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This is CNBC’s Morning Squawk newsletter. Subscribe here to receive future editions in your inbox.Happy Thursday. I just returned from a long weekend in California. At the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival, we’ve seen firsthand how music tourism is developing.Stock futures are up slightly this morning. The three major indexes had a mixed day.Here are five important things investors need to know to start their trading day.1. Economic impactOn April 15, 2026, the Greek-flagged crude oil tanker Asahi Princess gets ready off the coast of Syria’s Baniyas port refinery on the Mediterranean coast. Iraq has started exporting crude oil…

Jan van Veen says there is no need to argue with Luke Littler after their altercation on night nine of the Premier League in Manchester.Van Veen won a controversial match in early April, when Littler became furious when his opponent turned towards him when he threw a match dart in dramatic fashion. The Dutchman told Sky Sports he glared at Littler, saying he was “not feeling well” as he was “celebrating to the crowd” and missed a match dart with his own double before losing the match. But Littler spoke out for the first time about the incident from his…

If recent college graduates want to advance in today’s job market, they should focus on being “literate, knowledgeable (and) easy to use” when it comes to artificial intelligence, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said at the CNBC America Investment Forum on Wednesday.”AI isn’t going to take your job. Someone who knows how to use AI is going to take your job,” Bessent said, adding: “At the end of the day, for the economy as a whole, we’re seeing huge productivity gains that we haven’t seen in decades.”When it comes to the stock market, AI is pushing multiple tech companies into…

Russia has launched the largest barrage of drones and missiles into Ukraine this year, killing more than a dozen people and wounding more than 100 across the country, Ukrainian authorities said Thursday. Russian airstrikes damaged buildings and caused fires, killing at least 16 people, including children, and injuring 118 others across the country, local authorities and Ukraine’s National Emergency Services Agency said. According to Ukraine’s air force, Russia launched 659 drones and 44 missiles in the 24 hours ending Thursday morning in a wave of attacks on major cities including the capital Kiev, Kharkiv, Odessa, Dnipro and Zaporizhzhia. “Over the…

In a memo to staff, LIV Golf CEO Scott O’Neill sought to quell speculation about the league’s financial future, saying the 2026 season will continue as planned at “full throttle” without interruption.A copy of the memo was sent to The Associated Press on Wednesday night, following a series of reports suggesting Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund was on the brink of cutting financial support for the emerging league. The Daily Telegraph reported on Wednesday that LIV Golf executives had been summoned to an “emergency meeting” in New York, after which the Financial Times reported that Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund…

The Iran war has caused up to $58 billion worth of energy infrastructure damage, according to estimates released Wednesday by consulting firm Rystad Energy. Iran has targeted oil and gas infrastructure in the Gulf Arab states, including production facilities, refineries, and pipelines. Israel bombed Iranian natural gas and petrochemical facilities. International Energy Agency Director-General Fatih Birol said a total of more than 80 energy facilities have been attacked since the United States and Israel began their war against Iran on February 28. More than a third of them have been seriously damaged, Birol said.”This is one of the most serious…

Anthropic announced on Thursday it would expand its presence in London with new office space for 800 people, days after rival OpenAI announced plans for its first permanent office in the British capital. The maker of the Claude AI chatbot currently has more than 200 employees in London, the company said in a statement. “London is already one of our most important research and commercial locations outside the US and the expansion of Knowledge Quarter will give us room to grow,” Pip White, Anthropic’s head of EMEA North, said in a statement. “The UK combines a great pool of AI…

Reuters — Britain’s Prince Harry on Thursday praised Australia’s “magnificent” leadership in curbing harmful social media use among teenagers as his wife Meghan spoke out about a decade of online abuse. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are on a four-day trip to Australia covering topics such as sport, mental health and veterans affairs. In December, Australia became the first country in the world to ban children under 16 from social media, blocking them from platforms such as TikTok, Alphabet’s YouTube, META.O’s Instagram and Facebook, a law that has been imitated around the world. “Now we can sit here and…

Mikel Arteta said it was a “huge boost” for Arsenal to reach the Champions League semi-finals despite suffering again against Sporting on Wednesday.The Gunners held out to a 0-0 draw at home in the second leg of the quarter-final, meaning Kai Havertz’s only goal in Lisbon was enough to seal a place in the last four. They are the first team in club history to reach back-to-back semi-finals in this competition, but they were far from their best on Wednesday night, with just one shot on target. Use Chrome Browser for a more accessible video player Sky Sports’ Dharmesh Sheth…

Doug Field, Ford Motor Company’s chief electric vehicle, digital and design officer, spoke at the Louisville Assembly Plant and shared Ford’s plans to design and build a “universal electric vehicle” platform on August 11, 2025.Provided by: FordDetroit — ford motorThe company’s head of electric vehicles and software is leaving the company as part of a management and business restructuring.Ford announced Wednesday that Doug Field, its chief electric vehicle, digital and design officer, has “elected to leave the company following a transition next month.” The release announcing the move mentioned Field’s “next chapter,” but the executive declined to disclose specific plans…