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USA & Canada Intelligence Brief for Thursday, April 23, 2026

The Rio Times — USA & Canada Pulse Covering: S&P 500 · Earnings · Mines · United Rentals · Canada · Texas Instruments · ServiceNow...

USA & Canada Intelligence Brief for Wednesday, April 22, 2026

The Rio Times — USA & Canada Pulse Covering: Warsh · Fed · Senate · Trump · Ceasefire · Nasdaq · Canada · Apple · GE · UnitedHealth · Oil · Earnings What Matters Today 1 Warsh Hearing...

86% of US CEOs Now Treat Trump’s Tariffs as Permanent, PwC Survey Shows

Key Points — PwC's April 2026 executive survey of 633 US CEOs, CFOs, COOs, and board members — conducted March 12-20 and published April 14...

Global Economy Briefing — April 22, 2026

This global economy briefing covers Tuesday, April 21 — the day European confidence collapsed...

Hormuz Diplomacy Enters Its Final 24 Hours

Key Points — Chinese President Xi Jinping broke his public silence on the Hormuz crisis Monday, using a rare phone...

Anthropic Locks In 5 Gigawatts of AWS Compute for a Decade

Key Points — Amazon announced a fresh US$5 billion investment in Anthropic on Monday, April 20, with up to US$20 billion more tied to commercial...

Washington Begins Returning $166 Billion in Illegal Tariffs

Key Points — US Customs and Border Protection opened the Consolidated Administration and Processing of Entries (CAPE) portal at 8...

Global Economy Briefing — April 21, 2026

This global economy briefing covers Monday, April 20 — the day the peace trade died and was resurrected in...

USA & Canada Intelligence Brief for Monday, April 20, 2026

The Rio Times — USA & Canada Pulse Covering: Goldman Sachs · Russian Oil Waiver...

Global Economy Briefing — April 18, 2026

This global economy briefing covers Friday, April 17 — the day the war effectively ended....

USA & Canada Intelligence Brief for Thursday, April 17, 2026

The Rio Times — USA & Canada Pulse Covering: Treasury · Senate · Labour Market · Defence Secretary · Canada...