Access to affordable credit helps me pay my employees, but I don't really need it.

Infliction is killing me!

But who cares? Big retailers are making record profits!

That's why we support the Durban Marshall Credit Card Bill!

See? Banks and credit unions help small businesses make payroll.

This bill would cut the vital resources they need.

While increasing megastore profits, they deserve it. Don't they?

Tell Congress, stop the Durban Marshall money grab for corporate megastores.

Paid for it by the Electronic Payments Coalition.

Here is your morning brief for Wednesday, April 22nd. I'm Luke Vargas for the Wall Street Journal.

Iran has attacked a container ship near the Strait of Hormuz, causing heavy damage,

just hours after President Trump extended a ceasefire with the country.

Trump didn't set an end date for the truce and said that the U.S. would keep blockading Iran's ports until its leaders got serious about wanting to end the conflict once and for all. The extension has

buoyed markets today and in recent weeks, as we report that four of the S&P 500's five biggest

daily gains of the year have come during the war. The battle for ultra-fast EV charging is heating up with CATL last night, rolling out a new

battery that it says can almost fully charge up in under seven minutes, topping a roughly

nine-minute charge shown off by Chinese EV giant BYD last month.

Analysts at Bernstein say the breakthroughs have effectively closed the

gap between EVs and cars that are equipped with internal combustion engines. And Elon Musk's

SpaceX says it's secured an option to buy AI-coding startup cursor for $60 billion ahead of a planned

IPO that's likely to fill up SpaceX's coffers.

The potential future tie-up could give SpaceX an additional arrow in its quiver as tech

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