The federal government is planning to ease up on rules that are currently reining in the widespread adoption and production of autonomous vehicles. The news comes the same day that demand for robotaxis – specifically Tesla’s Robotaxi – was revealed in a major way.

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Hey Snackers,

A bear market for the lads? Britain is on track to shed more than one pub a day this year. The UK has lost one-quarter of the pubs it had in the year 2000 (when you were still allowed to smoke in pubs and a British politician was reminiscing about when he’d drink 14 pints in a single day).

On Thursday, the S&P 500 set a new closing high with a 0.8% gain, the Nasdaq 100 rose 0.9%, and the Russell 2000 outperformed with a 1.3% advance. Every S&P sector ETF outside of utilities ended positive on the session, with the cyclical sectors of consumer discretionary, industrials, and financials all up in excess of 1%.