US stocks churned as traders poured through the latest batch of
earnings reports while trying to gauge the impact of US President Donald Trump’s tariff offensive and invectives directed at the head of the
central bank. The
Dow Jones index fell 1.3%, while
S&P 500 gained 0.2%, and the
Nasdaq lost 0.2% intraday. Focus will be on tariff negotiation talks with dozens of countries over the coming weeks.