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United Airlines, Microchip Technology lead the stocks posting 20%-plus reversals on Trump tariff pause
United Airlines planes land and prepare to take off at Newark Liberty International Airport in Newark, New Jersey, on Jan. 27, 2025. Fabrizio Bensch | Reuters Stocks with the largest percentage reversals Wednesday Symbol Name RBICS Economy Previous close Intraday Low Current price Chg at low % chg low to curr. UAL United Airlines Holdings, […]
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Stock market posts third biggest gain in post-WWII history on Trump’s tariff about-face
Trader work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange. Brendan McDermid | Reuters Wednesday’s jaw-dropping stock-market rally on President Donald Trump’s surprising tariff reversal is one for the history books. The S&P 500 skyrocketed 9.52% in a kneejerk reaction to Trump’s announcement to put a 90-day pause on some of the lofty ‘reciprocal’ […]
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Trump’s morning ‘buy’ call nets huge returns for those who listened
President Donald Trump Saul Loeb | AFP | Getty Images Investors who followed President Donald Trump’s blunt advice to buy stocks on Wednesday morning received a windfall when the president hours later rolled back some of his market-ruining tariffs. At 9:37 a.m. ET, just minutes after the opening bell, Trump posted on Truth Social that […]
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Bill Ackman praises Trump’s tariff pause: ‘Thank you on behalf of all Americans’
Bill Ackman, CEO of Pershing Square Capital Management, speaks during an interview for an episode of “The David Rubenstein Show: Peer-to-Peer Conversations” in New York on Nov. 28, 2023. Jeenah Moon | Bloomberg | Getty Images Hedge fund mogul Bill Ackman let out a sigh of relief after President Donald Trump temporarily dropped some of […]
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Bitcoin surges more than 7% in broad market relief rally as Trump pauses some tariffs
Jakub Porzycki | Nurphoto | Getty Images Bitcoin spiked on Wednesday afternoon after President Donald Trump said on social media that he authorized a 90-day pause on tariffs. The price of the flagship cryptocurrency was last higher by more than 7% at $82,350.37, according to Coin Metrics. Earlier, it fell as low as $74,567.02 as […]
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Treasury Secretary Bessent says ‘it’s Main Street’s turn’ after Wall Street grew wealthy for 4 decades
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent arrives for a meeting on the House side of the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday, April 8, 2025. Brendan Smialowski | Afp | Getty Images Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Wednesday President Donald Trump’s aim is for Main Street businesses and consumers to thrive even as the administration’s shockingly steep tariffs could tip […]
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Tech analyst responds to Trump wanting Apple to make iPhones in U.S.: ‘I don’t think that’s a thing’
President Donald Trump believes Apple can make its signature iPhone in the U.S. to avoid new tariffs. Needham analyst Laura Martin isn’t sold. “I don’t think that’s a thing,” Martin said on CNBC’s “The Exchange” on Tuesday, responding to a comment from White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt about the technology giant bringing its iPhone […]
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U.S. financial regulator says email hack exposed sensitive data on banks
Key Points The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency on Tuesday said that a February hack of its email systems qualified as a “major incident” and exposed “highly sensitive information.” The breach involved information related to the “financial condition of federally regulated financial institutions used in its examinations and supervisory oversight processes.” Source
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Why bitcoin is showing ‘impressive’ resilience through tariff tumult, according to Bernstein
While recession fears and uncertainty about President Donald Trump’s tariff plans have taken stocks for a ride, bitcoin’s resilience through it all “has been nothing but impressive,” according to Bernstein. Bitcoin lost about 7% from last Thursday — the day after Trump revealed his sweeping tariffs plan — to this Monday. During the same period, […]
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Fake job seekers are flooding U.S. companies that are hiring for remote positions, tech CEOs say
An image provided by Pindrop Security shows a fake job candidate the company dubbed “Ivan X,” a scammer using deepfake AI technology to mask his face, according to Pindrop CEO Vijay Balasubramaniyan. Courtesy: Pindrop Security When voice authentication startup Pindrop Security posted a recent job opening, one candidate stood out from hundreds of others. The […]
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