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In an April 3 2026 letter, the finance ministers of Spain, Germany, Italy, Portugal and Austria formally asked the European Commission to resurrect 2022-style profit caps on energy firms to blunt the inflationary oil-price spike triggered by Iran’s closure of the Strait of Hormuz.
The White House sent Congress a non-binding FY-2027 blueprint that would lift Pentagon outlays to roughly $1.5 trillion—about 40-44 percent above this year—while slicing non-defense discretionary accounts by 10 percent.
After years of routine rollovers, Abu Dhabi abruptly asked for the full return of its $3.5 billion deposits, prompting Islamabad to draw up a three-part repayment plan for 11, 17 and 23 April 2026.
On 1 April 2026, Elon Musk’s SpaceX quietly lodged a draft registration with the SEC, aiming for a June flotation that could raise $50–$75 billion and peg the newly merged SpaceX-xAI at about $1.75 trillion—far surpassing any previous stock-market debut.
On 3 April 2026 SpaceX quietly submitted SEC paperwork for a June listing that would value the merged SpaceX-xAI entity near $2 trillion—about 60 % above February’s board-set mark.
On 2 April 2026 President Trump signed a Section 232 order slapping a 100 % duty on patented pharmaceuticals made abroad, with lower interim rates for firms that on-shore production or cut U.S. prices, effective within 120–180 days.
On 2 April 2026, President Trump invoked Section 232 to impose a tariff ladder that rises to 100 % on patented drug imports from companies without U.S. price-cut/onshoring deals and re-defined his existing 50 % metal tariffs to capture the full customs value of products.
On 2 Apr 2026, a televised Trump vow to intensify U.S. strikes on Iran for the next 2-3 weeks sent WTI crude above $110 (+≈11%) and inverted the usual Brent premium within hours.
On 1 April 2026, SpaceX secretly submitted a draft S-1 to the SEC, teeing up a June float that seeks up to $75 billion in fresh capital at a valuation near $1.75 trillion.
On 1 April 2026 SpaceX lodged a confidential draft prospectus with the SEC, formally starting a record-shattering public listing expected as early as June.
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