格隆汇2月4日｜白宫新闻秘书：特朗普总统总是倾向于首先采取外交手段解决问题。

Last week, Peter Mandelson was giving his comeback interview to the Times, scheduled to be published later this month. He posed for cosy pics with the dog as he explained how hard done by he had been and how much the country could benefit from his largesse and expertise. Late on Sunday night, that interview was crowbarred into a hastily rearranged one to take in Mandy’s sudden resignation from the Labour party after seemingly more revelations of Peter taking money in the recently released Epstein files. Mandelson appeared to take it in his stride. He had done plenty of sleazy things in the past and survived. He would survive this one too. There was no big deal. Never apologise, never explain. Time for everyone to move on. If it hadn’t been for a few awkward emails coming to light, he would still be swanning around in Washington. Mandy has never shown contrition. That curious two-part interview ran on Tuesday morning, by which time it was already out of date. What we all wanted was Mandelson 3.0. “I’ve done nothing wrong” had morphed into “OK, I was a wee bit silly but that’s just me” had morphed into “no comment”. We were now into the realms of a potential criminal prosecution. Not just apparently helping himself to $75,000 of handouts – Mandy had no idea what the money was for, and who wouldn’t forget that amount of cash? – but, it seems, leaking market-sensitive government information to a convicted sex offender. For most of Monday the government had looked as if it was playing catchup. But come Tuesday lunchtime it had gone into overdrive. Hell hath no fury and all that. After more than 30 years in his gilded cage on the inside of New Labour, Mandelson was to be thrown to the wolves. A tough call for Keir Starmer as he tried to work out how he let Morgan McSweeney persuade him that Mandy would make a great ambassador to Washington. What had he been thinking? Less so for other Labour old-timers. Harriet Harman observed that he had been untrustworthy since the 1990...

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格隆汇2月4日｜白宫新闻秘书：对政府即将重新开放持极其乐观的态度。

A US-based private detective bought a large house in California and had $150,000 in savings “almost entirely” from work he did for the publisher of the Daily Mail, the high court has heard. Daniel Portley-Hanks, also known as “Detective Danno”, said he received about $1m for work carried out for the Mail on Sunday, another title published by Associated Newspapers Ltd (ANL). Giving evidence, Portley-Hanks said he went bankrupt after the publisher stopped using his services after the 2012 Leveson inquiry into the practices of the press. He said he had been told he could keep working for the publisher only if he gave up his private investigator’s licence. Portley-Hanks, 79, was giving evidence in a case brought by seven claimants, including Prince Harry, who accuse ANL of using unlawful information gathering techniques over decades. The other claimants are Elton John and his husband, David Furnish, the actors Elizabeth Hurley and Sadie Frost, the former Liberal Democrat MP Simon Hughes and the mother of Stephen Lawrence, Doreen Lawrence. Portley-Hanks said he worked for the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday from the early 1990s to around 2013. He said he was “the database guy”, stating: “All I needed was a name or a phone number and I could find a target’s contact and other private details, usually within minutes.” In court, Portley-Hanks said he did not believe anything he was doing was illegal “at the time”, but that he now believed he had carried out activities that are unlawful in the UK, including the gathering of personal data. This was challenged by ANL’s legal team, who pointed to his previous public statements stating he had not broken the law. ANL denies that its journalists engaged in wrongdoing. It has described all of the allegations of unlawful information gathering as “lurid” and “preposterous”. Portley-Hanks alleged that the publisher tried to conceal its continued use of private investigators by asking him to change his email address, to make it appear tha...

RHJ Ivanhoe Mines ( IVPAF ) +5.5% in Tuesday's trading after saying it is in advanced talks to supply critical minerals production from its Kipushi mine in the Democratic Republic of Congo to the Trump administration's proposed $12B stockpile . The Canadian company said it is discussing with Congo's state-owned miner Gecamines and Swiss metals and energy trading firm Mercuria to supply production from the mine to the U.S. Ivanhoe ( IVPAF ) said its Executive Co-Chairman Robert Friedland joined President Trump at the White House on Tuesday for the official launch of Project Vault, the U.S. supply chain security initiative set up to build a reserve of strategic critical minerals and avoid future reliance on China for rare earths and metals. The Kipushi mine is expected to produce 240K-290K metric tons of zinc concentrate this year, as well as significant quantities of critical minerals germanium and gallium, and Ivanhoe ( IVPAF ) said Gecamines has the potential to be responsible for the sale of up to 50% of Kipushi's concentrate production, including to the U.S. ETFs: ( REMX ), ( XME ) More on Ivanhoe Mines Ivanhoe Mines' Platreef Is Live: Meet The Real Winners Ivanhoe Mines: A Solid Mine In A Turbulent Copper Market Seeking Alpha's Quant Rating on Ivanhoe Mines

格隆汇2月4日｜市场消息：美国军方表示已向尼日利亚派遣了部分部队。

Image source: The Motley Fool. Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2026 at 11:30 a.m. ET Call participants Chief Executive Officer — Michael Combs Chief Financial Officer — Brian Nichols Need a quote from a Motley Fool analyst? Email [email protected] Takeaways Revenue -- $236 million for the quarter, representing a 3% increase from $228 million. -- $236 million for the quarter, representing a 3% increase from $228 million. EPS -- $0.47 for the quarter, a 2% rise compared to $0.46, with all figures adjusted for the 3-for-1 stock split of December 2024. -- $0.47 for the quarter, a 2% rise compared to $0.46, with all figures adjusted for the 3-for-1 stock split of December 2024. Net Income -- $24.1 million for the quarter, up from $23.8 million, reflecting operational growth during the period. -- $24.1 million for the quarter, up from $23.8 million, reflecting operational growth during the period. Operating Margin -- Rose slightly from 23.2% to 23.3% versus the prior comparable quarter. -- Rose slightly from 23.2% to 23.3% versus the prior comparable quarter. General & Administrative Expense Allocation -- Decreased to 9.6% from 9.7%, indicating improved cost management. -- Decreased to 9.6% from 9.7%, indicating improved cost management. Effective Tax Rate -- Increased and was cited as tempering the period's earnings results. -- Increased and was cited as tempering the period's earnings results. Share Repurchases -- 185,559 shares repurchased for $13.4 million during the quarter, funded entirely from operating cash flow. -- 185,559 shares repurchased for $13.4 million during the quarter, funded entirely from operating cash flow. Total Shares Repurchased (Inception-to-Date) -- 114.9 million shares bought at a cumulative cost of $868 million, representing 69% of total shares outstanding at an average price of $7.55 per share. -- 114.9 million shares bought at a cumulative cost of $868 million, representing 69% of total shares outstanding at an average price of $7.55 per share. Cash Balanc...

西班牙及希臘政府計劃推動立法禁止未成年人士使用社交媒體，以保護兒童免受不良內容影響。法國當局突擊搜查X平台辦公室，調查有否參與傳播兒童色情影像，營運X平台的美國富商馬斯克曾批評法國檢察部門是出於政治動機。 西班牙首相桑切斯周二表示，現時對未成年人士來說，社交媒體環境是過於複雜及充滿風險，政府有責任加強干預，構建更安全的數碼生態，並且保護兒童免受仇恨言論、色情內容和虛假信息所影響。桑切斯又稱，澳洲自去年12月起禁止未成年人士在主流社交平台，包括Facebook、IG、X、TikTok等開設帳戶，馬德里政府借鑑澳方做法，並要求相關平台建立嚴格年齡驗證機制，防止未達門檻的用戶註冊帳戶及使用平台。 馬德里政府計劃下周一提交新法案，明確列出社交媒體的法律責任。若果相關平台未能及時刪除違法內容、通過演算法傳播有害信息等，可能會被追究責任。路透社報道，希臘政府即將公布類似措施，禁止使用社交媒體的年齡門檻改為15歲以下人士。 在多國關注社交媒體影響未成年人士之際，法國巴黎檢察官辦公室表示，打擊網絡犯罪部門在歐洲刑警協助下，周二突擊搜查當地的X平台辦公室。據報檢察部門的調查聚焦X平台的演算法問題，以及處理有關旗下人工智能聊天機械人格羅克Grok的申訴，包括調查X平台有否參與傳播兒童色情影像，以及利用深偽技術侵犯肖像權等。 巴黎檢察部門又向美國富商馬斯克及X平台前行政總裁亞卡里諾發出傳票，要求他們4月到巴黎出席聽證會。馬斯克早前否認指控，又批評法國檢察部門出於政治動機，而刑事調查他營運的X平台並且威脅用戶的言論自由。

格隆汇2月4日｜消息人士：美国政府正努力尽快向委内瑞拉颁发石油和天然气生产通用许可证。

Grandbrothers/iStock Editorial via Getty Images aTyr Pharma ( ATYR ) lost ~8% on Tuesday after the San Diego, California-based biotech indicated an April timeline to meet with the FDA to discuss the path forward for its lung disease candidate efzofitimod. In September, aTyr ( ATYR ) shares fell after the company stated that its Phase 3 EFZO-FIT for efzofitimod failed in patients with pulmonary sarcoidosis, an inflammatory disease characterized by granuloma formation in one or more organs of the body. With its Q3 2025 results in November, the company disclosed that it will meet with the FDA in Q1 2026 to discuss how to further advance the candidate for pulmonary sarcoidosis, which affects an estimated 200K Americans. However, in a statement on Tuesday, aTyr ( ATYR ) announced that the FDA has accepted its meeting request, and it will conduct a Type C meeting in mid-April 2026 to discuss EFZO-FIT results and decide on the path forward for the drug. “We look forward to meeting with the FDA in mid-April to review the results of our Phase 3 EFZO-FIT study and determine the path forward for efzofitimod in pulmonary sarcoidosis,” CEO Sanjay Shukla remarked. More on aTyr Pharma Seeking Alpha’s Quant Rating on aTyr Pharma Historical earnings data for aTyr Pharma Financial information for aTyr Pharma

Banco Santander SA has agreed to acquire Webster Financial Corp. in a deal valuing the US-based bank at $12.2 billion. The Spanish bank will pay a total consideration of $75 a share in cash and stock for Webster, according to a statement Tuesday that confirmed a Bloomberg News report . Shares in Webster had risen around 11% in New York trading over the last 12 months before trading was halted Tuesday, giving the company a market value of about $10.6 billion. The acquisition highlights Executive Chair Ana Botin ’s growing appetite for mergers and acquisitions. Botin, who has been in her role for more than 11 years, has long focused on building up Santander’s capital buffers while shying away from large transactions. But the lender’s share price more than doubled last year, making it easier for her to do deals. In addition, the recent €7 billion ($8.3 billion) sale of a 49% stake in its Polish unit to Austria’s Erste Group Bank AG means Santander has money to spend. It’s set to use some of the proceeds to pay for the UK lender TSB, which it agreed to buy from Banco Sabadell SA in July. Headquartered in Connecticut, Webster’s East Coast footprint spans the Northeast, from New York City metropolitan area to Rhode Island and Massachusetts with almost 200 branches. Webster serves commercial and consumer customers and also offers health-care financial services, its website shows. The group has more than $80 billion in assets, according to a fourth-quarter company overview . Spain’s largest bank has been pursuing growth in the US for several years. It has been adding staff, including at its investment banking division, and rolling out a new digital retail offering. The bank has long had a big auto financing business in the country. Santander is slated to hold an investor day to present fresh financial targets on Feb. 25.

On a brisk Monday evening in May 2010, Gordon Brown stood on the steps of Downing Street and delivered one of the most dramatic announcements of the New Labour era: his resignation as UK prime minister. The decision came days after a nail-biting general election that left no single party with a clear run at No 10. Brown kept his decision, which followed days of political wrangling, to a tight inner circle. Nick Clegg, who would go on to serve as deputy prime minister of the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition, was formally told of Brown’s resignation only 10 minutes before the announcement. But across the pond, a man named Jeffrey Epstein, a well-connected financier and convicted child sex offender, had been briefed hours before. “Finally got him to go today …” an email believed to be sent by Peter Mandelson informed Epstein on Monday morning. The apparent tip-off, revealed in the latest tranche of the Epstein files, not only gave Epstein an inside track on the UK’s political future, but also on large moves that were to ripple through global markets. Those included further wild swings in the value of the British pound, which had already been volatile in the lead-up to the 6 May general election. It fell 2.2% on the day of the vote, its worst day in over a year, illustrating how concerned traders were about the risk of a hung parliament and political instability. On the day of Mandelson’s apparent tip-off to Epstein, the pound rose by more than two cents to $1.505, before losing all its gains as Brown’s resignation – and his plan for Labour to hold coalition talks with Clegg’s Liberal Democrats – sent shock waves through Westminster. Sterling would gain back a cent a day later, as the Lib Dems struck a deal with the Tories, handing the keys of No 10 to the Conservative leader David Cameron. While there is no evidence that anyone traded off the leaks, it is just one example of the kind of inside information that Mandelson is alleged to have shared with Epstein, ac...

Earnings Call Insights: The Marzetti Company (MZTI) Q2 2026 Management View David Ciesinski, President and CEO, highlighted the signing of a definitive agreement to acquire Bachan's, describing it as "the authentic, great-tasting and rapidly growing Japanese-American barbecue sauce brand." He stated, "We are extremely excited to add Bachan's to our portfolio," and outlined that the acquisition is expected to "be accretive to both top line growth and gross margins beginning in year 1." Ciesinski reported that consolidated net sales increased 1.7% to $518 million, and gross profit grew 3.4% to a second quarter record of $137 million. Retail segment performance included continued growth from New York Bakery frozen garlic bread products and expanded distribution for Texas Roadhouse dinner rolls, while Circana scanner data showed overall scan sales up 2.3% for the 13-week period ending December 31st. Foodservice segment adjusted net sales grew 1.6%, with volume measured in pounds shipped declining 0.4% but demand from key national accounts and branded products increasing. Thomas K. Pigott, CFO, stated, "Overall, the company delivered improved performance against a strong comparative period. In addition, investments were made to support future growth." Pigott detailed cost-saving drivers for the gross profit improvement, noting, "Our productivity program... benefited from cost savings across a number of areas, including procurement, manufacturing, value engineering and distribution." Outlook Ciesinski indicated that for the back half of the fiscal year, "excluding any impact from the planned acquisition, we project retail sales will continue to benefit from our expanding licensing program led by Texas Roadhouse dinner rolls, in addition to investments in innovation and growth for our own brands." The company expects continued Foodservice growth from select national account customers and ongoing margin improvement efforts: "With respect to our input costs, in the aggregate...

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Douglas Rissing/iStock via Getty Images Kevin Warsh has been chosen by President Trump to be the next Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. Right now, thoughts are flying all over the place about the meaning of this choice for the future of monetary policy in the United States. People have written about how Mr. Warsh, in his earlier days at the Federal Reserve, tended to be on the more conservative side of the spectrum as far as where he stood on monetary policy. Mr. Warsh was against inflating the Fed's balance sheet, was against higher rates of inflation, and tended to lean toward a stronger value for the U.S. dollar. But Mr. Warsh then seemed to move toward a more liberal position with respect to monetary policy and seemed to move toward lower interest rates and a more aggressive monetary stance. This latter movement, as analysts have written, seems to have put him in a more compatible position to work with President Trump and his policy framework. The problem with this is that in following this latter path, Trump threatens to aggressively throw down interest rates and open the door for higher rates of inflation in the future. I have just recently expressed my vision of this scenario in my post, " Where Will Things 'Warsh'? " But is this the way things are really heading? Alan Rappeport, writing in the New York Times, considers another alternative. Rappeport quotes Stephen Moore, an economist who advised President Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, appeals for the central bank to lower borrowing costs: Mr. Warsh, Moore contends, has a history of hawkishness on inflation, and this history of hawkishness "is a good thing." "That's what we need," Moore goes on, "Someone who will restore the value of the dollar and keep inflation in check." Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, according to Rappeport, who has been in charge of conducting the search for the new Fed chairman, is also known for coming down on the "conservative" side of financial...

Elon Musk says the fastest way for the United States to dramatically increase its effective energy output isn’t by building new power plants: it’s by deploying batteries at scale. By buffering energy that already exists, Musk argues the U.S. could nearly double the amount of usable energy it produces each year without massive new generation investments. He also pointed to China as already moving aggressively in this direction, building enormous battery systems alongside electric vehicles and solar at an industrial scale. Musk’s argument hinges on a distinction that rarely makes it into public energy debates: peak power versus average power. According to Musk, the CEO of Tesla (TSLA) and SpaceX, the U.S. power system can deliver roughly 1.1 terawatts at peak demand, but average usage sits closer to half a terawatt. That means vast amounts of generation capacity exist solely to meet short bursts of demand and remain underutilized much of the time. In Musk’s view, batteries are the simplest solution to that mismatch. By charging during periods of low demand, often overnight, and discharging during peak hours, energy systems can dramatically increase how much useful work they perform over the course of a year. The striking claim is that this improvement doesn’t require doubling power plants, transmission lines, or fuel inputs. It’s largely a matter of storing energy more intelligently. Framed this way, batteries aren’t a peripheral technology. They become core infrastructure. Musk described large-scale storage as the most efficient lever available to raise national energy productivity, arguing that the system already has the raw capacity, it just lacks the buffering needed to use it continuously. When asked why this hasn’t been fully implemented, Musk suggested that in some parts of the world, it already is. He pointed to China , noting that the country is producing massive battery packs, scaling electric vehicle manufacturing, and deploying solar at unprecedented level...

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Eva Blanco/iStock via Getty Images I posted this image in an article on the REMX ETF back in October , and I still think of it anytime I see modern tech. Be it smartphones galore in society, the computer I am typing this article on, or the EV in my neighbor's driveway, they all rely on some level of rare earth mineral input. This chart is a reminder that Western modernity is not self-sufficient. Rose Technologies China, the leading economy in the “New Axis” grouping (which also includes Russia et al.), has been front-and-center of the conversation around the U.S.'s lack of access to the production of rare earths. Part of the attention is in response to China's recent restrictions on rare earth exports , something described as the “weaponization” of their monopoly on the production of critical materials. Indeed, it has rattled alarm bells in the West, something I wish had been going off in the past ten years instead of now, before this gap with China got as bad as it has. However, we are now seeing an increasingly heavy-handed approach to this market by Western governments, something that will (and has) benefit the companies actually mining and processing these materials. Washington Intervenes The recent news about “ Project Vault, ” the President's plans to create a truly enormous stockpile of rare earth materials, starting with $12B in seed money to the U.S. Import-Export Bank (“EXIM”), is one of several steps taken by the current government to secure the West's place in the rare earth supply chain. I covered the government intervention into individual firms in a previous article, “ The Critical Materials Rally Will Continue .” I suspect that one of the ways in which the US will continue to fight back against [the asymmetry of rare earth access with the Chinese]... is to invest further into the sector, like they already have with MP Materials ( MP ), Lithium Americas ( LAC ), and Trilogy Metals ( TMQ ). The Department of Defense.. . has been investing in these oper...

Citadel’s Ken Griffin said the Trump administration’s tendency to reward loyalists doesn’t play well with business executives and criticized the president’s willingness to enrich his family while in office. “Most CEOs don’t want to find themselves in the business of sucking up to one administration,” Griffin said in an interview Tuesday at a Wall Street Journal event. When the US government “tastes of favoritism,” executives worry they could win or lose based on whether they publicly support the administration, he added. It’s not the first time Griffin has criticized President Donald Trump . Last month, Griffin said more US business executives should speak their mind about Trump’s policies. Griffin said Trump has made “missteps” in making decisions that benefit his family while in office. It raises the question of whether the public is being served, he said Tuesday. Between the early days of his reelection campaign through May of 2025, Trump doubled his net worth to about $5.4 billion, Bloomberg reported last year. In that time, the Trump name powered billions of dollars in real estate deals, a social media company and a crypto venture, among others. Read More: The Trump Family’s Money-Making Machine Griffin also said he hasn’t ruled out taking a run at politics. “I’d like to believe that at a future point in my life, that I would be involved in public service,” he said, adding that it’s probably unlikely in the next few years.

Key Notes MetaMask now offers 200+ tokenized US securities including Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Nvidia, and Tesla plus commodity ETFs through Ondo Global Markets integration. The integration represents one of the first native tokenized stock and ETF access options in a major self-custodial wallet for non-US users. Tokenized assets enable 24/7 blockchain transactions and address infrastructure limitations that caused trading freezes like the 2021 GameStop incident. MetaMask and Ondo Finance have announced an integration bringing tokenized US stocks, ETFs, and commodities directly into MetaMask wallet via Ondo Global Markets. The integration gives non-US MetaMask Wallet app users access to more than 200 tokenized US securities on the Ethereum mainnet including US stocks such as Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Nvidia, and Tesla as well as ETFs representing silver, gold, and platinum. According to a Feb. 3 press release, the integration, which is now live, marks one of the first instances of native access to tokenized US stocks and ETFs within a major self-custodial wallet for users outside of the US. Tokenized US stocks and ETFs are now LIVE in MetaMask. Markets are moving onchain, thanks to @OndoFinance. 🧵👇 pic.twitter.com/1hh979VEo6 — MetaMask 🦊 (@MetaMask) February 3, 2026 Tokenized Securities for The Self-custodial Crowd The broader cryptocurrency and digital assets market has shown an increasing interest in tokenized stocks, ETFs, and commodities. Online brokerage and fintech services from industry leaders such as Robinhood and E-TRADE have seen a surge in demand over the past few years, however the self-custody options for these services are relatively limited. As Coinspeaker recently reported, Ondo Finance launched its tokenized assets service on the Solana network on Jan. 21. The launch challenges rival xStocks and its market share of approximately 93%. Meanwhile, Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev recently published a post on X.com discussing the GameStop trading freeze of 202...

Carolina Rudah/iStock Editorial via Getty Images A relatively stable bottom line isn't doing much to hold back pan-Nordic lender Nordea ( NRDBY ) ( NBNKF ), with a combination of favorable sentiment and a weaker dollar driving its ADSs to an impressive 17% return since my last update in October. Downgrading the stock to “Hold,” my only gripe with Nordea was its valuation. The bank's profitability ha d been transformed by higher interest rates, but with its shares re-rating to a multi-year high price-to-book ratio, I felt that the market had (finally) given the bank the credit it deserved. Since then, Nordea has released another set of quarterly results and has also held a Capital Markets Day. Now is a good time to catch up on the story. I remain cautious, with Nordea's valuation already reflecting its bullish medium-term outlook. Data by YCharts NII Close To Bottoming Nordea reported its fourth quarter 2025 results last week. Net income clocked in at €1.157 billion, up a modest €28 million year-over-year. EPS did see a bigger boost thanks to buybacks, rising mid-single-digits to €0.34 (around $0.40 per ADS). As you can see, after initially rising in 2022, Nordea's bottom line has been relatively stable in recent years: Data Source: Nordea Quarterly Results Releases Looking at the drivers of this, margin contraction continues to be a headwind. To quickly recap, mortgages account for roughly half of Nordea's loan book. Unlike in the United States, where a 30-year fixed-rate loan is the standard product, the majority of Nordic mortgages pay a floating rate. This allowed Nordea's interest margin to reprice quickly (and favorably) when interest rates were rising, which turned into a headwind during the easing cycle. Data Source: Nordea Quarterly Results Releases Nordea's net interest margin was 1.57% last quarter, down 2 bps from my last piece and 16 bps year-on-year. While a headwind, Nordea has managed to grow its volumes, with loans and deposits both rising last quart...

In trading on Tuesday, shares of Frontdoor Inc (Symbol: FTDR) crossed below their 200 day moving average of $57.94, changing hands as low as $56.93 per share. Frontdoor Inc shares are currently trading down about 2.1% on the day. The chart below shows the one year performance of FTDR shares, versus its 200 day moving average: Looking at the chart above, FTDR's low point in its 52 week range is $35.61 per share, with $70.135 as the 52 week high point — that compares with a last trade of $57.05. Click here to find out which 9 other stocks recently crossed below their 200 day moving average » Also see: The views and opinions expressed herein are the views and opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of Nasdaq, Inc.