Morgans AM - Tuesday, 14 October 2025

US equity markets rebounded after President Trump appeared to soften his initial hardline on China that saw him say last Friday (10 October) that he was weighing a "massive increase" in tariffs, and with investors eying the unofficial beginning of the third quarter earnings season tonight AEST - Dow rose +588-points or +1.29%, clawing back ~67% of last Friday’s (10 October) decline. Nike Inc rebounded +3.31% (after dropping -4.17% in the previous session) to be the leading performer in the 30-stock index, while Goldman Sachs Group Inc and Salesforce Inc both gained +2.93% and were among nine Dow components that gained over >2%. JPMorgan Chase & Co rose +2.35% after the world's biggest bank said it was planning to pump US$1.5 trillion dollars over 10 years into industries seen as critical to U.S. national interests under a programme called the Security and Resiliency Initiative. The plan will focus on four key areas: Supply Chain and Manufacturing; Defence and Aerospace; Energy Independence and Resilience; and Frontier and Strategic Technologies.