• US equity markets advanced and remain on track to log weekly and monthly gains, buoyed by a solid first quarter result from chip giant Nvidia Corp (up +3.25%) that saw its data centre business record . However, gains were capped as investors monitored judicial developments surrounding President Trump’s “reciprocal” tariffs - Dow rose +11-points or +0.28% Boeing Co +3.32% and hit a 52-week high after Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Kelly Ortberg said its airplane deliveries to China will resume next month after handovers were paused amid a trade war with the Trump administration. Mr Orberg also said Boeing could ramp up production of its best-selling Max jets to 47 a month by the end of the year. Salesforce Inc dropped -3.3% and was the worst performing Dow component overnight the cloud software giant
