matdesign24/iStock via Getty Images CPI inflation surged in March , rising 0.865%, matching estimates, as an oil-driven energy shock led the way. It was good enough for a top-10 biggest sequential CPI hike since 1970. While headline inflation jumped, core CPI increased a more modest 0.196%, a tick under economists’ projections, with food prices flat. Energy spiked 10.9% (the largest rise in 21 yea...
matdesign24/iStock via Getty Images CPI inflation surged in March , rising 0.865%, matching estimates, as an oil-driven energy shock led the way. It was good enough for a top-10 biggest sequential CPI hike since 1970. While headline inflation jumped, core CPI increased a more modest 0.196%, a tick under economists’ projections, with food prices flat. Energy spiked 10.9% (the largest rise in 21 years), driven by a sharp 21% rise in gasoline (the biggest surge on record, back to 1967). Gasoline accounted for almost three-quarters of the inflation spike. On an annual basis, headline CPI is 3.3%, while the core rate is 2.6%. Digging into the report, core goods rose just 0.1%, with new vehicles flat, used cars down 0.4%, and apparel up 1%. Core services also increased 0.2%, led by shelter (+0.3%), including rent (+0.2%) and OER (+0.3%), while hotels rose 0.2%. Medical care and car insurance were flat, though airfares climbed 2.7%. Big picture, super core CPI rose 18 basis points last month, which was an improvement from +35 basis points in February. Also keep in mind that the partial government shutdown may have shaved some pricing pressure. For the consumer, real average hourly earnings are now a paltry +0.3% on a trailing 12-month basis, down sharply from 1.4% in February. Higher energy bills weigh on households, with electricity CPI up 4.6% over the past 12 months and gas utilities up 6.4% vs March 2025. Food-at-home CPI is +1.9%, but food away from home is hotter at +3.8%. The good news is that vehicle prices are up a weak 0.5% YoY, with used vehicle prices off 3.2%. Equity futures were little changed after the 8:30 a.m. ET data, while the bond market largely yawned at the March numbers. The bulls are fine with that, as the S&P 500 ( SP500 ) looks to put in a second consecutive large weekly climb. As for Fed Fund futures, there was a modest uptick in expectations for an eventual rate cut. Of course, the FOMC is likely to be in a holding pattern for quite some time. T...
Botswana is holding to its ambition of buying a controlling stake in De Beers from Anglo American Plc , potentially dampening interest from some private investors looking to acquire the diamond giant. Anglo has set an April 16 deadline for bids, as the London-listed miner pushes ahead with exiting the business despite the diamond market languishing in one of its worst ever crises, according to thr...
Botswana is holding to its ambition of buying a controlling stake in De Beers from Anglo American Plc , potentially dampening interest from some private investors looking to acquire the diamond giant. Anglo has set an April 16 deadline for bids, as the London-listed miner pushes ahead with exiting the business despite the diamond market languishing in one of its worst ever crises, according to three people familiar with the matter. The government of Botswana – which owns 15% of the iconic diamond firm – still wants to boost that stake beyond 50%, according to people familiar who asked not to be identified discussing a confidential matter. President Duma Boko told Bloomberg TV the same thing during an interview in September. More than two-thirds of De Beers’s rough stones are mined in the southern African country. Discussions in recent weeks between Botswana and other African diamond producing nations, Angola and Namibia, as well as with potential private buyers, had led to growing expectations that the government would be willing to settle for a minority stake in De Beers. That would open the way for the one-time diamond monopoly to remain in private ownership. The continuing intention of Boko’s administration to pursue control is likely to hamper Anglo’s efforts to find private investors, some of the people said. The situation remains fluid and may change, they added. While Botswana has pre-emptive rights over Anglo’s entire De Beers stake, securing control of the business isn’t guaranteed, said one of the people familiar with the government’s position. Rather, the size of the country’s shareholding will depend on various antitrust and regulatory considerations, as well as talks with private bidders, they said. There are at least three private groups still interested in buying the business, led by former De Beers boss Gareth Penny , Australian mining veteran Michael O’Keeffe and diamond trader Nir Livnat . Those groups thought Botswana had tempered its aspirations ...
A paper in JAMA Psychiatry says mental health providers should ask if patients are using artificial intelligence chatbots, just as they would ask patients about sleep habits and substance use. (Image credit: Kiichiro Sato)
A paper in JAMA Psychiatry says mental health providers should ask if patients are using artificial intelligence chatbots, just as they would ask patients about sleep habits and substance use. (Image credit: Kiichiro Sato)
Grupi 2026. aasta I kvartali konsolideeritud auditeerimata müügitulu oli 228,4 miljonit eurot. Võrreldes 2025. aasta I kvartaliga kasvas müügitulu 6,3%. Aruandeperioodi puhaskahjumiks kujunes 4,7 miljonit eurot. Võrreldes aasta varasemaga oli kahjum 1,8 miljonit eurot väiksem sisaldades madalama tulumaksu kulu positiivset mõju 1,1 miljoni euro ulatuses. Maksueelne kasum oli 2,0 miljonit eurot ja s...
Grupi 2026. aasta I kvartali konsolideeritud auditeerimata müügitulu oli 228,4 miljonit eurot. Võrreldes 2025. aasta I kvartaliga kasvas müügitulu 6,3%. Aruandeperioodi puhaskahjumiks kujunes 4,7 miljonit eurot. Võrreldes aasta varasemaga oli kahjum 1,8 miljonit eurot väiksem sisaldades madalama tulumaksu kulu positiivset mõju 1,1 miljoni euro ulatuses. Maksueelne kasum oli 2,0 miljonit eurot ja see kasvas võrreldes aasta varasema tulemusega 0,7 miljonit eurot. 2026. aastasse ennustatud majanduskasv jäi esimeses kvartalis tarbimise kasvu osas siiski tagasihoidlikuks. Rahakotist võtsid olulise osa külmade talvekuude kõrgemad kommunaalarved ning Lähis-Idas puhkenud uus sõda suunas tarbijad tagasi suuremale ettevaatlikkusele. Grupi esimese kvartali majandustulemustes andis see kõige rohkem tunda toidukaubanduses ehk supermarketite segmendis, kus tulemus langes nii müügitulu kui kasumi vaates. Seda tasakaalustas taas vaikselt startinud automüük, tuues autosegmendi Grupi ärisegmentide seas kõige kiirema müügitulu ja kasumi kasvuga segmendiks. Alates 01.03.2026 on Grupi tulemustesse konsolideeritud märtsi algul soetatud Rohe Auto ASi ja SKO Motors OÜ tulemused. Autosegment oli ka põhiliseks mootoriks kogu Grupi müügitulu 6,3%lisele müügitulu kasvule. Lisaks autosegmendile kasvatasid müügitulu kaubamajade ja turvasegment ning erinevalt eelmisest aastast jõudis turvasegment ka väiksesse kasumisse. Mõningal määral kahanes Grupi brutorentaablus, mida tingisid autosegmendi hinnasurve tingimustes tehtud müügitulemused. Teistes Grupi jaemüügisegmentides brutorentaablus ei langenud. Tööjõukulud kasvasid 3,9%, samas kui töötajate koguarv vähenes 0,4%. Finantskulud kahanesid aasta varasemaga võrreldes 0,8%. Märtsis viidi edukalt lõpule oluline strateegiline investeering Rohe Auto ASi aktsiate ning SKO Motors OÜ ja SKO Motors Kinnisvara OÜ osade omandamiseks. Investeeringuga tugevdab Grupp autosegmendi positsiooni Eestis ja Baltikumis, loob sünergiaid ning lisab Grupi brändiportfell...
Cloudflare, the cloud provider that connects millions of sites to the internet, wants to "fix" another digital giant: WordPress. It announced a new open-source system, called EmDash, that's supposed to address the "core problems that WordPress cannot solve" - and they want to do it by allowing AI agents to take control of your website. Though it's still in early access, EmDash is already causing a...
Cloudflare, the cloud provider that connects millions of sites to the internet, wants to "fix" another digital giant: WordPress. It announced a new open-source system, called EmDash, that's supposed to address the "core problems that WordPress cannot solve" - and they want to do it by allowing AI agents to take control of your website. Though it's still in early access, EmDash is already causing a stir in the WordPress community, and not just because its interface looks like WordPress with a facelift. Cloudflare is calling EmDash the "spiritual successor" of WordPress - something WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg has already refuted in a bl … Read the full story at The Verge.
Artemis II Astronauts To Return Home Today: What To Know Authored by T.J.Muscaro via The Epoch Times, Humanity’s first mission around the Moon in more than 50 years is coming home the way of a meteor. NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch—as well as Jeremy Hansen of the Canadian Space Agency—will reenter Earth’s atmosphere in their Orion spacecraft Integrity at approximat...
Artemis II Astronauts To Return Home Today: What To Know Authored by T.J.Muscaro via The Epoch Times, Humanity’s first mission around the Moon in more than 50 years is coming home the way of a meteor. NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch—as well as Jeremy Hansen of the Canadian Space Agency—will reenter Earth’s atmosphere in their Orion spacecraft Integrity at approximately 7:53 p.m. on April 10. Artemis II’s 10-day journey beyond the moon to the farthest point away from Earth that humans have traveled will end with the astronauts’ ride in a fireball through the sky and splashdown in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Diego at approximately 8:07 p.m. This is the pinnacle of the adventure that Glover has been thinking about since he got assigned to the mission on April 3, 2023, and NASA officials have been thinking about it since even before that. After Artemis I, the Orion spacecraft’s heat shield and reentry trajectory went through a drastic redesign. NASA’s associate administrator, Amit Kshatriya, affirmed on April 9 that the crew and everyone involved were confident in Integrity’s systems. Reentry Timeline NASA’s Rick Henfling will be the flight director at mission control during reentry and splashdown, and he outlined the course of events ahead of the mission’s dramatic conclusion. 11:35 a.m. EDT— The crew will wake up and start their day. They will make final preparations and configure the cabin for reentry as Integrity gets closer to home and travels faster and faster. Those preparations include donning the orange-and-blue pressure suits they wore for launch and stowing all remaining loose equipment for reentry. One final course correction burn is also scheduled. 7:33 p.m.— Integrity’s Orion crew module will separate from its European Service module—the deep-space workhorse that kept Artemis II on course, provided power and life support, and offered exterior vantage points from which photographs were taken and shared with the wor...
Here are the key takeaways from the US consumer price index report for March, released Friday: The headline CPI soared 0.9% compared with February, the most since the cost-of-living surge back in 2022, thanks to the expected jump in energy prices stemming from the Iran war. Overall energy costs climbed 10.9% on the month, with energy commodities (stripping out services such as electricity) rising ...
Here are the key takeaways from the US consumer price index report for March, released Friday: The headline CPI soared 0.9% compared with February, the most since the cost-of-living surge back in 2022, thanks to the expected jump in energy prices stemming from the Iran war. Overall energy costs climbed 10.9% on the month, with energy commodities (stripping out services such as electricity) rising some 21.3%, the most on record. Core CPI , stripping out energy and food, rose 0.2% for a second straight month. That’s less than the 0.3% median forecast in Bloomberg’s survey. A decline in used car and medical care prices helped hold the gauge down. The year-on-year CPI readings came in at 3.3% for the headline and 2.6% for the core, both one-tenth of a percentage point less than forecast. Some categories suggested an easing of tariff pressures after the Supreme Court’s February invalidation of the bulk of the Trump administration’s levies, which were then replaced with a temporary duty of 10%. Household furnishings were down 0.2% on the month, and video and audio products dropped 0.8%. Apparel was up 1.0%. Markets showed little reaction to the release, coming after a hot March US jobs report from last week. Two-year Treasury yields initially dipped to their lows of the session, but were up about 2 basis points at 3.78% as of 9:15 a.m. S&P 500 futures were little changed, as was the Bloomberg Dollar Spot Index. To access the full live blog, click here to read on the Terminal and here online.
Braiin Limited ( BRAI ) announced approval of a 3-for-1 forward stock split by its board and shareholders. The split aims to lower the share price to make it more accessible for retail investors. Shareholders on record as of April 27, 2026 will receive two additional shares per share held. Additional shares will be distributed after market close on April 28, 2026. Trading on a split-adjusted basis...
Braiin Limited ( BRAI ) announced approval of a 3-for-1 forward stock split by its board and shareholders. The split aims to lower the share price to make it more accessible for retail investors. Shareholders on record as of April 27, 2026 will receive two additional shares per share held. Additional shares will be distributed after market close on April 28, 2026. Trading on a split-adjusted basis is expected to begin on April 29, 2026. BRAI shares up 6.4% premarket. More on Braiin Limited Steer Clear Of The Braiin AI Listing Financial information for Braiin Limited
Shenzhen Stock Exchange. Photo: VCG China’s securities regulator unveiled new listing criteria for the Shenzhen Stock Exchange’s tech-heavy ChiNext board on Friday and launched a pilot program allowing local governments to recommend initial public offering candidates. The China Securities Regulatory Commission said the changes are designed to refine listing standards and draw higher-quality compan...
Shenzhen Stock Exchange. Photo: VCG China’s securities regulator unveiled new listing criteria for the Shenzhen Stock Exchange’s tech-heavy ChiNext board on Friday and launched a pilot program allowing local governments to recommend initial public offering candidates. The China Securities Regulatory Commission said the changes are designed to refine listing standards and draw higher-quality companies in emerging and future-oriented industries.
alexkoral/iStock Editorial via Getty Images VinFast Auto ( VFS ) reported a 127% increase in domestic deliveries for March to 27,609 electric vehicles (EVs) in Vietnam for March. For the first quarter, total deliveries reached 53,684 EVs to reinforce VinFast's ( VFS ) position as a leader in its home market. The company’s best-selling model in March was the Limo Green, with 6,795 units delivered, ...
alexkoral/iStock Editorial via Getty Images VinFast Auto ( VFS ) reported a 127% increase in domestic deliveries for March to 27,609 electric vehicles (EVs) in Vietnam for March. For the first quarter, total deliveries reached 53,684 EVs to reinforce VinFast's ( VFS ) position as a leader in its home market. The company’s best-selling model in March was the Limo Green, with 6,795 units delivered, followed by the VF 3 (4,729 units) and a combined 4,218 units of the VF 5 and its derivative, the Herio Green. Other notable models included the VF 6 (3,152 units), VF MPV 7 (2,521 units), Minio Green (1,969 units), VF 7 (1,732 units), and the EC Van (1,136 units), targeted for transportation services. Over the first quarter, the Limo Green (12,471 units) and VF 3 (10,188 units) remained the top sellers, while the VF 5 and Herio Green together accounted for 8,672 deliveries. Additional shipments in the quarter included 6,679 VF 6 vehicles, 3,809 Minio Green vehicles, 3,686 VF MPV 7 vehicles, and 3,514 VF 7 vehicles—reflecting continued traction across VinFast's ( VFS ) expanding EV lineup. More on VinFast Auto VinFast: Recent Rally Fuels Some Skepticism VinFast Auto Ltd. (VFS) Q4 2025 Earnings Call Transcript VinFast Auto Ltd. 2025 Q4 - Results - Earnings Call Presentation VinFast Auto points to strong e-scooter demand in March VinFast Auto is called an underappreciated AV/AI play by Wedbush Securities