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• ☕️ What Else Is Brewing Thursday Morning
  Nikki Haley drops out of presidential...
  Nikki Haley drops out of presidential race. After getting Ls in every state besides Vermont on Super Tuesday, the former South Carolina governor suspended her campaign, all but ensuring a Trump–Biden rematch in November. Despite bowing out, Haley didn’t immediately endorse former President Donald Trump, saying it was now up to him “to earn the votes of those in our party and beyond it who did not support him. And I hope he does that.” But another GOP figure who has sparred with Trump did offer an endorsement yesterday: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell threw his support to the former president despite having said harsh words in the past about his role in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.
  
  OpenAI makes Elon Musk’s emails public. Saying it would seek the dismissal of Musk’s lawsuit accusing it of straying from its mission by seeking profits over benefiting humanity, OpenAI published a blog post containing emails Musk allegedly sent while still involved with the organization (which he co-founded but broke with in 2018). The post claims Musk actually wanted to shift OpenAI to a for-profit model—with himself as CEO, saying billions of dollars were needed to compete with Google, and that he suggested merging it with his car company, Tesla. Separately, after reports circulated that he met with Donald Trump, Musk said he wasn’t donating to either Trump or Biden.
  
  Watered-down climate disclosure rules for businesses approved. The SEC voted yesterday to finalize new regulations requiring public companies to divulge their greenhouse gas emissions after nixing a provision businesses spent years lobbying against that would have also required them to state indirect emissions from their supply chains and customers’ use of their products. But even the weakened rules face an uphill battle: 10 states have already filed a legal challenge to them, and others are likely to follow. The rules have been a political flashpoint, with the Biden administration saying they’re necessary to fight climate change and Republicans and business groups saying they’re outside the scope of the agency’s authority.
  
  
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• Dow trims early gains, but U.S. stocks end higher to break two-day losing run
  U.S. stocks closed higher on Wednesday, yet ended well off the session's...
  U.S. stocks closed higher on Wednesday, yet ended well off the session's best levels, after Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said he wants more evidence that inflation is easing before pivoting to rate cuts.
  
  The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained about 0.2%, ending near 38,661, while the S&P 500 index rose 0.5% and the Nasdaq Composite Index advanced 0.6%, according to preliminary FactSet data.
  
  Stocks earlier in the week booked back-to-back losses as momentum around the group of "Magnificent Seven" technology stocks continued to fracture.
  
  Among that group of mega-cap stocks, shares of Tesla Inc. ended down nearly 29% on the year on Wednesday, while those of chip maker Nvidia Corp. have gained more than 78% over the same stretch, according to FactSet data.
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• Existing gas plants omitted from EPA's initial carbon rule
  The Environmental Protection Agency's upcoming regulations to limit...
  The Environmental Protection Agency's upcoming regulations to limit power plant emissions, expected to be finalized in April, will focus solely on emissions from existing coal and new gas-fired power plants, leaving out existing natural gas facilities. The exclusion is temporary, as EPA Administrator Michael Regan has revealed plans for a "stronger, more durable" approach to address emissions from existing plants.
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• Tesla halted production in Germany after an arson attack
  The automaker stopped work at its German plant indefinitely as police...
  The automaker stopped work at its German plant indefinitely as police investigate what it believes was arson. A nearby electricity pylon was set on fire, cutting power to the facility, though the fire did not spread to the plant itself. Reuters reported that the blaze will cost Tesla hundreds of millions of euros, another headache for the company in Europe following an earlier pause of production due to the Red Sea shipping crisis and ongoing fights with labor unions across Scandinavia. A far-left group called Volcano Group took responsibility for the attack in a letter published by local media.
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• API Reports Rise in Crude Oil Inventories
  Crude oil inventories in the United States rose this week, by...
  Crude oil inventories in the United States rose this week, by 423,000 barrels for the week ending March 1, according to The American Petroleum Institute (API), after analysts had predicted a 2.6 million barrel build. The API reported an 8.428-million-barrel rise in crude inventories in the week prior.
  
  On Tuesday, the Department of Energy (DoE) reported that crude oil inventories in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) rose by 0.7 million barrels as of March 1. Inventories are now at 361 million barrels—the highest level since May 2023. 
  
  Cushing inventories rose again this week, by 500,000 barrels after rising by 1.825 million barrels in the previous week.
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