James Woods 'Done' With Republican Party Over 'Uniparty Traitors' Conservative actor and commentator James Woods says he's "done" with the Republican party after 'uniparty traitors' like John Thune (R-SD) refuse to pass the SAVE Act (Voter ID), and blocked an attempt by Nancy Mace (R-SC) to subpoena immigration records for Rep. Ilhan Omar to settle the question of whether she's legally in the US. " I am done with the Republican party ," Woods, 78, psted on X. "Between this and Thune’s refusal to pass the SAVE Act, I’m done with these uniparty traitors ." "I’m changing my party affiliation to Independent. No wonder President Trump is fighting an uphill battle every day," he added. I am done with the Republican Party. Between this and Thune’s refusal to pass the SAVE Act, I’m done with these uniparty traitors. I’m changing my party affiliation to Independent. No wonder President Trump is fighting an uphill battle every day. https://t.co/Qp8zr4y4gA — James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) March 6, 2026 Woods was replying to a video from @WallStreetApes of Mace criticizing fellow Republicans after a proposed motion seeking records related to Omar was killed in the House . "I tried to subpoena her immigration records, her brother husband's immigration records, and IT WAS REPUBLICANS that killed my motion," said Mace. WOW 🚨 The Republican Party is protecting Ilhan Omar from accountability Rep Nancy Mace “I tried to subpoena her immigration records, her brother husband's immigration records, and IT WAS REPUBLICANS that killed my motion” It’s a Uniparty. One Big Club. pic.twitter.com/duCF3aV1Ki — Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) March 5, 2026 GOP lawmakers have been pushing to obtain Ilhan Omar's immigration records. "Let’s get to the bottom of everything. I want to know if she’s here legally, If she’s not, then we need to take appropriate action," Rep Tim Burchett (R-TN) told the NY Post in late February, urging the House Intelligence Committee to obtain the records. Mace, meanwh...

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It was a week that reminded investors how quickly the Magnificent 7 can splinter. AI optimism and fresh earnings momentum gave way to macro headwinds, geopolitical jitters, and stock-specific news pulling the cohort in opposite directions. The S&P 500 fell 1.98% for the week, and the Nasdaq 100 dropped 1.24%. The Magnificent 7 mirrored that ... Magnificent 7 News: Microsoft Rebounds While Apple and Alphabet Fall This Week

格隆汇3月8日｜以色列官员：以色列国防军已开始打击伊朗的石油基础设施，已对伊朗30个油罐发起空袭。

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When investors look at Alphabet (GOOG 0.87%)(GOOGL 0.75%), they see a dominant brand with strong top-line momentum. The search giant's business is growing fast, with total company revenue rising 18% year over year to $113.8 billion in the fourth quarter of 2025. But underneath the surface, the company is undergoing a capital-intensive transition to support artificial intelligence (AI). With Alphabet's revenue rising rapidly while it spends aggressively, where could the stock be five years from now? The answer might surprise you. Despite Alphabet's already massive size (the company has a market capitalization of more than $3.6 trillion as of this writing), I think its stock price is likely to trade at a far higher level in five years. A soaring cloud computing business A key driver of Alphabet's recent success is its increasingly diversified business. Specifically, the company's Google Cloud segment (cloud computing) saw revenue jump 48% year over year to $17.7 billion in the fourth quarter of 2025. And this isn't just top-line growth. It is highly profitable. Impressively, the segment's operating income soared from roughly $2.1 billion in the fourth quarter of 2024 to $5.3 billion in the most recent quarter. But Alphabet's core business is also still firing on all cylinders. The company's "Google Search & other" segment saw revenue increase 17% year over year to $63.1 billion in the fourth quarter. In addition, YouTube ads revenue rose 9% year over year. This broad-based growth translated into significant profitability. Alphabet's fourth-quarter net income increased 30% year over year to $34.5 billion. The capital expenditure trade-off Profitability is key for Alphabet right now, as it will need a lot of cash. As the company continues to invest heavily in AI infrastructure, its highly profitable, rapidly expanding cloud division and cash-rich search business help fund its extreme appetite for more computing. Alphabet management said its 2026 capital expenditures are...

格隆汇3月8日｜中国地震台网正式测定：03月08日03时03分在甘肃甘南州迭部县（北纬34.07度，东经103.25度）发生3.9级地震，震源深度10千米。

格隆汇3月8日｜土耳其外长：如果伊朗继续向土耳其领土发射导弹，这种行为可能引发伊朗的民族冲突，并导致大量移民涌入该地区。

⚽ FA Cup updates from St James’ Park; kick-off 8pm GMT ⚽ Live scores and results | Follow us on BlueSky | Mail Scott Newcastle United make four changes to their starting XI after the 2-1 win over Manchester United. Sven Botman, Joe Willock, Nick Woltemade and Wednesday night’s matchwinning hero Will Osula replace Dan Burn, Joelinton and Anthony Gordon, who drop to the bench, and the suspended Jacob Ramsey. Manchester City wipe the slate clean, just about, following their 2-2 home draw with Nottingham Forest. Ten changes, which means it’s easier to tell you the identity of the only starter still standing: Matheus Nunes. Erling Haaland has the night off. Continue reading...

格隆汇3月8日｜伊朗革命卫队：已成功锁定美国军队在迪拜码头的位置。

Key Points PayPal’s growth has stalled out over the past few years. American Express will continue to lock more customers into its “closed-loop” system. 10 stocks we like better than PayPal › PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL), one of the world's largest digital payment companies, was once a promising growth stock. Yet over the past five years, its stock has declined nearly 80% as intense competition, the loss of eBay (NASDAQ: EBAY) as a top customer, and a challenging macro environment throttled its growth in active accounts and revenues. From 2021 to 2025, PayPal's year-end active accounts only grew from 426 million to 439 million. That was well below its original goal (which it later abandoned) of hitting 750 million active accounts by 2025. As its account growth stalls out, it's trying to drive more transactions through its branded checkout platform, Venmo peer-to-peer payments app, debit cards, and buy now, pay later (BNPL) services to offset that pressure. Will AI create the world's first trillionaire? Our team just released a report on the one little-known company, called an "Indispensable Monopoly" providing the critical technology Nvidia and Intel both need. Continue » At the same time, it's downsizing its higher-volume, lower-value platforms (including its backend platform Braintree) to stabilize its margins and transaction take rates. It's also cutting costs and aggressively repurchasing its shares to boost its EPS as its top-line growth cools. But for 2026, it still expects EPS to decline by mid-single digits as its branded checkout platform struggles to stand out in a sea of similar services. So while PayPal's stock might seem cheap at nine times this year's earnings, it might deserve that discount valuation. Therefore, it might be smarter to invest in another financial giant with a wider moat: American Express (NYSE: AXP). Why is American Express a better buy? American Express is often compared to Visa (NYSE: V) and Mastercard (NYSE: MA), but it operates a differen...

当地时间3月7日，伊朗德黑兰东北部发生巨大爆炸。（央视） 风险提示及免责条款 市场有风险，投资需谨慎。本文不构成个人投资建议，也未考虑到个别用户特殊的投资目标、财务状况或需要。用户应考虑本文中的任何意见、观点或结论是否符合其特定状况。据此投资，责任自负。

Key Points In a letter to shareholders, new CEO Greg Abel provided a detailed overview of how Berkshire Hathaway is positioned and how he plans to run the company. Abel also touched on Berkshire's massive, roughly $318 billion equities portfolio, providing details that former CEO Warren Buffett rarely has. Abel specifically called out four stocks in Berkshire's portfolio where he expects to see "limited activity." 10 stocks we like better than Apple › New CEO Greg Abel just delivered his first annual letter to Berkshire Hathaway's (NYSE: BRKA)(NYSE: BRKB) shareholders, a tradition that former CEO Warren Buffett carried out for the past six decades. The letter was 18 pages and provided a ton of details on how Abel plans to run the company, a detailed overview of all of Berkshire's operating businesses, and, of course, comments on Berkshire's massive, roughly $318 billion equities portfolio. Interestingly, Abel called out four stocks that Berkshire owns, which together account for a large portion of the portfolio. These are "businesses we understand well, have a high regard for their leaders, and expect will compound over decades." Abel also said he expects "limited activity in these holdings," providing big clues about Berkshire's investment strategy that Buffett rarely did. Will AI create the world's first trillionaire? Our team just released a report on the one little-known company, called an "Indispensable Monopoly" providing the critical technology Nvidia and Intel both need. Continue » Here are the four stocks Abel referenced that he expects to compound for decades. Apple -- 18.9% of portfolio The iconic consumer tech giant Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) has long been the largest position in Berkshire's portfolio, at one point accounting for 40% of it. Buffett reportedly got interested in the company, which Berkshire first bought in 2016, when Buffett saw how distraught his friend became when he thought he'd lost his iPhone. Still, some might have been a bit surprised to ...

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格隆汇3月8日｜伊朗革命卫队：目前，作为对德黑兰炼油厂遭袭的回应，海法炼油厂已遭到“希伯伦”导弹的打击。

财联社3月8日讯（编辑 牛占林） 科威特当地时间周六正式宣布，由于伊朗战争导致油轮无法通过波斯湾，进入不可抗力状态，该国已对原油生产和提炼实施“预防性削减”措施。 不过科威特并未透露具体减产规模，但表示此次减产属于“预防性措施”，未来将根据局势发展进行重新评估。 不可抗力的原因包括：伊朗对通过霍尔木兹海峡船只安全通行发出的明确威胁、伊朗对科威特持续发动的袭击行动，以及阿拉伯湾地区几乎完全缺乏可用于运输原油和石油产品的船只。 科威特是欧佩克第五大产油国。数据显示，该国今年1月份的石油产量约为260万桶/日。 分析人士预计，随着储油空间逐渐耗尽，阿联酋和沙特阿拉伯可能很快也不得不削减石油产量。 科威特国家石油公司强调，公司"已做好充分准备，一旦条件允许即可恢复正常生产"。 由于伊朗战争引发全球能源供应严重扰动，本周油价累计飙升约35%。在伊朗威胁袭击船只的背景下，船东担心油轮安全，已经停止通过关键航道——霍尔木兹海峡。 包括科威特在内的海湾阿拉伯产油国，大部分原油都需要通过霍尔木兹海峡出口。这条狭窄水道是波斯湾进出外海的唯一通道，全球约20%的石油消费量都经由该海峡运输。 由于油轮运输几乎停滞，大量原油正在中东地区不断积压却无法外运。随着储存空间逐渐耗尽，海湾产油国只能被迫减少产量。 伊拉克官员此前表示，由于储存能力接近极限，伊拉克已经将石油产量削减每日150万桶。 摩根大通全球大宗商品研究主管Natasha Kaneva在周五表示：“市场的定价逻辑，正在从单纯反映地缘政治风险，转向应对切实的运营中断。” Kaneva的报告还指出，如果美伊战争持续超过三周，海湾国家的储油能力将被耗尽，届时这些国家可能被迫进一步关闭生产，从而推高全球基准布伦特油价至每桶100美元以上。 摩根大通预计，如果霍尔木兹海峡持续关闭，到下周末全球石油减产规模可能超过每日400万桶。 周五布伦特原油期货单日上涨8.52%，收于92.69美元/桶。美国WTI原油期货上涨12.21%，收于90.90美元/桶。 美国WTI原油期货本周累计上涨35.63%，创下自1983年该期货合约推出以来的最大单周涨幅。布伦特原油本周上涨28%，为2020年4月以来最大周涨幅。 伊朗战争同时也冲击了全球天然气供应。卡塔尔周一因遭到伊朗袭击，已关闭液化天然气(LNG)生产设施。卡塔尔占全球液化天然气出口量约20%。

伊拉克内政部消息人士7日称，美国驻伊拉克大使馆当晚遭到火箭弹袭击，使馆防空系统启动对此进行拦截。（新华社） 风险提示及免责条款 市场有风险，投资需谨慎。本文不构成个人投资建议，也未考虑到个别用户特殊的投资目标、财务状况或需要。用户应考虑本文中的任何意见、观点或结论是否符合其特定状况。据此投资，责任自负。

格隆汇3月8日｜伊朗外交部长：沙特官员已向我保证，沙特完全致力于不让其领土、领海或领空被用于针对伊朗。

Gregor Townsend remained ice cool after Scotland’s exhilarating seven-try victory against France, which keeps them in the hunt for the title with one round to play, a position Scotland have never known in the Six Nations. The win was no big deal, he seemed to be saying. “There have been other games where it’s probably meant a lot to the group,” he said, “whether it was a response or to break a record – away from home in Paris or Wales, or beating England for the first time in a number of years. So they maybe are the ones that have more significance. This [win] is very significant, but just now it’s round four. And it gives us a chance to win in round five.” Cool though he may be, the result is vindication for Townsend and Scotland, who have persevered through hideous ups and downs throughout his long tenure as coach, never losing faith in their proactive, attacking game. “A team shouldn’t be judged on wins and losses. It should be judged on performance. Our forward pack stood up in Paris last year in much more difficult circumstances [and lost]. And they stood up today and got the rewards.” Kyle Steyn, the player of the match with two tries, expects to be fit for Scotland’s final match in Dublin, the winner of whom will be clubhouse leader, with France playing England later that evening. But resources in the second row may be stretched, with Gregor Brown and Scott Cummings significant doubts, the former particularly. View image in fullscreen Kyle Steyn, who scored two tries, is expected to be fit for Scotland’s final match in Ireland. Photograph: Jamie Johnston/Focus Images Ltd/Shutterstock Sione Tuipulotu, who finished the match in the centre alongside Rory Darge, a flanker, following Steyn’s withdrawal, remains equally level-headed as he prepares to lead his team into one last challenge. Tuipulotu said: “It’s a proud day for us, but I think one we’ve been building towards and one that maybe, if you’d been on our training ground, it’s not that we expected it, but i...

Rory McIlroy is confident of defending his Players Championship title from Thursday despite withdrawing from the Arnold Palmer Invitational 35 minutes before his third round. McIlroy suffered back spasms, with the Northern Irishman unwilling to potentially put appearances at the Players and next month’s Masters at risk by taking to the course at Bay Hill. McIlroy will also be defending the crown at Augusta National. “While warming up in the gym this morning, I felt a small twinge in my back,” McIlroy said. “As I started hitting balls on the range before the round, it worsened and developed into muscle spasms in my lower back. Unfortunately, I’m not able to continue and have to withdraw. I was excited to compete this weekend. I wish the Arnold Palmer Invitational a great finish and look forward to being back next year.” After a fine 68 on Friday, McIlroy had been four under par and in the mix at this PGA Tour stop in Florida. Rather than pursue a second Arnold Palmer Invitational win, McIlroy headed across the state to his home in West Palm Beach, where he will rest and take further medical advice before his planned arrival at Sawgrass, in the north of Florida, at the start of the week. McIlroy is due to undertake a Players press conference on Wednesday morning, when a fitness update will now be the key theme. This marks just the second time in McIlroy’s PGA Tour career – and the first since 2013 – that he has withdrawn from an event. He encountered back problems before the 2023 Tour Championship but played, finishing fourth. McIlroy’s exit continued the theme of high-profile departures from Bay Hill. Those who had missed the halfway cut included Justin Thomas, Justin Rose, Shane Lowry and Keegan Bradley.

格隆汇3月8日｜当地时间3月7日晚间，伊朗伊斯兰革命卫队发布声明宣布，已开展“真实承诺4”第27轮军事行动。本轮行动中，伊朗方面动用无人机与导弹，对以色列本土核心目标以及部分中东地区的美军基地实施打击。声明称，本轮行动具有“战略性和多维度”特点。行动中，位于以色列北部海法的军事目标遭到革命卫队航空航天部队发射的“海巴尔·谢坎”导弹精准打击。此外，革命卫队无人机部队还对位于阿联酋迪拜码头地区的美军驻扎地点实施打击。同时，革命卫队海军部队则打击了美军第五舰队在巴林萨勒曼港的无人舰艇指挥部以及相关后勤设施。声明还指出，伊朗革命卫队的现场监测显示，以色列方面正将该国北部和中部地区居民限制在当地，以此试图为其军队构建“人盾”。

Authorities searching debris after suspected tornadoes kill 6 in Michigan, Oklahoma toggle caption Nam Y. Huh/AP Authorities in southern Michigan on Saturday were searching through rubble and debris after suspected tornadoes tore through the region and killed four people, including a 12-year-old boy, during powerful storms also blamed for two deaths in eastern Oklahoma. First responders from multiple agencies were in the Union Lake area near Union City searching for more possible victims and clearing roads, authorities said. Photos and videos posted on social media showed flattened homes and knocked down trees in a lakeside neighborhood. Sponsor Message Severe thunderstorms that began in northern Indiana appeared to spawn multiple tornadoes in southern Michigan on Friday, said Lonnie Fisher, a meteorologist for the National Weather Service, which sent teams to the region Saturday to evaluate the damage and confirm tornadoes. "Mostly likely there were three distinct tornadoes, but we won't know 100 percent for sure until they finish the survey," Fisher said Saturday, adding that the storms rapidly intensified in southern Michigan after hitting northern Indiana. The threat of severe weather continued Saturday in the nation's midsection, with strong thunderstorms possible stretching from Texas and to the northeast all the way to Ohio and western parts of Pennsylvania and New York. Three people were killed and 12 were injured in the Union Lake area, according to the Branch County Sheriff's Office. Lisa Piper stood on her back deck and took video of a terrifying scene that played out on the other side of frozen Union Lake as a funnel cloud formed and then dropped toward the ground. Trees were torn from their roots and debris flew into the air. "It's lifting houses!" she said. As the devastation continued, she exclaimed: "Oh my heart is pounding. Oh, I hope they're OK." toggle caption Nam Y. Huh/AP About 50 miles (81 kilometers) southwest of Union Lake, the Cass County Sh...

格隆汇3月8日｜市场消息：美国和以色列刚刚对伊朗的空袭针对的是德黑兰南部的石油设施。

以軍空降黎巴嫩東部搜尋一名失蹤多年領航員遺體，其間跟黎巴嫩真主黨駁火。衝突造成嚴重破壞，最少41人死40人傷。 以軍4架直升機周六凌晨，在黎巴嫩東部貝卡山谷的納比希特地區降落，黎巴嫩真主黨隨後與以軍交火，以軍受到火箭彈及重機槍攻擊後撤離。 以色列軍方表示，他們是試圖找尋1986年在黎巴嫩失蹤的以色列空軍一名領航員遺體。他當年在一次攻擊行動中戰機被擊落，跳傘逃生後被當地槍手俘虜。 黎巴嫩軍方表示，執行行動的以軍穿上黎巴嫩軍隊制服。有當地居民稱，以軍進入城鎮後在墓園挖開墳墓。以軍其後表示，並沒有找到該名領航員遺體，或任何有關他的線索。

For years, politicians have floated a simple fix for America's swelling debt: tax billionaires harder and the problem starts to disappear. Elon Musk has argued the math does not work that way. The Tesla and SpaceX CEO pushed back on the idea that confiscating billionaire wealth could meaningfully close the government's fiscal gap. "Even if you tax every billionaire in America at 100%, it barely makes a dent in the national debt," Musk wrote in a post on X in 2023. "In the end, the government will be forced to tax everyone to pay the debt." The numbers Musk was pointing to When Musk wrote that post in 2023, the U.S. national debt stood at roughly $31 trillion. The number has only accelerated since then. Most recent Treasury data shows the national debt has climbed to about $38.82 trillion, up roughly $7.8 trillion in just three years. Musk's argument centers on scale. Even extreme taxation of billionaire wealth would not come close to covering the government's liabilities. America's billionaires collectively hold an estimated $8.1 trillion in net worth. Even if the government somehow seized every dollar of that wealth, it would cover about 20% of the current national debt. And that would be a one-time event. Federal spending would continue. Trending: Most founders obsess over the wrong hires. See the 5 startup roles that actually determine whether a company scales or stalls. Why the debt keeps climbing The federal government now spends more than $7 trillion per year. Because spending consistently exceeds tax revenue, annual deficits keep adding to the debt. Interest payments are also growing rapidly. As rates rise and the debt expands, the government must allocate more of its budget simply to service existing obligations. That dynamic is why economists often describe the debt problem as structural. The gap between what the government spends and what it collects continues year after year. A warning about who ultimately pays Musk's comment focused less on protecting bi...

Paul Heath knew the rice-cooking David McLean was his sort of guy. Then one humid morning, he reached for the camera to capture a post-shower moment Find more stories from the moment I knew series Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email We met in 1998, at a health and relationship course run back then by the Gay Men’s Health Centre in Melbourne. I saw David across the crowded room at a drinks session afterwards and slowly made my way around to talking with him. We were both in our mid-30s, and I’ve always gone for those tall skinny guys. We chatted easily and before he left I scribbled down my number. He rang a few weeks later on a Saturday night, apparently figuring I wouldn’t be home and that he’d just leave a message. When I picked up, I think he was a little thrown. He said something like: “Hi, um, hang on a sec, oh fuck, I’ve gotta turn the rice down!” And I thought, this is my sort of guy – Saturday night at home cooking rice, what’s not to love. Sign up for the fun stuff with our rundown of must-reads, pop culture and tips for the weekend, every Saturday morning Continue reading...

Around 2040, Australia will reach peak death. A silver tsunami of boomers are predicted to propel the annual death rate to double that of today, putting immense strain on the healthcare and deathcare systems. Dr Hannah Gould – a death scholar and author of the book How to Die in the 21st Century – calls it “boomergeddon”, and says it brings with it a certain range of ideas about what a good death looks like. “The overwhelming value of end-of-life decisions, particularly among the baby boomer population, is this value of right, autonomy and control,” she says. Choreographing end of life – from bespoke aged care solutions and medical interventions to prolong quality of life to one-of-a-kind burials - is increasingly possible if you have the resources. The idea of trying to wield total control over our final act, however, gives Gould, who lectures in Buddhist Studies at the University of Melbourne, the heebie-jeebies. double quotation mark The idea of what a green death [is] is often quite naïve Dr Hannah Gould “It’s very different to how previous generations have seen death and it might be quite different to how millennials will see death. I’m a millennial, and it doesn’t strike me that control is a value that I’ve ever had a part of. “I don’t think millennials think they’ve got enough resources to be in control of anything.” The welfare of death workers As a small child, Gould held her breath when the family drove past cemeteries, but later became interested in comparative religion and religiosity and wound up specialising in religious materiality – in particular, altars to family ancestors and to Buddha – while doing her Masters at Oxford University. She further became credentialed in death by becoming a member of the “dead dad club” when she was 23. That got her considering what people regard as a “good death” and a “bad death”. “Classifying that whole complicated experience as ‘bad’ enrages me just about as much as when people said he ‘lost his battle with cancer’...

When Islamic State militants arrived at their family’s home in northern Iraq, Amera and her brother were sitting under their grandmother’s fig tree. The 11-year-old girl had been watching a ripening fig for days but needed her older brother Ali’s height to reach it. Now, with IS beginning an assault on their town’s Yazidi people, she thought this may be her only chance. The IS members arrived in five cars outside her home in Solagh, a village in Sinjar. They barked orders. Females and males were to be separated. A hand was on her shoulder pulling her towards the other Yazidi women and children. Amera has not seen Ali since that afternoon of 4 August 2014. View image in fullscreen ‘We just need to know the truth about our loved ones. Where is Ali, what happened to him?’ “He told me, ‘my heart always be with you,’” Amera, now 22, recalls. Amera is one of more than 6,000 Yazidi women and children kidnapped and enslaved by IS. More than a decade after IS began their genocidal campaign against the Yazidis – killing and displacing thousands of the religious minority – she is fighting for the estimated more than 2,700 still missing. This month, she published a book about her eight months in IS captivity. The book, For Ali, For Us All: Messages From Captivity, under the pen name Amera Ali, comprises notes and letters written during her time in captivity. It’s illustrated by her cousin, Suad Smo, who was held captive for almost three years. It chronicles her kidnapping – alongside her mother, three sisters and brother – and being ferried between locations as captives on buses with drawn curtains, to the sexual violence IS infected on women and girls, and finally their three-day escape. Sign up: AU Breaking News email The handwritten letters, translated from Kurmanji to English, began as secret messages to Ali, in the hope their discovery would lead him to her. She wrote on pens and paper found in a classroom desk at a school in Tal Afar, where she was imprisoned alongside 70...

As the earnings season winds down, investors are turning their attention to updated quant ratings following the latest round of corporate results. The scores provide a snapshot of how companies rank across key factors such as valuation, growth, profitability, momentum, and revisions after reporting their quarterly performance. Below is a snapshot of large-cap utility companies with market capitalizations above $10B, highlighting those with the highest and lowest quant ratings after the earnings season, underscoring the stocks that strengthened their fundamentals as well as those that lagged behind. Top-quant rated stocks: Enel SpA ( ENLAY ), Quant Rating: 4.87, Strong Buy . Iberdrola ( IBDRY ), Quant Rating: 4.83, Strong Buy . National Grid ( NGG ), Quant Rating: 4.82, Strong Buy . Brookfield Renewable ( BEPC ), Quant Rating: 4.75, Strong Buy . Emera ( EMA ), Quant Rating: 4.52. Strong Buy . Bottom quant rated stocks: CLP Holdings ( CLPHY ), Quant Rating: 2.45, Sell . Vistra Corp ( VST ), Quant Rating: 2.47, Sell . NRG Energy ( NRG ), Quant Rating: 2.90, Hold . Evergy ( EVRG ), Quant Rating: 2.93, Hold . American Water Works Company ( AWK ), Quant Rating: 2.94, Hold . More on State Street Utilities Select Sector SPDR ETF Endangerment Finding And The XLU Market Sector Review: Extreme Market Bifurcation XLU: Why Did It Top Last October? Most and least shorted utilities stocks with up to $2B market cap OTTR, HE draw highest short interest in utilities sector; BIP and RNW see lowest short interest