• U.S. stocks traded mostly higher on Tuesday after a March inflation report turned out not as bad as some traders feared, but the impact of a halt to the rollout of Johnson & Johnson vaccine kept optimism in check. The Dow Jones fell -68 points or -0.2%, the S&P 500 added +0.33% and locked in a new closing high. The Nasdaq, the relative outperformer, gained +1.05% as Apple and PayPal each added more than +2%. Semiconductor maker Nvidia climbed +3%, Tesla rose +8.6%.
