Why automakers’ short reprieve from tariffs isn’t enough to weather Trump’s escalating trade war
By ALEXA ST. JOHN, Associated Press
DETROIT (AP) — President Donald Trump’s short reprieve for U.S. automakers from stiff tariffs on imports from Mexico and Canada isn’t likely to allow enough time for those companies to make the changes necessary to minimize the damage from Trump’s intensifying trade war.
Recent Central Florida bankruptcies
Chapter 7
Central Florida individuals and businesses that have filed for liquidation under Chapter 7 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code include:
GIAAH LLC, 1110 Highway A1A, Satellite Beach. Filed: March 3. Assets: $700,395. Liabilities: $412,5000. Major creditors: Not available. Creditors meeting: March 31.
Chamberlin Partners LLC doing business as Leads on Demand doing business as Kazzcade, 1025 Greenwood Blvd., Suite 101, Lake Mary. Filed: March 6. Assets: $25,800. Liabilities: $1,658,691. Major creditors: NP Owner LLC, Lake Mary, $850,544; TD Synnex, Fremont, Calif. $286,505; U.S. Small business Administration, Washington, D.C., $257,000. Creditors meeting: Not available.
Chapter 11
Central Florida individuals and businesses that have filed for reorganization and protection from creditors under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code include:
TransMedCare LLC, 123 Atlantic Ave., Suite 101, Maitland. Filed: Feb. 28. Assets:$500,001-$1 million. Liabilities: $1,000,001-$10 million. Major creditors: Satander, Dallas, $195,314; Doering, Brookfield, Wis., $155,703; U.S. Small Business Administration, Birmingham, Ala., $148,500. Creditors meeting: March 31.
Wall Street rallies after Trump pulls back on some of his tariffs
By STAN CHOE and DAMIAN J. TROISE
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks rallied after President Donald Trump pulled back on some of his tariffs, raising hopes he may avoid a worst-case trade war that grinds down economies and sends inflation higher. The S&P 500 rose 1.1% Wednesday, bouncing back from its sell-off that had erased all of its “Trump bump” since Election Day. The Dow Jones Industrial Average also added 1.1%, and the Nasdaq composite gained 1.5%. The market turned higher after Trump said he’s granting a one-month exemption for U.S. automakers on his stiff new tariffs for Mexican and Canadian imports. Jumps for Ford and GM stock helped lead the market.
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. AP’s earlier story follows below.
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks are rallying Wednesday after President Donald Trump showed again that his latest word on tariffs won’t always be his last. By pulling back on some of his tariffs temporarily, Trump revived hope on Wall Street that he may avoid a worst-case trade war that grinds down economies and sends inflation higher.
First look: How 2025 Epcot flower and garden fest goes
If nothing else, the gray, sometimes rainy, often windy conditions on the first day of the Epcot International Flower & Garden Festival sure made the blooms pop.
The 30th edition of the Walt Disney World event began Wednesday with many trademark attractions, including topiaries, flower towers, floating gardens, butterfly garden, Garden Rocks concerts and outdoor kitchens.
But there’s also newness to be found in the beds, on menus and inside the theme park’s new CommuniCore Hall.
New growth
Right away, Epcot visitors can see newly designed topiaries featuring characters great and small from “Moana,” the 2016 animated film.
You’ve got your little Heihei, a chicken character, atop Pua, the pet pig of Moana, whose figure is nearby. And then there’s megatopiary Maui (voiced in the film by Dwayne Johnson) looming. Disney tends to keep these figures proportional, Maui certainly would tower above poultry.
Maui may not be the biggest ever at the fest – let’s flash back to that big ol’ surfing Goofy of yore – but it’s a widebody with greenery girth.
Google leans further into AI-generated overviews for its search engine
By MICHAEL LIEDTKE
Google is updating its ubiquitous search engine with the next generation of its artificial intelligence technology as part of an effort to provide instant expertise amid intensifying competition from smaller competitors.
The company announced Wednesday that it will feed its Gemini 2.0 AI model into its search engine so it can field more complex questions involving subjects such as computer coding and math.
As has been the case since last May, the AI-generated overviews will be placed above the traditional web links that have become the lifeblood of online publishers dependent on traffic referrals from Google’s dominant search engine.
Google is broadening the audience for AI overviews in the U.S. by making them available to teenage searchers without requiring them to go through a special sign-in process to see them.
The stage is also being set for what could turn out to be one of the most dramatic changes to the search engine’s interface since Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin started the company in a Silicon Valley garage during the late 1990s.