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U.S. Treasury yields fell slightly on Tuesday as investors weighed escalating tensions in the Middle East and rising oil prices ahead of the Federal Reserve’s policy decision.The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note fell by almost two basis points to 4.202%, and the yield on the 30-year Treasury note fell by a fraction of a point to 4.854%. The yield on two-year government bonds also fell by almost 2 basis points to 3.665%.One basis point is equivalent to 0.01%, and yield and price are inversely related.Oil prices soared on Tuesday as questions remained over whether the US-led coalition would…
This is CNBC’s Morning Squawk newsletter. Subscribe here to receive future editions in your inbox.good morning. Soon, your garage won’t be the only gym with a gym. peloton bicycle. The fitness company is ramping up its commercial operations, announcing yesterday new bike and tread products designed for busy gyms.Stock futures were little changed this morning after Monday’s rally.Here are five important things investors need to know to start their trading day.1. Increase in ordersNVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang speaks at the NVIDIA GTC Global AI Conference on March 16, 2026 in San Jose, California, USA. Fred Greavesreutershares of Nvidia Shares closed…
Joe Kent, director of the National Counterterrorism Center, testifies during a House Homeland Security Committee hearing entitled “Global Threats to the Homeland” on Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2025, in Cannonville. Tom Williams | Cq-roll Call Inc. | Getty ImagesJoe Kent, director of the National Counterterrorism Center, announced Tuesday that he is resigning in the wake of the Trump administration’s military actions against Iran.”I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war,” Kent said in a letter to President Donald Trump posted on X’s official personal account.Kent, a far-right conspiracy theory promoter who was narrowly confirmed by the Senate as director last…
listen to this article | 5 minutesinformationIn the devastated enclave, where more than two million Palestinians remain crammed onto a shrinking land under the overwhelming shadow of Israeli military occupation and shelling, daily survival is tied to a fragile October ceasefire.But as Israeli and American bombs rain down on Iran and it retaliates across the region, the broken ceasefire is at a breaking point, calling for an unprecedented diplomatic maneuver between President Donald Trump’s Peace Committee and Hamas in direct dialogue.Recommended stories list of 4 itemsend of listSpecial envoys from a new group personally led by President Trump to oversee…
Paul McGinley reflects on Rory McIlroy’s disappointing title defense at The Players and thinks he may need to reconsider his efforts on and off the course ahead of the Masters.This week aside, looking at his performance in 2026, McIlroy’s basic stats are all good and he’s had a solid enough start to the season. A back injury in the days leading up to The Players certainly distracted him, and the lack of preparation seemed to discourage him as a competitor. Use Chrome Browser for a more accessible video player Rory McIlroy reflects on his week at The Players, which ended…
Gamma, a platform that allows you to create presentations and websites using AI, is launching a new image generation product for creating marketing assets in a bid to better compete with the likes of Canva and Adobe. The company says the new product, called Gamma Imagine, will allow users to use text prompts to create brand-specific assets such as interactive charts and visualizations, marketing materials, social graphics and infographics. Gamma currently offers over 100 templates that can be used in conjunction with AI tools to build the types of assets you need. To enhance its data-driven asset generation capabilities, the…
Just Capital’s annual list of America’s “Fairest” Companies ranks the Russell 1000 globally using a poll-based methodology that has surveyed nearly 200,000 Americans since 2015, asking them to identify and prioritize the issues they believe will most contribute to fair business conduct.To create the 2026 Just Capital rankings, research spanned 17 core issues, 85 overall underlying data points and 36 sector-specific data points, and five stakeholder groups: workers, communities, shareholders and governance, customers, and the environment.Corporate boards are facing greater uncertainty than at any time in recent history, from geopolitics to the age of inflation to the rise of artificial…
Meteorologists are calling for superlatives, saying the arrival of a heat wave so intense and rare for this time of year that some areas could break April temperature records before the month even begins. This extreme event, made worse by human-induced climate change, brings summer-like temperatures during March from California to Texas and as far north as Montana. Heat warnings and other heat warnings have been issued for millions of people from San Francisco to Phoenix and are likely to expand over time. The event has just begun. By the end of next week, the weather will scorch much of…
Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leclerc engaged in a thrilling battle for the podium at the Chinese Grand Prix, with the seven-time world champion calling it “the best race I’ve ever experienced in F1”.Hamilton and Leclerc showed the best performance of F1’s new regulations, overtaking and re-overtaking several times around the Shanghai International Circuit on Sunday, and were close in the sprint on Saturday. Remarkably, the pair only had one minor contact, a “kiss” according to Hamilton, who took the lead and secured his first podium as a Ferrari driver. “It was kind of like a go-kart, going back and forth,…
Ali Larijani, Secretary of Iran’s Supreme Council for National Security, arrives in Beirut, Lebanon, on September 27, 2025, to attend the memorial service for Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah. Courtney Bonneau | AFP | Getty ImagesIsraeli Defense Minister Yisrael Katz announced on Tuesday that Iranian security chief Ali Larijani was killed in an overnight airstrike.According to Reuters, Katz said in a statement that he had been informed by the military that both Larijani and Iranian Basij commander Gholamreza Soleimani had been killed. Iran has not yet confirmed this report. A message purported to be from Larijani was published on social media…