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  • Apr 16, 2025

TSMC forecast lifts gloomy mood in chip stocks, tariff worries linger

SINGAPORE (Reuters) -Taiwan's TSMC on Thursday lifted some share prices in Asia and Europe amid U.S. President Donald Trump's fast-evolving trade policies by providing an upbeat forecast, a day after warnings from Nvidia and ASML rocked chip stocks. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co, whose customers include Apple and Nvidia, reported better-than-expected quarterly profit on Thursday and maintained its full-year outlooks for both revenue and capital spending. Shares of Japanese tech companies and some European firms rose after the TSMC results, which were announced after Taiwan stock markets closed.

  • Apr 16, 2025

Bhutan turns to 'green' cryptocurrency to fuel economy

The Himalayan nation of Bhutan is exploring ways to mine and leverage green cryptocurrencies using hydropower to boost its economy and create jobs to reduce brain drain, the chief executive of its sovereign wealth fund said. Green cryptocurrencies are digital currencies mined using clean energy resources such as wind, hydro or solar power instead of fossil fuel. Sandwiched between Asian giants India and China, Bhutan has earned millions of dollars in recent years by investing in some of the world's most popular cryptocurrencies and used some of its profit to pay government salaries for two years, two senior officials in Thimphu, the capital said.

  • Apr 16, 2025

Oil set for weekly rise after new Iran sanctions

LONDON (Reuters) -Oil prices rose to the highest in two weeks on Thursday amid low liquidity ahead of the Easter holidays after the United States imposed new sanctions to curb Iranian oil exports, elevating supply concerns. Thursday is the last settlement day of the week ahead of the Easter holidays. The new sanctions on Iranian oil exports and hawkish comments on the issue from the U.S. Treasury are increasing supply concerns and helping support crude, said UBS analyst Giovanni Staunovo.

  • Apr 16, 2025

Fed's Schmid says patience needed to see how tariffs play out

"I just think that we've got to, we've got to be a little patient to see how some of these things play out," Schmid said in a webcast conversation with Dallas Federal Reserve Bank President Lorie Logan at a Dallas Fed event. At the end of the day, he said, the Fed will "react in a positive way to any of those disruptions that might affect that dual mandate," referring to the Fed's mandates of achieving both price stability and full employment.

  • Apr 16, 2025

Despite quarterly loss and battered stock, Triumph Financial stays aggressive

Even in the midst of a sharp drop in his company’s stock price and a freight market that is not supporting the bottom line at Triumph Financial, CEO Aaron Graft touted milestones reached and signaled a new aggressiveness in pricing the company’s products. In his quarterly letter to investors released in conjunction with the company’s […] The post Despite quarterly loss and battered stock, Triumph Financial stays aggressive appeared first on FreightWaves.

  • Apr 16, 2025

BHP says tariff impact on global economy could be significant

(Reuters) -BHP Group said that an escalating trade war could harm the world economy and adaptation was key to sustaining global growth, as it reported a slight decline in iron ore production in the third quarter on Thursday. The direct impact on BHP of the tariffs unleashed by U.S. President Donald Trump this month was limited, the mining giant said. Trump has since postponed some of the duties, but has increased levies on China even further.

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