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Turkey’s central bank lowered its key interest rate by a further 2.5 percentage points on Thursday, days after official figures indicated a slowdown in inflation that has eroded households’ purchasing power. The bank’s Monetary Policy Committee said it was reducing its benchmark one-week repo rate from 45% to 42.5%. “While inflation expectations and pricing behavior tend to improve, they continue to pose risks to the disinflation process,” the bank said.

Off-price retail company Burlington Stores (NYSE:BURL) beat Wall Street’s revenue expectations in Q4 CY2024, with sales up 4.8% year on year to $3.28 billion. On the other hand, next quarter’s revenue guidance of $2.50 billion was less impressive, coming in 4.3% below analysts’ estimates. Its non-GAAP profit of $4.07 per share was 8% above analysts’ consensus estimates.

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Wall Street's main indexes fell on Thursday, led by a decline in chip stocks as Marvell's forecast fanned worries of slowing demand for AI infrastructure, while worries about a trade war unleashed by U.S. tariffs also weighed on sentiment. Concerns about overspending and overcapacity in the U.S. AI industry, in the face of China's cheaper DeepSeek models, paused Wall Street's bull rally in January. The tech-heavy Nasdaq is now down over 9% from its record high hit in December.

NEW YORK (Reuters) -Investors are recalibrating how to play U.S. President Donald Trump's whipsawing policy changes, weighing that a so-called "Trump put" supporting stock market prices may be fading and that his administration is more keenly focused on the debt markets. Investors had bet strongly that Trump's agenda to lower taxes and usher in deregulation would support risk assets in a similar way to his first term when he frequently touted the stock market's performance. The so-called "Trump put," which refers to options, assumes that he will do whatever possible to keep the stock market happy.

Healthcare services provider BrightSpring Health Services (NASDAQ:BTSG) reported Q4 CY2024 results beating Wall Street’s revenue expectations, with sales up 28.6% year on year to $3.05 billion. The company expects the full year’s revenue to be around $11.85 billion, close to analysts’ estimates. Its non-GAAP profit of $0.22 per share was in line with analysts’ consensus estimates.

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