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 by the Electronic Payments Coalition.

Here's your midday brief for Thursday, March 19th. I'm Alex Osala for the Wall Street Journal.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegeseth said in a news conference today that there's, quote,

no time set on an end to the U.S. operation in Iran, but that quote, we will finish this.

He said that the war in Iran is different from previous U.S. operations in the Middle East,

and that Tehran represented a direct threat to the U.S. and couldn't be trusted to abandon its nuclear program on its own terms.

He also said that the U.S. has sunk more than 120 Iranian ships and struck over 7,000 targets across Iran.

Federal safety regulators are sharpening their focus on Tesla's automated driving assistance system after raising concerns about the technology's ability to handle poor

road conditions. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said today that it was

escalating a probe after identifying several crashes where the technology didn't alert drivers

appropriately about reduced visibility

conditions, such as sun glare, fog, or airborne dust. Tesla didn't immediately respond to a request

for comment. And the European Central Bank and its counterparts in the UK, Switzerland, and Sweden,

all held interest rates steady today, as was widely expected. This is despite a mounting energy crisis.

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