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OSLO (Reuters) -The board of Norway's Equinor must explain how the company's plan to raise oil and gas production aligns with its stated commitment to the Paris agreement on curbing climate change, a group of minority shareholders said on Tuesday. Equinor, which is 67% government owned, this year joined the likes of Shell and BP in promising higher petroleum output while scaling back investment in renewables. In a resolution to be voted on at Equinor's May 14 annual general meeting, the minority owners said there were "material inconsistencies" between the company's climate strategy and the policy expectations expressed by its majority shareholder.

Security and aerospace company Northrop Grumman (NYSE:NOC) missed Wall Street’s revenue expectations in Q1 CY2025, with sales falling 6.6% year on year to $9.47 billion. On the other hand, the company’s outlook for the full year was close to analysts’ estimates with revenue guided to $42.25 billion at the midpoint. Its GAAP profit of $3.32 per share was 46.7% below analysts’ consensus estimates.

Gold hit a record $3,500 per ounce for the first time early Tuesday as President Donald Trump's renewed attacks on Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell unnerved markets and sent investors into safe-haven assets.

U.S. spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) recorded significant net inflows of $381.4 million on Monday, the largest daily inflow since Jan. 30.

Wall Street's main indexes jumped at the open on Tuesday, as investors turned their focus to corporate earnings after President Donald Trump's mounting criticism of Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell caused a sharp selloff in the previous session. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 345.8 points, or 0.91%, at the open to 38,516.23. The S&P 500 rose 49.5 points, or 0.96%, at the open to 5,207.67​, while the Nasdaq Composite rose 209.0 points, or 1.32%, to 16,079.94 at the opening bell.

Analysts expressed a high degree of nervousness at the prospect that Powell might be replaced by someone who would give Trump more direct political control over the Fed.

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The past six months haven’t been great for RE/MAX. It just made a new 52-week low of $6.99, and shareholders have lost 42.9% of their capital. This was partly due to its softer quarterly results and might have investors contemplating their next move.

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