Wall Street sifted through a rush of earnings reports and economic data, while a much-needed tariff reprieve for automakers helped lift stocks.

Global stocks mostly rose despite fresh signs of a tariff hit to corporate earnings, while Wall Street cheered President Donald Trump's moves to soften the levies hitting automakers.

The US stock market just recorded its worst first 100 days of any presidential term since President Gerald Ford assumed office in 1974.

U.S. stocks closed out Donald Trump’s first 100 days back in the Oval Office on a sour note, with the president’s trade policies taking the blame for derailing a thriving market and stoking fears the world’s largest economy could slip toward recession.