Stock Market Live August 1: New Trump Tariff Threat Tanks the S&P 500 (VOO) Today
Key Points
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President Trump announced new global tariffs on dozens of countries last night, singling out Canada for a 35% levy.
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Tech giants Amazon and Apple are doing their best to keep the market afloat this morning — but it’s not enough.
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Friday Wrap-up
The Vanguard S&P 500 ETF closed Friday at 571.45, down 1.6% for the day and down 2.4% for the week.
Colgate Looks Pearly White
Fast-Moving Consumer Goods stock (FMCG) and S&P 500 component company Colgate-Palmolive (NYSE: CL | CL Price Prediction) reported Q2 earnings of $0.92 per share, two cents better than expected. Revenue of $5.1 billion also edged out the consensus number.
Big Ben
Asset manager and S&P 500 component company Franklin Resources (NYSE: BEN) beat by a penny in its own fiscal Q3 2025 report, earning $0.49 on $2.1 billion in quarterly revenue — much better than the consensus estimate of $1.59 billion.
BEN stock is up 1.1% in response, but the Voo is still down 1.5%.
Moderna Still Sickly
In further earnings news, Covid-19 hero and S&P 500 component Moderna (Nasdaq: MRNA) reported fewer losses than anticipated this morning. Q2 “earnings” were still a loss, but of only $2.13 per share, less than the $2.98 expected. Revenue also surpassed expectations at $142 million.
Unfortunately, Moderna also guided to weaker revenue through the end of this year, just $1.5 billion to $2.2 billion, which at the midpoint is less than analysts’ forecast $2.1 billion. Moderna stock is down almost 6%, and the situation on the Voo is getting even worse — now down 2%.
This article will be updated throughout the day, so check back often for more daily updates.
President Trump tweaked his global “reciprocal tariffs” policy again last night, signing an executive order imposing tariff rates ranging from 10% (for countries with which the U.S. has a trade surplus) to 15% (for countries with which we have a trade deficit but that have signed new trade deals to fix this) to as high as 41% (for countries that haven’t signed deals yet). Countries “transshipping” goods originally produced in other, higher-rate countries, will see a 40% tariff affixed to those re-exported goods.
Canada, despite having a trade agreement in place (the USMCA treaty among the U.S., Mexico, and Canada), will face 35% tariffs on goods, not covered by the USMCA, imported from that country.
The new tariff rates go into effect on August 7. Dozens of countries will be affected, reports CNBC. And tens of millions of U.S. investors are being affected already today, as the Vanguard S&P 500 ETF (NYSEMKT: VOO) tumbles 0.8% in premarket trading.
Adding to investor dismay: This morning’s jobs report showed additions of only 73,000 in July, less than the 100,000 predicted, and indicative of an economy that’s getting slowed down by continually changing — and rising — tariff rates. Estimates of job gains in May and June were further revised lower… by a combined 258,000 jobs.
Earnings
In earnings news, two megacap S&P 500 component companies reported after hours last night.
Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN) reported Q2 profit of $1.68 per share, well ahead of the analyst forecast for $1.32. Revenue was $167.7 billion, crushing the forecast of $162 billion. Amazon further forecast that Q3 sales will range from $174 billion to $179.5 billion, again ahead of expectations.
Amazon stock is nonetheless down more than 7% premarket.
Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) also reported last night, for its own fiscal Q3 2025. Earnings of $1.57 per share beat the analyst forecast by 15 cents. Revenue of $94 billion was nearly $5 billion better than expected. Apple, it seems, isn’t suffering from the tariffs turmoil at all.
Apple stock is up almost 2% in premarket trading.
Finally (for now), S&P 500 component Chevron (NYSE: CVX) reported a $1.77 per share profit for its Q2 this morning, two cents better than expected. Revenue of $44.8 billion, however, fell short of forecasts.
Joel South covers large-cap stocks, dividend investing, and major market trends, with a focus on earnings analysis, valuation, and turning complex data into actionable insights for investors.
He brings more than 15 years of experience as an investor and financial journalist, including 12 years at The Motley Fool, where he served as an investment analyst, Bureau Chief, and later led the Fool.com investing news desk. He has also co-hosted an investing podcast and appeared across TV and radio discussing market trends.
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