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NAGPUR, India (Reuters) -Like thousands of his countrymen in far-flung places, flower-shop owner Ashish Nagose has been learning about trading cryptocurrencies by attending classes every weekday for the past two months in his home city of Nagpur in western India. Nagose bought and sold stock options earlier but is now venturing into cryptocurrencies as regulators have made it harder to trade equity derivatives in India. The 28-year-old believes the red-hot crypto asset class can help shield his family-owned flower shop during downturns.

Sales of Nvidia's artificial intelligence chip Blackwell will be top of mind when the company releases its latest financial results Wednesday, with analysts eyeing future demand amid a Chinese upstart's claim that it can train competitive AI models using far fewer resources. Wall Street expects Nvidia to report fourth-quarter adjusted earnings of 85 cents per share on revenue of $38.08 billion, according to FactSet. The company’s net income is expected to reach $19.58 billion.

Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway nearly doubled its cash pile to $334 billion, sold a net $134 billion of stocks, and paid $26.8 billion to the IRS.

Blockware CEO Mason Jappa says Bitcoin mining is the best way to dollar-cost average into BTC, offering a hands-off approach for retail investors.

The cryptocurrency market, rocked by a high-profile hack Friday morning, continued to be in hangover mode as the work week started. On Monday, a vast number of digital coins and tokens continued to lose value, some even at double-digit percentage rates. Leading altcoin Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH) -- the token at the center of the hack -- had fallen nearly 8% in value from 4 p.m. ET in late afternoon trading.

"There's a lot of uncertainty, a lot of kind of dust in the air, and before the Fed can go back to cutting the rates, I feel and have expressed that we got to get a little dust out of the air," Goolsbee said in an interview on Chicago public TV station WTTW.

The slowdown in US sales came as consumer sentiment weakened. Shares of the pizza chain tumbled after it reported Q4 earnings.

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Robinhood said the SEC ended an investigation into its crypto unit in what appears to be another move by the Trump administration to undo an aggressive approach to that industry.

Australia's corporate regulator said on Tuesday the country's stock market operator would be required to publish a comparison of clearing and settlement fees against foreign providers and justify any fee increases, in a bid to promote competition. The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) said ASX, responsible for some A$5 billion ($3.2 billion) of trades a day, must ensure its clearing and settlement services were offered in a transparent and non-discriminatory way. "This is about limiting ASX's ability to misuse its monopoly power to deter new entrants," ASIC Chair Joe Longo said in a statement.