Wall St Week Ahead: Tariffs, Fed, tech results in focus


Investors will watch the Federal Reserve's monetary policy meeting, the monthly US employment report and earnings reports from megacap companies Apple, Microsoft and Amazon. — Reuters

NEW YORK: A looming US deadline for more severe global tariffs is among a barrage of upcoming events threatening to disrupt an increasingly calm US stock market that has set a string of all-time highs.

President Donald Trump has extended a deadline to August 1 for when higher levies will take effect on an array of trading partners unless deals are struck. That could boost market volatility heading into next Friday.

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