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US stocks end higher as traders focus on tariffs, data

(Reuters) -Wall Street stocks ended higher on Tuesday, with Apple rising and Nvidia dipping as investors assessed consumer sentiment data and bet on a more flexible trade policy stance from the Trump administration next week. U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday that automobile tariffs were coming soon, while suggesting that not all proposed tariffs would be enforced in an April 2 announcement on which Wall Street is focused. "I don't expect that we'll get the clarity that the market is hoping for, but investors are desperate for any sort of clarity on this front, and to the extent they'll get some of it, it's a huge day," said Ross Mayfield, an investment strategist at Baird.

Analysis-For Musk's Starlink, India approval could unlock emerging markets

As Starlink nears regulatory approval in India for satellite broadband services, analysts say a victory there could pave a road into more emerging markets and boost the company's ambitions to add a million subscribers every year. SpaceX also argues that U.S. regulations put it at a disadvantage against foreign rivals. But a foothold in India would be a potential $25 billion boon for Starlink, helping it reshape that country's satellite broadband industry and making an attractive case to other developing markets, experts say.

Explainer-Stagflation on the radar for the US economy, but no repeat of the '70s

Recent economic projections from Federal Reserve officials had shades of "Stagflation-lite," in the words of one economist, a sentiment increasingly echoed among other observers of the U.S. economy and central bank wondering if the country's outperformance during the pandemic is about to slide. So what is stagflation and why is it suddenly on everyone's mind? Stagflation, or a period of both high inflation and high joblessness, hit the U.S. notably in the 1970s, which may have featured the worst U.S. economic leadership since the Great Depression.

Boom in Uranium Stocks Fizzles as Ukraine Ceasefire Talks Build

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Blackrock, Top Dubai Lender Partner on Private Markets Platform

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This Bitcoin Investment Thesis Is Everywhere. Here's Why You Shouldn't Care About It At All

When Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) hit the $100,000 mark in December, all lights appeared to be flashing green. Many investors were convinced that Bitcoin was about to go parabolic. This astonishing turn of events has led some investors to rethink everything they know about Bitcoin, including the famous "Bitcoin Cycle" investment thesis that claims to predict the next move of the world's most popular cryptocurrency.