Month: April 2025
Apple drops 5% after notching best day since 1998
Apple shares declined 5% Thursday, giving back some of Wednesday’s gains that pushed the iPhone maker to its best day since January 1998. The technology giant, down 15% so far this month and nearly 25% since the start of 2025, surged more than 15% Wednesday after President Donald Trump announced a 90-day pause on some […]
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Trump acknowledged he could cause a recession, but just didn’t want a depression, according to WSJ
President Donald Trump wanted to avoid sending the economy into a depression through his contentious plan for tariffs, according to The Wall Street Journal. Trump privately said he was aware that his broad and steep plan for levies unveiled last week could tip the economy into a recession, but he didn’t want a depression, according […]
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Fintech’s Affirm, Paypal sink as stocks pull back from massive tariff pause rally
Gabby Jones | Bloomberg | Getty Images Fintech’s relief rally is already losing steam. Shares of Affirm, Toast, Bill.com, PayPal and other consumer-focused fintech firms turned lower Thursday. The retreat followed a powerful bounce Wednesday after President Donald Trump announced a 90-day pause on dramatically higher import tariffs. While the administration simultaneously escalated duties on […]
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Here’s the inflation breakdown for March 2025 — in one chart
Key Points The annual consumer price index fell to 2.4% in March, down from 2.8% in February, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. President Donald Trump’s tariff agenda and the prospect of a global trade war threaten to reverse progress in coming months. Source
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Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says he believes sellers will pass increased tariff costs on to consumers
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said Thursday the company is still digesting the impact of President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs, but that its vast network of third-party sellers may “pass that cost on” to consumers. “I understand why, I mean, depending on which country you’re in, you don’t have 50% extra margin that you can play […]
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‘Buy the dip in gold’: Morgan Stanley, UBS and Deutsche Bank turn bullish on the shiny metal
Wall Street strategists have turned bullish on gold after a pullback in the precious metal’s price since U.S. President Donald Trump unveiled “reciprocal” tariffs on most countries worldwide. Morgan Stanley said gold was its “top pick” among commodities, while UBS strategists urged investors to “buy the dip in gold” and the price action in the […]
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Tesla launches in Saudi Arabia amid Chinese competition and tumbling sales
Tesla Cybertruck Courtesy: Tesla Tesla, Inc. is debuting sales in Saudi Arabia, the oil-rich kingdom whose long desert highways are home to gas-guzzling SUVs — and where there are no chargers to be found for hundreds of miles. The American electric vehicle maker is hoping that success in neighboring countries like the United Arab Emirates […]
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Stocks making the biggest moves premarket: Tesla, Stellantis, U.S. Steel, CarMax, Delta Air Lines and more
Check out the companies making headlines in premarket trading. CarMax — Shares of the used car retailer tumbled 7.7% on the heels of disappointing fiscal fourth-quarter earnings. CarMax recorded 58 cents in earnings per share, missing the consensus estimate of 65 cents earned per share from analysts polled by LSEG. U.S. Steel — Shares sank […]
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Jeremy Siegel says stocks are ‘not out of the woods’ yet due to difficult China negotiations ahead
President Donald Trump’s pause on reciprocal tariffs is not an all clear signal for investors to embrace risk assets again, according to Jeremy Siegel, professor emeritus of finance at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business. “We’re not out of the woods on the tariff,” Siegel said on CNBC’s ” Squawk Box .” “We’ll see what […]
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CNBC’s Inside India newsletter: How much leverage does India have in trade talks with the U.S.?
US President Donald Trump speaks with the press as he meets with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on Feb. 13, 2025. Jim Watson | AFP | Getty Images This report is from this week’s CNBC’s “Inside India” newsletter which brings you timely, insightful news […]
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