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Next week combines the big three obsessions for investors right now - the war in Iran, the path of interest rates and the AI boom.Four of the world's top central banks meet, wondering how long they can realistically look through the spike in global energy prices due to the blocked Strait of Hormuz, while five of the so-called "Magnificent Seven" U.S. tech giants report their earnings.Here's all you need to know about the coming week in financial markets by Marc Jones and Dhara Ranasinghe in London, Lewis Krauskopf in New York and Rae Wee in Singapore.1/CORRIDOR OF POWERNext week, like the eig

China to curb US investment in tech companies, Bloomberg News reports

UK companies ramp up selling price expectations, Bank of England survey shows

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Intel soars on signs AI boom for CPUs is here

Demand for Intel's central processors from firms offering AI services was so strong in the first quarter that it sold even chips it had originally written off, a remarkable turnaround that sent the company's shares soaring on Friday.The stock was 28% higher at $85 in premarket trading, on course to open at a record high that would surpass its 2000's dot-com era peak and add more than $90 billion to the company's market value, lifting it above $420 billion.Rival AMD and Arm also gained 7% each on growing conviction that inference - the process by which artificial intelligence answers user quer

Brazil shackles public pension funds after Banco Master meltdown

Ethics reforms won’t come easy on Capitol Hill after misconduct scandals

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Sánchez sidesteps a Spain-US dispute at NATO, brushing off reported Pentagon email

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez on Friday refused to be drawn into a dispute with the United States over reports that the Pentagon is weighing whether to punish members of NATO that fail to support American operations in the Iran war. Among those in the firing line is Spain, which has refused to allow U.S. forces involved in the war to use bases on its territory or airspace. Spain says that U.S.-Israeli actions in the Iran war contravenes international law. The Pentagon is reported to be mulling whether to suspend Spain from NATO, according to an unidentified

China’s AI upstart DeepSeek drops new model. Will it make waves like last year?

Polish PM questions US loyalty in case of Russian attack, FT reports

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What we know about the 14-year-old girl singer d4vd is accused of killing

The tightknit and family-friendly city of Lake Elsinore in Riverside County is about 70 miles southeast and a world apart from the glitz and glamour of the Hollywood Hills.Celeste Rivas Hernandez grew up in Lake Elsinore, where she was a regular at the corner store down the street from her home. Neighbors still recall her strolling around with her backpack and long curly black hair atop her 5-foot-2 frame.Kayleigh Cortez, a neighbor, remembered the first time she saw Celeste three years ago.“I’m like, ‘Oh, look at that girl. She had big, beautiful curls. That’s a beautiful little girl,

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Rex Heuermann admitted he killed 8 women. What about Gilgo Beach’s other bodies?

The path to identifying Rex Heuermann as the Gilgo Beach serial killer began with Shannan Gilbert.Gilbert, a 23-year-old sex worker, had gone missing in May 2010 after a visit to a client in Oak Beach, a Long Island, New York, community near Gilgo. Spurred by her mother, police began to search for her – and ultimately uncovered the remains of nearly a dozen people, mostly young female sex workers, along a stretch of Ocean Parkway.Yet when Heuermann pleaded guilty to murdering eight women earlier this month, Gilbert was not among the victims.In fact, Gilbert is one of at least four people who

2 young people arrested in alleged plot to attack Houston synagogue

Trump reclassifies state-licensed medical marijuana as a less-dangerous drug in a historic shift

Trump likes a naval blockade. But Iran presents big differences from Venezuela and Cuba

President Donald Trump has turned to naval blockades to pressure the governments of Venezuela, Cuba and now Iran to meet his demands, but his preferred tactic is confronting a very different reality in the Middle East than in the Caribbean. Unlike Cuba or Venezuela, Iran choked off a crucial trade route for energy shipments, meaning the longer the standoff persists, the more the global economy will suffer. Tehran also poses a greater military threat than those two adversaries in America’s own hemisphere and requires a sustained military presence far from U.S. shores.

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US soldier charged with making $400,000 on Maduro removal bets

A U.S. Army soldier involved in the capture of Nicolas Maduro has been charged with making $400,000 by betting on the removal of the ousted Venezuelan leader, the Justice Department said on Thursday.In the weeks leading up to Maduro's January 3 capture, Gannon Ken Van Dyke, a master sergeant with U.S. Army Special Forces, used sensitive classified information to make wagers on prediction market Polymarket that U.S. forces would enter Venezuela and that Maduro would be out of power.A grand jury in Manhattan federal court indicted Van Dyke, 38, on charges of unlawful use of confidential gover

Pope condemns killing of protesters in Iran, reaffirms stance against war

US military developing plans to target Iran’s Strait of Hormuz defenses if ceasefire fails

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Israel, Lebanon extend ceasefire as Trump seeks 'best deal' with Iran

Israel and Lebanon extended their ceasefire for three weeks at a meeting at the White House brokered by U.S. President Donald Trump, who said he was prepared to wait for "the best deal" to end his conflict with Iran.Fighting between Israel and the Iranian-backed armed group Hezbollah in Lebanon has been one of a number of sticking points to resolving the wider eight-week regional conflict, along with Iran's nuclear ambitions and control of the crucial Strait of Hormuz.Trump said he was in no rush to reach a peace agreement and wanted it to be "everlasting," while continuing to assert that the

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Italy dismisses replacing Iran at the World Cup after suggestion by Trump official

Italian sports officials say four-time champion Italy is not interested in replacing Iran at the upcoming World Cup following a suggestion to that effect by a Trump administration official. Iran has not withdrawn from the World Cup, and the team is preparing to play in the U.S. despite the war in the Middle East. FIFA has insisted its group stage games near Los Angeles and in Seattle will go ahead as planned in June. The Financial Times reported that Paolo Zampolli, the U.S. special envoy for global partnerships, had suggested the swap to President Donald Trump and

US special forces soldier arrested after allegedly winning $400,000 on Maduro raid

Shootout after argument at Louisiana mall leaves 1 dead, 5 injured, including bystanders, police say

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Trump announces drug pricing deal with Regeneron

President Donald Trump announced a drug pricing deal with Regeneron Pharmaceuticals on Thursday, wrapping up the final agreement among the 17 large pharmaceutical companies that negotiated deals with his administration.Companies including Pfizer, Eli Lilly and Amgen have agreed to slash prices of their medicines for the government's Medicaid program for low-income people and for cash payers in Trump's bid to align U.S. costs with those in other wealthy nations.In exchange for three-year exemptions from tariffs on drug imports, the drugmakers have committed to "most-favored nation" pricing, to

Firefighter heard ‘stop stop stop’ before deadly LaGuardia collision – but didn’t know who the warning was for, NTSB finds

The air traffic controller who cleared a fire truck to cross an active runway at LaGuardia Airport last month had minutes before told a plane to land on the same runway, according to a new report on the deadly March 23 collision from the National Transportation Safety Board.The controller tried to stop the truck when they realized the crash was imminent, the NTSB said in its preliminary update released Thursday. But one of the firefighters inside told investigators he didn’t realize the first shouted warning was for the truck until he saw the plane barreling towards him.The report confirms n