Daily Digest: Monday 3rd April


USA
-Cryptocurrency Dogecoin’s price has soared 21.55% (as of 21:05pm) after Twitter Owner and acting CEO Elon Musk changed the sites logo from Twitter bird to the Doge logo.
-Former US President Donald Trump has returned to New York ready to face a court on Tuesday where his charges will be formally read.
-The WWE an American wrestling promotion company was purchased by Endeavor Group (owner of the MMA promoter UFC) on Monday, the UFC and WWE are now expected to merge forming a promotion, entertainment and fighting company valued over $20 billion USD.


UK
-An increase in Crude Oil prices has supported FTSE 100 gains during Mondays trading session, with the two standout risers in the index being energy giants BP (ticker: BP) and Shell (ticker: SHEL) rising by 4.29% and 4.18% respectively.


Rest of the World
-Global markets spent Monday’s trading session adjusting to the weekends OPEC+ cut in oil production, totalling over one and a half million barrels a day. Crude oil prices have since traded up 6.28%.
-Swiss authorities have opened an investigation into the merger of UBS and rival bank Credit Suisse during March, in order to assure that no criminal action occurred during the transaction.
-Finland will officially become a member of the NATO alliance on Tuesday.


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