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SpaceX may soon have its company town along the Texas Gulf Coast, but lawmakers have declined to give it control over a public beach.

The “Fast Money” traders share their best and worst trades over President Trump’s next 100 days.

Japan govt official on factory output:

• Environment surrounding production remains highly uncertain
• March motor vehicle production down 5.9%m/m due to lower exports, part supply disruption
• Some manufacturers expressed concern about U.S. tariffs
• Not heard directly U.S. tariff measures have forced manufacturers to change production plan

CopyThe data is here, its pretty poor:

• Japan March 2025 preliminary industrial production -1.1% m/m (expected -0.4%)

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The Bank of Japan are meeting today and Thursday. The Bank is not expected to change its policy settings.

This article was written by Eamonn Sheridan at www.forexlive.com.

President Donald Trump has rolled out a tariff regime, pushed for mass deportations, empowered Elon Musk to slash the government and more.

This was higher than the Reuters expectations of a 2.3% climb, and unchanged than the 2.4% rise in the last quarter of 2024.

It comes after Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai said the company is exploring personal ownership of vehicles with Waymo technology.

Europe’s biggest carmaker reported operating profit of 2.9 billion euros ($3.3 billion) for the first three months of the year.

• Prior +0.3%

The bulk of the decline owes to energy prices. If you strip that out, import prices were only seen down 0.3% on the month. Looking at the breakdown, there were also falls in prices for intermediate goods (-0.4%) and capital goods (-0.4%).

This article was written by Justin Low at www.forexlive.com.

• Prior +0.8%; revised to +0.2%

German retail sales fell back in March and that follows a more negative revision to the February numbers as well. The year-on-year reading at least still shows a 2.2% increase in retail sales compared to March last year.

This article was written by Justin Low at www.forexlive.com.

• Prior 0.0%

The average house price in the UK is seen easing a little to £270,752, with Nationwide noting that the market is “likely to remain a little soft in the coming months, following the pattern typically observed following the end of stamp duty holidays”.

This article was written by Justin Low at www.forexlive.com.