Who will earn the gold medal for earnings so far this week?

Molly Fool Money starts now.

I'm Travis Hoym, joined by longtime fools, Lou the Legend Whiteman and Matt the

Reit whisperer Frankl. Today we're going to get to earnings from General Motors, Intuitive

Surgical, and End Phase Energy, and rate them gold, silver, and bronze. But first, let's

talk a little bit about tariffs. We found out late yesterday

that the U.S. and Japan have struck a deal that will lower the rate of tariffs from products

coming from Japan from 25% to 15%. Japan is also going to invest $550 billion in government-affiliated

institutions to, quote, build resilient supply chains in key sectors

like pharmaceuticals and semiconductors.

Lou, I'm going to give you today's softball.

Is this a massive change to global trade or a nothing burger?

So it isn't a nothing burger.

Japan is our fifth largest trading partner.

So this is an important deal to get done. And also,

historically, this has been a market that has been somewhat closed to outsiders. So to the extent

that whatever this agreement is, they can open up the market for U.S. exporters, that could be

significant. But yeah, let's be honest. This is one step in a very long process.

Japan, if anything, looks like an easier negotiation than some when we started.

So incrementally positive, but we're not, we still have a long way to go.

Matt, I want to take this back to manufacturing, in particular some of the auto companies in the U.S.,

which we'll talk about GM in a moment, but how does this impact companies like Toyota and Honda particular some of the auto companies in the U.S., which we'll talk about

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