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    Trump's former fixer Cohen to resume testifying about hush money deal with porn star

    Donald Trump's former fixer Michael Cohen will resume testifying on Tuesday at the Republican presidential candidate's criminal trial, a day after telling jurors that Trump personally authorized him to make a hush money payment to a porn star weeks before the 2016 election. Cohen, once so loyal to Trump that he claimed he would take a bullet for his boss, is the prosecution's most important witness. In hours of testimony on Monday, he said Trump ordered him to pay the adult film actress Stormy Daniels - "Just do it," Cohen remembered Trump saying - to ensure her silence about an alleged 2006 sexual encounter.

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    Q1 2024 Rand Capital Corp Earnings Call

    Q1 2024 Rand Capital Corp Earnings Call

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    Inflation vigil sees single stock sideshows

    Macro markets have basically frozen ahead of this week's big U.S. inflation releases, with sideshow entertainment provided by a fresh burst in activity in so-called 'meme stocks' while earnings updates and deals sagas dominated overseas. With Wednesday's April consumer price report this week's focus, Tuesday's release of the month's producer price index provides the appetizer - with core annual factory gate price readings expected to be steady at 2.4%. Although these critical data inputs likely set the tone for the public rather than the other way around, the backdrop on household inflation expectations has not been great.