US appeals court reinstates Trump tariffs, sowing market confusion
By Stephen Culp, Rocky Swift and Ankur Banerjee
NEW YORK, May 29 (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court reinstated President Donald Trump's sweeping tariffs on Thursday, leaving Wall Street with no clear direction a day after most of the tariffs were blocked by a trade court, a move that had given markets a brief boost.
Chaotic U.S. trade policy has sent global markets on a roller coaster in recent months. Equity markets were rattled by Trump's April 2 "Liberation Day" tariff announcements, which have since been repeatedly delayed and adjusted.
Following a market revolt after the April 2 tariff shock, Trump paused most import duties for 90 days and vowed to hammer out bilateral deals with trade partners.
Markets have swung wildly through Trump's on-and-off tariff changes. The S&P 500 index .SPX is up 4.1% since duties were announced while European stocks .STOXX have gained 2.0%.
Gold XAU= is up 5.9% from April 2, and the U.S. dollar index =USD is down 4.4%. Ten-year Treasury yields US10YT=RR have climbed 23 basis points to around 4.4%.
But U.S. stocks showed little reaction to the appeals court decision, having already pulled back from the rally sparked by Wednesday's trade court ruling.
Markets have grown accustomed to the president announcing steep tariffs only to postpone them soon afterward, giving rise to the acronym TACO (Trump Always Chickens Out), coined by the Financial Times.
Asked on Wednesday by a reporter for his response to the term TACO, Trump said the question was "nasty" and in his defense of tariff changes, said: "It's called negotiation."
"Trump has already rolled back most of these tariffs anyway, so these court rulings are just headlines," said Adam Sarhan, chief executive of 50 Park Investments in New York.
"As far as I'm concerned, as long as the market doesn't tank on the news, it's just a secondary byproduct," Sarhan added.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average .DJI rose 117.03 points, or 0.28%, to 42,215.73, the S&P 500 .SPX gained 23.62 points, or 0.40%, to 5,912.17, and the Nasdaq Composite .IXIC gained 74.93 points, or 0.40%, to 19,175.87.
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