Ed Kalecki

The New York Fed did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Axios reports Marco Rubio has been holding secret talks with the grandson and caretaker of Cuba's aging de facto dictator Raul Castro, bypassing official Cuban government channels and putting unprecedented pressure on Havana's regime.

At the Winter Olympics, Michaela Schifrin wins gold in Olympic women's slalom, which breaks her 11-year medal drought at the Winter Games.

The metal count at last check.

Norway leads with 33.

Italy has 25.

The U.S.

is third with 24.

Checking markets, the Dow is up three-tenths of one percent.

NASDAQ is up one percent.

The S&P is up six-tenths of one percent.

The 10-year Treasury yield at 4.08 percent.

The two-year at 3.46 percent.

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Billionaire retail tycoon Leslie Wexner told a U.S.

House panel Wednesday that he visited disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein's private Caribbean island but said he wasn't aware of Epstein's sex trafficking operation at the time.