Wall Street sells off as tariff policy, tech concerns mount

NEW YORK (Reuters) -Major U.S. stock indexes declined sharply on Thursday with investors concerned about the impact President Donald Trump’s trade policy may have on companies and the broader economy, while Marvell Technology’s revenue forecast sparked concerns about spending on artificial intelligence infrastructure. Below are investor comments about the selloff, which saw the S&P 500…

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Elon Musk says Post Office, Amtrak should be privatized

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Billionaire Elon Musk, who is advising President Donald Trump on plans to radically shrink the U.S. government said Wednesday that the U.S. Postal Service and passenger railroad Amtrak should be privatized. “I think logically we should privatize anything that can reasonably be privatized,” Musk said at a Morgan Stanley conference….

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Starlink has no plans to take over any FAA telecom contract

(Reuters) – Elon Musk’s satellite company SpaceX said Wednesday its Starlink unit has no intent to take over any Federal Communications Commission telecommunications contract, rejecting media reports. “Starlink is a possible partial fix to an aging system. There is no effort or intent for Starlink to ‘take over’ any existing contract,” SpaceX wrote on X….

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Musk’s SpaceX to invest $1.8 billion in Florida for Starship program expansion

By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) – SpaceX is planning to invest at least $1.8 billion to build new Starship launchpads and processing facilities on Florida’s Space Coast, eyeing a key expansion for the rocket program beyond Texas amid pending environmental reviews, according to the state’s governor. Elon Musk’s SpaceX has been looking to build new…

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Explainer-What is Elon Musk’s DOGE? How much money has it saved US taxpayers?

By Tim Reid WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to boast about his sweeping cuts to the federal bureaucracy during an address to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday night, with praise for tech billionaire Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). Trump has given Musk and his DOGE team…

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Trump’s proposed auto tariffs seen hitting demand for platinum group metals

By Ashitha Shivaprasad and Shivansh Tiwary (Reuters) – Demand for industrial precious metals platinum and palladium will likely fall if tariffs proposed by President Donald Trump on U.S. auto imports dampen vehicle sales, analysts said. Earlier this month, Trump said levies on automobiles would be coming as soon as April 2. This would mean imports…

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Exclusive-Aerospace industry scrambles to deal with fallout from huge US factory fire

By Allison Lampert and Tim Hepher (Reuters) – Boeing and other top aerospace firms are scouring their supply chains to determine their exposure to a major fire last week at a Philadelphia-area parts factory that has set off alarm bells across the industry, people familiar with the matter said. The days-long fire at SPS Technologies’…

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Nvidia forecasts first-quarter revenue above estimates, new chip weighs on margins

By Max A. Cherney and Arsheeya Bajwa (Reuters) -Nvidia forecast first-quarter revenue above Wall Street estimates on Wednesday, signaling strong demand for its market-leading artificial intelligence chips and said demand for its new Blackwell semiconductors was “amazing.” The company’s outlook for gross margin in the current quarter was slightly lower than expected, though, as the…

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