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Qantas Airways Ltd. named Vanessa Hudson as its new chief executive officer, making her the first woman to lead the airline.

Hours after JPMorgan Chase & Co. agreed to buy First Republic Inc., attendees of the Milken Institute Global Conference in California started the day huddled under a covered pavilion as rain leaked in.

(Bloomberg) — Asian equity futures point to a mixed opening as trading resumes in most of the region’s markets following a holiday on Monday. Investors are weighing JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s purchase of First Republic Bank along with expectations the Federal Reserve will hike interest rates once again this week.

MicroStrategy Inc., the enterprise-software maker better known as the largest public holder of Bitcoin, posted its first profit in nine quarters after registering a tax benefit related to its horde of the cryptocurrency.

Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro asked Venezuelans to “resist” as he skipped an increase of the minimum wage, announcing additional food stamps instead.

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen told US lawmakers that her department’s ability to use special accounting maneuvers to stay within the federal debt limit could be exhausted as soon as the start of June.

Twitter users were forced out of the platform and had trouble logging back in on Monday.

Republican Governor Glenn Youngkin of Virginia said the Republican Party has a future beyond Donald Trump if it focuses on common-sense solutions to problems that President Joe Biden and Democrats aren’t solving.

A top US regulator wants a sweeping overhaul of deposit insurance after recent bank failures partly drained a pool of money the government uses to protect lenders’ clients.