite Extended 0.75% for its tenth closing record in 2025, which ended at 20 885.65. Pan -European Stoxx 600 purchased 0.96% after Report on earnings.
Trump strives for sunny and wind projects. Minister of Internal Affairs of the United States Doug Burgum Now will be the final word As for whether these projects may continue on lands belonging to the United States as a way of “aligning game conditions” for coal and natural gas “after a long -standing attack by Biden administration, in a message from the interior memo on Thursday.
Disfusions in Amazon continue. The company confirmed the dismissal In its cloud computing department on Thursday. The company refused to say which units within the Amazon web service were exposed, or how many employees would be released as a result of job reduction, but the AWS training and certification unit was one of the groups that could be seen according to the CNBC memo.
(Pro) American consumer pushes the fears of the recession. It seems US consumers prove economic pessimists According to a report on retail sales in June, it is incorrect if they bend their costs. But some alternative data indicate that the consumer is hanging there.
And finally …
According to Keith Malina, the head of the management and music industry, the growing prevalence of AI music has caused a stir in the music industry, Keith Molin, manager of management and music industry.
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The music created by AI goes viral. Should the music industry worry?
With more than 1 million monthly listeners on Spotify, psychedelic rock -band Velvet Sundown plunders thousands of dollars.
However, the band recently was confirmed primarily by the work of generative artificial intelligence, what was strongly suspected and the music industry asked its questions.
– Dylan Batts
