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Wall Street's main indexes were mixed at the open on Wednesday as investors treaded carefully ahead of several Big Tech earnings reports and a Federal Reserve meeting expected to be the last for Jerome Powell as its Chair.The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 21.8 points, or 0.04%, at the open to 49,163.78. The S&P 500 fell 7.2 points, or 0.10%, at the open to 7,131.61, while the Nasdaq Composite dropped 57.3 points, or 0.23%, to 24,606.527. (Reporting by Niket Nishant and Utkarsh Hathi in Bengaluru; Editing by Devika Syamnath and Arun Koyyur)

Wall St mixed at open ahead of Big Tech earnings, Fed meeting

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France's consumer protection authority said on Wednesday that three‑quarters of the products it tested from major e‑commerce platforms last year failed to meet EU standards.The Directorate General for Competition, Consumer Affairs and Fraud Control (DGCCRF) said it had analysed more than 600 products bought from seven foreign online platforms in 2025, triple the number tested in previous years. It found 75% failed to meet EU rules, and 46% were both non-compliant and dangerous.The regulator said it focused its testing on high-risk categories and the results cannot be extrapolated to the e

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Russia says it's scaling down WW2 victory parade due to Ukrainian threat

Russia will hold a slimmed-down version of its annual parade to celebrate victory in World War Two, without the usual display of weaponry, the Kremlin said on Wednesday, citing an increased threat of Ukrainian attacks.The May 9 parade on Moscow's Red Square is a highlight of the Russian calendar, commemorating victory over Nazi Germany in a conflict in which the Soviet Union - of which both Russia and Ukraine were part - lost 27 million people.On recent anniversaries, Russia has shown off weapons including intercontinental ballistic missiles, and President Vladimir Putin has used the occasion

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Will Jerome Powell stick around at the Fed? Here’s what insiders told us

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell is no stranger to tough decisions, but now he faces one of his toughest and most personal calls yet: Leave the stage or stick around in a supporting role once his replacement takes the helm of the US central bank.Powell’s term as Fed chair expires on May 15, but his separate term on the Fed’s powerful board of governors doesn’t lapse until January 2028.The succession drama at one of the most powerful institutions in the world has sparked a new guessing game in Washington and on Wall Street: Will Powell stay, now that the Justice Department has dropped

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Fed chief nominee Warsh set to clear key confirmation hurdle on Wednesday

Kevin Warsh, U.S. President Donald Trump's pick to lead the Federal Reserve, is set to clear a key procedural hurdle on Wednesday, opening the way for him to succeed Jerome Powell in coming weeks amid the White House's unprecedented efforts to exert control over the world's most powerful central bank.The Senate Banking Committee is set to vote at 10 a.m. EDT (1400 GMT) to advance Warsh's nomination to the full Republican-controlled Senate. All 13 Republicans on the panel are expected to support Warsh after North Carolina Senator Thom Tillis dropped his opposition following the Department of J

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US pump prices near 4-year high on Iran war disruption, refinery outages

The average U.S. gasoline price rose to its highest level in nearly four years after the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran at the end of February, according to data from the American Automobile Association.Average prices at the pump rose 7 cents to $4.18 a gallon on Tuesday, representing the biggest single-day increase in more than a month, AAA data showed. Gasoline prices have climbed $1.19 a gallon, or more than 40%, since late February.Motorists around the country have been feeling pain at the pump as energy costs soar amid conflict in the Middle East that has choked shipping traffic through t

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Senate rejects attempt to end Trump's blockade of Cuba

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NASA's Artemis II moonship returns home to its launch site after historic voyage

The spacecraft that flew four astronauts around the moon is back where its record-breaking journey began. NASA’s Artemis II capsule returned to Florida’s Kennedy Space Center on Tuesday, almost a month after blasting off on humanity’s first lunar trip in more than a half-century. Following its splashdown in the Pacific on April 10, the Orion capsule was trucked from San Diego to Cape Canaveral. Engineers will examine the capsule’s heat shield in more detail along with everything else in preparation for next year's Artemis III docking demo in orbit around E

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Fed likely to leave rates unchanged at what may be Powell's last meeting, as Warsh to advance

Wednesday will likely be a momentous day for the future of the Federal Reserve as Chair Jerome Powell could signal he will stay with the Fed even as a Senate panel is expected to confirm his replacement. Powell will preside over what will probably be his last meeting as chair and hold a news conference Wednesday afternoon, when he may say whether he will take the unusual step of remaining on the central bank's board of governors, even after his term as chair ends May 15. Separately, the Senate Banking Committee is scheduled to vote on the nomination of Kevin Warsh

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How traffic through the Strait of Hormuz shrank to a trickle – a visual deep dive

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El Jardinero: What to know about ‘The Gardener,’ the Mexican cartel figure arrested in a ditch

Mexican federal forces have arrested one of the alleged commanders of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG), Audias Flores Silva, who was considered a possible successor to Nemesio “El Mencho” Oseguera Cervantes, the CJNG leader who died after a military operation to capture him in February.At the time of his capture, Flores Silva – aka El Jardinero (“The Gardener”) – had an arrest warrant against him in Mexico and was wanted by the United States for drug-related crimes.CNN has contacted the Attorney General’s Office of Mexico to find out the details of the current charge agai