Smart News Headlines for Monday, March 4th, 2024
Haiti mass jailbreak, Haley wins first primary, Caitlin Clark breaks all-time scoring record, and more.
🌍 World
Haiti violence: Gangs free 4,000 inmates in mass jailbreak - BBC
Traders expect foreign intervention into troubled nation in next 2 years.
UK's Hunt plays down talk of big tax cuts in pre-election budget - Reuters
Likliehood of inheritance tax removal continues downward slide on news.
Malaysia may renew hunt for missing flight MH370, 10 years after its disappearance - NBC News
Traders not optimistic that a search would be successful.
🇺🇸 U.S.
Haley ends Trump's undefeated run with victory in DC primary - Fox News
Traders surprised by first Haley win.
Nikki Haley walks back pledge to support Donald Trump if he's the GOP nominee - USA Today
Even odds that Haley will endorse Trump, down from ~75%.
🏦 Business & Tech
Apple reverses decision to kill home screen web apps in the EU - Mashable
Traders never really thought it was very likely that Apple would defy EU order.
U.S. Dollar Collapse—Bank Of America Issues Shocking ‘$1 Trillion Every 100 Days’ Warning Amid Huge Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP And Crypto Price Boom To Rival Gold - Forbes
Traders think chances of dollar crash are substantive in next two years.
🧪 Science & Health
Wife of Chadwick Boseman visits Mass., urges early colorectal cancer detection - WCVB
Low-liquidity market optimism around possibilities of colorectal cancer vaccine.
📺 Entertainment
‘Dune: Part Two’: How Sci-Fi Space Worm Epic Reared Head To $81.5M Opening After Strike Release Delay – Sunday Box Office Update - Deadline
Traders believe Dune blockbuster likely to surpass $200M in first 3 weekends.
🏟️ Sports
🏀 Iowa’s Caitlin Clark becomes NCAA Division-I all-time leading scorer for men’s and women’s basketball - CNN
Clark passes Maravich to make history on free throw in 2nd quarter.
🏎️ Max Verstappen's dad: Red Bull 'in danger of being torn apart' amid team principal's controversy - Fox News
Volatile trading over past few days - now seemingly less likely than not that Horner will retain his principal seat.
🏀 College basketball rankings: Gonzaga beats Saint Mary's for eighth straight win, is peaking at right time - CBS Sports
Traders quite optimistic that Gonzaga’s Sweet 16 streak won’t be broken, despite challenges this season.
🏈 Bears ‘focused’ on drafting Caleb Williams, trading Justin Fields before NFL free agency - SB Nation
Odds of a trade creep higher on chatter at NFL Combine.
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