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Craig Fuller, FreightWaves, joins ‘Fast Money’ to talk the downturn in shipping and freight into the U.S.

Being successful, whether it’s in trading, business, or even in parenting, takes a lot of personal development. You are continually tested by your surroundings (the forex market, your employees or coworkers, your children). How you react before, during, and after these challenges all play a part in your success. As currency traders, we all have those days or weeks when things just don’t go our way. Our losses are overshadowing our wins, and we can’t seem to consistently win. We start to wonder if we can ever make any “real” money and if our goal of becoming a full-time forex…

The is showing limited movement on Monday. In the European session, USD/CAD is trading at 1.3868, up 0.10% on the day. There are no economic releases out of the US or Canada today.Liberals Expected to Win Canadian ElectionIt’s Election Day in Canada. Prime Minister Mark Carney, who has only been in office since March, is favored to win the election. Carney’s Liberal Party was badly trailing the Conservatives but US President Trump has ignited Canadian nationalism and turned the election race upside down. Trump has talked about annexing Canada and although most Canadians don’t expect that to happen, there is…

North Macedonia’s industrial producer prices on the domestic market rose at a slower annual rate in March and were unchanged from the previous month, preliminary data from the statistical office showed on Monday.The industrial producer price index on the domestic market rose 6.3 percent year-on-year following a 7.4 percent increase in February.Among the main components, prices for energy grew 17.5 percent and those in the production of consumer non-durable goods were higher by 4.4 percent. Prices in the intermediate goods industry except energy rose 4.5 percent.Producer prices decreased by 2.0 percent in the manufacture of capital goods and by 4.3…

The Nasdaq index is trading at new session lows, down around 200 points or -1.14% at 17,183.96. Earlier in the day, the index reached a high of 17,467.35, coming within about 27 points of the key 50% midpoint of the move from the December 16 all-time high to the April 7 low. That midpoint level sits at 17,494.31. A sustained move above the midpoint would be needed to strengthen bullish momentum, but buyers failed to break through on their first attempt today.Despite the pullback, buyers are still in play and arguably maintain a technical advantage after last Thursday’s move above…

Textile manufacturing workers in Binzhou, Shandong, China, on April 23, 2025.Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty ImagesBEIJING — Chinese manufacturers are pausing production and turning to new markets as the impact of U.S. tariffs sets in, according to companies and analysts.The lost orders are also hitting jobs.”I know several factories that have told half of their employees to go home for a few weeks and stopped most of their production,” said Cameron Johnson, Shanghai-based senior partner at consulting firm Tidalwave Solutions. He said factories making toys, sporting goods and low-cost dollar store-type goods are the most affected right now.”While not large-scale…

The global economy is teetering on the edge of a full-scale trade war, and the crypto markets are already feeling the tremors. With sweeping new tariffs rolled out by the United States in 2025 and rapid retaliation from China and the European Union, the economic landscape is shifting fast. Investors, analysts, and policymakers alike are now watching closely to see how these escalations ripple through traditional and digital asset markets.As the Binance Tariff Escalation and Crypto Markets study highlights, the scale of US-led protectionism in 2025 is unprecedented in modern history—drawing comparisons to the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of the 1930s.…

A White House statement says that the European Union fine on Meta and Apple is a novel form of economic extortion and will not be tolerated. Apple was fined US$570 million and Meta US$228 million – European Union antitrust regulators handed out the fines ***Only yesterday Trump said the EU was not taking advantage any more, see the pic, about a third of the way down.Now they are back being naughty again? The thing this highlights is that this is a headline-driven market folks. On the whims of one person. Later this year, ForexLive.com is evolving into investingLive.com, a new…

ICYMI, an EV pick up launched by Slate Auto, a firm backed in part by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos: starting price point US$20,000 after federal EV incentivesmade in the USAtwo-door version can be changed into a 5-seat SUVbase model is about two-thirds the size of a Chevy Silverado EV and just a little smaller than the size of a Ford Maverickpayload capacity of 1,400 pounds compared the Maverick’s 1500 poundsmaximum range of 150 miles on a single chargeoption for a longer-range battery pack that could offer up to 240 milesdelivery to customers expected late 2026Info via NBC. This article was…

The Japanese yen is in negative territory on Friday. In the European session, is trading at 143.45, up 0.59% on the day.Tokyo Core CPI Rises to 3.4% rose to 3.4% y/y in April, its highest level since April 2023. This was sharply higher from the 2.4% gain in March and beat the market estimate of 3.2%. The spike was driven by a reduction in government energy subsidies as well as hikes in food prices. The price of rice, a staple food, has skyrocketed by 93% in the past year and grain prices have jumped 25% during that time. also surged…