BREAKING: The Senate advances a bill aimed at ending the Iran war, per AP

BREAKING: Trump and sons to be ‘forever’ exempt from tax audits, per FT

BREAKING: The US has dropped tax claims against Trump, with part of the settlement agreement saying the US is "forever barred and precluded" from examining or prosecuting Trump, his sons and the Trump organization's current tax issues, per AP

JUST IN: AMC Entertainment, $AMC, CEO Adam Aron purchased 250,000 shares of the company's Class A common stock.

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BREAKING: The SEC has announced broad-based reform proposals for regulations on how companies offer shares and report required information to investors, moving to advance the Trump administration's goal of encouraging more companies to go public on stock markets. If adopted, the changes would greatly expand the number of companies able to issue shares more quickly and less expensively and avail themselves of looser requirements for public disclosure until they reach a higher valuation threshold, according to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

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BREAKING: 30-year mortgage rates have hit 6.75%, per Mortgage Daily News

"The American rebellion against AI is gaining steam," per WSJ

Breaking: ServiceNow is now up 17% since President Trump disclosed a stake in the company According to his filing disclosed on 5/14, he bought up to $5M of $NOW That's $850K of potential profits in just 5 days See his full portfolio on @joinautopilot

NATO to consider a Hormuz deployment if the Strait not open by July, per Reuters

BREAKING: Trump says timeline for Iran is 2-3 days, maybe until early next week.

Putin has arrived in Beijing for summit with China’s President Xi

Conversion has announced a $30M raise to deploy autonomous AI agents capable of running entire marketing funnels. The software natively handles GA4 data analysis, UGC asset generation, and CMS deployment without human intervention. The cost of scaling a corporate entity is changing fundamentally.

BREAKING: Donald Trump executed 3,642 securities transactions during the first quarter, averaging nearly 58 trades for every U.S. trading day. This translates to roughly nine trades every hour or about one trade every seven minutes during market hours, per YF

President Trump made 94 different trades of “Magnificent Seven” stocks in the first quarter of 2026, per YF. The trades were valued at between $50 million and $70 million across 64 buy orders and 30 stock sales.

"The CEO of Barnes and Noble says he will stock AI written books," per MorePerfectUnion

Trump: "I now like to raise a glass and propose a toast to the rich and enduring ties between the American and Chinese people. It's a very special relationship, and I want to thank you again. This has been an amazing period of time. Thank you, President Xi."

44% of investors expect reopening of Strait of Hormuz in June 2026, per Bank of America

The Pentagon reportedly did not want resumption of strikes as Iran grew more effective tracking US air ops, per NYT

BREAKING: US 30-year treasury yield has hit to 5.177%, highest since 2007

"US President Donald Trump says shipments of arms to Taiwan are “a very good negotiating chip” with China. The Taiwan Relations Act says they are not, in fact, negotiable," per Bloomberg.

A mild morning.

The share of Americans who say their financial situation is getting worse is higher now than the past 25 years, per Axios.

India has overtaken England to become Australia’s largest migrant group, per SCMP

89% of leaders say AI has not improved their company's labor productivity, despite widespread adoption, per Gallup.

"Our food is growing less nutritious. Many of humanity’s most important crops — including wheat, potatoes, beans — contain fewer vitamins and minerals than they did a generation ago," per WaPo

Government waste, fraud and abuse rose 13% last year, per MW

50% of Gen X employees are pushing back their retirement dates, citing stagnant wages, rising everyday costs, and a lack of liquid savings, per PwC

The median age of first-time homebuyers has jumped from 28 in 1991 to 40 today, per RealtorCom.

Good night to everyone:

"The only thing growing faster than the artificial-intelligence industry may be Americans’ negative feelings about it," per WSJ

Trump will swear in Kevin Warsh as the next chairman of the United States Federal Reserve on Friday, per CNBC

Goldman Sachs is now likely to lead the the SpaceX IPO, per Polymarket:

BREAKING: Meta, $META, to move 7,000 people to new AI initiatives and eliminating managerial roles

The Strategic Petroleum Reserve just fell by its largest ever weekly amount: almost 10 million barrels, per Patrick de Haan of GasBuddy.

The Trump administration has officially reversed a Biden-era ban on the use of "cyanide bombs," known as M-44 ejector devices, for predator control on federal public lands, per NYT

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BREAKING: The White House is reviewing whether to amend and potentially scrap a decades-old rule governing stock trading that’s meant to make sure investors get better prices for their transactions, per Bloomberg.