Domestic News:
1. my country achieves major breakthrough in sodium-ion batteries.
2. Media: Foxconn is trial-producing Apple's foldable screen phone.
3. During the Qingming Festival holiday, the average daily sales of key retail and catering enterprises nationwide increased by 2.4% year-on-year.
4. Six departments, including the Ministry of Commerce, issued guiding opinions on better serving the real economy and promoting the high-quality development of e-commerce.
International News:
1. Australia and New Zealand enter winter time.
2. Wells Fargo and Citigroup postpone expectations of a Federal Reserve interest rate cut.
3. The US services price index surged in March, reaching a new high since October 2022.
4. Two Federal Reserve officials warned of a severe inflation situation, hinting at a tightening rather than easing of monetary policy.
5. Iran situation—
① Trump: Tuesday is the deadline for reaching an agreement (8:00 AM Wednesday Beijing time); Iran's proposal is not good enough; a plan has been developed to destroy Iranian bridges and power plants within four hours; rather than letting Iran collect tolls in the Strait of Hormuz, let the US collect them.
② US media: US-Iran mediators make final efforts to secure a 45-day ceasefire.
③ Iran conveys its response to the US proposal, rejecting a temporary ceasefire and emphasizing a permanent end to the war. The response includes ten demands from Iran.
④ Ship traffic in the Strait of Hormuz rises to its highest level since early March.
⑤ Netanyahu urged Trump not to seek a ceasefire temporarily during a phone call with him on Sunday.
⑥ Israeli military claims airstrikes on Iran's largest petrochemical facility.
⑦ Head of Iranian Revolutionary Guard's intelligence agency killed.
⑧ Iranian Foreign Ministry: US pilot rescue operation may be for theft of enriched uranium.
⑨ Israeli Defense Minister: Has instructed the military to continue its full-scale strikes against Iranian national infrastructure.
⑩ Iranian official: Will not reopen the Strait of Hormuz in exchange for a "temporary ceasefire."
