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Today, we're talking about Trump's 90-day pause on new tariffs, a Dominican Republic

nightclub collapsing, a meta whistleblower testifying in the Senate, and other top

news for Friday, April 11th.

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On Wednesday, President Trump announced a 90-day pause, during which countries will face a, quote,

substantially lowered reciprocal tariff of

10%. The White House pitched the move as the quote-unquote art of the deal in action, saying it

has kick-started trade negotiations with dozens of countries. China, notably, isn't one of them.

Trump further hiked Chinese tariffs to a cumulative 145%, citing the quote, lack of respect

that China has shown to the world's markets.

Earlier Wednesday, China announced 84% retaliatory duties on American imports.

It led to an extra wild week on Wall Street.

Following the pause, the SMP 500 rose 9.5%, its third largest single-day gain

since World War II, and the NASDAQ climbed 12%, nearly erasing a week of losses.

But markets gave up some of those gains yesterday,

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