Stocks Gain as Tech Holds Up; Bonds Steady | The Close 2/17/2026
Bloomberg Television· 2026-02-17 23:32
>> GOOD MORNING, EVERYONE. I HAD HOPED WE WOULD START BY TALKING ABOUT PRODUCTIVITY AND SOME OF THE DATA. LIKE YOU SAID, NO ONE REALLY KNOWS.THE QUESTION WITH AI AND THE U.S. ECONOMY IS, WHAT HAS HAPPENED THUS FAR. I WILL HIT YOU WITH SOME OF THE OFFICIAL DATA I HAVE BEEN TRACKING, YOU CAN TELL ME THE UTILITY OF IT OR NOT. I ALWAYS GO WITH THE BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS.IF YOU LOOK AT THE DATA OVER 50 YEARS, THE CHART IS REALLY INTERESTING. THE SIDE-BY-SIDE BETWEEN ELECTRICITY AND AI. OVER 50 YEARS, THE ANN ...
Why everyone loves Costco
Mark Tilbury· 2026-02-17 23:32
This is the world's third largest retailer, >> beaten only by Walmart and Amazon, but with a profit margin of only 12%, which is half of their competitors. How are they making money. >> Well, I'm here to find out.>> You can't even walk in without a membership, which costs $65. And then you're greeted with a maze-like layout, concrete floors, no music, and boxes everywhere. This just shouldn't work.But 90% of members renew every single year. Their private label, Kirkland, drives a third of all sales because ...
What's weighing on gold and silver prices? eToro CEO talks retail investor adoption of AI
Yahoo Finance· 2026-02-17 23:20
Hello and welcome to Market Domination Overtime. Let's get to Yahoo Finance's Jared Blickery with all the trading action. Jared, >> thank you Josh.Uh photo finish for the majors here. Dow just ekking out a very, very small win. 32 points or about seven basis points.You can see the very choppy intraday action behind me there. Here's a Nasdaq Composite up a tiny bit more, 14 basis points and a very similar chart. And the S&P 500 uh finishing up onetenth of 1%.And let me just show you a year-to- date real quic ...
‘This is not America’: School counselor and coach sticks up for his students amid ICE operations
MSNBC· 2026-02-17 23:16
The big story in action news is the fear and chaos as an apparent ice operation unfolded near a South Jersey school bus stop. Fourth and fifth grade students running from the presence of ice agents, children scattered in different directions. One child yelling in Spanish ice is there.The kids are still wearing their backpacks. It set off with school district officials called, quote, significant fear and confusion for kids in the area. I just said, uh, like, um, I need to run.They could maybe like come after ...
Palo Alto Networks CEO Says Markets 'Have It Wrong' About Earnings
Bloomberg Television· 2026-02-17 23:13
Nikesh Arora, CEO of Palo Alto Networks, discusses the market’s reaction to the company's revised forecast and the impact of the recent CyberArk acquisition. He speaks with Ed Ludlow on "Balance of Power: Evening Edition." -------- More on Bloomberg Television and Markets Like this video? Subscribe and turn on notifications so you don't miss any videos from Bloomberg Markets & Finance: https://tinyurl.com/ysu5b8a9 Visit http://www.bloomberg.com for business news & analysis, up-to-the-minute market data, fea ...
Could Dems flip Cornyn's seat? Talarico and Crockett face off in Texas Senate primary
MSNBC· 2026-02-17 23:04
Joining us, MSNOW national reporter Rosa You can tell we're going to focus a bit on Texas here, because it is going to be a very interesting race. But Dave, first, tell us why we should be very watchful of who wins each of these primary races. That's right, Katie.And there's a lot on the line here in Texas because the only matchup that we could see being competitive in the fall would be Ken Paxton, who has more baggage than you can fit on two 757s, but is probably going to finish first in at least the initi ...
Anthropic just dropped Sonnet 4.6...
Matthew Berman· 2026-02-17 23:00
A new week, a new model drop. Introducing Claude Sonnet 4.6%. This is going to be Anthropic's workhorse.And it got a major quality bump from Sonnet 4.5%. It got better at coding, tool use, a gentic ability, and it now comes with a million token context window. And they even made it the default model on the free plan.This is incredible. So, the pricing remains the same as Sonnet 45, starting at $3 per million input tokens and $15 per million output tokens. And Sonnet 4.6% brings much improved coding skills, ...
The Real Competition at the Milan Games? Olympics vs. Opera
The Wall Street Journal· 2026-02-17 23:00
The real competition in Milan right now, Olympics versus opera. This is Lascala, the world's most iconic opera house. It's just a short walk from the Duomo at the center of Milan, which has been overtaken by the Winter Olympics.They're doing ghetto damarong. That's right. The only opera during the Olympics is Vagner's Ghetto Damarong or the Twilight of the Goats.As the city stages the Olympics, Lascala is staging the apocalypse. The opera is 5 and a half hours long. It features betrayal, treachery, corrupti ...
‘Huge deal’: Major MAGA podcaster breaks from Trump, slams Pam Bondi over the Epstein Files
MSNBC· 2026-02-17 22:49
The Trump administration is trying to declare case closed nothing to see here with the Epstein files, but they're just about the only people saying that. And it's not even clear if they believe that to be true. The criticisms are mounting.They're getting louder and louder, and they're increasingly on the right over the mishandling on the part of Donald Trump and his cabinet of the release of the files. Listen to what right-wing, MAGA-friendly podcaster Sean Ryan had to say about it. You're going to protect ...
‘Too sinister to be pathetic, too pathetic to be wholly sinister’: FCC, CBS accused of censorship
MSNBC· 2026-02-17 22:47
the setting for confrontation over the First Amendment, a battlefield really between autocratic instincts and impulses and pro-democracy forces, so full of courage and cowardice alike. So we'll start at the beginning. Last night, Stephen Colbert began his CBS program with a message he said his lawyers didn't want his viewers to know about.First, just watch that moment. You know who is not one of my guests tonight. That's Texas State Representative James Tallarico.He was supposed to be here, but we were told ...