Key Points — Chinese President Xi Jinping broke his public silence on the Hormuz crisis Monday, using a rare phone call with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman — their first in over three years — to call for immediate ceasefire and full restoration of Hormuz transit. — The April 7 US-Iran two-week ceasefire expires […]

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The Rio Times — USA & Canada Pulse Covering: Canada · Housing · UnitedHealth · Fed · Warsh · Tillis · Tariff Refunds · Alaska Air · Apple · Marvell · Ceasefire What Matters Today 1 Canada: Business Sentiment “Bounced Back — Then the Middle East Happened” — Q1 Business Outlook Survey Captures the Whiplash […]

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Key Points — President Javier Milei and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu signed the “Isaac Accords” in Jerusalem on Sunday, April 19, a strategic framework explicitly modeled on the 2020 Abraham Accords and extended to Latin American and Western Hemisphere countries sharing judeocristian tradition. — The accords package includes a nine-article counter-terrorism intelligence cooperation memorandum, an […]

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The Rio Times — USA & Canada Pulse Covering: Treasury · Senate · Labour Market · Defence Secretary · Canada · Fed · Markets · Energy · Earnings · Tax Day What Matters Today 1 Bessent Declares US Launching “Financial Equivalent of Bombing Iran” — Treasury Threatens Secondary Sanctions on Banks in China, Hong Kong, […]

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