NEW YORK (AP) 鈥� Wall Street kept calm Friday after the , which had when announced last year, and stocks ticked higher.
The S&P 500 rose 0.7%. It had been flipping between small gains and losses before the court鈥檚 ruling, following discouraging reports showing and .
The Dow Jones Industrial Average added 230 points, or 0.5%, and the Nasdaq composite rose 0.9%.
Many on Wall Street were likely expecting such a ruling from the Supreme Court, according to Brian Jacobsen, chief economic strategist at Annex Wealth Management. That likely led to the relatively muted reactions across financial markets, and trading remained tentative as investors tried to suss out the long-term effects.
, even with the Supreme Court鈥檚 ruling. Trump in the afternoon said he would use other avenues to put taxes on imports from other countries after calling the court鈥檚 decision terrible.
鈥淛ust so you understand, we have tariffs, we just have them in a different way,鈥� Trump told reporters in an afternoon briefing. He said he would sign an executive order to impose a 10% global tariff under a law that could limit it to 150 days. The president also said he鈥檚 exploring other tariffs through other avenues, ones that would require an investigation through the Commerce Department.
鈥淒uring that period of about five months, we are doing the various investigations necessary to put fair tariffs 鈥� or tariffs, period 鈥� on other countries,鈥� Trump said.
Earlier in his comments, Trump said that the Supreme Court鈥檚 ruling had other countries 鈥渄ancing in the streets, but they won鈥檛 be dancing for long.鈥�
Among the tentative moves across markets, Treasury yields edged a bit higher in the bond market.
If investors thought the tariff ruling would improve inflation significantly, it could have sent yields lower. On the other hand, if investors were worried about the U.S. government鈥檚 debt rising faster in the future because of the loss of revenue from tariffs, long-term yields could have jumped. For now, at least, yields held relatively steady.
The stock price of Ralph Lauren, meanwhile, rushed from an early loss to a gain of 3.3% after investors learned of the Supreme Court鈥檚 ruling. But it quickly flipped back to a loss before finishing with a rise of 2.2%. During April last year, the stock had dropped nearly 23% in four days after Trump announced his tariffs because of worries about how they would hurt its profits.
In other markets, gold鈥檚 price slumped briefly after the ruling and then erased the loss. Stock indexes in Europe added to their gains from earlier in the day, while the U.S. dollar鈥檚 value edged down against other currencies.
Heading into the day, the main event for markets had seemed to be discouraging reports showing slowing U.S. economic growth and accelerating inflation. They found a relatively muted response from investors.
While the reports underscore the tricky situation the Federal Reserve faces as it sets interest rates, they did not change traders鈥� expectations much for what the Fed will ultimately do. Traders are still betting that the Fed will lower rates at least twice this year, according to data from CME Group. Some shifted bets for the timing of when the cuts could begin to slightly later in the summer.
Lower interest rates would give the economy and investment prices a boost, but they also risk worsening inflation. Fed officials said at their last meeting that they want to see before they would support cutting rates further.
The yield on the 10-year Treasury remained at 4.08%, where it was late Thursday. The two-year yield, which more closely tracks expectations for Fed action, inched up to 3.48% from 3.47%.
On Wall Street, Akamai Technologies dropped 14.1% for one of the market鈥檚 sharpest losses. The cybersecurity and cloud computing company reported stronger results for the end of 2025 than analysts expected, but it gave a profit forecast for the upcoming year that fell short of estimates.
Akamai plans to spend a bigger percentage of its revenue this upcoming year on equipment and other investments. It鈥檚 the latest potential indicator of how shortages of computer memory created by the AI boom are affecting customers throughout the economy.
On the winning side of the market was Comfort Systems, which rose 6.5% after the provider of heating, ventilation, air conditioning and electrical services reported a stronger profit for the latest quarter than analysts expected. CEO Brian Lane said his company is seeing 鈥渦nprecedented demand.鈥�
Al told, the S&P 500 rose 47.62 points to 6,909.51. The Dow Jones Industrial Average added 230.81 to 49,625.97, and the Nasdaq composite rose 203.34 to 22,886.07.
In stock markets abroad, indexes rose in Europe following a more mixed finish in Asia.
The Hang Seng fell 1.1%, but South Korea鈥檚 Kospi jumped 2.3% to a record, led by major defense contractors like Hanwha Aerospace. The company is one of many benefiting from a ramp up in military spending in many countries.
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AP Writers Matt Ott, Elaine Kurtenbach and Seung Min Kim contributed.
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