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Before announcing its long-awaited Vision Pro headset alongside upgraded Macs this month, Apple weathered a tough first quarter where sales of its hardware either slumped or stagnated

Credit market rallies most in two years as inflation abates. The Goldman Sachs Short Index surged 10.9% Thursday, with a two-day 17.5% spike. Read more here.

Years of unprecedented monetary inflation created false realities. UK’s Barclays Bank CDS jumped 11 to 147 bps, the high back to July 2013.

The FOMC hiked rates 75 bps Wednesday, the largest rate boost since Greenspan’s lone 75 bps move more than 27 years ago (November 1994). For anything bigger, it’s back to the Volcker era.