• Tariffs Spur Retailers to Raise Prices, Build US Plants
  
  Corporate America is scrambling to implement countermeasures as President Donald Trump's latest tariffs on Chinese imports went into effect earlier this week, while some levies on Canada and Mexico have been suspended.
• Lumber, Appliance Tariffs Set Stage For Higher Home Costs
  
  Shopping for a new home? Ready to renovate your kitchen or install a new deck? You'll be paying more to do so.
• Hedge Funds Regain Appetite for US Stocks
  
  Global hedge funds started to add back U.S. equities to portfolios last week following a massive selloff in Wall Street's major indexes, an early indication of optimism about the country.
• DeepSeek Dims Shine of AI Stars
  
  China-based DeepSeek shook up the world of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) early this year with a low-cost but high-performance model that challenges the hegemony of OpenAI and other big-spending behemoths.
• Fixing American Healthcare
  
  To Curb Healthcare Monopoly Abuse, Benchmark Prices and Coverage to German Standards
• Vaccinating Poultry Could Help Cut Soaring Egg Prices
  
  Vaccines could be a key means of suppressing bird flu and avoiding the slaughter of millions of chickens, which is blamed for egg prices averaging nearly $6 a dozen.
• Goldman Sachs Lowers S&P 500 Year-End Target to 6,200
  
  Goldman Sachs has trimmed its 2025-end target for the S&P 500 Index to 6,200 from 6,500, citing increased policy uncertainty, particularly on tariffs, and worries about the economic growth outlook.
• US Airline Stocks Tumble as Carriers Cut Forecasts
  
  Major U.S. airline stocks fell sharply in premarket trading Tuesday after Delta Air Lines and budget carrier Southwest Airlines slashed their first-quarter forecasts, stoking concerns about the impact of a slowing economy on travel demand.
• The Defense Giants Set to Benefit as Europe Rearms
  
  The European Union's $939 billion "ReArm Europe Plan" will be a boon for dozens of defense contractors as the continent buys air defenses, artillery, missiles, ammunition drones, anti-drone systems and cybersecurity software, Fortune reports.
• Hedge Funds Give up Half of 2025 Gains
  
  Hedge fund stock pickers and multi-strategy funds gave up around half their average yearly gains in Thursday's tech-driven equity selloff, a note by Goldman Sachs showed.
• Investors Espy a Tectonic Shift Away from US Markets
  
  A historic global trade war, a proposed $1.2 trillion European fiscal bazooka and the emergence of China as tech race leader are upending global flows of money, marking a potential turning point for investor capital away from the United States.
• Dollar Mauled by Trump Trade War
  
  The dollar hit three-month lows Wednesday as the U.S. trade war with its partners escalated, while a major overhaul to German government borrowing triggered the biggest sell-off in the country's debt since the late 1990s.
• US Autos, Homebuilders, Steel Stocks Take Hits
  
  Shares of several U.S. companies have come under pressure from the latest escalation in Washington's trade war, with the newest tariffs on Canada and Mexico expected to hit earnings in several sectors, including automakers, retailers and raw materials.
• BIG Automakers Would Get HUGE Tax Breaks With NEW Emissions Rules
  
  Senator Bernie Moreno, an Ohio Republican who is has decades of experience in car dealerships, is introducing legislation that would repeal emissions rules and give tax breaks to car manufacturers.
• US Manufacturing Stable but Tariffs Storm Brewing
  
  U.S. manufacturing was steady in February, but a measure of prices at the factory gate jumped to near a three-year high and it was taking longer for materials to be delivered, suggesting that tariffs on imports could soon hamper production.
• Advocacy Groups Call for Probe Into Egg Prices
  
  Egg producers blame the bird flu outbreak for driving prices to record highs, but critics believe giant companies are taking advantage of their market dominance to profit handsomely at the expense of budget-conscious egg buyers.
• Russia Open to Rare-Earth Minerals Deal With US
  
  The Kremlin said Tuesday that Russia had lots of rare earth metal deposits and it was open to doing deals to develop them after President Vladimir Putin held out the possibility of such collaboration with the United States.
• Trump Team Seeks to Toughen Chip Controls Over China
  
  The Trump administration is planning to toughen semiconductor restrictions on China, continuing and expanding the Biden administration's efforts to limit Beijing's technological prowess, Bloomberg News reported Monday.
• Only 5% of US Car Buyers Choose Electric Vehicles
  
  The SHOCKING Truth About EV Demand in 2025. It's NOT GOOD.
• Chinese Brokerages, Funds Rush to Embrace AI
  
  Tiger Brokers said Tuesday it embedded DeepSeek's model into its AI-powered chatbot, as brokerages and money managers race to capitalize on the Chinese start-up's artificial intelligence breakthrough, and develop use cases for the financial industry.
• Fed's Waller: Trade Uncertainty Shouldn't Paralyze Rate Moves
  
  Federal Reserve Governor Christopher Waller said his "baseline" view is that the Trump administration's new tariffs will have only a modest impact on prices that the central bank should try to look through in setting monetary policy.
• EVs Promised a Clean Future But Created Nightmares
  
  President Trump has promised Californians who lost their homes in the wildfires that he will do all he can to expedite the cleanup. We urge burned out homeowners to take him at his word and let the experts dispose of the cars that promised a carbonless future.
• Trump Metals Tariffs Propel Gold, Pressure China Steel
  
  U.S. President Donald Trump's 25% tariffs on steel and aluminum sent gold to record highs on worries of widening trade conflict and inflation, while some countries held out hope for negotiations and Chinese steel firm shares came under pressure.China, the biggest steel...
• Vance Protests 'Excessive AI Regulation' at Summit
  
  Vice President J.D. Vance on Tuesday warned global leaders and tech industry executives that "excessive regulation" could cripple the rapidly growing artificial intelligence industry in a rebuke to European efforts to curb AI's risks.
• London Gold Vault Holdings Drop 1.7% on US Exports
  
  The amount of gold stored in the London vaults fell 1.7% month on month to 8,535 metric tons worth $771.6 billion in January due to a rush in shipments to the United States, the London Bullion Market Association said.

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