Why Nvidia (NVDA) Stock Is Up Today The Globe and Mail

Benzinga and Yahoo Finance LLC may earn commission or revenue on some items through the links below. Elon Musk has suggested that traditional retirement saving may not matter much in the future. In a recent interview, the Tesla Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA) and SpaceX CEO described a world transformed by artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics, where productivity is so high that a kind of "universal high income" makes work largely optional and financial stress a relic of the past. That vision sits next to a very different picture from the present, though. A 2025 Bankrate survey found that 58% of American workers feel behind on their retirement savings, and 37% say they are significantly behind. The gap between a promised future of abundance and a current reality where many workers already feel late to the game is one reason more people are looking for a grounded retirement plan built around their income and savings today rather than around any single prediction. Musk's case is built on expected technological change. He has argued that by around 2030, AI could exceed the combined intelligence of humanity, that humanoid robots could eventually outnumber people and that most tasks short of "shaping atoms" could be automated. In that scenario, he says, productivity gains could support "universal high income," making the need to work—and to save for a period without work—far less central to most people's lives. In that world, putting money aside for a future without a paycheck starts to look unnecessary. If technology ends up covering basic needs and more, the traditional idea of building a nest egg for retirement becomes less relevant, he argues. Even in his telling, though, there is uncertainty about how people will find purpose if work becomes optional. Bankrate's numbers bring the discussion back to where workers are right now. The same survey that found 58% feel behind on retirement also showed that concerns rise with age and fall with income. Among Gen X, about 69% said they...

NEW YORK, March 16, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Silvercrest Asset Management Group Inc. (NASDAQ: SAMG) (the “Company” or “Silvercrest”) today reported the results of its operations for the quarter and year ended December 31, 2025. Business Update Discretionary assets under management (“AUM”), which primarily drives the firm’s revenue, decreased 1.2% during the fourth quarter, from $24.3 billion to $24.0 billion. For the year 2025, total discretionary AUM increased by 3%, from $23.3 billion to $24.0 billion, aided by supportive markets and organic net new client accounts. Silvercrest added $124.5 million in organic new client accounts during the fourth quarter, bringing full year 2025 organic new client account flows to $688.3 million. For the full year, organic new client acquisition registered one of the strongest levels over the past several years, underscoring receptivity to our investment capabilities and momentum across our marketing efforts. Total AUM decreased 1.6% during the fourth quarter to $37.0 billion. It increased 2% year over year from $36.5 billion with no revenue effect. As discussed in prior quarters, non-discretionary AUM are associated with only approximately 4% of total revenue, mostly comprising fixed fee reporting and family-office services. These assets have more than doubled over the past few years, which artificially lowers the apparent average basis points we receive for advising on AUM. As previously announced, we will adjust how the firm reports non-discretionary AUM in a future quarter. This adjustment will substantially lower our non-discretionary AUM on a one-time basis without revenue effect, providing investors with a clearer picture of the AUM and economics that drive our business. As we emphasized throughout 2025, and conveyed in 2024, Silvercrest has embarked on significant strategic investments to promote growth opportunities across multiple fronts. As it takes time for those investments—primarily in intellectual capital and head c...

NEWARK, N.J., March 16, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Rafael Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: RFL) today reported its financial results for the second quarter fiscal year 2026 ended January 31, 2026.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., March 16, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Black Diamond Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: BDTX), a clinical-stage oncology company developing MasterKey therapies that target families of oncogenic mutations in patients with cancer, today reported financial results for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2025, and provided a corporate update.

Palantir Technologies maintains growth momentum with new AI partnerships, analysts say Proactive financial news

Analysts at Wedbush Securities believe recent announcements from Palantir Technologies Inc (NYSE:PLTR) reinforce their view that the company is well-positioned to benefit from rising demand for enterprise and government artificial intelligence platforms. The firm maintained an ‘Outperform’...

The NVIDIA Vera Rubin DSX AI Factory reference design outlines how to design, build and operate the entire AI factory infrastructure stack, spanning compute, NVIDIA Spectrum-X™ Ethernet networking and storage, for repeatable, scalable and optimal cluster performance. Documentation within the reference design also equips industry partners with best practices to design, build and operate power, cooling and control systems, enabling seamless hardware-software integration and scalable deployment. Building AI Factories That Maximize Every Watt Building large-scale AI factories to meet the rising demand for training and inference is complex, requiring precise coordination across infrastructure, power, cooling, networking, software and compute. “In the age of AI, intelligence tokens are the new currency, and AI factories are the infrastructure that generates them,” said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA. “With the NVIDIA Vera Rubin DSX AI Factory reference design and Omniverse DSX Blueprint, we are providing the foundation to build the world’s most productive AI factories, accelerating time to first revenue and maximizing scale and energy efficiency.” Industry leaders Cadence , Dassault Systèmes, Eaton, Jacobs , Nscale , Phaidra , Procore, PTC, Schneider Electric , Siemens , Switch , Trane Technologies and Vertiv are contributing to the reference design and blueprint to help plan, build and operate these massive AI factory buildouts. SAN JOSE, Calif., March 16, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- GTC -- NVIDIA today announced the NVIDIA Vera Rubin DSX AI Factory reference design, a guide for building codesigned AI infrastructure, and general availability of the NVIDIA Omniverse DSX Blueprint , fully compatible with NVIDIA Vera Rubin DSX, to enable physically accurate AI factory digital twins for large-scale design, buildout and operations. Energy leaders Emerald AI, GE Vernova, Hitachi and Siemens Energy are using the NVIDIA DSX reference architecture to unlock grid capacity, d...

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September ICE NY cocoa (CCU24) today is up +194 (+2.22%), and September ICE London cocoa #7 (CAU24) is up +16 (+0.25%). Cocoa prices today are moving higher as a weaker dollar sparked some short covering in cocoa futures. However, a rally in the British pound (^GBPUSD) to a 1-week high today is limiting gains in London cocoa as the stronger pound undercuts cocoa priced in terms of sterling. Last Friday, NY cocoa soared to a 7-week high on concern that dry weather in West Africa could curb the region's cocoa production. Forecaster Maxar Technologies said last Friday that top cocoa-producing countries Ivory Coast and Ghana have seen a "significant decrease in shower activity" over the past month, leading to below-normal soil moisture and limited crop growth. Lower cocoa production in the Ivory Coast, the world's largest producer, is also bullish for cocoa prices. Government data Monday showed that Ivory Coast farmers shipped 1.67 MMT of cocoa to ports from October 1 to August 11, down by -28% from the same time last year. Tighter US cocoa supplies are also supportive of prices. ICE-monitored cocoa inventories held in US ports fell to a 4-1/2 year low Monday of 2,789,343 bags. A bearish factor for cocoa is an improving outlook for the next cocoa season in West Africa. The end of the El Nino weather pattern and a potential shift to a La Nina pattern should boost precipitation in the Ivory Coast and Ghana, boosting soil moisture levels and increasing cocoa yields. An increase in cocoa supplies from Cameroon, the world's fifth-largest cocoa producer, is bearish for prices after Cameroon's National Cocoa and Coffee Board reported last Wednesday that 2023/24 (Aug/July) Cameroon cocoa production rose +1.2% y/y to 266,725. Also, Nigeria, the world's sixth-largest cocoa producer, reported last Monday that Nigeria's June cocoa exports rose +18% y/y to 14.465 MT. A bearish factor for cocoa prices was the projection from Ghana's cocoa regulator on June 13 that Ghana's 2024/25 coc...

On February 17, 2026, ACT Capital Management disclosed a new position in Viking Therapeutics (VKTX +1.07%), acquiring 206,100 shares worth $7.25 million. What happened According to an SEC filing dated February 17, 2026, ACT Capital Management established a new position in Viking Therapeutics (VKTX +1.07%), adding 206,100 shares. The position’s value at quarter-end stood at $7.25 million. What else to know This is a new position, representing 5.86% of the fund’s reportable assets under management as of December 31, 2025. Top holdings after the filing: NASDAQ: KRYS: $14.92 million (12.5% of AUM) NYSE: CVX: $11.96 million (10.1% of AUM) NYSE: XOM: $9.93 million (8.4% of AUM) NASDAQ: ABVX: $8.62 million (7.3% of AUM) NASDAQ: TGTX: $8.02 million (6.7% of AUM) As of Monday, shares of Viking Therapeutics were priced at $36.07, up 177% over the past year and performing roughly in line with the S&P 500’s 18% gain in the same period. Company overview Metric Value Market capitalization $4.2 billion Net income (TTM) ($359.64 million) Price (as of Monday) $36.07 Company snapshot Viking Therapeutics develops clinical-stage therapies targeting metabolic and endocrine disorders, with lead candidates including VK2809 for non-alcoholic steatohepatitis and VK5211 for hip fracture recovery. The firm operates a biotechnology business model focused on advancing proprietary drug candidates through clinical trials, aiming for future revenue from licensing, partnerships, or commercialization. It targets healthcare providers, pharmaceutical partners, and patients affected by metabolic and endocrine diseases, particularly those with unmet medical needs. Viking Therapeutics is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company based in San Diego, California, specializing in the development of novel therapies for metabolic and endocrine disorders. The company leverages a focused pipeline of orally available drug candidates, aiming to address significant gaps in current treatment options. Its strategy c...

Facade of the car dealership of the Chinese BYD, Building Your Dreams Getty Images Recent moves by U.S. automakers to improve their Battery Electric Vehicle, or BEV, technology and design, while encouraging, also serve to illustrate how far behind the incumbent industry is behind the top Chinese producer, BYD Company Limited ( BYDDF , BYDDY). Ford Motor Co. ( F ), for example, recently disclosed details pertaining to its new Universal Electric Vehicle architecture that will be used for a family of new affordable BEV models, starting with a $30,000 midsize pickup truck in 2027. General Motors Co.’s ( GM ) latest version of the Chevrolet Bolt compact SUV will start at about $29,000 and feature a lithium iron phosphate (LFP) battery whose lower cost chemistry helps put the vehicle in reach of less affluent consumers. BYD, now the world’s top BEV manufacturer (having recently surpassed Tesla (TSLA)), is purportedly looking into the possibility of entering competitive motorsport in order to enhance its global brand image. Though the automaker’s specific ambitions haven’t been disclosed, nor any commitments made, BYD’s preliminary interest signals its global ambitions to expand in western markets such as the U.S., where motorsports are seen as important elements to broaden consumer appeal, especially among luxury manufacturers such as Ferrari ( RACE ) and Mercedes-Benz ( MBGAF ). BYD Yangwang model sets BEV record (BYD) So far BYD has concentrated mainly on affordable BEV and gas-electric models. The automaker has shown interest in luxury and performance segments of the global vehicle market with its Yangwang brand, whose U9 Xtreme model broke a world speed record for BEVs at the Nurburgring test track in Germany. Quicker charge BYD’s latest claim to advanced battery technology is an eye-opener: the automaker’s Blade Battery 2.0, using 1500 kWH flash charge technology, claims a recharging time from 10% to 70% in as little as five minutes and from 10% to 97% in nine minute...

摩根大通 （J.P． Morgan）的资深智囊团认为，虽然可以提出合理的理由来反对金价持续上涨，但这个理由仍然是错误的。 “过去五年，黄金经历了一轮迅猛的上涨行情，飙升了170%以上，”摩根大通私人银行执行董事 Kriti Gupta 和全球投资策略师 Justin Biemann 写道。“这背后有一长串原因，但最大的驱动因素可能是一个地缘政治动荡和碎片化的新时代，这激励投资者购买这种贵金属。” “现在还要加上对货币贬值、经济增长、通货膨胀以及尚未完全体现在主权资产中的不负责任的财政状况的担忧，”他们继续说道。“难怪这种贵金属在压力时期一直是投资者的热门资产。” “在重大地缘政治冲击期间，黄金的平均回报率为 1.8%，中位数为 3.0%，表现优于其他资产类别。” 责任编辑：张俊 SF065

纳斯达克金龙中国指数收涨0.95%，报7215.84点，早盘涨至7323.32点刷新日高，随后逐步回吐涨幅。 热门中概股里，比亚迪初步收涨8.2%，小米涨5.4%，理想涨5.3%，蔚来涨3.1%，美团、网易、百胜中国、腾讯、拼多多、阿里巴巴至多涨约2.9%。 ETF中，MSCI新兴市场ex中国ETF（EMXC）收涨3.24%，中国科技指数ETF（CQQQ）收涨1.62%，中概互联网指数ETF（KWEB）收涨1.59%， 德银嘉实沪深300指数ETF（ASHR）收涨0.33%，XtrackersHarvest中证50（ASHS）收跌1.09%。 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。

标普500指数收涨67.19点，涨幅1.01%，报6699.38点。 道琼斯工业平均指数收涨387.94点，涨幅0.83%，报46946.41点。 纳斯达克综合指数（纳指）收涨268.819点，涨幅1.22%，报22374.178点。 纳斯达克100指数收涨274.608点，涨幅1.13%，报24655.342点。 费城半导体指数收涨1.96%，报7796.244点。 费城证交所KBW银行指数收涨0.77%，报148.19点。 道琼斯KBW地区银行指数收涨0.35%，报122.48点。 纳斯达克生物科技指数收涨1.03%，报5774.21点。 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。

The following companies are expected to report earnings prior to market open on 03/17/2026. Visit our Earnings Calendar for a full list of expected earnings releases. Elbit Systems Ltd. (ESLT)is reporting for the quarter ending December 31, 2025. The aerospace and defense company's consensus earnings per share forecast from the 3 analysts that follow the stock is $3.23. This value represents a 21.43% increase compared to the same quarter last year. In the past year ESLT has beat the expectations every quarter. The highest one was in the 3rd calendar quarter where they beat the consensus by 21.82%. Zacks Investment Research reports that the 2025 Price to Earnings ratio for ESLT is 70.19 vs. an industry ratio of 44.50, implying that they will have a higher earnings growth than their competitors in the same industry. GDS Holdings Limited (GDS)is reporting for the quarter ending December 31, 2025. The technology services company's consensus earnings per share forecast from the 3 analysts that follow the stock is $-0.01. This value represents a 90.00% increase compared to the same quarter last year. In the past year GDS has beat the expectations every quarter. The highest one was in the 3rd calendar quarter where they beat the consensus by 850%. Zacks Investment Research reports that the 2025 Price to Earnings ratio for GDS is 48.16 vs. an industry ratio of 15.80, implying that they will have a higher earnings growth than their competitors in the same industry. Tencent Music Entertainment Group (TME)is reporting for the quarter ending December 31, 2025. The media company's consensus earnings per share forecast from the 2 analysts that follow the stock is $0.21. This value represents a 10.53% increase compared to the same quarter last year. In the past year TME has met analyst expectations once and beat the expectations the other three quarters. Zacks Investment Research reports that the 2025 Price to Earnings ratio for TME is 17.30 vs. an industry ratio of 48.50. Atour L...

SALT LAKE CITY, March 16, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Security National Financial Corporation (SNFC) (NASDAQ symbol "SNFCA") announced financial results for the year ended December 31, 2025. For the twelve months ended December 31, 2025, SNFC’s after-tax earnings from operations increased 10.8% from $29,119,000 in 2024 to $32,152,000 in 2025, on a 3% increase in revenues to $344,587,000. Scott M. Quist, Chairman of the Board, President, and Chief Executive Officer of SNFC, said, “Absent the pandemic related years of 2020 and 2021, this was our best net profit year ever, beating 2024 by nearly 11%, which is significant realizing that 2024 was our previous best year ever, again absent 2020 and 2021. 2025 was a very good year for our Company and I believe the 4th quarter in particular delivered “excellent” results. Regarding the Life Segment I would urge your awareness that pursuant to the implementation of ASU 2018-12 “Long Duration Targeted Improvements” (LDTI) our Life Segment’s 2024 full year results were restated upwards by approximately $2MM. “Regarding my use of the phrase “very good” in describing our year end results, I think anytime a financial services company achieves a 2% return on total assets is “very good”. Our entire team, Mortgage, Life Insurance, and Cemetery and Mortuary joined together to produce that result. Going to my use of the word “excellent” describing quarterly results, I think anytime we achieve a nearly 200% increase over the prior year’s Q4 is “excellent”. Turning now to our specific business segment results, 2025 is our Insurance Segment’s best operational year ever. We did, and are continuing to, expend considerable strategic thought, effort, and expense to improve our sales systems both from the agent and managerial views and our end customer’s view in order to grow our top-line revenue. We have brought on, and continue to bring on, new capable talent and have continued to refine and improve our sales support and commission systems. Our ...

The electrical grid has changed more in the last decade than the preceding five. Solar, wind, and batteries have pushed power generation away from monolithic producers. But fundamentally, the grid still suffers from the same challenges. “The problem on the grid is a peak problem. Most of the time you’re okay, you have plenty of power. But in those peak hours you might not have enough,” Michael Phelan, co-founder and CEO of Grid Beyond, told TechCrunch. Today, those shortages are most acutely felt by tech companies and data center developers, which need large amounts of electricity to train and operate AI models. “But if you have enough energy stored in a battery or you have an industrial load you can turn down — and it’s hundreds of megawatts — then you can start building those hyperscalers,” Phelan said. Grid Beyond has been building hardware and software to stitch together disparate parts of the grid to behave as larger virtual power plants. The startup already manages around 1 gigawatt of solar, batteries, wind, and hydropower, and on the demand side, it has “several gigawatts” across commercial and industrial facilities, Phelan said. To expand its portfolio, Grid Beyond recently raised a €12 million ($13.8 million) equity round led by Samsung Ventures, the company exclusively told TechCrunch. Other participating investors include ABB, Act Venture Cattail, Alantra’s Energy Transition Fund, Constellation, EDP, Energy Impact Partners, Enterprise Ireland, Klima, Mirova, and Japanese electronics and software company Yokogawa. The startup has its hardware controllers installed in batteries and renewable power plants along with large commercial and industrial facilities in Australia, Ireland, Japan, Ireland, the UK, and the United States. Techcrunch event Disrupt 2026: The tech ecosystem, all in one room Your next round. Your next hire. Your next breakout opportunity. Find it at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, where 10,000+ founders, investors, and tech leaders gather for thr...

"Modernizing enterprise applications requires both powerful AI models and the infrastructure to run them efficiently at scale," said Chris Penrose, Global Vice President, Business Development for Telco at NVIDIA. "By combining NVIDIA accelerated computing, Agent Toolkit, NIM inference microservices, and Nemotron models with Amdocs' agentic services and deep modernization expertise, enterprises can deploy AI-driven modernization workflows that accelerate transformation while maintaining security, governance, and performance." At the core of the solution is Amdocs' agentic services, part of aOS - Amdocs' agentic operating system for telco - which orchestrates specialized agents into coordinated, multi-agent workflows. Delivered through a growing library of pre-built, customizable enterprise flows, the agentic services operationalize AI across modernization initiatives at scale. This scalable model simplifies execution, enhances quality and consistency, and delivers measurable business outcomes with full observability and control - supporting enterprises from initial business case through implementation. As enterprises increasingly look to modernize complex application environments while maintaining performance and security, Amdocs is combining its multivendor modernization expertise with NVIDIA AI and accelerated computing platform. The collaboration enables organizations to accelerate modernization initiatives using advanced AI agents, GPU-accelerated infrastructure, and optimized large language models (LLMs). JERSEY CITY, NJ / ACCESS Newswire / March 16, 2026 / Amdocs (NASDAQ:DOX), a leading provider of software and services to communications and media companies, today announced an initiative to deliver AI-accelerated application modernization solutions designed to help enterprises modernize legacy systems, migrate to the cloud, and transform their technology landscapes with greater speed, efficiency, and resilience. Story Continues "Enterprises increasingly look to...

New collaboration enables production-ready, regionally governed AI deployment across global automaker platforms VAN BUREN TOWNSHIP, Mich., March 16, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Visteon Corporation (NASDAQ: VC), a global leader in automotive technology, today announced they will develop and deploy an edge-to-cloud AI arbitration architecture for software-defined vehicles with NVIDIA technology. The platform dynamically distributes AI workloads between on-device hardware and cloud infrastructure, optimizing for speed, privacy, and connectivity in real time. Visteon logo (PRNewsfoto/Visteon) Designed to support the next generation of intelligent vehicles, the architecture enables seamless AI deployment across markets while addressing data governance, regulatory compliance, and performance requirements. It establishes a production-ready foundation for deploying and scaling AI-driven features across vehicle platforms. Visteon delivers this as a fully integrated solution, combining AI model training and optimization with the complete automotive-grade AI operating system (AIOS) stack required to run, manage, and scale AI in production. At the core of the system is runtime intelligence that determines where workloads execute. Latency-sensitive functions remain at the vehicle edge for privacy, while larger reasoning models for fleet learning and predictive maintenance leverage the cloud. This evolution expands Visteon's capabilities into cloud-based AI deployment to encompass the full edge-to-cloud pipeline. The collaboration builds on the AI-ADAS Compute Module unveiled at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) earlier this year, powered by NVIDIA DRIVE AGX Orin and NVIDIA DriveOS by leveraging NVIDIA's open-source TensorRT-Edge-LLM inference SDK. This latest advancement takes the platform a step further by integrating advanced generative AI capabilities and extending the architecture with NVIDIA Nemotron open models and NVIDIA NIM microservices. Together, the companies are deliverin...

If you want to become a millionaire, one of the best ways is to buy stocks and watch your investments grow over the years with the power of compound interest. You might need less money than you think. One of the easiest investment strategies to try to achieve this goal is to buy growth stock ETFs. The Vanguard Russell 1000 Growth ETF (VONG +1.18%) is a popular ETF that lets you own hundreds of large U.S. growth stocks at a low cost. For the past several years, this fund has delivered the potential for millionaire-making returns for its investors. Let's take a closer look at how investing in the VONG could make you a millionaire over time. What is the Vanguard Russell 1000 Growth ETF (VONG)? The Vanguard Russell 1000 Growth ETF holds a select group of 391 large U.S. companies. Because the goal of this fund is to offer high investment growth potential, it tends to hold many technology stocks. Looking at the fund's portfolio by sector, Technology makes up 59.7% of the ETF's holdings. Consumer Discretionary stocks are a distant second, with 17.5% of the fund. Expand NASDAQ : VONG Vanguard Scottsdale Funds - Vanguard Russell 1000 Growth ETF Today's Change ( 1.18 %) $ 1.33 Current Price $ 114.14 Key Data Points Day's Range $ 113.73 - $ 114.85 52wk Range $ 79.39 - $ 126.83 Volume 3.3M As is typical for Vanguard ETFs, the VONG charges low fees. This ETF has an expense ratio of only 0.06%. So that means if you invest $1,000 in this fund, the cost that you pay to Vanguard each year will be only $0.60. Want to know which actual stocks you'll get to buy with the VONG? The ETF's top five holdings are all major tech names: Nvidia (12.7% of the fund), Apple (10.8%), Microsoft (9.2%), Amazon (4.8%), and Broadcom (4.6%). Is the VONG a millionaire-maker ETF? If you're a long-term investor, the stock market has delivered average annualized returns of 9% to 10%. The Vanguard Russell 1000 Growth ETF has done even better. Ever since its inception in September 2010, the VONG has delivered...

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Gregory Bovino of the US border patrol, who was demoted in late January as the public face of the controversial and deadly immigration crackdown in Minneapolis, says he is retiring at the end of March. Bovino announced his retirement in an interview with Breitbart on Monday, weeks after federal immigration agents fatally shot 37-year-old US citizens Alex Pretti and Renee Good to death in separate cases in January. Bovino said: “The greatest honor of my entire life was to work alongside border patrol agents on the border and in the interior of the United States in some of the most challenging conditions the agency has ever faced.” Bovino joined the border patrol in 1996 and spent most of his career in California’s El Centro sector before being tapped by the Trump administration to lead its sweeping Operation Metro Surge in Minnesota. The Trump administration removed Bovino from his commander-at-large role, sent him back to California and replaced him with border czar Tom Homan after the shooting deaths of Good and Pretti, each of which remain under investigation. A homeland security spokesperson at the time, Tricia McLaughlin, said Bovino had “NOT been relieved of his duties” entirely and remained “a key part of the president’s team and a great American”. Trump later said that Bovino’s return to California was “a little bit of a change” – but did not elaborate on the reasoning behind it. Shortly before Operation Metro Surge, Bovino had led a team of border patrol agents in Los Angeles where they conducted immigration arrests. The agents were then deployed to Chicago, Charlotte and New Orleans. At each stop, local residents and leaders protested that agents’ enforcement actions were heavy-handed. But it was Bovino’s comments after Pretti’s death that may have precipitated his transfer out of Minneapolis. He said Pretti, who had been disarmed by agents before they shot him, intended to “massacre law enforcement” without any evidence to back up the assertion. He also sa...