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U.S. Stock Market News

1. On the afternoon of April 25th Beijing time, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Beijing.

2. At the Beijing Auto Show, He Xiaopeng, Chairman of XPeng Motors, announced that for the new XPeng brand MONA, they have invested 5 billion RMB in research and development. The first new car will be coming soon, hoping to achieve better sales than Xiaomi's SU7 in the second half of this year.

3. The 2024 model of Nio's ET7 Executive Edition has been officially launched, starting at 428,000 RMB.

4. After 28 days of listing, Xiaomi's SU7 has received 75,723 orders, with 5,781 deliveries. Lei Jun, Chairman of Xiaomi Group, announced that Xiaomi is fully expanding its production capacity. The standard and MAX versions of Xiaomi SU7 started deliveries on April 18th, while the Pro version will start deliveries at the end of May. The production capacity is planned to exceed 10,000 vehicles by June.

5. Moderna announced a partnership with OpenAI to achieve business process automation.

6. TAL Education Group reported a net revenue of $429.6 million in the fourth quarter, a 60% year-on-year increase, exceeding the estimated $386.1 million. Adjusted earnings per ADS were $0.080, compared to a loss of $0.020 per share in the same period last year, with an estimated $0.01.

7. According to Bloomberg, BHP Group has made a takeover offer to Anglo American Plc, valuing it at 31.1 billion pounds.

8. Industry sources indicate that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is expected to reject a spot Ethereum ETF next month.

Pre-market Movers

In the U.S. pre-market, the three major stock index futures are down, with a significant increase in the fear index.

Bitcoin is currently trading at $63,952, down nearly 4% in the past 24 hours; Ethereum is trading at $3,136, down nearly 4% in the past 24 hours.

Cryptocurrency-related stocks are down in pre-market trading, with mixed movements in tech stocks and Chinese concept stocks.

Meta is down 13%, Microsoft and Amazon are down over 1%, while Tesla, NVIDIA, and AMD are up.

Baidu is up over 1% pre-market, while XPeng, Nio, and JD.com are up nearly 1%. Alibaba and Li Auto are slightly down, while Pinduoduo is down over 1%.

Marathon Digital is down nearly 2%, Microstrategy is down nearly 1%, and Coinbase is slightly down.

In individual stocks, TAL Education Group surged over 10% at one point, with Q4 performance exceeding expectations.

Graco is down nearly 5%, with Q1 performance below expectations.

BHP Group fell over 3% at one point, offering 31.1 billion pounds to acquire Anglo American Plc.

IBM fell over 9% at one point, with weak performance in the first quarter consulting business.

Barclays is up over 5%, planning to return at least 10 billion pounds to shareholders over the next three years.

Unilever is up nearly 6%, with Q1 revenue of 15 billion euros exceeding expectations AstraZeneca rose nearly 6%, with Q1 performance exceeding expectations.

Cidara Therapeutics surged over 38% at one point, but the gain has narrowed to around 22% now as the company sells assets to adjust its strategic focus.

Sanofi rose over 5%, with Q1 revenue surpassing expectations.

Micron Technology briefly rose over 1%, receiving a $13.6 billion government grant and loan.

Boeing fell over 1% at one point, reporting a first-quarter loss of $355 million.

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