Here they come...

*Apollo Global Management Weighs Participating in a Twitter Bid, Sources Say - WSJ

*Apollo Considers Kicking in Debt or Equity for Potential Twitter Deal, Sources Say -- WSJ

*Apollo Could Back Mr. Musk's or Another Bid for Twitter, Sources Say -- WSJ

*Investment Firm Evaluating Potential Cooperation Between Twitter and Yahoo, Sources Say -- WSJ

JUST IN: China has signed a security pact with Solomon Islands, according to Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-04-19/china-and-solomon-islands-sign-security-pact-says-chinese-foreig/101000530

*HUNGARIAN FOREIGN MINISTER SZIJJARTO SAYS WE WILL NOT SUPPORT SANCTIONS ON RUSSIAN OIL AND GAS - BBG

*NEW NUCLEAR POLL: HALF OF GERMANS SAY KEEP IT ON THE TABLE

New poll from YouGov has results that will surprise politicians across Europe who haven't been paying attention: 53% of Germans either generally or enthusiastically accept nuclear.

German elites are willing to sacrifice European security, climate goals, German forests, and cheaper energy all to indulge in their romantic nuclear phaseout journey, which the German public doesn't really understand or support any more.

*TESLA'S SHANGHAI FACTORY RESUMES PRODUCTION ON APRIL 19 - CHINESE LOCAL MEDIA

WARSAW (Reuters) — Poland will not take or pay for more doses of COVID-19 vaccine under the European Union's supply contract, its health minister said on Tuesday, setting the stage for a legal battle with manufacturers.

*RUSSIA'S DEFENCE MINISTRY SAYS OPENED HUMANITARIAN CORRIDOR FOR WITHDRAWAL FROM AZOVSTAL OF UKRAINIAN SOLDIERS WHO VOLUNTARILY LAID DOWN ARMS AT 1400 MOSCOW TIME - RIA

*The Biden administration is restoring stricter environmental standards for approving new pipelines, highways, power plants and other construction projects, including requiring consideration of how such projects might affect climate change. - WSJ

Destruction is the name of the game. @Forecast432Hz

https://on.wsj.com/3JV5AOa

•Russians find an information war centre in the east of Ukraine.

•The swastika is chilling.

Video: https://twitter.com/mbindwane/status/1516366293217259527?s=21&t=ariZxHFIzr8bf8xRO5QF_g

*Russian crude exports are averaging 360 kbd above pre-invasion volumes: JPM

yes, "above"

Special Counsel Durham is fighting to obtain purported "attorney-client privileged" documents/emails relating to Perkins Coie, Fusion GPS, the DNC, the Hillary Campaign, and Rodney Joffe.

Joffe now maintains that Fusion GPS was used to assist with "legal advice."

An argument that is doomed to fail...

*Musk willing to invest $10 - $15 billion of his own cash for Twitter, $TWTR bid. - BBG

*MUSK HAS TAPPED MORGAN STANLEY TO RAISE ANOTHER $10 BLN IN DEBT AGAINST TWITTER IN MANNER OF A TRADITIONAL LEVERAGED BUYOUT - NY POST, CITING SOURCES

*CHINA VICE FM LE YUCHENG: 1Q TRADE W/RUSSIA INCREASES TO $38.2B - BBG

Jim Rickards: In a few weeks Russian control of Mariupol and a land bridge from Luhansk to Donetsk and Crimea will be complete. Over 40,000 Ukrainian troops will surrender or be annihilated. At that point, NYTimes and White House propaganda about the phony Zelensky will be seen for what it is.