Wall Street registered profits in January, a month marked by the start of President Donald Trump’s second mandate, which has been well received by the markets, despite uncertainty for their fiancious tariffs and by the irruption of Chinese competition in the field of Artificial intelligence (AI).
The Dow Jones de Industriales won 4.7% in the month, the S&P 500 2.6% and the Nasdaq 1.5%, figures that do not usually surprise due to the so -called ‘Effect January’, as the market usually starts the year with good foot, But that if certain percentages are exceeded, as in the case of the Dow, they are usually a good omen.
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Trump’s return to the White Hol investors for their possible inflationary effects and tensions that can entail.
In the corporate level, more than a third of the companies of the S&P 500 have published their quarterly results and the vast majority have exceeded the estimates, especially in the sectors of technology, communications and finance, highlights the FACTSECT analysis firm today in a note.
The technology sector, and especially the leaders in the development of AI, have been in the focus, first by the ‘Stargate’ project announced by Trump, with a strong investment to build data centers, and then because of the unexpected appearance of the Deepseek Chinese application, which shook the bags in the US.
Deepseek, highlighted for its open source and low costs, left a ‘black Monday’ this week, especially for the Nvidia chips manufacturer, which suffered the greatest absolute stock loss in a day in the history of the bag, almost 600,000 million Dollars, although he recovered some land in the following days.
Meanwhile, the Federal Reserve decided The economy remains strong and “you don’t have to hurry.”
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In the debt market, the 10 -year treasure bonus yield, reference, ends the month around 4.54%, just as it began, after shooting about 4.8% when knowing slightly higher inflation data than the previous month, but not as high as it was feared, that affected the expectations about the Fed.
Other assets that have had movement this month have been gold, which a record of $ 2,800, and the bitcóin, which has revalued 10% and is around 102,000 dollars.
Texas oil closes January with a rise of 1.1%, up to $ 72.53, pending whether EU tariff of Trump to the group lowering prices.
With EFE information
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