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📰 Market Headlines

Markets notched a third straight day of gains despite plunging consumer confidence, as investors digested President Trump's hints about softening tariff plans.

  • The S&P 500 rose 0.1%, Dow ticked just above flat, and Nasdaq climbed 0.5%.

  • Consumer confidence tumbled to 92.9 in March, the lowest in four years.

GameStop stock pops after company confirms plans to buy bitcoin. The stock rose 8.1% after hours.

Russia and Ukraine reached separate agreements with the US to ensure safe Black Sea navigation and ban attacks.

The CDC pulled back $11.4 billion in pandemic response funding from health departments as the administration declares "COVID-19 is over."

🛡️ Alternative investing news

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 📊 Ideas, trends, and analysis

CFOs predict a recession will happen in late 2025, with 75% expressing pessimism about the US economy despite optimism about their industries.

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😱 Fear and Greed Index

Alexa, Ring, Nest, Apple, Roku…

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📊 Earnings this week

  • Rumble posted a wider-than-expected Q4 loss of $0.44 per share versus estimates of $0.13; shares went up 1.4%.

  • GameStop announced plans to add Bitcoin as a treasury reserve asset while reporting a 28% decline in Q4 sales as shares jumped 6%.

  • McCormick missed Q1 earnings expectations with EPS falling to $0.60 from $0.63 year-over-year; shares plunged 5.1%.

Market movers

  • Judge set Boeing’s fraud trial for June 23, marking the first criminal prosecution in the 737 MAX crashes that killed 346 people.

  • Activist investor Elliott sued Phillips 66 to force board changes, escalating its $2.5 billion stake campaign.

  • OpenAI upgraded ChatGPT's image generation capabilities with GPT-4o, available first to $200/month Pro subscribers.

  • DeepSeek V3 surpassed OpenAI and Google to become the top non-reasoning AI model.

📊 Crypto

  • SEC dropped its investigation into Immutable, continuing the regulatory shift under new leadership.

  • Ripple settled with the SEC for $50 million, agreeing to drop its cross-appeal in exchange for lifting institutional sales restrictions.

  • BlackRock launched its first Bitcoin ETP in Europe with a competitive 0.15% fee, marking its expansion beyond US markets.

🌍 Global Perspectives

  1. 🇮🇱 🇵🇸 Two Al Jazeera journalists were killed in separate Israeli airstrikes, bringing the total journalist deaths in Gaza to over 170.

  2. 🇯🇵 A Tokyo court ordered the dissolution of the Unification Church, revoking its tax-exempt status.

  3. 🇨🇳 China released employees of the American due diligence firm Mintz Group after two years of detention.

  4. 🇻🇦 Pope Francis came close to death during his recent hospitalization.

🎤 What you said last time

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🧠 Miscellanea

  • NASA's Curiosity rover discovered the largest organic molecules ever found on Mars, potentially linked to 3.7-billion-year-old fatty acids.

  • An alien-mermaid skeleton with a skeletal head and scaly tail washed up on a UK beach, drawing curious crowds.

  • Paleontologists unearthed a bizarre new dinosaur with massive two-fingered claws in Mongolia's Gobi Desert.

📺 What to Watch Today

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