U.S. President Donald Trump's administration granted exclusions from steep tariffs on smartphones, computers and some other electronics imported largely from China, providing a big break to tech firms like Apple that rely on imported products.
The pause on duties on goods from smartphones to laptop computers and memory chips offers a temporary reprieve for markets ravaged by Trump’s fast-evolving trade policy. Volatility shows little signs of easing after the president signaled separate duties on consumer electronics and microchips are being planned.
Big tech stocks jumped in overnight trading. Dell and HP rose 9%; Apple rose 7%; Micron rose 5%; TSMC, Super Micro, and Nvidia rose 4%; AMD and Palantir rose 3%; Intel, Tesla, and Broadcom rose 2%.
Chinese ADRs gained in overnight trading. YINN rose 3%; iQiyi rose 5%; XPeng rose 4%; NIO and Bilibili rose 3%; JD.com, Li Auto, Alibaba, and Baidu rose 2%; PDD Holdings and Tencent Music rose 1%.
Crypto stocks also jumped in overnight trading. Hut 8 and TeraWulf rose 5%; Bitfarms, Strategy, Canaan, and CleanSpark rose 3%; Coinbase, Riot Platforms, and MARA Holdings rose 2%.
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