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🚀Waiting For The Israeli Response After Iran Attacks
🚨Stocks Sink, Gas Prices Soar
🧑⚖️Trump Hush Money Trial Monday
🤖AI As Transformative As “Printing Press, Steam Engine, Computer”
🛒Kroger-Albertsons Merger Good For Shoppers
🏈OJ’s Complicated Legacy
⛳️Tiger Worst Masters Round Ever
🚀Iran Attacks Israel Stocks Sink, Gas Prices Soar
Waiting for Israel to respond after Iran fires hundreds of attack drones and misses toward Israel. Nearly all of the volleys were intercepted, and those that made impact caused only minor damage, according to Israeli military officials. The U.S. says it shot down 70 of the drones and missiles.
Iran says it’s in retaliation for a deadly Israeli airstrike in early April on the Iranian Embassy complex in Damascus.
President Biden called Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asking him not to expand the fighting.
The U.S. State Department warning Americans in Israel not to travel outside major cities.
Stocks falling at the end of a wild week as Israel braced for an attack by Iran.
Oil & Gas prices up as Mideast tensions increase
Nasdaq closed down 1.5%
Dow off 500 points
S&P 500 losing 1.3%
Gold hitting record highs above $2,300
Bitcoin around $70k
➡️Exiger CEO Brandon Daniels, a GisermanGroup Client, Monday 10:30AM ET on Bloomberg TV with How This Will All Affect You and the Supply Chain
👨⚖️Trump Hush Money Trial
Donald Trump’s first criminal trial is set to begin Monday in New York. The trial will mark the first time in history that an ex-President is criminally prosecuted in court.
The case involves Trump’s alleged falsification of business records to cover up a hush-money payment to adult-film star Stormy Daniels ahead of the 2016 election.
An Appeals court judge denied Trump's third attempt to delay trial. But, Trump continues to push back. Trump lawyer Emil Bove said the trial should be delayed because justice Juan Merchan, who is overseeing the case, has not yet ruled on their request for him to recuse himself.
🤖AI As Transformative As Printing Press
Jamie Dimon, CEO and chairman of JPMorgan Chase, says artificial intelligence will have a profound impact on society — “possibly as transformational as some of the major technological inventions of the past several hundred years: Think the printing press, the steam engine, electricity, computing and the Internet.”
Meanwhile, Elon Musk says “My guess is that we’ll have AI that is smarter than any one human probably around the end of next year.”
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says AI is going to “transform virtually everything we do.”
🤖The AI Boom dominated the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Exiger CEO Brandon Daniels, a GisermanGroup client, was there:
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⛳️Tiger Worst Masters Round Ever
Is there anything better than Master’s Weekend!
Tiger Woods, five-time Masters champ carded his worst-ever round at Augusta National. Woods recorded a 10-over 82 on the third round to end the day at 11-over.
"I didn't have a very good warmup session, and I kept it going all day today," he said. "Just hit the ball in all the places that I know I shouldn't hit it.
"And I missed a lot of putts. Easy, makable putts. I missed a lot of them."
In 98 previous rounds at Augusta National, Woods’ highest prior score was 78, recorded in rounds 3 and 4 in 2022. Prior to that debacle, his highest recorded round was a 77, all the way back in 1995 as an amateur.
Tiger’s presence is everywhere in Augusta. Fans wear sweaters with a tiger swinging a club, don his famous "Sunday Red" outfit from head to toe, and there are likely hundreds of conversations about him.
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🛒Kroger-Albertsons Merger Good For Shoppers
Kroger and Albertsons have come out swinging against the Federal Trade Commission’s decision to challenge their proposed merger which would create the nation’s largest supermarket chain.
The government says the merger would stifle competition in the grocery industry. But retail expert, Burt Flickinger, President Strategic Resource Group says, “The FTC is wrong, Kroger and Albertsons face heavy competition from companies that fall outside the ‘traditional definition’ of a supermarket.” He says, “Walmart, Target, Costco and Amazon sell far more groceries than would the merged company.”
Flickinger says, “The Kroger-Albertsons merger would magnify the companies’ power when negotiating with food wholesalers and result in lower prices for shoppers.”
🌉Baltimore Bridge Collapse Is Hitting Your Wallet
Workers have begun removing containers from the giant cargo vessel that remains pinned under the metal remains of Baltimore’s Key Bridge, nearly two weeks after the ship struck the bridge and caused it to collapse. But its expected to take weeks to complete the job, tow the listing ship, and get the Port of Baltimore reopened for marine traffic.
➡️GisermanGroup.com client, Exiger CEO Brandon Daniels, a supply-chain expert, tells Bloomberg the closure of the Port of Baltimore is affecting supplies and prices of everything from cars to coal to sugar:
➡️And Exiger’s Daniels on NewsNation says the ramifications from the bridge collapse will result in major changes to the way we do business:
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➡️Our friend Steve Sbraccia, the Consumer Guy, explains why the bridge collapse affects us all:
🏠Mortgages Soar
Mortgage rates surged at a pace seen only one other time since October 2022 as a result of consumer prices rising.
The average lender moved up by 0.28%, to over 7.75%, as a result mortgage demand in March fell to its lowest since 1995, according to Reventure.
➡️SitusAMC’s Tim Rood a GisermanGroup.com client tells Fox Business’ Neil Cavuto buyers may be coming to grips with higher mortgages.
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🏈OJ’s Complicated Legacy
O.J. Simpson, former champion football running back-turned actor who was acquitted in a sensational trial of charges he murdered his ex-wife and her boyfriend, died of cancer, his family confirmed.
OJ once personified the American Dream, but his life became an American Nightmare.
His family took to his official X account to write,
On April 10th, our father, Orenthal James Simpson, succumbed to his battle with cancer. He was surrounded by his children and grandchildren. During this time of transition, his family asks that you please respect their wishes for privacy and grace. -The Simpson Family.
A Heisman Trophy winner in college, Simpson’s decade-long NFL career brought him numerous on-field accolades and off-field opportunities as an actor and advertising personality.
But his public image forever changed in 1994 when he was accused of murdering his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ron Goldman. While the criminal court case — which was famously dubbed “the trial of the century” — ended in Simpson’s acquittal, he was later found liable for wrongful death in a civil lawsuit brought by Goldman’s family and ordered to pay $33.5 million in damages.
OJ Simpson was 76.
🚨Deadly Taiwan Quake Effects On AI, Computer Chip Industry
The strongest earthquake in a quarter-century rocked Taiwan, killing at least 10 people. The island is home to Taiwan Semiconductor— the top AI chip maker in the world.
Exiger CEO Brandon Daniels says, “A key issue for our customers is the impact of the quake to the global electronics supply chain, especially Computer Chip manufacturing.
“In the wake of these disruptions, semiconductor manufacturers are raising pricing amid reduced customer inventories. Taiwan Semiconductor has assured the safety of its workforce and restarted operations in select plants, yet the comprehensive impact on the semiconductor sector and global supply chains is still under evaluation, “ says Daniels.
Daniels adds, “The earthquake not only posed immediate risks to life and infrastructure but also highlighted the vulnerabilities of global supply chains reliant on Taiwan's semiconductor industry. The event underscored the importance of diversifying production locations and enhancing disaster preparedness in the tech industry to mitigate future supply-chain problems Exiger will continue to monitor the impacts as this continues to evolve.”
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💧CyberAttacks On Your Drinking Water
The Biden administration is warning states to be on guard for cyberattacks against water systems, citing ongoing threats from hackers linked to the governments of Iran and China.
➡️Exiger’s Bob Kolasky shared the warning with NewsNation:
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💻Ban TikTok
The hits keep on coming for TikTok. The FTC "is investigating whether TikTok violated a portion of ann Act that prohibits 'unfair or deceptive' business practices,’ when they denied its data on millions of Americans could be accessed in China.
The Senate is next to tackle the House-passed Ban on TikTok. If signed into law the app’s Chinese owner must sell or it will be banned from U.S. AppStores.
➡️Exiger’s Bob Kolasky, a GisermanGroup client, former Dept of Homeland Security Assistant Director for Cybersecurity cuts through it all on NewsNation:
➡️Exiger’s JC Herz tells Scripps News “Keep politics out of it, TikTok is spying on us”:
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🚨DayCare Costs As High As College
The child-care system is broken. DayCare costs as much as college.
The average cost for a nanny is around $39,270 per year, and is even higher in cities like New York, Chicago, Dallas, Miami and San Francisco, where the expense can top an eye popping $56,000, according to Care.com data,
➡️Laura Tulchin, Chief Strategy Officer at Imagine Early Learning and a Giserman Group Client tells Scripps News, “The increasing cost of childcare could swing key millennial voters in the Presidential election:”
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🩻Abortion Key Election Issue As Trump Flip-Flops
The Arizona Supreme Court’s decision to bring back a 160-year-old near total ban on abortion has inflamed the politics in one of the nation’s biggest electoral battlegrounds, which is now effectively ground zero for abortion politics. With a tossup Senate race, a pair of close congressional seats and its 11 Electoral College votes on the line, the state will be one of the most closely watched in the country.
It comes as Donald Trump has changed his stance again on a nationwide abortion ban, upsetting both conservatives and liberals.
In a video shared on Truth Social, Trump said he is “proudly the person responsible” for the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, because it gave individual states the authority to decide how they approach abortion regulations.
Trump said that by overturning the landmark Supreme Court decision of 1973 — which granted women around the nation the right to an abortion — conservatives took abortion laws “out of the federal hands and brought it into the hearts, minds, and vote of the people in each state."
“My view is now that we have abortion where everyone wanted it from a legal standpoint, the states will determine by vote or legislation, or perhaps both,” he said in the clip. “And whatever they decide must be the law of the land. In this case, the law of the state.”🎢Trump Media Stock Sinks
The share price of Trump Media closed trading 20% lower, hours after the social media app company tied to Donald Trump reported a net loss of $58.2 million on revenue of just $4.1 million in 2023.
📒 Trump Selling $60 Bibles
We kid you not. Donald Trump is promoting a line of pricey Bibles in a partnership with country music star Lee Greenwood.
The “God Bless the U.S.A. Bible” costs $59.99, not including shipping and other fees, according to its website. The partnership comes as the presumptive Republican presidential nominee has seen his net worth explode by billions of dollars on paper while he appeals massive civil penalties in multiple courts.
🚨Trump Gets Bond Deal For $454M Fraud Case
“KEEP YOUR HANDS OFF TRUMP TOWER!” blared the text message from the former president on Truth Social.
Donald has reached a deal that will spare him from paying a $454 million judgment in his civil fraud case while he appeals the penalty.
It came in the form of a bond that will prevent New York’s attorney general, who brought the lawsuit that led to the judgment, from collecting the $454 million until Trump’s appeal is resolved
The $175 million came from Knight Specialty Insurance Company, a California company that handles such deals. In providing the bond, which is a legal document, not an actual transfer of money, the firm essentially promised New York’s court system that it would cover the judgment against Trump if he loses his appeal and fails to pay.
Meanwhile, Trump supporters are being asked to help pay his legal bill. The message from his committee urges them to donate in amounts ranging from $20.24 to $3,300 or more.
Trump has also invited high-dollar donors to an April 6 fundraiser. The invitation’s fine print says donations to the Trump 47 Committee will first be used to give the maximum amount allowed under federal law to Trump’s campaign. Anything left over from the donation next goes toward a maximum contribution to the Save America PAC, and then anything left from there goes to the RNC and then to state political parties
President Biden is maintaining a significant fundraising advantage over Trump, who is running out of campaign money he can tap for legal fees.
It all comes as Trump has also warned that if he isn't elected in the upcoming presidential election "it's gonna be a bloodbath" for the country.
Trump delivered the chilling messages while addressing supporters at a Buckeye Values PAC Rally in Dayton, Ohio
In other Trump legal news: The judge in Trump’s hush money trial, set to start April 15, expanded a gag order following his attacks against the judge’s daughter.
🛬Another Boeing Jet Incident
An engine cowling fell off of a Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 and struck a wing flap during takeoff from Denver International on Sunday.
The FAA said Southwest Flight 3695 was on its way to Houston’s Hobby Airport and safely returned to the gate at Denver at 8:15 a.m. local time. Southwest said customers on the flight transferred to a different aircraft and were scheduled to arrive at their destination three hours late.
📰Free Evan!
The Wall Street Journal put this in massive blank space on its front page on Friday in honor of Evan Gershkovich, its correspondent who's been imprisoned in Russia for exactly one year.
The special front page featured a large blank space where a story about Gershkovich should be. In big bold letters above the space, the outlet declared, "HIS STORY SHOULD BE HERE." A picture of the imprisoned journalist sat to the left of the headline.
Gershkovich, the American-born son of Soviet immigrants, was detained on March 29, 2023, during a reporting trip in Yekaterinburg, the fourth-largest city in Russia, and accused of being a spy. He was accredited by Russia's Foreign Ministry to report in the country when he was arrested, and he is considered wrongfully detained by the Biden administration.
💊AI Helps Fight The Fentanyl Crisis
AI tools are helping in the fight against the fentanyl epidemic.
The infiltration of fentanyl from Mexico and Asia into the U.S. is not merely a border control issue; it’s a sophisticated network of illicit trade.
Exiger CEO Brandon Daniels Says traditional methods of interception are no longer sufficient. This is where Exiger’s supply chain risk management tools come into play.
Daniels says, “With the ability to analyze vast amounts of data, the AI-powered technology in the 1Exiger platform can identify the manufacturing origins of fentanyl precursor chemicals and map out their intricate distribution networks, acting as a digital bloodhound tracing the scent of these deadly shipments.
Drug overdose deaths are now killing more than 110,000 people in the U.S. every year, according to the CDC.
🦟Cicadas Coming To Bug You
Trillions of cicadas are set to invade the US for the first time in 221 years.
From Nebraska to New York, in late April, two large broods of periodical cicadas are expected to emerge from the ground for a noisy orgy, mating frenzy.
An event like this hasn't occurred since 1803 when Thomas Jefferson was president and it's not expected to happen again until 2244.
Three weeks into the process, many of the cicadas will be high in the trees, where they laid their eggs.
The eggs will eventually fall to lower ground, where cicadas will hatch and burrow underground.
Within two to six weeks, most of the cicadas will die after reproducing.
🚗Your Car Is Spying on You
Car manufacturers admit they are selling your driving habits and more to insurance companies and others. Many of the automakers also saying they would share your information with the government or law enforcement without a court order.
➡️Exiger’s Bob Kolasky, a GisermanGroup client, former Dept of Homeland Security Assistant Director for Cybersecurity tells Scripps News why you should be concerned:
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☕️Coffee Fights Aging
Drink up!
New research has unveiled the potential health benefits of trigonelline — a natural molecule found in coffee.
This discovery is pivotal in the quest to improve muscle health and functionality, especially as we age.
Sarcopenia is characterized by the gradual weakening of muscles due to cellular changes associated with aging. This leads to a significant decline in muscle mass, strength, and ultimately, a reduction in physical independence.
In pre-clinical models, coffee which contains supplementation with trigonelline enhanced mitochondrial activity, thus aiding in the preservation of muscle function during aging.
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Defense Secretary Warns Of Russia-NATO War
NATO could be dragged into a war with Russia if Vladimir Putin's forces are not stopped in Ukraine, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin warned.
Exiger CEO Brandon Daniels just returned from Ukraine. He shares his unique perspective with NewsNation:
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🚢New US Attack On Houthis After They Sank Cargo Ship
The U.S. and the UK conducted a series of strikes at Houthi targets inside Yemen Saturday, part of a continuing effort to fight back against the Iran-backed group that has continued to attack commercial and military vessels in the Red Sea.
➡️Exiger CEO Brandon Daniels, a GisermanGroup client tells NewsNation the attacks on shipping have meant increasing costs for everything from oil to clothing to food:
➡️Exiger CEO Daniels dissected it all on Bloomberg:
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📱FCC Investigates ATT Outage
FCC opening a formal investigation after AT&T’s CEO apologized for the widespread cellular outage that knocked out service for thousands.
➡️But the bigger problem says Exiger’s Bob Kolasky on NewsNation—lack of cell phone service is a national security risk that needs to be fixed:
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🧪Biden Pushes Abortion Rights As Court Rules Frozen Embryos Are Children
The Biden administration is calling for Congress to codify the protections of Roe v. Wade into federal law.
It comes as The University of Alabama at Birmingham health system is pausing in vitro fertilization treatments as it evaluates the Alabama Supreme Court’s ruling that frozen embryos should be considered children. The ruling has sent shock waves through the world of reproductive medicine, casting doubt over fertility care for would-be parents in the state and raising complex legal questions with implications extending far beyond Alabama.
Karine Jean-Pierre, the White House press secretary, said the ruling would cause “exactly the type of chaos that we expected when the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and paved the way for politicians to dictate some of the most personal decisions families can make.”
🍀Fed Scientists Recommend Easing Marijuana Rules
Government scientists have concluded Marijuana is neither as risky nor as prone to abuse as other tightly controlled substances and has potential medical benefits, and therefore should be removed from the nation’s most restrictive category of drugs.
The recommendations are contained in a 250-page scientific review provided to Matthew Zorn, a Texas lawyer who sued Health and Human Services officials for its release and published it online on Friday night.
The records shed light for the first time on the thinking of federal health officials who are pondering a momentous change. The agencies involved have not publicly commented on their debates over what amounts to a reconsideration of marijuana at the federal level.
🤖Open AI’s Plan To Prevent Robot Uprising
OpenAI is putting together a new team of experts solely dedicated to preventing a potential robot uprising. The artificial intelligence company behind ChatGPT announced on Monday its plans for mitigating the dangers that may emerge from its technology—including cybersecurity risks and the potential that their bots may be used to create nuclear or biological weapons.
The company outlined the goals for the new “Preparedness Framework” in a 27-page document, saying that it would be used specifically to conduct regular tests and monitor their advanced models for any dangers it may eventually pose. The team would be dedicated to preventing such threats from emerging, while also ensuring that their products are deployed responsibly.
➡️Exiger’s JC Herz tells NewsNation the AI Genie is already out of the bottle - and can’t be put back:
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🎓Teachers Post Pics to ‘OnlyFans’ to Subsidize Low Pay
Teachers don’t make enough money!
At a small Missouri high school, two English teachers shared a secret: Both were posting adult content on OnlyFans, the subscription-based website known for sexually explicit content to supplement income.
But a new approach to Early Child Education hopes to help teachers avoid the stigma. GisermanGroup client Imagine Early Learning Centers is the nation’s only employee-owned childcare company.
➡️Laura Tulchin, Chief Strategy Officer at Imagine Early Learning tells Bloomberg and CBS, “Employee-ownership means teachers' voices are not only heard in the classroom, but in the boardroom as well:
➡️According to a new report from the Economic Policy Institute, teachers earned 74 cents, on average, for every dollar that other professionals make.
📺Sports Streaming Venture Challenged
FuboTV is suing Disney, Fox and Warner Bros. Discovery over their recently announced sports streaming joint venture, citing what the company calls “extreme suppression of competition in the U.S. sports-focused streaming market”.
The Department of Justice is also reportedly investigating over concerns the venture could harm consumers, sports leagues and rivals..
Earlier this month, the three media giants said they will launch a joint venture to start a sports streaming service this autumn to capture younger viewers.
Top NFL executives are also reportedly furious about only finding out at the last minute about the new sports streaming joint venture.
The app will carry content from the NFL, NBA, WNBA, MLB, NHL, NASCAR, major college sports, UFC, the PGA Tour, Grand Slam tennis, the FIFA World Cup and cycling.
💉Wegovy Reduces Heart Problems
The popular weight-loss drug Wegovy reduced the risk of serious heart problems by 20% in a large, international study that experts say could change the way doctors treat certain heart patients.
The research is the first to document that an obesity medication can not only pare pounds, but also safely prevent a heart attack, stroke or a heart-related death in people who already have heart disease — but not diabetes.
Zepbound, a new weight loss drug from Eli Lilly has been approved by the FDA, the latest entrant in the field which includes Ozempic, Wegovy and Mounjaro.
The drug was shown in clinical trials to help people lose up to 52 pounds in 16 months. It will carry a list price of about $1,060 for a month's supply. Despite the steep price, some analysts have anticipated it will become the best-selling drug in history.
The cost may put the new drug out of reach for many people given that insurance companies are often reluctant to cover weight loss medications, and Medicare, by law, does not cover them.
In the United States, 4 in 10 adults have obesity, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
🩺Doctor Amazon
Amazon announces a new health care benefit program for Prime Members for $9 a Month (or $99 a Year)
“Prime members get high-quality, convenient care from One Medical, including 24/7 on-demand virtual care nationwide and easy to schedule office visits at any of One Medical’s hundreds of locations across the U.S”
💻They Want Your Password
Warning-New Scams to steal your passwords.
If you've had a password hacked recently, you aren't alone. The volume of password attacks has soared to an estimated 921 attacks every second. That's a 74% rise in one year, according to the latest Microsoft Digital Defense Report.
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