Huge swaths of investors disagree over the growth rates of corporate earnings and the economy. Yet the primary barometer of stock and options volatility, the Cboe Volatility Index, is acting like everything is fine.

With the tariffs set to kick in now on Aug. 1, the latest move by the White House amounts to essentially a four-week extension of its previous 90-day pause, wrote Tobin Marcus, an analyst at Wolfe Research.

Markets had dismissed tariff risks under the assumption that Trump would follow an earlier pattern and back off, in what became known as the so-called TACO trade. That allowed stocks to reach new record-high territory recently, marking a stunning rebound from the collapse triggered by his “Liberation Day” reciprocal tariffs in April.

Wall Street is mixed in quiet trading as markets appeared to shrug off a new U.S. tariff deadline for trading partners.

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US inflation heated back up in June, rising to its highest level in four months, as price increases — including those from tariffs — packed a bigger punch.