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The Trump administration is looking to restart an operation guiding commercial ships with naval and air support that it paused this week, after Saudi Arabia and Kuwait lifted restrictions on the U.S. military’s use of their bases and airspace. Pentagon officials said they could restart the operation as soon as this week, the Journal reported.
The operation, called “Project Freedom,” relied on an enormous fleet of aircraft to protect commercial ships, making the Saudi and Kuwaiti bases critical. But concerns about U.S. protection from the escalation in fighting set off the biggest dispute in recent Saudi-American military relations, putting a long-held joint security deal at risk.
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$500 Million
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A.P. Moller-Maersk’s additional monthly expense for bunker fuel since the Iran war began, costs the carrier says it is passing on to customers in surcharges and other “commercial levers”
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Workers on the factory floor of the Clyde, Ohio, Whirlpool factory. NICK HAGEN for WSJ
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Whirlpool said it plans to increase list prices for its appliances by about 4% in July, as the maker of refrigerators and washing machines suspended its dividend and cut its full-year earnings guidance roughly in half, the WSJ’s John Keilman writes.
The Michigan-based company said historically low consumer confidence, the anemic housing market and the Supreme Court’s voiding of President Trump’s emergency tariffs were behind the moves. Whirlpool's shares dropped as much as 20% before recovering to close down about 12%.
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“It’s more, yeah. We also have a lot of new products, which I think deserve a higher value.”
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— Whirlpool CEO Marc Bitzer, on raising prices
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U.S. jobless claims rose to 200,000 in the week through May 2, up from 190,000 a week earlier. (WSJ)
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Eurozone retail sales unexpectedly slipped 0.1% in March, as skyrocketing fuel prices deterred gasoline and diesel purchases. (WSJ)
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German manufacturing orders climbed 5.0% in March, their second consecutive monthly rise. (WSJ)
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Shares of national-security satellite company HawkEye 360, which tracks ships and pinpoints sources of GPS jamming, jumped in their public-market debut. (WSJ)
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Kodiak AI said it would collaborate with General Dynamics on autonomous ground vehicles for defense, and explore a pilot log-hauling operation in Canada, but the self-driving truck tech company’s stock price plunged on word it sold shares at $6.50 each in a private placement. (Dow Jones Newswires)
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The Terafab chip complex that SpaceX plans to develop with Tesla is estimated to require at least $55 billion in capital spending. (WSJ)
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Strong demand for energy-related equipment and other project cargo is tightening North American rail capacity. (Journal of Commerce)
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A federal appeals court rejected requests to pause a new Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration rule aimed at reducing the number of noncitizen holders of commercial driver’s licences.(TruckingDive)
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Nearly 30,000 noncitizen truckers have been taken off the road since states revoked CDLs and learner’s permits found to have been illegally issued under stricter federal rules. (Transport Topics)
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The U.S. Maritime Administration issued a request for information from companies to help advance the use of small, modular nuclear reactors on commercial ships. (WorkBoat)
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On this week's Dow Jones Risk Journal Podcast: New AI models from Anthropic and OpenAI are considered so dangerous that they're only being released to a few tech companies. Also, the U.S. Treasury's Jonathan Burke talks to us about Iran, sanctions and more. Perry Cleveland-Peck hosts. New episodes every Friday on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and Amazon.
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