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1. Universal Music stock rises 13% after Pershing Square's $64 billion takeover proposal

2. JD Vance heads to Hungary to support Viktor Orbán ahead of high-stakes election

3. Trump administration finalizes better-than-feared Medicare Advantage payment rate in boost to health insurers

4. Jim Cramer says potential stock market bottom is tied to interest rates, not war headlines

5. Iran war upends spring housing market. Here's what real estate agents are seeing

6. Broadcom agrees to expanded chip deals with Google, Anthropic

7. Samsung shares rise after profit seen jumping 8-fold on AI chip boom

8. Epstein files: Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick set for May 6 interview by House Oversight

9. Offbeat Wall Street research firm says it sent an analyst to Strait of Hormuz. Here's what they learned

10. FDA declines to issue specific guidance on health programs' foreign drug imports

11. Average tax refund is up $350 compared to last year as IRS deadline approaches

12. OpenAI asks California, Delaware to investigate Musk's 'anti-competitive behavior' ahead of April trial

13. Robinhood, BNY to build Trump accounts app

14. S&P 500 aims to extend win streak — plus, a CFO switch at one of our key names

15. India turns to Iran for oil and gas after 7-year hiatus, signaling limits to U.S. tilt

16. AI data center boom ‘stress tests’ insurers as private capital floods in

17. JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon in annual letter cites risks in geopolitics, AI and private markets

18. Trump's Iran ultimatum and signals of a possible deal keep investors on tenterhooks

19. AI may replace your financial advisor, MIT professor says — but there's one big hurdle