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Middle East latest: Israel ‘considered revenge attack on Monday’ – as ex-Mossad intelligence chief says striking Iran’s … – Sky News

Lebanon at a crossroads as it awaits Israel’s response to Iran – with fears growing revenge will trigger ‘bigger war’

By Alex Crawford, special correspondent 

Lebanon is balanced as though on an earthquake faultline right now – whatever Israel decides to do next will have massive repercussions throughout the entire region.

That’s how critical the situation is in Lebanon and the surrounding countries, as described by one seasoned Lebanese political analyst.

Khodor Taleb is also the former adviser to three different Lebanese prime ministers, so knows a thing or two about what is at stake.

Lebanon – like the entire region – is at the crossroads and it is Israel in the driving seat over which road is travelled.

‘The situation will be totally out of control’

“I can tell you 100% that Hezbollah do not want war. The ball is in the Israeli court,” Mr Taleb told Sky News.

The militant group Hezbollah is backed by Iran and has strong ties with both the Iranian leadership and the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC).

It is very much seen as the strongest and most powerful of Iran’s proxies which operate in multiple countries.

It is therefore potentially in the Israeli crosshairs as it considers how or whether to retaliate against Iran and its network in response to the missile and drone attacks at the weekend.

Mr Taleb is not an isolated voice in warning that an Israeli attack could tip the region into all-out war.

“It will be a huge risk for Israel because it will lead to a big war in the region,” he said.

“It will not be limited to Lebanon. It will definitely spread to Yemen and most probably to the Syrian Golan and the situation will be totally out of control of any international power,” he continued.

“It will be damaging to the whole region.”

His point: Any large-scale Israeli attack against the Lebanese Hezbollah or Iran risks drawing the entire so-called Axis of Resistance into war – and that would involve the Yemeni Houthis, the Iraqi Hezbollah and the various Syrian militias – all of which have links to Iran or Hezbollah.

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Rob Marciano, ‘ABC World News Tonight’ and ‘GMA’ meteorologist, exits ABC News after 10 years – USA TODAY

ABC News meteorologist Rob Marciano films a segment outside the Milwaukee Art Museum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

ABC News Senior Meteorologist Rob Marciano has exited the network after 10 years.

A source familiar with the situation but not authorized to speak publicly confirmed the news to USA TODAY. Puck News was first to report the news of Marciano’s departure.

Marciano, 55, has been with the network since 2014, bringing his weather insights to “ABC World News Tonight with David Muir,” “Good Morning America” and “Good Morning America: Weekend Edition.” Before this, he co-hosted Entertainment Tonight for nearly two years.

His most recent reporting – on Shreveport, Louisiana’s recovery from a storm that tore through the city in June 2023 – aired on “ABC World News Tonight” last week and on ABC News’ website on Sunday.

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A rep for ABC News declined to comment. USA TODAY has reached out to a representative for Marciano for comment.

In September, Marciano shared in an Instagram post celebrating his 10th year with ABC News that he would be “contributing across all ABC shows and platforms Mon-Fri, while getting more quality time with my kiddos on the weekends.” He has two children with ex Eryn Marciano, who filed to divorce the meteorologist in 2021, according to People.

He also announced “an exciting new project with NatGeo that has me exploring some very very cool stuff.”

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Stock market today: An ugly April for Wall Street is closing with some more losses – The Atlanta Journal Constitution

Stocks have been struggling as traders have largely given up on hopes that the Federal Reserve will deliver multiple cuts to interest rates this year. A string of reports showing inflation remains stubbornly high has sent Treasury yields climbing in the bond market, which in turn has cranked up the pressure on stocks.

Treasury yields rose again Tuesday after a report showed U.S. workers won bigger gains in wages and benefits than expected during the first three months of the year. While that’s good news for workers and the latest signal that the job market remains solid despite high interest rates, it feeds into worries that upward pressure remains on the economy and inflation.

The yield on the 10-year Treasury rose to 4.66% from 4.61% just before the report’s release. The two-year Treasury yield, which more closely tracks expectations for the Fed, rose back above the 5% level to 5.01% from 4.97% late Monday.

No one expects the Federal Reserve to change its main interest rate on Wednesday, when it finishes its latest meeting. But traders are now mostly betting the Fed will cut rates either one or zero times through the balance of this year, according to data from CME Group. That’s a big letdown after traders came into the year forecasting six or more cuts.

The Fed itself was earlier penciling in three cuts to rates during 2024, but top officials have recently hinted rates may stay high for longer as they wait for more confirmation inflation is heading down toward their 2% target. The Fed’s main interest rate is sitting at the highest level since 2001, which puts downward pressure on the economy and investment prices.

Without the benefit of easing interest rates, companies will need to deliver bigger profits in order to support their stock prices, which critics have called too expensive following their run to records.

GE Healthcare Technologies tumbled 13.2% after it reported weaker results and revenue for the latest quarter than analysts expected. F5 dropped 7.8% despite reporting a better profit than expected. Its revenue fell short of forecasts, and it said customers were remaining cautious and forecasting largely flat IT budgets for the year.

McDonald’s erased much of an early loss and was down 0.2% after its profit for the latest quarter came up just shy of analysts’ expectations. It was hurt by weakening sales trends at its franchised stores overseas, in part by boycotts from Muslim-majority markets over the company’s perceived support of Israel.

Helping to keep the market’s losses in check was 3M, which rose 3.9% after reporting stronger results and revenue than forecast. Eli Lilly climbed 5% after turning in a stronger profit than expected on strong sales of its Mounjaro and Zepbound drugs for diabetes and obesity. It also raised its forecasts for revenue and profit for the full year.

This earnings reporting season has largely been better than expected so far. Not only have the tech companies that dominate Wall Street done well, so have smaller companies across a range of industries.

That’s a change from the recent past, and it helped push strategists at Deutsche Bank to raise their forecast for full-year earnings growth for the S&P 500. Many companies are topping forecasts because they’ve been able to wring more profit out of each $1 of revenue than analysts were expecting, according to Binky Chadha, chief strategist at Deutsche Bank.

Such strength could support stock prices even if interest rates end up staying high, according to Kristy Akullian, head of iShares Investment Strategy, Americas.

“Equities don’t need Fed rate cuts for the rally to continue, all they need is solid earnings growth,” she said.

In stock markets abroad, Japan’s Nikkei 225 rose 1.2% after reopening following a holiday. The government reported stronger-than-expected gains in industrial production for March.

Indexes were mixed across much of the rest of Asia, but lower in Europe.

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AP Business Writers Yuri Kageyama and Matt Ott contributed.

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