A flag of Japan flies near cargo containers at Tokyo’s Odaiba Waterfront on August 6, 2020.BEHROUZ MEHRI | Contributor | Getty ImagesJapan on Thursday reported a 3.9% rise in March exports compared to a year earlier, a month after exports saw their largest rise since May 2024.The growth missed expectations of a 4.5% rise from economists polled by Reuters, and was lower than the 11.4% jump in February.Exports to the U.S., Japan’s second-largest trading partner, saw a 3.1% rise.March data does not include the full impact of U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs. The U.S. had announced tariffs of 25% on…
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Stocks @ Night is a daily newsletter delivered after hours, giving you a first look at tomorrow and last look at today. Sign up for free to receive it directly in your inbox. Here’s what CNBC TV’s producers were watching as the major averages booked back-to-back losses, and what’s on the radar for the next session. Gold and gold miners CNBC TV’s Pippa Stevens will report on gold’s big run. The commodity is now up more than 6% since President Donald Trump’s “reciprocal” tariffs were announced April 2. Gold is up 22% since Inauguration Day. The VanEck Gold Miners ETF…
Randy Konik, Jefferies, joins ‘Fast Money’ to talk Lululemon losing out in a key market. Source link
A trader works, as a screen broadcasts a live interview with U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange in New York City, U.S., April 16, 2025. Brendan McDermid | ReutersStock futures rose modestly Wednesday night after a steep sell-off in the prior session.Futures tied to the Dow Jones Industrial Average added 62 points, or 0.15%. S&P 500 futures advanced 0.2%, while Nasdaq 100 futures climbed 0.3%.Major stock indexes sank on Wednesday, led by a significant decline in technology stocks and mounting tariff worries.The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 1.7%, or nearly 700 points. The S&P…
Anek S | 500px Plus | Getty ImagesAsia-Pacific markets rose Thursday, breaking ranks with Wall Street which declined sharply after U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell cautioned that the ongoing trade tensions could challenge the central bank’s goals on controlling inflation and spurring growth.Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 started the day 0.59% higher, while the broader Topix index added 0.26%.In South Korea, the Kospi index increased 0.41% at the open while the small-cap Kosdaq moved up 1.02%.Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 edged up 0.18% in early trade.Futures for Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index stood at 21,008 pointing to a weaker open compared to the HSI’s last close of…
CNBC’s Pippa Stevens joins ‘Fast Money’ to talk Pres. Trumps latest tariff target. Source link
Consumer-oriented companies will be compelled to lower prices despite new tariffs from the White House squeezing them to do the opposite, CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Wednesday told investors.”You keep hearing that companies will have to raise prices with tariffs — that’s wrong,” he said. “What they really need to do is cut prices, or their stuff isn’t going to move off the shelves.”Even before President Donald Trump slapped hefty tariffs on U.S. suppliers and trading partners, consumers were fed up with high-priced goods, Cramer said. Shoppers even bristled at the price of potato chips, he said, citing pessimistic sentiment about…
Nibs, etc. granola on sale at U.K. grocery store Waitrose.WaitroseWasted food is a big problem. More than 1 billion tonnes was thrown away in 2022 by households, retailers and food service companies, according to figures published by the U.N.’s Environment Program in 2024. It’s expensive too: The World Bank estimated that lost or wasted food cost $1.2 trillion in 2020.It’s an issue that food entrepreneur Chloe Stewart first became aware of as a young adult traveling to different parts of the world. Seeing plates piled high in places like Beijing and Boston and having a sense that “there’s no way…
The final trades of the day with CNBC’s Melissa Lee and the Fast Money traders. Source link
Jensen Huang, co-founder and chief executive officer of Nvidia Corp., during the opening ceremony of the Siliconware Precision Industries Co. (SPIL) Tan Ke Plant in Taichung, Taiwan, on Thursday, Jan. 16, 2025. An Rong Xu | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesA day after Nvidia revealed it would incur $5.5 billion in costs related to canceled orders for the H20 chip, which the government said this week requires a license to export to China, the company said it abides by rules on where it can sell its artificial intelligence processors.”The U.S. government instructs American businesses on what they can sell and where —…
