Wall Street closed in green despite weak quarterly results and investing caution

Wall Street The session ended with the three positive reference indices this Friday, March 21, 2025, on a wheel that remained under pressure, after Disappointing results of some quarterly around which great expectations had been created, which were not met.

In this context, the Dow Jones index of industrialists rose 0.1% to 41,985.35 points; The S&P500 won 0.1% to 5,667.56 points and the Nasdaq Composite showed 0.5% to 17,784.05 points

The Fed offers contradictory signals

The American Central Bank offered markets a brief relief this week, after keeping interest rates unchanged, as expected widely. However, The Fed authorities raised their inflation prognosis and trimmed the growth prospects by 2025.

While the Fed maintained its projections of at least 50 basic type cuts of type cuts this year, its expectations of greater inflation threw some doubts about these perspectives. The Central Bank provides inflation to remain above its 2% target this year.

The Reserve said that there is still uncertainty about the impact of Trump’s tariffs on the US economy, especially in the inflationary field.

The European Union’s decision to delay the imposition of retaliation tariff

Wall Street: lso outstanding actions of the day

In the business sector, the actions of Fedex fell 6% Since the parcel company reduced its annual provisions of benefits and income. In a statement, the financial director, John Dietrich, said that the reduction was due to the “continuous weakness and uncertainty in the US industrial economy”, which is carrying the demand for his business.

Nike’s shares lost more than 5% After an estimate of income from the fourth fiscal quarter lower than the expectations of the analysts. The company announced new falls in its income and said that Trump tariffs imposed to China and Mexico would contribute to a strong fall in their profitability. Nike imports 18% of its Nike brand footwear from China, to which Trump has applied additional tariffs of 20%.

Meanwhile Micron Technology collapsed more than 8%, Reversing the previous profits, after the provider of memory and storage solutions forecast income for the third quarter lower than Wall Street estimates.

Lennar Corporation’s shares gave more than 5% Upon knowing that the profits of the first quarter of the construction company were affected, since high financing costs and precarious consumer confidence considerably disturbed their real estate business.

The greatest increases and casualties of the wheel

Among the actions that were most appreciated appear, Tonix (+26.6%), Alnylam (+9.9%), New Fortress (+7.5%), Super Micro Computer (+7.3%) and Cytokinetics (+6.3%).

While the most resigned value found, Valmont (-12.4%), Turkcell (-9.4%), Miniso (-8.7%), Bloom Energy (-8.2%) and micron Technology (-8%.)

Commodities: Greenpeace in trouble

A popular jury ruled on Wednesday, that the Greenpeace organization You must pay hundreds of millions of dollars in damages to the company Energy Transfer (ET) “for inciting protests against the construction of a company’s pipeline that degenerated into acts of vandalism”according to the EFE agency.

“The jury declared Greenpeace responsible for defamation and other demands filed by ET, which accused him of instigating the protests of the Sioux de Standing Rock tribe in 2016 against the construction of the Dakota Access pipeline, in the north of the country, which delayed the project and raised the costs.”

The energy company, based in Dallas (Texas), claimed 300 million dollars, A figure that the environmental organization has declared that it would threaten its own existence.

The jury, composed of nine people, made its decision after two days of deliberations in a US Dakota court and a trial that has lasted almost a month.

The case has been denounced as an example of strategic demand against public participation (SLAPP), a type of civil litigation increasingly used by corporations, politicians and other powerful groups against activists, opponents.

During the protests, which took place between 2016 and 2017, thousands of people camped for months arguing that the pipeline was being built in sacred lands and that could be a danger to the water supply.

In a post on its written website before the verdict is known, Greenpeace says that, with this demand, Energy Transfer “He used the American legal system as a weapon to try to silence us at a time when our voices are more necessary.”