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Shorting stocks has been a coin-flip in 2025, with almost 50% of short positions unprofitable this year, S3 Partners said.

Data from the British Retail Consortium shows consumers are more optimistic about the economy, but retail spending expectations have dipped slightly.

US stock futures were at a standstill as Wall Street looked forward to wrapping up a week marked by growing doubts about the economy's health under Trump's trade and tax agendas.

The data underscores the Bank of Japan's predicament of balancing price pressures from persistent food inflation against growth headwinds from U.S. President Donald Trump's tariffs. The core consumer price index (CPI), which excludes fresh food but includes oil prices, rose 3.5% in April from a year earlier, exceeding market forecasts for a 3.4% gain and accelerating from a 3.2% increase in March. "Underlying inflation remained strong in April despite the slashing of public high school fees," said Marcel Thieliant, head of Asia-Pacific at Capital Economics.

NEW YORK (Reuters) -Billionaire investor Bill Ackman told clients on Thursday that his hedge fund bought Amazon shares last month, betting earnings will continue to grow at the online retailer as President Donald Trump's tariffs bite less than consumers initially feared. Ackman and his investment team updated clients on additions to the portfolio at his hedge fund, Pershing Square Capital Management. "The most substantial move is Amazon," chief investment officer, Ryan Israel, said on a conference call.

Investors drew breath on Thursday from the recent selling across markets fueled by weakness in long-dated government debt, and pushed up stocks, the dollar and bond prices. There is no shortage of economic fundamental reasons to be bearish in the long term, but perhaps the recent selling has gotten a little excessive. U.S. says it agreed with Japan that dollar-yen reflectsfundamentals 2.

Shares of blockchain infrastructure company Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN) jumped 6.6% in the afternoon session after stocks tied to digital assets surged as Bitcoin, the world's largest cryptocurrency by market cap, reached a new all-time high, edging past the $110,000 mark.

Shares of video game retailer GameStop (NYSE:GME) jumped 7.8% in the afternoon session after stocks tied to digital assets surged as Bitcoin, the world's largest cryptocurrency by market cap, reached a new all-time high, edging past the $110,000 mark.

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U.S. stocks ended a wobbly day mostly lower in what has been a rocky week because of worries coming out of the bond market about the U.S. government's mounting debt. The S&P 500 slipped less than 0.1% Thursday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was little changed, and the Nasdaq composite rose 0.3%.