In MACRO NEWS, Biden causes concern, Le Pen wins the first round and South Africa gets a new cabinet. In PROFESSIONAL SERVICES NEWS, Bain pulls back in China, financial services don't embrace AI fully and Hogan Lovells launches a "microaggressions" hotline. In M&A NEWS, BlackRock buys Preqin, TDR Capital looks to offload BPP and Boeing agrees to buy Spirit AeroSystems. In MISCELLANEOUS NEWS, the UK haulage industry wants better electric truck infrastructure, a Cambridge start-up makes a battery breakthrough, older renter numbers rise, M&S launches new services and a new AI-generated ad causes a stir. AND FINALLY, I challenge you to think of something that rhymes with "orange"...