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Liam Rosenior’s spell at Chelsea began with him playing 11 games in 35 days, with at most only four days between games. With his schedule limiting his time on the practice pitch, he focused on not trying to change too much.Rosenior explained his thoughts after the FA Cup opener against Charlton in January. “This is a team that won the Club World Cup. That was five months ago. This is a team that won the Conference League last year. They are well-coached.” The new head coach felt like Enzo Maresca left behind a strong tactical foundation. In retrospect, his early…

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Google CEO Sundar Pichai opened the Google Cloud Next conference via video on Wednesday to announce one of the company’s biggest new products, the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform. Google’s tools are designed for building and managing agents at scale. This is Google’s answer to Amazon’s Bedrock AgentCore and Microsoft Foundry. Google has made an interesting choice with this tool, considering that AI, especially agents, is the most advanced in technical tasks such as coding, and security is still a big concern because the technology is so new to enterprises. The agent platform is specifically aimed at IT and technical teams.…

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Kevin Warsh, President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Federal Reserve, told lawmakers he wants the central bank to change its strategy for measuring inflation.But Aditya Bhave, an economist at Bank of America, warned on Wednesday that such a reconfiguration, part of a broader “systemic change” that Warsh has promised the central bank, may not work out as he hoped.The Fed has long favored a core price index of personal consumption expenditures, known as core PCE, because it excludes volatile food and energy prices.But Warsh wants to go a step further by eliminating extreme price shocks when calculating overall inflation.”What…

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Daniel Shapero, CEO of LinkedIn, and Ryan Roslansky, EVP of LinkedIn and Microsoft Office.Provided by: LinkedInmicrosoft has named Dan Shapero as the new CEO of its LinkedIn division, replacing Ryan Rozlansky, who has run the subsidiary since 2020 and took on additional responsibilities in Microsoft’s Office Productivity Group last year. Changes take effect immediately.”Dan has led sales, marketing and product in the most important parts of this business,” Roslansky said in a LinkedIn post Wednesday announcing the move. “He knows our members and customers well and carries the mission in a truly unusual way.” Mr. Rozlansky will retain his position…

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U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent arrives to testify before the Senate Appropriations Committee, Financial Services Subcommittee, and General Government Hearing at the Dirksen Senate Office Building on April 22, 2026, in Washington, DC. Chip Somodevilla | Getty ImagesTreasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Wednesday that “many” U.S. oil-rich allies in the Persian Gulf have requested financial support amid the economic turmoil caused by the war with Iran. Bessent’s comments went further than the White House’s claims to CNBC on Tuesday, with officials saying only that the United States had not yet been formally asked by the United Arab Emirates to set…

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Chelsea have parted ways with manager Liam Rosenior – just 107 days after he took over.Callum MacFarlane will lead his team to Sunday’s FA Cup semi-final against Leeds at Wembley and will remain as interim head coach until the end of the season. McFarlane played in the same role in two games earlier this season, in the 1-1 draw against Manchester City and the 2-1 defeat at Fulham, in which Enzo Maresca left. Chelsea are yet to speak to any candidates for the permanent position and no shortlist has been drawn up. In a statement, the club said: “We will…

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As part of a series of Google Cloud Next announcements on Wednesday, the company shared enhanced security measures as well as plans to bring an “auto-browse” agent feature to Chrome users in the enterprise. With AutoBrowse, Chrome users can leverage Gemini to understand the live context of open browser tabs and use AI to handle a variety of tasks related to booking travel, entering data, scheduling meetings, and other web-based work. Image credit: Google Google suggests that the tool could be used to populate a company’s preferred CRM system based on Google Docs content, compare vendor prices across tabs, summarize…

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Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange during morning trading on April 20, 2026 in New York City. Michael M. Santiago | Getty ImagesStocks rose on Wednesday after President Donald Trump extended the ceasefire with Iran, while a positive earnings report also boosted sentiment.of Nasdaq Composite rose 1.4%, setting a new intraday high during trading. of S&P500 While it erased all losses from the Iran war last week, it increased by 0.9%. Dow Jones Industrial Average We advanced by 267 points (0.5%).Immediately after the adjournment on Tuesday, President Trump extended the US ceasefire by two weeks,…

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy acknowledged that the Iran war had taken the focus away from Russia’s invasion of his country, and told CNN it was a “huge risk” that efforts to end the fighting in Ukraine could not be resumed until the Iranian conflict ended. President Zelenskiy told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour from the presidential palace in Kiev on Wednesday that technical talks with the United States are still taking place, but “I don’t think there will be an opportunity to meet until the question of whether the Iran incident is resolved or not.” Zelensky said it was a “challenge” that…

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Stocks @ Night is a daily newsletter delivered after hours, giving you the first information about tomorrow and the last information about today. Sign up for free to receive it straight to your inbox. Here’s what CNBC television producers were looking at Tuesday and what they’re looking at for Wednesday’s session. United Airlines The airline reported solid earnings Tuesday afternoon, but lowered its guidance in part due to higher jet fuel prices. United Airlines shares rose slightly in after-hours trading. The stock is 19% below its January high, but has risen 12% over the past month. CEO Scott Kirby will…

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