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In this handout photo provided by U.S. Central Command, U.S. forces patrol the Arabian Sea near M/V Touska on April 20, 2026, after firing upon the Iranian-flagged vessel that the U.S. accused of attempting to violate the U.S. naval blockade of Iranian ports near the Strait of Hormuz.U.S. Navy | Getty ImagesPresident Donald Trump on Thursday said he has ordered the U.S. Navy “to shoot and kill any boat” that is laying mines in the Strait of Hormuz.”There is to be no hesitation,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post.The president added that he is ordering U.S. minesweepers to continue…

Comcast topped Wall Street’s revenue and earnings estimates for the first quarter on Thursday, lifted by NBC’s sports slate in February and improving broadband customer losses. The company said it lost 65,000 broadband customers compared with 183,000 losses in the same period last year. Heightened competition from wireless providers like Verizon and T-Mobile has led to quarterly customer losses for Comcast and its cable peers in recent years – which has weighed on these companies’ stocks in particular. In response, Comcast in the last year has shifted its strategy and introduced more competitive pricing packages in a bid to reduce the broadband…

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This is CNBC’s Morning Squawk newsletter. Subscribe here to receive future editions in your inbox.Happy Thursday. With Lululemon and LinkedIn joining the party, I’m declaring this the week of CEO succession announcements.Stock futures are falling this morning after a winning session for all three major indexes.Here are five key things investors need to know to start the trading day:1. Back to the topn this handout photo provided by U.S. Central Command, U.S. forces patrol the Arabian Sea near M/V Touska on April 20, 2026, after firing upon the Iranian-flagged vessel that the U.S. accused of attempting to violate the U.S. naval blockade…

This position was echoed by Little, who told MPs: “My view is that due process was followed… because the process as I’ve outlined to the committee, is that UKSV make a recommendation, and the Foreign Office make a decision as to whether to grant DV [developed vetting].” Source link

Australia, Queensland, Brisbane Central Business District, Mary Street rental car agencies competing signs Avis Budget rent.Jeff Greenberg | Universal Images Group | Getty ImagesThere’s a ‘CAR’ crash on Wall Street and it’s reminding some traders of GameStop.Shares of Avis Budget Group, ticker ‘CAR,’ soared from under $100 last month to a record high near $850 in early trading Wednesday before a sharp U-turn lower intraday. The stock closed down 38% and was down another 6% in premarket trading Thursday. The shares were last trading around $417 a share.Options volume was surging with over 200,000 contracts trading Wednesday and implied volatility…

BP logos are seen at a BP petrol and diesel filling station southeast of London on June 15, 2020.BEN STANSALL | AFP | Getty ImagesLONDON — British energy major BP suffered a shareholder revolt at its annual general meeting on Thursday, following a tense clash with investors over corporate governance and climate transparency.As the energy major pivots back to its core business of oil and gas and away from renewables, it failed to get majority shareholder approval on two highly anticipated motions, which would have permitted online-only AGMs and retired two company-specific climate disclosure obligations. Each resolution required a 75%…

President Donald Trump’s overall — and economic — approval ratings plunged in the latest CNBC All-America Economic Survey in what appears to be direct fallout from widespread dissatisfaction with the war with Iran, high gasoline prices and negative views of the economy.The survey of 1,000 people nationwide found that 40% approve of the president’s job performance, a 5-point drop from last quarter, and 58% disapprove, a 6-point increase. His net approval fell 10 points to -18, the lowest ever measured over the president’s two terms. The survey, which has a margin of error of +/- 3.1%, marked the sharpest drop…

Tesla’s $25 billion spending plan tests investor faith in unproven AI bets Source link

Microsoft released an emergency patch for its ASP.NET Core to fix a high-severity vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to gain SYSTEM privileges on devices that use the Web development framework to run Linux or macOS apps. The software maker said Tuesday evening that the vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-40372, affects versions 10.0.0 through 10.0.6 of the Microsoft.AspNetCore.DataProtection NuGet, a package that’s part of the framework. The critical flaw stems from a faulty verification of cryptographic signatures. It can be exploited to allow unauthenticated attackers to forge authentication payloads during the HMAC validation process, which is used to verify the integrity and…