By Caroline Valetkevitch

New York (Reuters) – The New York Stock Exchange ended up on Thursday, after a volatile session, after the publication of the quarterly results of several technological giants, investors having been reassured by optimistic comments from Tesla but Disappointed by Microsoft’s forecasts.

The Dow Jones index won 0.38%, or 168.61 points, at 44,882.13 points.

The wider S&P-500 took 31.86 points, or 0.53%, to 6,071.17 points.

The Nasdaq Composite advanced 49.43 points (0.25%) at 19,681.75 points.

The main Wall Street clues marked a final withdrawal movement after US President Donald Trump reiterated his threat of imminent surcharge on oil imports from Mexico and Canada. A decision should be made on Thursday evening, said the tenant of the White House, for an entry into force on Saturday.

The concerns about Donald Trump’s trade policy, which has repeatedly expressed the possibility of establishing a universal customs tax, maintain under tension investors, for the impact that these measures could have on the American economy and on inflation.

“As long as we do not know what commercial and financial policies will be in force, it will be very difficult for the market to register in a sustainable trajectory,” said Oliver Pursche, vice-president of Wealthspire Advisors, in Connecticut.

Apart from technologies, all major sectors of the S & P-500 have finished the session in the green. Communication and finance services have reached closing records.

Tesla increased by 2.9%, greatly contributing to the gains of the day of the S & P-500 day, after promising to launch in the first half of a new long-awaited range of less expensive vehicles. This announcement relegated to the background of the quarterly results lower than expectations.

Meta, who also communicated her results on Wednesday after-closing on Wednesday, took 1.6% for exceeding expectations over the period October-December, even if the group was cautious in its forecasts for the current quarter. On the other hand, Microsoft fell 6.2% following a disappointing growth forecast for its dematerialized computer activities (“Cloud”).

The patterns of Meta and Microsoft defended during the publication of the results the massive investments of the two groups in artificial intelligence (AI), comments scrutinized by investors while the Chinese startup Deepseek unveiled on Monday an AI model at low cost presented as equal if not higher than its American rivals.

Apple published its results after the fence.

The Fed was not surprised on Wednesday left its interest rates unchanged. The American central bank also revised its rhetoric concerning inflation, not noting that it was weakening, as it had mentioned during its previous monetary policy press release. Also note, among the values, IBM jumped 13% after having exceeded quarterly expectations. This is its most important percentage of increases on a session since 1999. United Bâl Service dropped by 14.1% for disappointing annual forecasts.

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