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TOP STORIES

GLOBAL

ISRAEL-PALESTINIANS/IRAN

Israeli military vows response to Iran attack as calls for

restraint mount

JERUSALEM, April 16 (Reuters)-Israelis awaited word on how

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would respond to Iran's

first-ever direct attack as international pressure for restraint

grew amid fears of an escalation of the conflict in the Middle

East.

USA-CONGRESS/UKRAINE

Ukraine, Israel aid to hit US House floor as separate bills

soon

WASHINGTON, April 15 (Reuters) - The U.S. House of

Representatives will consider aid to Israel and Ukraine as

separate legislation this week, Republican Speaker Mike Johnson

said on Monday, more than two months after the Senate passed a

bill combining the two.

U.S.

USA-TRUMP/NEW YORK-TRIAL

Jury selection under way in historic Trump criminal trial

NEW YORK, April 15 (Reuters) - The judge in Donald Trump's

trial dismissed dozens of potential New York City jurors on

Monday who said they could not fairly decide whether the 2024

Republican presidential candidate illegally covered up a hush

money payment to a porn star.

VENEZUELA-SANCTIONS/USA

US ties renewal of easing of Venezuela oil sanctions to

progress on elections

WASHINGTON/HOUSTON, April 15 (Reuters) - The U.S. will not

renew a temporary license that widely eased sanctions on

Venezuela's oil and gas sector unless progress is made by

President Nicolas Maduro on commitments for free and fair

elections this year, a State Department spokesperson saidon

Monday, three days before the license is to expire.

BUSINESS

TESLA-LAYOFFS/

Tesla laying off more than 10% of staff globally as sales

fall

BERLIN, April 15 (Reuters) - Tesla is laying off more than

10% of its global workforce, an internal memo seen by Reuters on

Monday shows, as it grapples with falling sales and an

intensifying price war for electric vehicles (EVs).

MICROSOFT-G42/INVESTMENT

Microsoft to invest $1.5 bln in Emirati AI firm G42, takes

minority stake

Microsoft will invest $1.5 billion in United Arab

Emirates-based artificial intelligence firm G42, giving the U.S.

tech giant a minority stake and a seat on the board, the

companies said in a statement on Tuesday.

ENTERTAINMENT

FILM-RUST/SHOOTING

'Rust' armorer sentenced to 18 months in fatal shooting by

Alec Baldwin

SANTA FE, New Mexico, April 15 (Reuters) - Hannah Gutierrez,

the chief weapons handler for the Western movie "Rust," was

sentenced to 18 months in prison on Monday in the death of

cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, who was shot when actor Alec

Baldwin was handling a gun during the film's production in 2021.

SPORTS

SOCCER-ENGLAND-CHE-EVE/REPORT

Perfect Palmer hits four as Chelsea thrash woeful Everton

6-0

LONDON, April 15 (Reuters) - Chelsea midfielder Cole Palmer

scored four goals, including a hat-trick in the first 30

minutes, as his side hammered Everton 6-0 on Monday to maintain

their push for a European spot and leave the visitors still

hovering above the relegation zone.

TENNIS-BARCELONA/

Alcaraz uncertain about Madrid title defence due to arm

injury

World number three Carlos Alcaraz has cast doubt on his

Madrid Open title defence later this month as the Spaniard

nurses a right arm injury that has forced him to miss key

tune-up events for the French Open.

UPCOMING

BUSINESS / ECONOMICS

BOSNIA-MINE/TOWN (PIX) (TV)

A silver mine revives neglected Bosnian town

After five years abroad, Anto Marcic has returned to his

village near the town of Vares in Bosnia and Herzegovina and

opened a transportation firm that is flattening a new mountain

road connecting to neighboring settlements. He is one of many

who have returned to the area in the last two years after the

development of a new silver, lead and barite mine, reviving an

area once hit by war and economic decline.

16 Apr 02:00 ET / 06:00 GMT

GERMANY-ECONOMY/LIBERALS

FDP Economy Congress

Coalition party FDP will hold an Economy Congress in Berlin,

Finance Minister Christian Lindner to participate

16 Apr 05:00 ET / 09:00 GMT

USA-FED/POWELL (PIX)

Fed's Powell, Jefferson to square 'restrictive' policy with

strong data

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell and Vice Chair Philip

Jefferson will make what are likely to be their last public

comments before the U.S. central bank's next meeting, as they

try to reconcile a gravity-defying economy with their assessment

that monetary policy is "restrictive" and inflation likely on

its way down.

16 Apr 06:00 ET / 10:00 GMT

JOHNSON&JOHNSON-RESULTS/

Johnson & Johnson ( JNJ ) reports Q1 results

Johnson & Johnson ( JNJ ) will report its first-quarter results

before markets open. Investors will look for any updates to the

company's 2024 forecast, the performance of its key drugs

including Crohn's disease drug Stelara, which will face

competition from near copies in some international markets this

year. Focus will also be on J&J's deal strategy and trends in

its medical device unit.

16 Apr 06:20 ET / 10:20 GMT

NORTHERN TRUST-RESULTS/

Q1 2024 Northern Trust Corp Earnings Release

Northern Trust is expected to post a drop in first-quarter

profit on Tuesday as higher funding costs are expected to weigh

on the asset and wealth manager's interest income. Analysts and

investors will watchout to see if the company continued its

momentum after generating positive total inflows in the previous

quarter.

16 Apr 07:00 ET / 11:00 GMT

STELLANTIS-AGM/

Stellantis holds shareholders' meeting

The Netherlands-headquarterd carmaker holds its annual

shareholders meeting (ATM), whith investors called to approve

CEO Carlos Tavares' compensation package in a consultive-only

vote

16 Apr 08:00 ET / 12:00 GMT

MORGAN STANLEY-RESULTS/

Q1 2024 Morgan Stanley Earnings Release

Estimated time. Expected before market open (BMO).

16 Apr 08:30 ET / 12:30 GMT

CANADA-ECONOMY/INFLATION

Canada-Inflation

16 Apr 08:30 ET / 12:30 GMT

BOFAML-RESULTS/

Q1 2024 Bank of America Corp Earnings Release

Estimated time. Expected before market open (BMO).

16 Apr 08:30 ET / 12:30 GMT

USA-FED/JEFFERSON

Federal Reserve Vice Chair Jefferson speaks on "Monetary

Policy During Periods of Uncertainty"

Federal Reserve Vice Chair Philip Jefferson speaks on

"Monetary Policy During Periods of Uncertainty" before the

International Research Forum on Monetary Policy hosted by the

Federal Reserve, in Washington.

16 Apr 09:00 ET / 13:00 GMT

USA-TREASURY/ANNOUNCEMENT

Treasury Dept. announces weekly sales of 4-, 8- and 17-week

bills

Treasury Dept. announces weekly sales of 4-, 8- and 17-week

bills

16 Apr 11:00 ET / 15:00 GMT

USA-FED/BARKIN

Richmond Federal Reserve Bank President Barkin speaks on

economic outlook

Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond President Thomas Barkin

speaks on the economic outlook before the Rotary Club of

Winston-Salem, in Winston-Salem, N.C.

16 Apr 13:00 ET / 17:00 GMT

CANADA-BUDGET/ (PIX)

Canada to present 2024-25 budget to parliament

Canadian Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland will present the

2024-25 budget to parliament on April 16.

16 Apr 16:00 ET / 20:00 GMT

UNITED ARLNS-RESULTS/

Q1 2024 United Airlines Holdings Inc Earnings Release

United Airlines is expected to report a loss in the first

quarter due to the grounding of its Boeing 737 MAX 9 planes

following a mid-air cabin panel blowout on an Alaska Air flight

in January. With Boeing grappling with a safety crisis, the

focus will be on the airline's plans to mitigate the fallout for

its growth plans.

16 Apr 16:00 ET / 20:00 GMT

CANADA-BUDGET/DEBT

Canada sets out its borrowing plans for the current fiscal

year

Canada releases its debt management strategy document which

sets out the government's borrowing plans for the current fiscal

year. Investors could be asked to absorb record levels of debt

as the government buys billions of dollars of mortgage bonds,

debt issued during the pandemic matures and the Bank of Canada

continues with its quantitative tightening program.

16 Apr 16:00 ET / 20:00 GMT

BANORTE-RESULTS/

Mexico's Grupo Financiero Banorte posts first-quarter

results

Grupo Financiero Banorte, one of Mexico's largest financial

companies, is expected to publish its first-quarter results

after market close.

16 Apr 18:00 ET / 22:00 GMT

POLITICS / INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS

USA-TRUMP/NEW YORK-ELECTION

ANALYSIS-Will Trump's hush money trial hurt or help his

White House bid?

When Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg indicted Donald Trump in March

2023 over hush money payments to a porn star, it turbocharged

the former president's White House campaign. Polls show if Trump

becomes a convicted felon, many Republicans say they won't vote

for him in November. But are those voters really referring to

this case, considered the weakest of the four indictments

against him? We speak to strategists and pollsters to guage

whether Trump might actually be able to take advantage of the

Bragg case even if he is convicted, and especially if he is

acquitted.

16 Apr 06:00 ET / 10:00 GMT

KOSOVO-BLAIR/ (PIX) (TV)

Kosovo to honour Tony Blair with a statue over war role

A city in Kosovo will put a statue of Tony Blair as a way to

thank him for his role in persuading NATO leaders in 1999 to

bomb Serbia which ended the ethnic war and open the way for

Kosovo to become independent nearly a decade later. In recent

years, Kosovar parents have turned to political leaders for

naming inspiration, changing the monikers to the Albanian

tongue.

Today there are many people named "Tonibler" after the

former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, as well as "Ollbrajt"

after U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright.

16 Apr 06:00 ET / 10:00 GMT

ISRAEL-PALESTINIANS/USA-ANTISEMITISM

Anti-Defamation League releases new data on antisemitic

incidents in the US in 2023

Next Tuesday (April 16), ADL will release the final and

complete 2023 data from its annual Audit of Antisemitic

Incidents and hold a press conference to discuss the findings.

The briefing will feature remarks from Jonathan Greenblatt, ADL

CEO, and Oren Segal, VP of the ADL Center on Extremism. Also

joining will be Meredith Weisel, Director of ADL's Washington

D.C. Regional Office and a family from that region who

experienced antisemitism first-hand in the past year. The

Audit's year-in-review assessment will show the level of

antisemitic incidents across the United States in 2023. These

include incidents of assault, vandalism, and harassment.

16 Apr 06:00 ET / 10:00 GMT

IMF-WORLDBANK/FINANCIAL-STABILITY

IMF releases semiannual Global Financial Stability report

The International Monetary Fund will release its semiannual

Global Financial Stability Report, followed up by a press

conference with IMF officials.

16 Apr 06:15 ET / 10:15 GMT

ISRAEL-PALESTINIANS/IRAN-TURKEY

Turkey's Erdogan chairs cabinet meeting, Iran/Israel likely

to be high on agenda

President Tayyip Erdogan chairs a meeting of Turkey's

cabinet of ministers, with issues on the agenda set to be the

escalating tensions between Israel and Iran, last month's local

elections and efforts to combat high inflation. Erdogan is

expected to make a statement after the meeting.

16 Apr 08:00 ET / 12:00 GMT

COLOMBIA-PEACE/ (PIX) (TV)

Divisions among Colombia's EMC rebels fracture peace talks,

rebel leader and government say

A majority of the units that make up Colombia's Estado Mayor

Central (EMC) armed group have abandoned peace negotiations with

the government because of internal divisions, according to a

rebel leader and the head government peace negotiator, as

observers warn the fissures could worsen violence and put

civilians at risk.

16 Apr 08:00 ET / 12:00 GMT

IMF-WORLDBANK/OUTLOOK (TV)

World Economic Outlook is released

The World Economic Outlook and the Global Financial

Stability Report are released ahead of the IMF-World Bank Spring

Meetings.

16 Apr 09:00 ET / 13:00 GMT

USA-CONGRESS/GARLAND

U.S. Attorney General Garland to testify before House

appropriations panel

U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland will testify on

Tuesday before a House appropriations panel, where he is

expected to ask for more financial resources for the Justice

Department.

16 Apr 10:00 ET / 14:00 GMT

IMF-WORLDBANK/BAILEY

BoE's Bailey speaks to IMF in an online event

Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey speaks to the IMF via

an online event.

16 Apr 13:00 ET / 17:00 GMT

USA-BIDEN/APPROVAL

Reuters/Ipsos poll on US President Joe Biden's public

approval

Reuters/Ipsos publishes polling on Americans' approval of

U.S. President Joe Biden's job performance.

16 Apr 16:00 ET / 20:00 GMT

CRIME / LAW / JUSTICE

USA-TRUMP/NEW YORK (PIX) (TV)

Donald Trump's criminal trial over hush money payment

Former U.S. President Donald Trump's criminal trial on

charges of falsifying business records to conceal hush money

payments to a porn star continues in New York.

16 Apr 09:30 ET / 13:30 GMT

USA-COURT/CAPITOL-ATTACK

US Supreme Court weighs challenge to Jan. 6 obstruction

charge

The U.S. Supreme Court hears oral arguments over whether a

man involved in the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol assault can be

charged with obstructing an official proceeding, a case with

potential implications for the prosecution of Donald Trump.

16 Apr 10:00 ET / 14:00 GMT