On April 2, CNBC reporters said on social media that US Treasury Secretary Vincent told lawmakers that the tariffs announced on Wednesday were a "ceiling", and the tariffs announced tomorrow were the highest level, and then countries could take measures to reduce tariffs.
CNBC reporters said on social media that U.S. Treasury Secretary Besson told lawmakers that the tariffs announced on Wednesday were a "cap" and that the tariffs announced tomorrow were the highest level, and then countries could take steps to reduce them.
The White House: Trump will speak in the Rose Garden at 4 p.m. on Wednesday.
On April 1, according to four people familiar with the matter, drugmakers are lobbying US President Donald Trump to gradually impose tariffs on imported drugs, hoping to reduce the impact of the tariffs and allow time to shift production. Trump said he would soon announce tariffs on the pharmaceutical industry, which has been exempted in the past, after imposing tariffs on other industries. The understanding is that Trump will not announce any specific details about the pharmaceutical tariffs on...
U.S. Treasury Secretary Vincent Bescent: President Trump will announce the corresponding tariff measures at 3:00 pm on Wednesday (3:00 am Beijing time the next day).
According to the AXIOS website, US President Donald Trump will speak by phone with Ukrainian President Zelensky on Wednesday at 10 a.m. Eastern time (10 p.m. Beijing time tonight).
According to Coindesk, Standard & Poor's Global Ratings said in a report on Wednesday that the lack of regulation of stablecoins in the United States is one of the main obstacles to the adoption of the currency. Analysts led by Mohamed Damak pointed out that the lack of regulation is one of the main obstacles to the adoption of stablecoins in the United States and hinders the wider institutional adoption of stablecoins. Stablecoins will play an increasingly important role in on-chain transaction...
On Wednesday, Trump told reporters: We're going to Fort Knox to make sure the gold is indeed there. Fort Knox, a US Army base in Kentucky, is known to hold more than half of the US Treasury's gold reserves. In the 1930s, the Treasury moved gold from New York and Philadelphia to Fort Knox to make it more vulnerable to attack. Most of the rest of the gold bars are stored in facilities in Denver and West Point, New York. Previously, Musk had suggested on the X platform that the gold reserves in For...
On Wednesday, US stocks hovered between slight gains and slight losses as investors analysed the minutes of the Federal Reserve's January policy meeting and digested the tariffs announced by Trump. The S & P 500 was on track for a second straight day of record closing highs, with the Nasdaq mostly flat and the Dow edging lower. Sam Stovall, chief investment strategist at CFRA Research in New York, said: "In the face of high valuations, Quarter 1 earnings forecasts...
The Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) on Wednesday formally accepted the WisdomTree XRP ETF application for public comment. The SEC requires comments to be submitted within 21 days of publication in the Federal Register. The agency can decide to approve, reject or'initiate further review proceedings. '
A report released by Bernstein on Wednesday revealed that it believes a "perfect storm" of political and regulatory forces is creating ideal conditions for U.S. stablecoin legislation this year. The analysts added that possible legislation in the US could prompt major Financial Institutions Groups to evaluate how to integrate stablecoin issuance or settlement into their business models. In addition, regulators are expected to step up scrutiny of past'debanking 'practices, further integrating sta...
According to AFP, Ukrainian President Zelensky will visit Saudi Arabia on Wednesday.
President Trump: An executive order on reciprocal tariffs may be signed on Wednesday.
OpenAI's board on Wednesday questioned the rationality of a $97.40 billion offer from Mr. Musk and others to buy the company. On Monday, a consortium of investors led by Mr. Musk offered to buy assets of the nonprofit that controls the company, intensifying a years-long feud between Mr. Musk and OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman. In a court filing on Wednesday, the company said Musk's takeover offer was consistent with its legal claims in a lawsuit filed against OpenAI last year.
OpenAI CEO Altman said Wednesday that the GPT-4.5 model, known internally as Orion, will be available "in a few weeks." Foreign media reported in November that Orion has not yet achieved the performance expected by OpenAI. Altman said the model will be the last one the company has launched that does not use additional computing power to mimic the way humans reason. OpenAI has adopted inference models in some of its newer models, including o1 and o3.