US President Donald Trump's move to impose tariffs on steel and aluminium imports has rippled through financial markets, but stocks appear to be shrugging off the potential for a broader global trade war, according to Goldman Sachs strategists.
As Trump's tariff plans to levy steel imports at 25 percent and aluminium at 10 percent have come to light in recent weeks, shares of companies that will face higher costs because of those tariffs have underperformed. But other sections of the economy that could be vulnerable to retaliation from US trading partners have held up, according to Goldman, even as the bank's economists believe such retaliation is likely.
Shares of agriculture firms, luxury consumer companies and tech companies with high imported cost of goods sold "have generally demonstrated no signs of concern," the strategists wrote. "Although equity prices have moved in reaction to the proposed metals tariffs, investors do not appear concerned about escalating trade conflict," Goldman said in a research note.
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