U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) speaks to the media during a visit to El Salvador to advocate for the release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia in San Salvador, El Salvador, April 16, 2025.Jose Cabezas | ReutersSen. Chris Van Hollen confirmed Thursday night that he met with Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a man who the Trump administration said it mistakenly deported to El Salvador in March.”I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update…
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View of the Skytree from Ueno and Asakusa in TokyoJackal Pan | Moment | Getty ImagesJapan markets traded flat with most markets in the region closed for Good Friday.Japan’s Nikkei 225 inched up 0.01% after the country’s inflation grew 3.6% year on year in March, marking three straight years that the headline inflation figure is above the Bank of Japan’s 2% target. The figure was lower than the 3.7% seen in February.The so called “core-core” inflation rate, which strips out prices of both fresh food and energy and is closely monitored by the BOJ, climbed to 2.9% from 2.6% in…
CNBC’s Angelica Peebles joins ‘Fast Money’ to talk the latest on oral GLP-1 trials. Source link
Tesla sign seen outside the Tesla showroom in downtown Chicago on April 15, 2025.Anadolu via Getty ImagesTesla faces a proposed class action claiming it speeds up odometers on its electric vehicles so they fall out of warranty faster, saving Elon Musk’s company from having to pay for repairs.The plaintiff Nyree Hinton alleged that Tesla odometer readings reflect energy consumption, driver behavior and “predictive algorithms” rather than actual mileage driven.He said the odometer on the 2020 Model Y he bought in December 2022 with 36,772 miles on the clock ran at least 15% fast, based on his other vehicles and driving…
Shipping containers are stacked on a cargo ship as they are offloaded at PortMiami on April 15, 2025 in Miami, Florida. Joe Raedle | Getty ImagesThe Trump administration on Thursday announced fees on Chinese-built vessels after a United States Trade Representative investigation by the Biden-Trump administrations found China’s acts, policies and practices were unreasonable and burden or restrict U.S. commerce.”Ships and shipping are vital to American economic security and the free flow of commerce,” said U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer. “The Trump administration’s actions will begin to reverse Chinese dominance, address threats to the U.S. supply chain, and send a…
Rich Greenfield, Lightshed, joins ‘Fast Money’ to talk Netflix quarterly results. Source link
In a Thursday interview with CNBC’s Jim Cramer, the former chief of the Department of Justice’s antitrust division Jonathan Kanter described how the advertising landscape might start to change now that Alphabet’s Google has lost two antitrust cases brought on by the government.”The remedies in this case, as well as the search case, are going to be forward-looking in nature,” Kanter said.”That means the infrastructure for selling advertising against AI, for example, is going to be highly relevant to formulating the remedies in this case,” he continued.Hopefully, he added, there will be new opportunities for businesses to monetize AI through…
Shop owners of a 70-year-old “takoyaki”, or octopus balls, restaurant chat while cooking along a street in the Taito Ward area of Tokyo on February 21, 2025.Richard A. Brooks | Afp | Getty ImagesJapan’s inflation grew 3.6% year on year in March, marking three straight years that the headline inflation figure is above the Bank of Japan’s 2% target.The figure was lower than the 3.7% seen in February.The so called “core-core” inflation rate, which strips out prices of both fresh food and energy and is closely monitored by the BOJ, climbed to 2.9% from 2.6% in the month before.Core inflation…
The final trades of the day with CNBC’s Melissa Lee and the Fast Money traders. Source link
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell departs after speaking with Dr. Raghuram Rajan, a Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago’s Booth School, during an Economic Club of Chicago event on April 16, 2025 in Chicago, Illinois.Vincent Alban | Getty ImagesThe Federal Reserve kicked off a sweeping effort to overhaul its annual stress tests of large banks on Thursday, proposing to average results over two years in setting capital requirements.The central bank also proposed giving banks three more months to adjust to the capital requirements set by the exam, as part of its overarching bid to make the process more…
