Trump’s tariff restriction sends markets higher

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Stocks on Wall Street advanced on Tuesday as investors assessed that Trump’s comments and first-day actions on international trade were a little softer than initially believed. The president stopped short of authorizing new taxes on his first day back in the Oval Office, sending the Dow Jones Industrial Average up more than 500 points, or 1.24%. He S&P 500 gained 0.88%, and the Nasdaq Composite rose 0.64%. In Europe, the pan-European system Stoxx 600 closed around 0.4% higher.

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Although he announced that he was “considering” 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico, as well as a 10% tariff on China. For reference, the 47th president had threatened to impose a 10% to 20% global tariff and a massive 60% tariff on China during the election campaign.

Investors seem to have taken Trump’s first day well, and major US benchmarks rose on Tuesday.

“President Trump’s Inauguration Day tariff policy announcements were more benign than expected,” Alec Phillips, Goldman Sachs’ chief U.S. political economist, said in a note to clients. “For now, it’s a lower priority than we would have hoped.”

China, for its part, has tried to dissuade Trump over the tariffs. with Vice Premier Ding Xuexiang saying at the World Economic Forum in Davos that “protectionism leads nowhere. (A) trade war has no winners.”

Ding referenced Chinese President Xi Jinping’s 2017 speech: “Pursuing protectionism is like locking yourself in a dark room. Wind and rain can be kept out, but so can light and air.”

Tariffs could put a dent in Trump’s argument for a “golden age” for the US. Last year, Morgan Stanley’s chief economist warned that tariffs would “greatly” reduce US growth in 2026.

You could say that with Trump, the tariffs will potentially be himself sowing wind and reaping whirlwinds.

—CNBC’s Alex Harring, Brian Evans, Evelyn Cheng and Lee Ying Shan contributed to this report.