Karen Moscow

Prosecutors bring him back to a downtown Los Angeles courtroom today for a raiment on two first-degree murder counts.

He now has public defender Kimberly Green after private lawyer Alan Jackson quit in January.

Gilead Sciences has agreed to buy biotech company R-Selects in a deal worth up to $7.8 billion, and Veris Residential will be acquired by an investor consortium led by Affinius Capital in a partnership with Vistahill Partners in an all-cash transaction for $19 a share.

Novo Nordisk's next-generation obesity shot delivering less weight loss than Eli Lilly's rival Blockbuster is yet another blow to the Danish company's attempts to regain lost ground in the weight loss market.

And the Olympic flames out in Milan and Cortina.

Team USA ended the Winter Games second in the overall medal count with 33 including 12 gold.

Norway led all nations with 18 gold medals and 41 in all.

Futures this morning are lower as uncertainty over U.S.

trade policy clouds sentiment.

The dollar is recouping losses.

Precious metals are advancing.

S&P futures down 0.5 percent.

So are Dow futures.

Nasdaq futures down 0.6 percent.

Ten-year Treasury yield 4.07 percent.

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Data showing the world's largest economy grew at a weaker than anticipated pace as driving stocks lower at the open with separate figures showing stubborn inflation pressures.