Looking today at week-over-week shares outstanding changes among the universe of ETFs covered at ETF Channel, one standout is the State Street Materials Select Sector SPDR ETF (Symbol: XLB) where we have detected an approximate $285.3 million dollar inflow -- that's a 4.2% incre

格隆汇2月21日｜Ebury市场策略师马修·瑞安表示，市场不应对美国最高法院推翻特朗普全球贸易关税的决策寄予过高期望。他表示，这一决定被广泛预期，无论如何，特朗普很可能会迅速转向其他方式来实施贸易限制。瑞安说：“（特朗普）有多种手段可以动用，以规避这一裁决。这意味着，尽管我们可能会看到一些短期干扰，但只要白宫能通过替代方法复制这一体系，他的长期关税战略就不太可能脱轨。”

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亚特兰大联邦储备银行行长拉斐尔・博斯蒂克周五表示，全年经济增速达到 2.2% 是一个 “相当强劲的数字” ，这一水平足以引发对通胀持续高企的担忧，美联储可能需要维持 紧缩的货币政策 以给经济降温。 博斯蒂克在阿拉巴马州伯明翰的一场经济活动中表示：“我们的经济保持了 极强的韧性 。” 他预计今年经济增速将加快至 2.4% ，高于他所认为的经济潜在增长水平。 他指出，目前通胀率仍在 3% 左右，距离 2% 的通胀目标 **“还有很长一段路”**，因此 “强劲的经济意味着我们必须警惕其对物价的影响”。 基于此，博斯蒂克认为，美联储 **“应谨慎行事”**，维持足够高的利率水平以给经济降温、压制通胀 —— 而近几个月通胀回落几乎没有进展。 博斯蒂克将于本月卸任，1 月份已参加完他最后一次美联储政策会议。但他的言论凸显出美联储内部正在形成一场新的辩论：人工智能技术的普及是否正在改变经济的潜在增速，以及这对通胀意味着什么。 周五公布的最新数据显示，尽管去年四季度经济增速 1.4% ，弱于预期，但全年经济仍增长 2.2% 。博斯蒂克称，考虑到 “我们经历的各种动荡、贸易关系中断以及政策走向的不确定性”，这一数据 尤其亮眼 。 该增速也高于博斯蒂克所认为的 **1.8%** 左右的年度潜在经济增速 —— 这一水平也是美联储官员对长期经济增速预测的中位数。 博斯蒂克表示，增速明显高于潜在水平 很可能会推 高通 胀 ，这也是支持 不降息 的理由。 与之相对，新任美联储主席提名候选人凯文・瓦尔什则认为，即将到来的 生产率爆发式增长 将使经济能够以更快速度增长，而不会引发通胀。 责任编辑：郭明煜

European Union lawmakers will hold an emergency meeting Monday to reassess the bloc’s trade deal with the US following the Supreme Court’s decision to strike down some of President Donald Trump ’s global tariffs. The European Parliament’s trade committee had been expected to vote Tuesday to move forward with the ratification process of the US-EU agreement. EU lawmakers previously froze the ratification process after Trump threatened to annex Greenland. “The decision by the Supreme Court was expected,” Bernd Lange , chairman the trade committee said in a statement to Bloomberg. “The legal basis for the unjustified tariffs was not correct.” Lange wrote on social media that “we must now carefully evaluate” the ruling and “assess possible implications on the ongoing work” to ratify the agreement. The trade pact would erase tariffs on most US goods and set a 15% tariff on EU products. The bloc struck the uneven deal last summer in the hopes of avoiding a full-blown trade war and retaining US security backing. Parliament had been aiming to ratify the agreement in March. Friday’s ruling has now cast doubt on that timeline and the entire accord, given the uncertain legal status of Trump’s tariffs. Read More: Trump’s Global Tariffs Struck Down by US Supreme Court “Judges have shown that even an US president does not operate in a legal vacuum,” Lange said. Even before Friday’s ruling, EU lawmakers had introduced some changes to the US trade deal, including a sunset clause, that raised questions about its adoption. Read more: EU Lawmakers Advance US Trade Deal With Fresh Conditions After Friday’s ruling, the European Commission, the EU executive’s arm, said in a statement that it remained in close contact with Washington as it sought clarity on the administration’s steps.

In trading on Friday, shares of Superior Plus Corp (TSX: SPB.TO) crossed below their 200 day moving average of $7.51, changing hands as low as $6.27 per share. Superior Plus Corp shares are currently trading off about 18% on the day. The chart below shows the one year performa

格隆汇2月21日｜荷兰国际集团经济学家卡斯滕·布热斯基和朱利安·盖布在给客户的报告中写道，在美国最高法院裁定全球关税非法后，欧洲现在应为美国对特定行业实施更具针对性的贸易关税做好准备。法院裁定根据紧急权力实施的关税不合法，这是对特朗普标志性关税政策的驳斥。但荷兰国际集团表示，针对汽车和制药等个别行业征收的关税不受这些权力的约束。荷兰国际表示，汽车零部件和化学品可能是接下来的目标。“欧洲不应搞错，”该行表示，“这项裁决不会带来缓解。”

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Every weekday the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer holds a "Morning Meeting" livestream at 10:20 a.m. ET. Here's a recap of Friday's key moments. 1. Stocks reversed higher after the Supreme Court on Friday struck down the bulk of President Donald Trump's tariffs . The S & P 500 had been down earlier in the session on softer GDP growth . In portfolio moves, we decided to exit our position in Texas Roadhouse on Friday after lackluster earnings . The stock opened higher as Wall Street looked past high beef prices because of accelerating comp sales. "They have a true cattle problem that's the worst in American history," Jim Cramer said Friday. Shares later turned lower. We also trimmed Qnity Electronics when it was up earlier after a nice recent run in the DuPont spin-off. Shares of Qnity turned slight lower later. 2. The high court ruling that Trump exceeded his authority with emergency tariffs puts a lot balls in the air — not the least of which whether the president will reimpose the levies under a different mechanism. As we wrote Thursday , the court's decision is welcome news for consumer-facing companies. "If you own companies like retailers like we do, like Nike , you're going to be excited," Jim said. On the other hand, the market is "circumspect about how much this is going to end up really scrapping the tariffs," Jim added. That's likely why retail and consumer stocks were not up more on the news, with most of them turning lower. 3. Shares of Corning rose 7% on Friday, making it one of the biggest gainers in the S & P 500 after UBS increased its price target to $160 from $125 — a new Street high. The analysts raised their sales and earnings forecasts based on the high capital expenditure spending plans from hyperscalers. Part of that spend will go toward Corning's fiber-optic cable and connectivity solutions to support AI data center expansions. Analysts believe there could be more capex revisions higher after Nvidia reports earnings next week, which could ...

EasyBuy4u/iStock Unreleased via Getty Images I like the energy drink category. In many ways, personally, I like to drink Monster ( MNST ) occasionally, and I liked it when I tried Celsius Holdings, Inc. ( CELH ) in the US, although it is not yet available in Brazil. But the other reason I like it is that it seems to me that it is still a category that should be able to grow significantly in the coming years, not only with the core organic energy drink, but also with related products and other optionalities that brands can invest in. Since my last article on Celsius stock, there have been some positive changes in the case, and the market has recognized this less uncertain future and caused the stock to rise ~50% in about a year. I still think Celsius is a good company, but the profile here has changed a bit. With this multiple expansion, we are no longer dealing with a high-risk, high-reward stock. The execution risk exists, and the prospects are encouraging, but now the margin of safety has decreased, and to unlock upside, the company will really need to prove that it can compound in the coming years. Celsius Case Got Better In my last article (check it here ), Celsius was still having some optimization issues, and this has now been practically resolved, which alleviates some of the market's concerns. But another very important point is that, in the meantime, PepsiCo ( PEP ) has increased its stake in CELH. This point is very important because, while there was some noise about this partnership before (due to lower purchases that occurred because of inventory issues), in recent quarters it has become clear that Celsius is central to PepsiCo's beverage strategy. If Celsius lost PepsiCo's power, it could be a big problem for the case's prospects. In this competitive landscape, already dominated by Monster and Red Bull, the brand does matter, which is one of the positives for Celsius, but distribution and pricing matter even more in my view. By meeting these 3 “requirem...

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Nvidia expects huge growth in 2026.

Key PointsNvidia's stock is priced at a modest level despite the chipmaker's excellent growth.

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Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images News Compass ( COMP ) stock fell 3.2% in Friday midday trading following a report that Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) questioned the Justice Department about its review of Compass's Anywhere Real Estate acquisition. The transaction was completed in January, less than four months after the $10B all-stock merger agreement was announced. On the same day that the deal closed, the Wall Street Journal reported that the head of the DOJ's antitrust division wanted an extended review of the real estate brokerage deal but was overruled by senior officials. The letter, from Warren and U.S. Representative Becca Balint (D-VT), was issued after the DOJ antitrust official, Gail Slater, was ousted last week,"r aising questions about whether political interference is causing DOJ to stymie critical antitrust reviews of massive mergers that threaten to raise costs for consumers," according to Warren's press release. "The merger combines two of the nation’s largest residential real-estate brokerages, creating the largest agent network in the country — and raising antitrust and competition concerns," according to Warren's press release. The lawmakers said the combination, forming the largest agent network in the country, could make home purchases less affordable by increasing costs for consumers. "Affordability is even further constrained by market consolidations that hamstring consumers’ ability to negotiate agent commissions or limit their access to supply options through private home listing services, a practice being widely adopted by Compass," Warren and Balint said in the letter. Dear readers : We recognize that politics often intersects with the financial news of the day, so we invite you to click here to join the separate political discussion. More on Compass Compass: The Upside Opportunity Is Unsettling At This Price Level Compass: Strong Scale Advantage Compass said to have lost bid to halt part of Zillow's listing ban policy Seeking Alpha’s Quant R...

Two skulls from Yunxian, in northern China, aren’t ancestors of Denisovans after all; they’re actually the oldest known Homo erectus fossils in eastern Asia. A recent study has re-dated the skulls to about 1.77 million years old, which makes them the oldest hominin remains found so far in East Asia. Their age means that Homo erectus (an extinct common ancestor of our species, Neanderthals, and Denisovans) must have spread across the continent much earlier and much faster than we’d previously given them credit for. It also sheds new light on who was making stone tools at some even older archaeological sites in China. Homo erectus spread like wildfire Yunxian is an important—and occasionally contentious—archaeological site on the banks of central China’s Han River. Along with hundreds of stone tools and animal bones, the layers of river sediment have yielded three nearly complete hominin skulls (only two of which have been described in a publication so far). Shantou University paleoanthropologist Hua Tu and his colleagues measured the ratio of two isotopes, aluminum-26 and beryllium-10, in grains of quartz from the sediment layer that once held the skulls. The results suggest that Homo erectus lived and died along the Han River 1.77 million years ago. That's just 130,000 years after the species first appeared in Africa. Read full article Comments

JasonDoiy/iStock Unreleased via Getty Images As discussed in my previous coverage on Intel ( INTC ), the company’s stock gains in recent months remain primarily driven by external validation rather than tangible operational progress. In addition to the lack of follow-up on high-profile investments and strategic collaborations announced with industry partners like Nvidia ( NVDA ), Intel’s core Client Compute Group’s (“CCG”) growth outlook is also at risk of being mired by implications of intensifying memory cost inflation. These concerns were on full display at Intel’s latest earnings update. In addition to the lack of step-up in external Foundry volumes and 14A development progress, management also confirmed extended limitations to CCG’s revenue opportunity this year amid accelerating memory pricing dynamics. More importantly, Intel’s acute server CPU supply constraints represented a standout issue. As I’ve discussed in previous coverages on the stock, Intel’s maintained a poor track record in capitalizing on secular growth opportunities. Instead of capitalizing on high-performance compute (“HPC”) momentum during the height of the cloud era in the early 2020s, Intel’s multi-year delay on its 4 th Gen Xeon “ Sapphire Rapids ” processors has shipped into a cyclical downturn in 2023 instead. This has resulted in permanent share loss to key rival AMD’s ( AMD ) EPYC server CPUs, which remain a competitive x86 alternative to Intel’s Xeon processors. The mishap was most recently repeated in the Gaudi accelerator roadmap’s failure to capitalize on opportunities from the rapidly scaling AI compute supercycle. This has essentially left Intel structurally disadvantaged in the transition to accelerated data centers over the past two years. Yet as CPUs make a comeback, driven in part by their renewed relevance in supporting high-volume inference, Intel’s Xeon line-up is running into acute supply constraints instead. This is further exacerbated by intensifying competition coming ...

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