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Shares of Netflix Inc. NFLX, -1.01% slid 1.01% to $607.33 Thursday, on what proved to be an all-around great trading session for the stock market, with the S&P 500 Index SPX, +0.11% rising 0.11% to 5,254.35 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, +0.12% rising 0.12% to 39,807.37. This was the stock's second consecutive day of losses. Netflix Inc. closed...

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Spot silver XAGUSD1! rose 0.7% to $25.15 per ounce, platinum PL1! was up 0.2% at $909.76 and palladium XPDUSD1! climbed 0.9% to $1,023.95. Gold prices rose to a record high on Monday, as a softer U.S. inflation reading cemented bets that the Federal Reserve would deliver its first interest rate cut of the year in June. Spot gold GOLDwas up 1.2% at $2,258.53...

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Central banks have had their say for Q1 and there were arguably two surprises, both from central banks that have deployed negative interest rates in the recent past. The Bank of Japan decided to exit negative rates and the Swiss National Bank (SNB), in a surprise decision, voted to cut their benchmark interest rate – the first of the major central banks to do...

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Software company and big Bitcoin holder MicroStrategy was one of the top performing stocks of the first quarter. But one short-selling firm thinks it is overvalued and Bitcoin is a better bet for crypto fans. Kerrisdale Capital said in a report Thursday it is long Bitcoin and short shares of MicroStrategy, arguing MicroStrategy is “a proxy for bitcoin which...