(Reuters) – Bitcoin, the world’s largest cryptocurrency by market value, was down by around 5% at $78,892.92 at 1855 GMT on Sunday. Ether, the second largest cryptocurrency, was down by around 9.62% at $1617.65 at 1859 GMT on Sunday. (Reporting by Janaki Venugopalan in Bengaluru; Editing by Leslie Adler)
By Rodrigo Campos NEW YORK (Reuters) -Latin American stocks and bonds could be unlikely winners as the Trump administration’s trade war so far mostly spared the region, while it triggered a market rout on Wall Street that has sent investors on a hunt for non-U.S. assets. The Nasdaq stock index opened Friday more than 20% …
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RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – Brazilian state-run oil company Petrobras has completed work on a veterinary center in the Amazon region that is required for it to obtain an environmental permit for an offshore drilling project, the company said on Saturday. The animal care center in the town of Oiapoque, Amapa state, is designed to …
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(Reuters) – Meta Platforms on Saturday released the latest version of its large language model (LLM) Llama, called the Llama 4 Scout and Llama 4 Maverick. Meta said Llama is a multimodal AI system. Multimodal systems are capable of processing and integrating various types of data including text, video, images and audio, and can convert …
By Antoni Slodkowski BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s state-run media has taken to the internet with AI-generated videos, featuring dancing robots and fraught consumers, to chide U.S. President Donald Trump and tariffs they say threaten high inflation and economic distress for Americans. “‘Liberation Day’, you promised us the stars. But tariffs killed our cheap Chinese cars,” …
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HANOI (Reuters) – Vietnamese budget airline VietJet is set to operate Chinese-made COMAC ARJ21-700 aircraft, also branded as C909, on domestic routes for the first time from mid-April, according to a company statement reviewed by Reuters. The airline plans to operate four flights between the capital Hanoi and Con Dao Island off southern Vietnam on …
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By Ed White REGINA, Saskatchewan (Reuters) – All around a recent farm show in Canada, equipment salespeople struggled to swing deals with farmers worried about tariffs. With some combines costing more than $800,000, a surprise price hike from a tariff would be a hit most farm budgets cannot easily take. Canada was spared the Trump …
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(This April 4 story has been corrected to show JPM’s before probability at 40%, not 60%, and latest at 60%, not 40%, in the table) By Siddarth S (Reuters) – J.P.Morgan ratcheted up its odds for a U.S. and global recession to 60%, as brokerages scrambled to revise their forecast models with tariff distress threatening …
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TOKYO (Reuters) – Nintendo said it is delaying the start of pre-orders for the Switch 2 gaming device in the United States as it examines the potential impact of tariffs. Pre-orders will not start on April 9 in the U.S. “in order to assess the potential impact of tariffs and evolving market conditions,” Nintendo said …
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By Rae Wee, Karin Strohecker and Libby George SINGAPORE/LONDON (Reuters) -Emerging economies worldwide are bracing for sliding currencies and a possible deterioration of their sovereign credit after U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs brought levies on U.S. imports to their highest levels in 100 years. The worse-than-expected tariff blitz hits Asia — and some of the …
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