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The CIA director's visit to Havana is drawing attention beyond the diplomatic wire. Washington has been restricting oil shipments to Cuba since January, triggering blackouts stretching days at a time across the island. The strategic timing of this visit, amid an energy crisis Washington helped engineer, signals the U.S. is using energy access as active leverage in its Cuba posture.
Shifting to tech, Cerebras Systems is set to make a dramatic market entrance, with early indications pointing to the stock nearly doubling on its first day of trading. That kind of opening move reflects how hungry institutional money remains for pure-play AI infrastructure names, particularly as investors look beyond the hyperscalers for direct exposure to accelerated compute demand.
And on the inventory front, the Commerce Department confirmed business inventories rose slightly more than expected in March, driven in large part by a jump at the wholesale level. That build matters because it suggests companies were stocking ahead of anticipated demand or, more likely, front-running tariff uncertainty. Either way, it adds a layer of complexity to second-quarter GDP modeling that economists will be watching closely.
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