US stocks pulled back on Wednesday as investors weighed a flare-up in US-China tensions over chips and assessed Target (TGT)-highlighted retail earnings for insight into the economic impact of President Trump's tariffs.

Baidu, Inc. reported strong Q1 results, but soft advertising revenue weighed on stock performance. Click here to find out why BIDU stock is a Hold.

Shares of Ross Stores are on track to open lower after the company withdrew its full-year outlook, citing tariff uncertainty from its reliance on Chinese imports. The stock was down 12% at $134.63 in premarket trading. When the market closed Wednesday, shares were up slightly from where they started the year.

President Donald Trump threw up a social media post announcing a new trade bombshell that instantly cratered stock futures Friday morning.

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Despite steep tariffs, the Chinese carmaker leapfrogged Tesla in April, in what an analyst called a “watershed moment” for the continent’s auto market.

The stock markets are soaring, but will President Donald Trump also enjoy a political payoff in public opinion polling in the wake of a tariff truce with China?

Stock market futures in the U.S. surged on Monday as the U.S. and China agreed to temporarily de-escalate their trade war.

Tesla's addition of Chipotle president Jack Hartung to its board of directors helped boost the stock last week. Hartung could aid the board in its quest to explore “alternative ways” to compensate CEO Elon Musk after a Delaware judge invalidated his $56 billion pay package.

Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. Ltd., or CATL, controls more than a third of the global market for EV batteries and is seeking to expand overseas even as it faces political obstacles in the United States.