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Boeing’s chief executive on Wednesday said the company doesn’t fly airplanes that aren’t safe, as he arrived on Capitol Hill for meetings with U.S. lawmakers amid scrutiny of the aviation giant.

British billionaire Joe Lewis,  who owns the Tottenham Hotspur football club, has pleaded guilty to insider trading charges in New York, after prosecutors had charged him with sharing secret stock tips with his pilots, girlfriends and assistants for years.

Baird’s Ben Kallo praised management in note entitled, “When the going gets tough, the tough keep going.”

A number of tanker stocks are well positioned to benefit from the fallout from the disruption to Red Sea shipping caused by the Houthi attacks on cargo ships, according to Evercore ISI.

Microsoft Corp.’s stock is continuing its march higher, and that could put the company in vaunted territory.

A U.S. professor’s recipe for a perfect cup of tea includes adding salt. The British are not amused, especially after the U.S. Embassy wades in.

FreePort-McMoRan Inc.’s stock rose 6.3% on Wednesday after the mining giant’s fourth-quarter profit and revenue beat Wall Street projections, with its copper volumes exceeding its earlier estimate.

A BMO Capital Markets analyst is feeling cautious about Plug Power’s stock despite some “positives” in recent update.

“People think it’s going to be bad,” Lippmann said of distress in commercial real estate debt. “That creates opportunity.”

Treasury yields pulled back from declines seen earlier on Wednesday after data showed U.S. businesses experienced a strong upturn in activity at the start of the year.

The U.S. economy got off to a good start as growth sped up in January a pair of S&P business surveys showed, indicating that a recession still appears far off.

The DAX index was on course for a fresh record high at Wednesday lunchtime in Europe as a hedge fund placed a $1 billion bet against some of Germany’s biggest companies.