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Stocks rose in early 2025, even as fears over tariffs, rates and China’s surprise AI win took turns rattling investors.
Some of the hardest hit Canadian stocks are bouncing back from Monday's selloff following the country's 30-day tariff-truce with
Hedge funds are hitting the exits of the orange juice trade, sending futures prices for the breakfast staple tumbling more than 40% from December's record high. Frozen concentrate orange juice futures were one of the hottest trades of the past three years, taking off in 2022 over worries about [the
Gold prices wrapped up their worst week since right after the November U.S. election, when traders who had piled into the precious metal moved money back into riskier assets. Gold futures started this week at a record high following eight weeks of gains and looking like the price might reach $3,000
Metals prices ended higher Monday ahead of Trump's promised 25% tariffs on imports from Canada and Mexico, which are big suppliers to the U.S. After [slumping last week](https://www.wsj/livecoverage/stock-market-today-inflation-dow-sp500-nasdaq-02-28-2025/card/gold-s-weekly-winning-streak-end
Investors are betting that lumber producer Weyerhaeuser will benefit from 25% tariffs placed on its competition from Canada, bidding up the Seattle firm's shares amid a broad selloff. The idea is that Weyerhaeuser—which owns 10.4 million acres of [timberland in the U.S.](https://www.wsj/science
The slide in oil prices accelerated Wednesday after U.S. energy data showed that domestic crude inventories rose by more last week than traders had expected. Benchmark U.S. crude prices have shed about 17% since mid-January, when they reached about $80 a barrel. Since then fears of an economic slow
Canfor, one of North America's largest lumber producers, said its shipments from Canadian sawmills into the U.S. have been exempted from Trump's 25% tariffs until April. Trump's decision Thursday to suspend for one month the 25% tariffs he placed on some Mexican and Canadian goods last week, with caveats related to the country's complicated 2020 trade pact, sent companies like Canfor racing to their lawyers and customs brokers to see if their own exports are included in the pause. "All of their indications are that we will and we are not being charged 25% by our customs brokers at this point," CEO Susan Yurkovich told investors late Friday morning.
Southern yellow pine futures will begin trading later this month as prices split from those of Canadian lumber.
Shares of steel and aluminum companies outperformed broader stock benchmarks Tuesday after President Trump said in a social media post that he would boost the planned 25% tariff on Canadian imports of the metals to 50% in the escalating trade war between the countries. A 25% tariff on steel and aluminum shipped over the border from Canada was to take effect tomorrow, but today Trump said the levy would be 50% in response to Ontario's decision to put a 25% surcharge on electricity that is exported to the U.S. That in turn was in retaliation to Trump's pledge to impose broad 25% tariffs on Canadian and Mexican goods. U.S. Steel, target of a blocked takeover bid by Japanese rival Nippon Steel, got the biggest lift Tuesday, gaining about 4%.
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