Apr 07 (Wednesday)

YRI
Daily Markets Overview
Today’s Morning Briefing

Markets
Stock market today: Dow falls nearly 100 points from a record high, S&P 500 breaks a 3-day winning streak | C
Stocks Close Lower After Monday Records | W
White-Hot Stock Rally Masks Mammoth Value Swings | W

Global
IMF Lifts Global Growth Forecast for 2021 to 6% | W

US
US Job Hiring Roars Back Faster Than Employers, Economist Expected | B
Jeff Bezos Backs Corporate Tax-Rate Increase and Infrastructure Plan | W
Calls Grow to Abandon Regulations Eased Under Covid (Hello, Cocktails to Go) | W

China
With Recent Covid-19 Wave Under Control, Chinese Consumers Spend on Travel | W

Geopolitics & trade
U.S., Iran Begin In Talks to Revive 2015 Nuclear Deal | W
2022 Beijing Olympics: U.S. backs away from boycott | C

Industries & companies
Autos: GM to Make Electric Version of Chevy Silverado Pickup | W
Financials: Morgan Stanley dumped $5 billion in Archegos’ stocks before fire sale | C
Financials: Credit Suisse Takes $4.7 Billion Hit on Archegos Meltdown | W
Tech: Facebook, Apple and Niantic Bet People Are Ready for Augmented-Reality Glasses | W

Virus I
California to lift most Covid restrictions June 15, keep mask mandate | C
‘A biological Fukushima’: Brazil COVID-19 deaths on track to pass worst of U.S. wave | R
France’s COVID-19 hospitalisations at a near five-month high | R

Virus II
Biden Says All U.S. Adults Should Be Eligible for Covid-19 Vaccine by April 19 | W
White House Rejects U.S. Vaccine Passports, Skirting Uproar | B
Toronto cancels in-person schooling as Canada deals with variant-driven wave of coronavirus | R
Covid Boosts Risks for Mental, Neurological Disorders in Study | B
The CDC should have updated its surface-cleaning guidelines much sooner, Dr. Ashish Jha says | C