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US tariffs on most Mexican goods are postponed, again

President Donald Trump has again postponed his plan to tariff all Mexican imports by 25%.

In a post on his social media platform, Truth Social, Trump said tariffs on goods from Mexico that fall under the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement, the free-trade deal between the three North American countries, are postponed until April 2. The vast majority of goods the US imports from Mexico fall under the trade pact.

This is the second time that Trump has postponed tariffs by a month. Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has successfully called his bluff both times. Tariffs on Canadian goods appear to still be on, though Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick indicated that the president was considering pushing back this deadline for both nations.

The announcement comes after markets took a hit when the tariffs took effect on Monday, hitting tariff-sensitive sectors like the auto industry particularly hard. Investors seem to find little comfort in another one-month delay, with the S&P 500 still down 1.8% for the day.

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JetBlue surges following report it is exploring potential merger partners

Shares of JetBlue spiked more than 15% midday Wednesday following a Semafor report that the airline is exploring merger partners.

The company has explored Washington’s regulatory temperature around a potential merger with United Airlines, Southwest Airlines, and Alaska Air, per the report. When Semafor reached out to JetBlue regarding the exploration, it declined to comment.

JetBlue’s attempt to acquire budget rival Spirit was blocked by the Biden administration in 2024.

JetBlue’s attempt to acquire budget rival Spirit was blocked by the Biden administration in 2024.

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Sandisk, Micron dive as Google Research unveils AI algorithm to reduce memory demands

This might be an unfortunately memorable day for the memory trade.

Memory stocks Sandisk, Micron, Seagate Technology Holdings, and Western Digital sank Wednesday after Alphabet’s Google Research group published details of a new algorithm known as TurboQuant.

Per Google’s extremely technical release, TurboQuant is an algorithm that allows for a data technique called “vector quantization to be used while addressing the issue of so-called “memory overhead,” allowing data in AI models to be compressed without reductions in accuracy or requiring retraining, while reducing the memory storage requirements at data centers.

And that outlook seems to be enough for the market to be sending memory stocks down for the day.

Per Google’s extremely technical release, TurboQuant is an algorithm that allows for a data technique called “vector quantization to be used while addressing the issue of so-called “memory overhead,” allowing data in AI models to be compressed without reductions in accuracy or requiring retraining, while reducing the memory storage requirements at data centers.

And that outlook seems to be enough for the market to be sending memory stocks down for the day.

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Fundrise’s venture fund extends rally, trading more than 2 dozen times above asset value

Fundrise Innovation Fund, a publicly traded venture fund that owns stakes in private companies like Anthropic, OpenAI, and SpaceX, is continuing to rally as the gap between the value of its stock price and its underlying assets grows.

Shares of the fund, which uses the ticker VCX, closed at $314.99 on Tuesday and rose to $533 by Wednesday morning — a nearly 70% jump for the day and a more than 1,500% increase in the value of its stock since it went public on March 19.

Fundrise’s vertiginous price action underscores just how hungry retail investors are for exposure to high-flying private companies, even at increasingly eye-watering implied valuations.

Shares of the fund, which uses the ticker VCX, closed at $314.99 on Tuesday and rose to $533 by Wednesday morning — a nearly 70% jump for the day and a more than 1,500% increase in the value of its stock since it went public on March 19.

Fundrise’s vertiginous price action underscores just how hungry retail investors are for exposure to high-flying private companies, even at increasingly eye-watering implied valuations.

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