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The yield on the 7-year U.S. Treasury bond narrowed its decline after the Treasury auction, and was last at 3.777%, down 3.3 basis points from the previous trading day.

Google: The Google Translate App has launched new AI-driven features in the United States and India, and the web version will also be launched soon.

Canadian Finance Minister: Foreign investment in Canada just reached its highest level since 2007.

U.S. Special Envoy Witkov: I wouldn’t use “naive” to describe Trump. He is very wise and his judgments are sound. So do I, and so does Jared Kushner.

U.S. Senate Minority Leader Schumer: Our Democratic Senatorial Working Group will review all unabridged documents.

U.S. Senate Minority Leader Schumer: There is a massive cover-up to protect Trump.

U.S. Department of Defense spokesman: The Pentagon will not let any company dictate terms. Anthropic has until 5:01 p.m. ET on Friday to decide on its response.

Market news: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is hiring more than 1,000 new scientists to speed up drug review.

European Mediterranean Seismological Center: The magnitude of the earthquake in central Türkiye was revised from 5.5 to 4.4.

Market news: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will pay bonuses to employees to speed up drug review.

Market news: A federal judge in the United States currently refuses to halt Trump’s proposed White House ballroom project.

Some U.S. private equity funds fell back after two consecutive days of gains. Blackstone Group (BX.N) fell 1.8%, KKR and Apollo Global Management both fell 4%, and Ares Asset Management fell 2.5%.

According to the New York Times: US President Trump will meet with New York City Mayor Mamdani in Washington on Thursday local time.

Russian Ministry of Defense: Air defense forces shot down 167 Ukrainian drones within six hours, including 12 drones flying in the direction of Moscow.

Jefferies shares fell 6.1% after reports that the company had a £100 million exposure to collapsed British lender Market Financial Solutions.

U.S. 30-year mortgage rates fell below 6% for the first time since 2022.

The German DAX30 index closed up 100.09 points, or 0.40%, at 25271.17 points on February 26 (Thursday);The British FTSE 100 index closed up 41 points on February 26 (Thursday) .04 points, an increase of 0.38%, to 10847.45 points;The FCHI index closed up 61.86 points, or 0.72%, to 8620.93 points on February 26 (Thursday); The European Stoxx 50 Index closed down 15.57 points, or 0.25%, at 6157.75 points on February 26 (Thursday);The Spanish IBEX35 Index closed up 22 points on February 26 (Thursday) .33 points, an increase of 0.12%, to 18483.33 points;Italy’s FTSE MIB index closed up 252.06 points, or 0.53%, to 47422.50 points on February 26 (Thursday).

Market news: Trump asks the U.S. Supreme Court to end protections for Syrian immigrants.

The U.S. 8-week Treasury bond auction to February 26 - the winning rate allocation percentage was 90.93%, the previous value was 79.43%.

The U.S. Treasury bond auction for the eight weeks to February 26 - the bid-to-bid ratio was 2.8, compared with the previous value of 2.82.