{"id":296057,"date":"2025-05-12T22:10:40","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T22:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/12\/dow-skyrockets-1100-points-a-s-u-s-and-china-slash-tariffs-btc-falls\/"},"modified":"2025-05-12T22:10:40","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T22:10:40","slug":"dow-skyrockets-1100-points-a-s-u-s-and-china-slash-tariffs-btc-falls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/12\/dow-skyrockets-1100-points-a-s-u-s-and-china-slash-tariffs-btc-falls\/","title":{"rendered":"Dow skyrockets 1,100 points a.s U.S. and China slash tariffs, BTC falls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/crypto.news\/app\/uploads\/2024\/10\/crypto-news-The-impact-of-macroeconomic-risks-on-capital-markets-option01.webp\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"is-style-lead\">The Dow Jones Industrial Average surged more than 1,100 points on Monday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The S&amp;P 500 also jumped 3.25%, the Nasdaq Composite surged nearly 4.34%, and the Russell 2000 rose 3.56%. Tech and retail stocks, many of which arebeen heavily exposed to China, led the rally.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Tesla gained 7%, Apple rose 6%, and Amazon jumped 8%. Dell and Best Buy also posted strong gains.<\/p>\n<p>Following high-stakes negotiations over the weekend in Geneva, U.S. tariffs on Chinese goods were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/china\/us-china-reach-deal-slash-tariffs-officials-say-2025-05-12\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lowered<\/a> to 30% from recent highs of 145%, while Beijing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/world\/asia\/tariffs-china-trump-agree-slash-levies-duties-business-markets-bessent-rcna206193\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cut<\/a> its retaliatory tariffs on U.S. imports to 10%.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SecScottBessent\/status\/1921184469639151854\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">called<\/a> the talks \u201cvery productive,\u201d and said a new round of discussions could take place within weeks.<\/p>\n<p>President Trump hailed the deal as a \u201ctotal reset\u201d of U.S.-China trade relations, noting that a separate 20% tariff related to fentanyl enforcement would remain in place.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Markets, which had been rattled since Trump\u2019s \u201cLiberation Day\u201d tariff escalation in April, reacted positively. The Dow is now down just 0.32% or 134 points since the start of 2025 while the Nasdaq is still down more than 3%.<\/p>\n<p>The tariff rollback will remain in effect for 90 days as both sides pursue a more comprehensive agreement. The U.S. Treasury said it collected $7.6 billion more in duties last month, underscoring the scale of the trade disruption.<\/p>\n<p>    <!-- .cn-block-related-link --><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Bitcoin retreats after Truce, falls below $102,000<\/h2>\n<p>Bitcoin (<a href=\"https:\/\/crypto.news\/price\/bitcoin\/\">BTC<\/a>) fell 2.75% to $100,771 as of Monday afternoon, pulling back from nearly $106,000 reached earlier in the day.\u00a0Bitcoin is currently trading near $101,900. <\/p>\n<p>The drop followed news of the aforementioned temporary 90-day U.S.-China tariff suspension, which eased macro uncertainty but led traders to \u201csell the news\u201d after a month-long rally from April\u2019s lows under $75,000.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The decline suggests Bitcoin\u2019s recent outperformance may cool as broader markets like equities catch up.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    <!-- .cn-block-related-link --><\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/crypto.news\/dow-skyrockets-1100-points-a-s-u-s-and-china-slash-tariffs-btc-falls\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dow Jones Industrial Average surged more than 1,100 points on Monday.\u00a0 The S&amp;P 500 also jumped 3.25%, the Nasdaq Composite surged nearly 4.34%, and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":296058,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[163],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-296057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crypto"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}