Tech stocks were moving slightly higher early Wednesday as the sector attempted to turn around a bad week. The technology-heavy is rising 0.2% early Wednesday as the index looked set to snap a three-day losing streak. Palantir Technologies is also hoping to snap a three-day losing run of its own.
China has built up a $170bn (£135bn) stockpile of gold after a record buying spree, in a move that has raised fears Beijing is preparing its economy for a possible conflict over Taiwan.
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Tech giant Huawei's first-quarter profits surged over fivefold year-on-year, a company filing showed Tuesday, as the US-sanctioned firm continues a rebound and bit into competitor Apple's sales in China.Net profit in the January-March period amounted to $2.7 billion, up 564 percent from the first quarter of last year, according to a results filing by Huawei's holding company on an official website and confirmed by a representative of the firm.
Investors marked time ahead of the Fed's rate decision, with earnings from Amazon on deck to test prospects for a Big Tech-fueled bump.
The company's CEO says areas such as drug development and robotics can be markets for the company’s processors.
Rising Treasury yields are once again a headwind for stocks. Strategists don't see relief coming unless Fed Chair Jerome Powell is surprisingly dovish in his press conference on Wednesday.
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LONDON (Reuters) -Bitcoin fell for a third day on Wednesday, having posted its worst monthly performance in April since late 2022, as investors pulled money out of cryptocurrencies ahead of an interest rate decision by the Federal Reserve later. The value of the world's most traded cryptocurrency fell by nearly 16% in April, as investors booked profits on a sizzling rally that has taken the price to record highs above $70,000. The price of bitcoin is now a full 22% below March's record of $73,803, technically putting it in a bear market.
Major Chinese electric carmaker BYD reported lower-than-expected revenue for the first quarter of 2024 on Monday, as an aggressive domestic price war and Western regulatory pressure weighed on the company's growth.Its profit in the first quarter was 4.57 billion yuan, up 10.62 percent from a year ago, BYD said on Monday.
Still-elevated inflation and a job market that won't quit mean predictions for interest rate cuts in June are being pushed back.
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A week jam-packed with major market events kicked off with some wild action in Japan's yen during a public holiday there, with a withering drop in the currency to 34-year lows of 160 per dollar meeting predictable intervention speculation that triggered an equally eye-watering rebound. With no official yen purchases yet confirmed, market chatter presumed there had been at least some shot across the bow as the currency's fall since Friday's anodyne Bank of Japan meeting threatened to go into tailspin. Japan's top currency diplomat Masato Kanda declined to comment when asked if there had been any action.
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