U.S. small-cap companies were quietly leading the market on Wednesday afternoon, as the three major stock indexes were mostly treading water after President Donald Trump said it is "highly unlikely" that he'll fire Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell.

US stock market rises as Dow Jones Industrial Average rose slightly on Wednesday, gaining 88 points (0.3%) as investors reacted to better-than-expected bank earnings from Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley,

Inflation rose in June while wages went down, driving down buying power for consumers across the economy, federal data show.

Coffee prices on the futures market rallied since President Donald Trump's threat last week to impose a 50% tariff on Brazil, a major coffee exporter, starting Aug. 1. That's a big worry for [consumers who already saw a 2.

The Dow Jones index wavered Tuesday after the CPI inflation report. Nvidia stock surged on AI chip sales to China.

The slouch was slight compared to the market reaction to Trump’s initial “Liberation Day” announcement of “reciprocal” tariffs on April 2.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said that Trump’s threat of 30% tariffs on goods from the European Union would hit the German export industry “to the core,” and vowed to work toward a solution.

After Wall Street previously downplayed risks from President Donald Trump's trade war, investors are starting to take his tariff threats more seriously.