Tuesday, February 17, 2026
Afternoon
- S&P 500 rises to start shortened week, led by banks; software shares slide: Live updates
- Amazon has lost $450 billion in value during this historic losing streak. Here’s what’s dragging it down
- Anthropic's newest AI model is cheaper and faster
- Iran says it temporarily closed the Strait of Hormuz as it held more indirect talks with the US
- Zelensky says Ukrainian public won't let him hand Russia territory
- Russia poses ‘serious and concrete’ threat to Sweden’s security, Stockholm warns
- Fed’s Barr Says Appropriate to Hold Rates for ‘Some Time’
- US Homebuilder Sentiment Dips to Five-Month Low on Affordability
- Cathie Wood’s ARKK Takes Fresh Hit After Falling 50% Since Covid
- Fed’s Goolsbee Says Future Rate Cuts Depend on Inflation Progress
General
- Stocks fall to start shortened week as tech and software shares slide: Live updates
- Shares fall in Japan, while most of Asia’s markets are shut for the Lunar New Year holiday
- Bitcoin Declines as Geopolitical Tension Adds to Risk-Off Mood
- Gold and Silver Decline With China Closed for Lunar New Year
- BofA Survey Shows Investor Worry Over Capex Race at Record High
- Big Tech bets big on bonds
- AI concentration is everywhere
- Warsh may want a smaller Fed balance sheet, but that's hard to achieve
- Trump: Iran doesn't want consequences of not making nuclear deal with U.S.
- Trump says he will be involved indirectly in Iran talks
- Iran Says It’s Closing Parts of Hormuz Strait as US Talks Resume
- Ukraine, Russia begin Geneva talks as Trump piles new pressure on Kyiv
- Kremlin aide warns West over seizure of Russian vessels
- How Real Is a $1.6 Trillion AI Backlog?
- New York Factory Activity Expands for Second Month While Outlook Improves
- Fed’s Goolsbee Sees Several Rate Cuts If Inflation Heads Lower
- The Office Market Is as K-Shaped as the US Economy
- BIS Warns SRT Loans Are ‘Blind Spots’ for Banking Watchdogs
- Trump Says He’ll Soon Make Decision on Weapon Sales to Taiwan
- Micron Is Spending $200 Billion to Break the AI Memory Bottleneck
- What Washington Won’t Talk About
- Iran’s Two-Pronged Approach to Trump: Concessions and Saber Rattling
- U.S. Plans to Deploy More Missile Systems in the Philippines, Challenging China
- US investment grade credit markets care about the tech wreck, just not very much
- Investors expect ‘Warsh trade’ to weaken dollar, BofA survey shows
- The housing market is not getting much better
- Global regulators fret about banks’ rising use of credit risk transfers
- Why rivers in the far north are turning orange