Premarket: Trade hopes feed risk appetite, boosting stocks and spurring bitcoin

World stocks hovered around their highest prices in six weeks after a U.S. trade deal with Britain fueled guarded optimism for progress in tariff talks with other countries.

MSCI’s broadest index of world shares gained 0.1% after jumping around 0.8% on Thursday, to levels seen just before Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ global tariff announcements.

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Wall Street falls for a second day ahead of Federal Reserve meeting

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are opening lower on Wall Street, led by more weakness in technology companies. The S&P 500 lost 0.7% early Tuesday. The index broke a nine-day winning streak a day earlier. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 255 points, or 0.6%.

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Business Brief: Smoke from the FIRE movement

Good morning. A growing movement in finance involves extreme saving and investing to reach retirement earlier in life. Influencers online talk about the journey and the sweet payoff living their best, labour-free life. But now, some Canadians who busted their butts to retire younger are left feeling some not-so-fun emotions: regret and guilt.

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Dow drops 1,200 as US stock market leads a worldwide sell-off following Trump’s tariff shock

NEW YORK (AP) — Financial markets around the world are reeling Thursday following President Donald Trump’s latest and most severe volley of tariffs, and the U.S. stock market may be taking the worst of it.

The S&P 500 was down 3.3% in early trading, worse than the drops for other major stock markets.

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Stock market today: Wall Street opens lower ahead of tariff announcement

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks are falling in the final hours before President Donald Trump unveils the tariffs he promised as part of his “Liberation Day” that could drastically remake the global economy and trade. The S&P 500 was 0.9% lower in early trading Wednesday, but it’s had a pattern this week of opening with sharp losses only to finish the day higher.

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Indian markets, rupee have recovered for now. The future trajectory depends on a mix of factors

Supported by a surge in inflows, the rupee has strengthened and managed to reverse its year-to-date losses.

The recovery in stock markets is driven by a change in stance of foreign portfolio investors. In the last two weeks of March, FPIs have been net buyers due to aggressive buying of Indian debt.

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Alibaba says it will recommence hiring, sees signs of start of AI bubble in the U.S.

Open this photo in gallery: An Alibaba sign on a building in the Xuhui district in Shanghai, China, on Feb. 21.HECTOR RETAMAL/AFP/Getty Images

Alibaba Group BABA-N Chairman Joe Tsai said on Tuesday the tech giant would recommence hiring, emboldened with more confidence following President Xi Jinping’s February meeting with business entrepreneurs.

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