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On today's podcast:

(1) A federal appeals court offered President Donald Trump a temporary reprieve from a ruling threatening to throw out the bulk of his sweeping tariff agenda, giving at least some hope to a White House now facing substantial new restrictions on its effort to rewrite the global trading order.

(2) US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said trade talks with China are “a bit stalled,” and that a call between President Donald Trump and his counterpart Xi Jinping may be needed for the world’s two largest economies to reach a deal.

(3) President Donald Trump pushed Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell to lower interest rates at their first in-person meeting since the president’s inauguration, the White House said.

(4) Buried deep in the more than 1,000-page tax-and-spending bill that President Donald Trump is muscling through Congress is an obscure tax measure - section 899 - that's setting off alarms on Wall Street and beyond.

(5) The US economic outlook remains stronger than Europe despite sweeping policy uncertainty causing ripples across the economy, according to Citigroup Inc. Chief Executive Officer Jane Fraser.

(6) Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey has urged the government to strike a deeper trade deal with the European Union to improve growth and “minimize negative effects” of Brexit.

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On today's podcast:

(1) The vast majority of President Donald Trump’s global tariffs were deemed illegal and blocked by the US trade court, dealing a major blow to a pillar of his economic agenda.

(2) US assets got a boost Thursday after a vast majority of President Donald Trump’s global tariffs were deemed illegal and blocked by the US trade court. Upbeat earnings from Nvidia Corp. also lifted investor sentiment.

(3) Billionaire Elon Musk said Wednesday that his time as formal adviser to President Donald Trump is coming to a close, raising questions about the future of the Department of Government Efficiency effort he spearheaded.

(4) Nvidia hief Executive Officer Jensen Huang soothed investor fears about a China slowdown by delivering a solid sales forecast, saying that the AI computing market is still poised for “exponential growth.”

(5) Federal Reserve officials broadly agreed heightened economic uncertainty justified their patient approach to interest-rate adjustments, minutes from their latest policy meeting showed Wednesday.

(6) The UK said it plans to require the country’s pension funds to invest in private markets and the domestic economy, a move widely opposed by the City of London’s investment managers.

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Your morning briefing, the business news you need in just 15 minutes.

On today's podcast:

(1) For decades, Asia’s export powerhouses had a simple financial strategy: Sell goods to the US, then invest the proceeds in American assets.

(2) Investors are on tenterhooks Wednesday for an auction of 40-year Japanese government bonds as volatility in the nation’s yields continues to rumble through global debt markets.

(3) President Donald Trump warned in a social media post Tuesday that Russian leader Vladimir Putin was “playing with fire”, as the US weighs whether to target Moscow with additional sanctions over its long-range missile and drone barrage against Ukraine.

(4) US Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem urged Poles to vote for the nationalist opposition candidate in Sunday’s presidential election, wading into a tightly-contested campaign that threatens to derail efforts to rebuild the country’s democratic institutions.

(5) SpaceX’s colossal Starship rocket suffered a leak, tumbled out of control in space and disintegrated as it hurtled back to Earth during a test flight on Tuesday, in a third setback in a row for the Elon Musk-led company.

(6) The UK government said it would cut back planning hurdles faced by smaller housebuilders, as Prime Minister Keir Starmer seeks to deliver on his target of building 1.5 million new homes.

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