Notes today:
- The people of Greenland have voted to oust a government that was planning to welcome foreign companies eager to tap the island’s rare-earth metals.
- New York approves online sports betting.
- McConnell warns corporate America to stay out of politics but adds that he is not talking about political contributions.
- Coronavirus latest: California targets full reopening of economy by mid-June.
- The International Monetary Fund raised its 2021 growth forecast from 5.5% to 6%, a rate unseen since the 1970s.
- German Finance Minister Olaf Scholz welcomed a pledge by U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen to work on a global corporate minimum tax rate, adding that a deal among more than 140 countries could be possible by summer.
- Alexei Navalny jokes TB would be a relief as he is moved to sick ward.
Meanwhile, Ruble not doing so hot. Moving trains with 240 mm mortars and tanks etc. to either Crimea or Donbass may not help much either.
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