It’s the fourth Thursday in April, a.k.a. Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day. If you’re remote-only, congratulations—your living-room HQ just became a juice-box co-working space. Remember: “Mute” is your friend, and yes, snacks are a fully reimbursable “team-building expense.”
💉 The WHO warned that outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases are rising after pandemic disruptions.
💶 Brussels fined Apple (€500 M) and Meta (€200 M) under the EU’s new Digital Markets Act—Washington calls it “economic extortion.”
🇨🇷 Costa Rica gave special 90-day status to 85 migrants the U.S. deported in February, including 31 minors.
🌕 China’s lunar chief accused the U.S. of “blocking” partners from its 17-nation moon-base project.
📺 Unfortunately, there won’t be a live Redacted show today— the entire Morris family are feeling under the weather.
MARKETS
Gold
$3,337.08
+1.57%
Silver
$33.55
-0.06%
Bitcoin
$93,001.74
-0.89%
Dow
39,980.08
+0.94%
S&P
5,460.17
+1.57%
Nasdaq
17,058.27
+2.1%
*Stock data as of market close, cryptocurrency data as of 5:00pm AM.
Lead: Missiles over Kyiv
Photo credit: theguardian
Russia shattered a six-week lull at , hurling a mix of Iskander ballistic missiles and Iranian-made Shahed drones toward the Ukrainian capital. Nine bodies—including a mother shielding her son—were pulled from burning flats; more than seventy neighbors arrived at hospital with glass and shrapnel wounds. Mayor Vitali Klitschko called the barrage “the worst night since 2022,” while firefighters battled secondary gas-line explosions for hours.
President Zelenskyy cut short an investment tour in South Africa and will crash a NATO foreign-ministers’ dinner tonight, brandishing fresh satellite photos and pleading for Patriot missiles. U.S. officials say F-16 pilot training “won’t finish before June,” leaving Kyiv reliant on 30-year-old MiG-29s. Moscow’s MoD bragged it “hit decision-making centers”; locals insist the only “decisions” made there were about bedtime. Markets shrugged—but Polish radar operators didn’t: Warsaw briefly scrambled two F-35s when a cruise missile kissed the NATO border before looping back into Ukraine.
Dead-Cat or Drag?
credit: Reuters
Wall Street’s two-day pop already looks like a sugar rush. Early futures slid 0.7 % after the S&P Global flash PMI dipped to 51.2, its lowest print since January, hinting that the post-holiday manufacturing sprint may be stalling. The bigger mood killer: an overnight White House leak that a partial rollback of the 145 % China tariff was “on the table”—then off the table three hours later. Treasury chief Scott Bessent finally admitted the mega-tariff is “politically unsustainable,” but offered zero timeline, leaving importers frozen.
Add in a euro flirting with a 3½-year high, crude drifting toward $92, and traders suddenly prefer cashmere-lined mattresses to equities. One bright spot: chipmaker ON Semi pre-announced upbeat AI-server orders, but even that couldn’t keep the Nasdaq future above water. In trader slang, yesterday’s bounce looks less like a dead-cat and more like a feather pillow: pleasant on impact, deflates fast.
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Switch 2 Stampede
Photo credit: Sam Byford/The Verge | Nintendo
At midnight Eastern, Nintendo opened U.S. pre-orders for its long-teased Switch 2—price unchanged at $449.99. What followed looked like Taylor Swift ticket day: Target carts froze, Walmart e-queues looped, Best Buy served error 503s. The $499 “Mario Kart World” bundle sold out in 14 minutes, according to The Verge.
Tokyo quickly warned of “severely constrained” supply through August as component makers juggle rival handhelds from Sony and Asus. Within an hour, eBay scalpers posted consoles for $800, while GameStop promised a “line-only” drop on Saturday (pack lawn chairs). Why hold the line on price? Analysts say Nintendo wants to skate under Microsoft’s and Sony’s $499 entry tags, betting families will add a second unit for kids. Investors cheered: shares closed up 3 % in Osaka, their best day since last year’s Zelda launch.
News By The Numbers
222,000 — Americans filing new job-loss claims last week, a modest uptick that still signals a sturdy labor market.
Britain just told Big Tech to grow up. Regulator Ofcom unveiled 40 mandatory rules that will force every social network, gaming hub and search engine to verify ages, switch off “suggested” feeds by default, and quarantine violent, sexual or self-harm material from anyone under 18 by 25 July. Break the code and the fine is brutal: up to 10 % of global revenue—roughly $11 billion for Meta. In his House of Commons pitch, Tech Secretary Peter Kyle dangled a national 10 p.m. curfew for teens’ phones, calling doom-scroll fatigue a “public-health crisis.”
Platforms insist they’re on board—privately they’re furious about paying for age-scan tech that still miffs adult users. Safety advocates cheer the “watershed,” but remind lawmakers that VPN tutorials spread faster than homework memes: “Sixth-graders can out-hack any filter by lunch.”
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