US stocks flounder

US stocks churned as traders poured through the latest batch of earnings reports while trying to gauge the impact of US President Donald Trump’s tariff offensive and invectives directed at the head of the central bank. The Dow Jones index fell 1.3%, while S&P 500 gained 0.2%, and the Nasdaq lost 0.2% intraday. Focus will be on tariff negotiation talks with dozens of countries over the coming weeks.