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This is CNBC’s Morning Squawk newsletter. Subscribe here to receive future editions in your inbox.Good morning and happy tax day. As of last week, the average tax refund this year was more than 10% higher than the same period last year, according to IRS data.S&P500 Futures were little changed this morning after the index posted its ninth positive session in a decade yesterday.Here are five important things investors need to know to start their trading day.1. RolledTraders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange.new york stock exchangeAll three major indexes rose for the second day in a…
Berlin — One European nationalist party abruptly ended its grip on power in Hungary over the weekend, while another is riding a wave of popularity to tighten its grip on German politics. The Alternative for Germany (AfD) branch in the former East German state of Saxony-Anhalt held a party conference over the weekend ahead of state elections in September that could give the once political outcast an absolute majority for the first time in its 13-year history. In an impassioned speech to around 250 delegates, the far-right party’s leading telegenic candidate in the region, Ulrich Siegmund, laid out exactly what…
Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch visits the Wellsafe Protector oil rig in Aberdeen’s South Harbour, March 30, 2026 in Aberdeen, Scotland.Paul Reid | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesUS President Donald Trump has renewed his criticism of Britain’s energy policy, ridiculing the ruling centre-left Labor government’s decision to ban the approval of new oil and gas fields in the North Sea.”Europe desperately needs energy and the UK refuses to open North Sea oil, one of the world’s largest oil fields. Tragedy!!!” Trump said in a post on Truth Social on Tuesday.Trump said: “Aberdeen should be booming. Norway is selling North…
Days after Meta shut down its internal “tokenmaxxing” dashboard following news that its AI leaderboards had been leaked to the press, LinkedIn co-founder and venture capitalist Reid Hoffman has voiced support for the concept that has recently taken Silicon Valley by storm. AI tokens are small chunks of data that an AI model processes as it tries to understand a prompt and generate a response. It is also the unit used to measure AI usage and determine the cost of AI services. As a result, many companies are starting to internally track which employees are using the most tokens as…
OpenAI has abandoned plans to directly rent computing power from a data center in Norway, days after confirming it had paused a similar project in the UK.microsoft is leveraging additional compute previously allocated for OpenAI at its planned 230MW “Stargate Norway” facility in Narvik. OpenAI is currently in talks to lease capacity from Microsoft instead, a company spokesperson told CNBC.The AI company said it has an opportunity to become the “first off-taker” of data centers in 2025. The data center was part of OpenAI’s Stargate infrastructure project and was being built by British AI cloud startup Nscale.A person with direct…
A student opened fire at a middle school in central Turkey on Wednesday, killing four people and injuring 20 others, the local governor announced, the country’s second school shooting in two days. Kahramanmaras governor Mkerem Unruar said four of the injured were undergoing surgery. One of those killed was a school teacher, Anruar said. Unruah told reporters at the scene of the school shooting that the gunman committed suicide after the incident. This is the second school shooting in Türkiye in recent days. On Tuesday, a former student opened fire at his alma mater, injuring 16 people, before committing suicide.…
Liverpool striker Hugo Ekitike had to be carried away on a stretcher during the Champions League defeat to Paris Saint-Germain.Published April 15, 2026April 15, 2026France international Hugo Ekitike ruptured his Achilles tendon in Liverpool’s Champions League loss to Paris Saint-Germain and is expected to miss the 2026 FIFA World Cup.French newspapers Le Parisien and L’Equipe reported the news of the 23-year-old’s injury on Wednesday.Recommended stories list of 4 itemsend of listThe striker has scored 17 goals in all competitions for Liverpool this season since joining from Eintracht Frankfurt for £69 million ($93.58 million) in July last year.Ekitike’s Achilles tendon was…
Morgan Stanley CEO Ted Pick speaks on CNBC’s Squawk Box outside the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on January 23, 2025.Jerry Miller | CNBCmorgan stanley On Wednesday, the company reported results that beat analysts’ expectations, as its trading business generated revenue of almost $1 billion more than expected.Here’s what the company reported:Earnings: $3.43 per share (vs. LSEG estimate of $3) Revenue: $20.58 billion vs. LSEG estimate of $19.72 billion The bank said profit rose 29% to $5.57 billion, or $3.43 per share. Revenue rose 16% to $20.58 billion, driven by gains from trading, investment banking and wealth management businesses.Equity…
The exchange, which took place outside a London hotel, sparked countless rumors of a feud. First, Lovato was good friends with Taylor Swift. Lovato then went through a bad breakup with Joe Jonas, Swift went on to briefly date the Camp Rock star, and Gomez and Swift became close friends…discuss. But when Lovato first went to rehab in late 2010 and her health was deteriorating, Gomez and Swift were among those who reached out to her. This fact helped to quash speculation that a member of Gomez’s team was between the two. Gomez eventually admitted that she and Lovato had…
Published April 15, 2026April 15, 2026Although Barcelona’s dreams of Champions League glory have been dashed for the second consecutive season, there is renewed hope that the bitter experience will lead to the success of the young and growing talent next season.Confidence in the youth side, led by teenager Lamine Yamal, is what they are clinging to after Tuesday’s quarter-final exit at the hands of La Liga rivals Atletico Madrid.Recommended stories list of 4 itemsend of listIt was like déjà vu after losing to Inter Milan in the semi-finals last season.”It’s tough because we all really believed that we could do…