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The U.S. economy shrank in the first three months of the year, as companies rushed to import more goods in advance of tariffs. The underlying trend is quite a bit better — the overall trend was positive, but this was for a quarter that ended immediately before the April 2 announcement of big-time global tariffs and the market volatility that followed. https://lnkd.in/ecQx5x-r

NEW: U.S. economy shrinks at 0.3% rate in first Trump-era GDP report https://trib.al/DdzQAOZ

Former Obama press secretary Jay Carney, who currently serves as global head of policy and communications at Airbnb, spoke with Axios’ Eleanor Hawkins last week to talk about the current media landscape. Here's what he had to say about delivering bad news and differing opinions to CEOs, presidents and other high-level leaders.

Axios News Shapers Axios hosts a News Shapers event in Washington, D.C., looking at takeaways from Trump's first 100 days and the news of the day on Capitol Hill.

Axios Communicators: The New Media Landscape Axios hosts an event in Washington, D.C. with White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt and Airbnb global head of policy and communications Jay Carney looking at the forces shaping the media landscape in the age of Trump 2.0.

Axios’ AI+ NY Summit speaker lineup is here! On June 4th, we’ll be joined in conversation with guests including: - Rohit Agarwal, CEO, The Weather Company - Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Actor, Filmmaker, Entrepreneur - Kate Johnson, President and CEO, Lumen Technologies - Jeffrey Katzenberg*, Co-founder & Managing Partner, WndrCo - Hari Ravichandran*, Founder & CEO, Aura - Amandeep Singh Gill, Under-Secretary-General for Digital and Emerging Technologies and Secretary General’s Envoy on Technology, United Nations - Cristóbal Valenzuela, Co-founder & CEO, Runway *Denotes a panel segment. More speakers to be announced soon. Interested in attending? Click the link here for more info: https://t.co/43QAKTx2lq #AxiosEvents

The collision between sports and dealmaking keeps accelerating

Setting a New Standard: Advancing New Mexico's Clean Energy Goals Axios hosts an event in Santa Fe looking at the state of play for advancing New Mexico's clean energy standards

️ ⭐️ Congratulations to Kristen Hinman, Nate Rau, and Dayana Bernavil, MPS for winning the Axios Values Awards! The awards recognize Axions who demonstrate exceptional dedication, humility, creativity, and impactful performance and embody Axios's core employee values — Axios First, Excellence Always, and Candor.

Markets can behave weirdly, and maybe this will turn out to be just a few bumpy trading days. But the world's most important financial markets — for the dollar and Treasury securities — are signaling that something fundamental is shifting beneath our feet.