[overnight global news you need to know on Friday] 1. Preliminary statistics released by the US Department of Commerce show that real US GDP grew at an annualised rate of 1.1 per cent in the first quarter of 2023, below market expectations of 2 per cent and far below the 2.6 per cent growth rate in the fourth quarter of last year. 2. U.S. president Joe Biden declared a state of emergency on April 27 local time to deal with the threat posed by international drug trafficking to the national security, foreign policy and economy of the United States. and ordered reservists of the armed forces to enter active service to combat drug trafficking. 3. In the week ended April 26, the discount window loans provided by the Fed increased to $73.9 billion from $69.9 billion a week ago, and financing loans for the new instrument (BTFP) increased to $81.3 billion from $74 billion a week ago. 4. JPMorgan expects US GDP to shrink by 0.4 per cent in the second quarter of 2023. 5. Apple's software engineers propose to integrate the machine learning technology behind chat robots such as ChatGPT into the company's Siri voice assistant. 6. Activision Blizzard CEO said the UK's decision to block Microsoft's deal with Activision Blizzard was "unreasonable" and that the merger with Microsoft would eventually succeed. Us mortgage rates rose to their highest level since mid-March. The average interest rate on 30-year fixed-rate mortgages was 6.43%, up from 6.39% the week before, Freddie Mac said in a statement on Thursday. 8. The Information Office of the Turkish Presidential Office announced on April 27 that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Russian President Vladimir Putin exchanged views on the situation in Russia and Ukraine, the export of agricultural products from the Black Sea port and the situation in Syria. 9. In the vote of the Italian House of Representatives, a budget increase bill proposed by the Italian government was rejected by the House of Representatives because it did not get an absolute majority of 201 votes. Earlier, the Italian government proposed to increase the budget, hoping to use it for tax cuts from May this year. 10. On the evening of the 27th local time, the Sudanese Rapid support Force announced that in order to open up a humanitarian passage, it had agreed to extend the ceasefire for 72 hours starting from 00: 00 local time on the 28th. 11. The Spanish House of Representatives approved the new housing law, which sets an upper limit on the increase in housing rents and modifies the relevant provisions on the eviction of tenants by landlords. After the revision, the conditions for eviction of tenants will be more stringent. 12. The Iranian army said in a statement that it had seized an American ship hanging from the Marshall Islands. The statement said that the actions of the unidentified vessels violated international law. The unidentified vessels belonged to the United States and sailed under the flag of the Marshall Islands. Amazon's first-quarter net sales were $127.36 billion, analysts expected $124.7 billion; first-quarter operating profit was $4.77 billion, analysts expected $3 billion; and first-quarter earnings per share were $0.31. 14. Lyft, an American travel company, announced that it would cut about 1072 jobs, or 26%. 15. The three major indexes of US stocks collectively closed higher, with the Dow up 1.58%, the Nasdaq up 2.43%, the S & P 500 up 1.96%, hot technology stocks up more than 13%, Meta Platforms up more than 13%, hot Chinese stocks up, and the Nasdaq China Golden Dragon Index up 1.70%. 16. WTI June crude oil futures closed up 0.62% at US $74.76 per barrel, while Brent June crude oil futures closed up 0.87% at US $78.37 per barrel. COMEX June gold futures closed up 0.15% at $1999 an ounce.