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President Donald Trump said he wanted an agreement with Ukraine on rare earths "immediately". Speaking on Truth Social, Mr. Trump said Ukraine was "at least three weeks late" in signing a final minerals deal. He said talks on a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine were "going well".

The Trump administration sees co-operation with Russia in the energy sector as one of the key economic temptations to win Kremlin support as it pushes for a deal to end the conflict with Ukraine, according to people familiar with the talks, who said the proposed peace deal could include joint projects in the Arctic, as well as co-operation in oil, gas and rare earth minerals.

A federal judge in the United States has temporarily blocked Trump from repealing the collective bargaining rights of federal employees. The National Treasury Employees Union said Trump's executive order revoking collective bargaining agreements in federal departments exempted more than a dozen federal agencies from the obligation to negotiate with unions, violating the labor rights of federal employees and the US Constitution.

Martin Schlegel, SNB governor, said on Friday: "Cryptocurrencies' market liquidity in times of crisis is called into question, and their high volatility is also a major risk for long-term value preservation. In short, it can be said that cryptocurrencies do not currently meet our high requirements for a reserve currency." He was responding to a proposal by the Bitcoin Initiative, an advocacy group, to increase its bitcoin holdings. The group's research said that if 1% of its investment was alloc...

President Trump said talks with Russia and Ukraine are going well and that Russia and Ukraine are very close to reaching an agreement.

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Rising global trade risks, overall policy uncertainty and the sustainability of US debt topped the list of latent risks to the US financial system, according to the Federal Reserve's latest financial stability report released on Friday. It is the first time the Fed has conducted a semi-annual survey of financial risks since Mr. Trump returned to the White House. Seventy-three per cent of respondents said global trade risks were their top concern, the highest proportion since November.

Rising global trade risks, overall policy uncertainty and the sustainability of US debt topped the list of latent risks to the US financial system, according to the Federal Reserve's latest financial stability report released on Friday. It is the first time the Fed has conducted a semi-annual survey of financial risks since Mr. Trump returned to the White House. Seventy-three per cent of respondents said global trade risks were their top concern, more than double the number reported in November....

U.S. stocks closed the day with the Dow up 0.05%, the Nasdaq up 1.26% and the S & P 500 up 0.74%. Most tech stocks rose, with Tesla up nearly 10%, Nvidia up more than 4%, Micron up more than 3%, Meta, Broadcom and AMD up more than 2%. Intel fell nearly 7%, Q2 revenue guidance was lower than market estimates, and the company lowered its full-year capital expenditure target.

U.S. stocks closed Friday with the Dow initially up 0.05 percent, the S & P 500 up 0.74 percent and the Nasdaq up 1.26 percent. Tesla (TSLA. O) rose 9.8 percent and Nvidia (NVDA. O) rose 4.3 percent. The Nasdaq China Gold Dragon closed down 0.4 percent, NIO (NIO. N) fell 3.77 percent and XPeng Motors (XPEV. N) fell 3.5 percent.

The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC): For the week ended April 22, COMEX gold speculators' net long position decreased by 125,722 contracts to 136,919 contracts

Spot gold is up more than 25 per cent so far this year. Fawad Razaqzada, market analyst at City Index and FOREX.com, said: "Concerns about the trade war were the main reason behind all previous gold purchases. But it may be a while before we see actual progress, so these concerns have not been completely eliminated."