Market uncertainty should “peak” around the Wednesday tariff deadline, according to Evercore ISI.
In a note this week, Julian Emanuel wrote investors should resist tariff angst and accumulate stocks.
“All you need is a little less uncertainty,” the firm’s senior managing director said Monday on CNBC’s “Fast Money.”
Emanuel compares the market pessimism to the March 2023 regional bank failures.
“The mood this morning and over the weekend talking with clients and talking with colleagues is as negative as I can remember going back to when Silicon Valley Bank blew up,” he said. “We didn’t know the Fed was going to ‘take care of business.'”
They were the S&P 500’s worst performing sectors of the month and quarter. But at these levels, according to Emanuel, companies will want to do stock buybacks which would help boost prices.
Meanwhile, he would avoid the recent leaders.
“What’s interesting about today is that everyone basically moved their sectors in the direction of how the entire quarter was going,” Emanuel said. “You saw consumer staples outperform. You saw health care very strong. In our view, those are probably the places where defense has been hiding.”
Health care gained 6% in the first quarter while consumer staples gained about 5%.
Emanuel thinks the market will regain its footing. His S&P 500 year-end price target is 6,800, which implies a 21% gain from Monday’s close.
“We don’t think you need a material clarity,” he said. “You need… the very, very extreme scenarios [tied to tariffs] becoming less possible.”
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SpaceX CEO Elon Musk attends a cabinet meeting held by U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House on March 24, 2025.
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The broad public and investors have something in common these days: They don’t have a lot of love for either Tesla or CEO Elon Musk.
Tesla’s stock has undergone a withering sell-off, and the CNBC All-America Economic survey finds more than 47% of the public have a negative view of the company. Another 27% are positive on the electric vehicle maker, while 24% are neutral. That compares with a third of the public who have a positive view of General Motors with 51% neutral and 10% negative.
Tesla has been under pressure with concern that its founder’s controversial political activities in cutting government employment and backing President Donald Trump and Republicans could be alienating prospective buyers. Protests have sprung up across the nation at Tesla offices.
The survey found Musk to be a highly polarizing figure. Half of the public has a negative view of Musk, compared with 36% who see him positively and 16% who are neutral. Among Democrats, Musk’s net approval (positive minus negative) is -82 and -49 for independents. GOP respondents are +56.
The biggest problem for Tesla may be that many groups who are potential customers are far more positive about electric vehicles than they are about the company.
“Where Tesla is strongest is among the people least likely to buy an EV,” said Micah Roberts, partner at Public Opinion Strategies, the Republican pollster for the survey.
Overall, 35% of Americans are negative on EVs and 33% are positive. Men, however, are +11 in net approval of EVs but evenly divided on Tesla. Young people aged 18-34 are +19 on EV’s but -23 on Tesla. The gap is most stark among Democrats, who are +20 on EV’s but -74 on Tesla.
Further complicating the issue: Republicans are strongly positive on Tesla, but net negative on EV’s.
The survey of 1,000 people nationwide was conducted April 9 through April 13 and has a margin of error of +/-3.1%.
Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading. 3M — The manufacturing conglomerate jumped 8% on a first-quarter earnings beat. 3M earned an adjusted $1.88 per share on $5.78 billion of revenue, topping the LSEG consensus forecasts of $1.77 per share and $5.76 billion in revenue. RTX — The defense name sank 9%. Despite posting better-than-expected earnings for the first quarter, management’s comments to analysts about the expected impacts of tariffs rattled investors. CoreWeave – Shares of the artificial intelligence cloud company jumped more than 7% after a number of analysts initiated coverage of the stock with a buy or overweight equivalent rating. Jefferies analyst Brent Thill, for instance, said the company is “positioned well” to capture the opportunity presented by the “very early innings” buildout for AI. Northrop Grumman — Shares of the defense firm dove 13% after the company cut its full-year guidance for earnings per share. Northrop sees earnings per share between $24.95 and $25.35, down from a previous range of $27.85 to $28.25. Halliburton – The oilfield services company’s stock tumbled as much as 9.8% after Halliburton said President Donald Trump’s tariffs would impact its second-quarter earnings per share by 2 cents to 3 cents. CEO Jeffrey Miller said North American customers are evaluating their plans for 2025 as U.S. crude prices have declined. Shares were last down 5.2% Hertz — Trading in the rental car company remained volatile with the stock rising more than 15%. Shares have more than doubled since Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square revealed a 19.8% stake in Hertz with outright share ownership and total return swaps. Ackman said Hertz “uniquely well-positioned” in Trump’s tariff regime as auto duties are likely to cause used car prices to rise. BOK Financial — Shares fell 1.8% after earnings per share for the first quarter missed Wall Street expectations. The bank earned $1.86 per share, while the consensus estimate of analysts polled by FactSet came in at $1.99 per share. Zions Bancorporation — Shares of the bank ticked 1.4% lower on the heels of softer-earnings per share than anticipated, per FactSet. Zions earned $1.13 per share for the first quarter, under the consensus forecast of $1.18 a share. Calix — The technology services company surged 12% after posting strong earnings and optimistic guidance. Calix earned 19 cents per share, excluding items, on $220.2 million in revenue. Analysts polled by FactSet had penciled in 13 cents earned per share and revenue at $207.1 million. Medpace Holdings — Shares of the clinical research organization slid 4.9% after announcing new net business awards at $500 million for the first quarter That marks a nearly 19% decrease from the same period a year earlier. GE Aerospace — Shares gained 5% following the release of GE Aerospace’s first-quarter financial results. Adjusted earnings came in at $1.49 per share, beating the $1.27 per share anticipated by analysts polled by LSEG. However, revenue came in slightly below expectations. Verra Mobility — The travel technology stock popped 4.7% on the heels of Baird’s upgrade to outperform from neutral. Baird said the company has a “very strong” moat. Sportradar – Shares of the sports data stock rallied 9% on the back of Bank of America’s double upgrade to buy from underperform. The bank said Sportradar can benefit from the rise of online sports betting. — CNBC’s Sarah Min, Michelle Fox, Sean Conlon, Spencer Kimball and Yun Li contributed reporting
Climate activist hold a protest at the Charging Bull statue in Bowling Green near the New York Stock Exchange on April 22, 2025 in New York City.
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Wall Street’s iconic “Charging Bull” statue on Tuesday was vandalized by a group of environmental activists who sprayed the bronze sculpture with neon green paint.
The group, called Extinction Rebellion, painted the words “Greed=Death” on the body of the bull, the symbol of a surging stock market that’s located in Bowling Green park near the New York Stock Exchange. Tuesday marks the 56th annual “Earth Day,” first observed in 1970.
“Good morning from the resistance. We came to Wall Street to call out the bulls—,” the activist group said on X. “Bulls— told by the 1% who gamble with our futures. Bulls– to bailouts for those who wrecked our economy.”
One protester, who climbed up and sat on the neck of the bull, was told to dismount by a New York City police officer.
The sculpture, made by Arturo DiModica, a Sicilian immigrant to New York, was originally installed in front of the stock exchange in 1989, but was later moved a couple of blocks south to its current location, according to the city’s Department of Parks and Recreation.
Climate activist hold a protest at the Charging Bull statue in Bowling Green near the New York Stock Exchange on April 22, 2025 in New York City.
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Climate activist hold a protest at the Charging Bull statue in Bowling Green near the New York Stock Exchange on April 22, 2025 in New York City.
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Climate activist hold a protest at the Charging Bull statue in Bowling Green near the New York Stock Exchange on April 22, 2025 in New York City.