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U.S. stocks extend gains, hit records after Trump says "massive" tax plan coming in "not-too-distant future"
MARKETWATCH 10:52 AM ET 2/15/2017

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Teck Resources posts quarterly profit after year-ago loss
REUTERS 3:36 AM ET 2/15/2017
Symbol Last Price Change
TECK 23.94down -1.15 (-4.58%)
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Feb 15 (Reuters) - Teck Resources Ltd(TECK), North America's largest producer of steel-making coal, reported a profit, compared to a year-ago loss, when it recorded one-time charges of C$536 million.

Net profit attributable to Teck shareholders was C$697 million or C$1.21 per share, for the fourth quarter ended Dec. 31, compared with a loss of C$459 million, or 80 Canadian cents per share a year ago.

Revenue rose 67 percent to C$3.56 billion, from C$2.14 billion. (Reporting by Vishaka George and Vishal Sridhar in Bengaluru; Editing by Sunil Nair)

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Yellen may have offered the clearest explanation for the stock market's record run
MARKETWATCH 8:48 AM ET 2/16/2017
The Nasdaq is on the brink of its longest string of gains since 1999

Janet Yellen knows why the stock market is on a record tear. The chairwoman of the Federal Reserve on Wednesday offered up a pretty clear explanation for investors' recent elation over equities in her testimony in front of the House Financial Services Committee.

Read: MarketWatch's snapshot of the market (http://www.marketwatch.com/story/us-stock-futures-point-to-pause-for- record-setting-rally-yellen-data-on-tap-2017-02-15)

"I think market participants likely are anticipating shifts in fiscal policy that will stimulate growth and perhaps raise earnings," Yellen said, responding to a question about what is behind the markets' meltup.

That description is what most on Wall Street refer to as the Trump rally. That is a revival of so-called animal spirits (http://www.marketwatch.com/story/is-donald-trump-really-unleashing-animal-spirits-watch-this-chart-2017-02- 08)inspired by expectations that President Donald Trump will unfurl a host of pro-business policies, including a loosening of bank regulations, increasing fiscal spending, and cutting individual and corporate taxes.

Check out:Trump's stock-market rally threatens to annihilate bears (http://www.marketwatch.com/story/trumps- phenomenal-stock-market-rally-is-annihilating-bears-2017-02-13)

Some make the case that recent pledges around 'massive' tax reform (http://www.marketwatch.com/story/trump-says- phenomenal-tax-announcement-coming-in-weeks-2017-02-09) have reignited the fire in investors' bellies, supporting a recent round of stock purchases that have pushed the Dow Jones Industrial Average the S&P 500 index and the Nasdaq Composite Index to finish at all-time highs on successive days. The string of gains has the Nasdaq on the verge of logging its longest win streak of records since 1999, and all three major stock benchmarks notched the longest streak of all-time high closes on the same day in a quarter-century.

Read: Stock market on brink of best win streak in a quarter-century (http://www.marketwatch.com/story/stock-market-on- brink-of-best-win-streak-in-a-quarter-century-2017-02-15)

This tractor beam yanking stock-index gauges higher has overpowered the gravity of Yellen's testimony in front of the Senate Banking Committee, where she implied that a rate increase as early as the central bank's policy-setting meeting in March was a possibility.

Also read:A recap of Yellen's Senate banking testimony (http://blogs.marketwatch.com/capitolreport/2017/02/14/feds- yellen-testifies-to-senate-live-blog-and-video/?mod=MW_story_latest_news)

Typically, that sort of pronouncement would send stocks, which have benefited from a protracted period of ultralow interest rates and who aren't eagerly pricing in a rate increase next month, decidedly lower. But it hasn't slowed this market hopped up on Trumponomics, so far.

And of course there are other factors behind the so-called Trump rally, including a rosier outlook for corporate quarterly results, a healthy labor market (though wage growth has been stubbornly low), but Yellen--without saying it outright--appears to be tipping her hat to Trump.

In a Thursday tweet, Trump appeared to take some credit for recent moves:

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Stock market hits new high with longest winning streak in decades. Great level of confidence and optimism - even before tax plan rollout!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 16, 2017

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Worth a read: (http://www.marketwatch.com/story/trump-rally-as-much-about-real-economy-as-hopes-for-stimulus-2017-02- 10)Trump flubs factoid as he touts stock market's 'longest winning streak in decades' (http://www.marketwatch.com/story/ trump-flubs-factoid-as-he-touts-stock-markets-longest-winning-streak-in-decades-2017-02-16)

-Mark DeCambre; 415-439-6400; [e-mail]


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Andersons Inc sees total U.S. ethanol exports as high as 1.2 bln gallons in 2017
REUTERS 11:37 AM ET 2/16/2017
Symbol Last Price Change
ANDE 40.75down +2.2 (+5.71%)
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NEW YORK, Feb 16 (Reuters) - The Andersons Inc(ANDE) expects strong U.S. ethanol industry exports to continue this year, ranging from 1 to 1.2 billion gallons, an executive said on Thursday.

The group said it expects the strong ethanol exports seen last year to continue in 2017, the company said on a conference call. (Reporting by Chris Prentice)

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Detroit came in last in a quality of life study of the 150 most populated U.S. cities. The study, by personal finance site WalletHub, had Brownsville, Texas and Memphis, Tenn. just above Detroit Researchers evaluated these cities across 34 key indicators of good health in four categories: health care, food, fitness and green space. In the first category, the researchers looked at issues including premature death rate, family doctors per capita and the quality of the public hospital system, crunching government data from the U.S. Census Bureau and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. For food, they looked at the number of farmer's markets, the obesity rate and number of dietitians per capita, among other indicators. In the green space category, the study evaluated parkland acres, hiking trails and bike lanes per capita.

This is the least healthy city in America...

MARKETWATCH 11:52 AM ET 2/16/2017

See how your city rate in terms of food, fitness, green space and health

Your city could be hurting your health.

Detroit came in last in a quality of life study of the 150 most populated U.S. cities. The study, by personal finance site WalletHub, had Brownsville, Texas and Memphis, Tenn. just above Detroit Researchers evaluated these cities across 34 key indicators of good health in four categories: health care, food, fitness and green space. In the first category, the researchers looked at issues including premature death rate, family doctors per capita and the quality of the public hospital system, crunching government data from the U.S. Census Bureau and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. For food, they looked at the number of farmer's markets, the obesity rate and number of dietitians per capita, among other indicators. In the green space category, the study evaluated parkland acres, hiking trails and bike lanes per capita.

San Francisco was deemed the No. 1 healthiest city in the country overall, ranking No. 1 in food and No. 3 in green spaces, bike lanes, trails and parks. Salt Lake City was No. 2 overall, followed by Scottsdale, Ariz., Seattle and Portland, Ore. Good health can be difficult to maintain with the rising cost of care in the U.S (http:// www.marketwatch.com/story/7-steps-to-keep-americans-healthy-with-or-without-obamacare-2017-01-20). and uneven standards for health education in public schools, the researchers noted. But low-income residents are also more likely to live longer in wealthier and healthier cities with higher government expenditure per resident on services including hospitals, schools, roads and other public services, a separate study published last year in the Journal of American Medical Association found (http://www.marketwatch.com/story/low-income-americans-live-longer-in-these-cities-2016-04- 12). (You can read more about how your city rates in terms of the food, health, green space and fitness in WalletHub's study here (https://wallethub.com/edu/healthiest-cities/31072/#methodology).)

Map: How America's cities rate in terms of health and quality of life

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The least and most healthy cities in the report also have vastly different costs of living. The median home price in San Francisco is $1.1 million compared to $37,600 in Detroit, according to real-estate website Zillow. You need to make more than $216,000 to rent a two-bedroom apartment in San Francisco, a city that is surrounded by water on all sides and covers just 46.9 square miles, MarketWatch social media editor Sally French reported (http://www.marketwatch.com/story/ how-i-bought-a-condo-in-san-francisco-for-268000-2016-07-05): "Nationwide, there's been a shift toward urban living, creating more demand for homes in the country's most desirable cities." After filing America's largest municipal bankruptcy in 2013, Detroit has been struggling to recover beyond the burgeoning downtown district, The Wall Street Journal (http://www.marketwatch.com/story/that-detroit-recovery-in-some-ways-the-city-is-worse-off-than-in-2010-2017-02- 08) reported last week, based on poverty, income disparities, unemployment, home prices and vacancies, and crime.

Another factor impacting the health of cities' residents: The bigger the metropolitan area, the more wealth inequality (http://www.marketwatch.com/story/trickle-down-economics-doesnt-work-in-these-american-suburbs-2015-07-06). Inequality between the wealthiest and poorest American neighborhoods increases most substantially in the largest commuting zones, according to a new report by the Urban Institute, a nonprofit and nonpartisan policy group. (Commuter zones are defined by the Census Bureau as urban areas where people work and live.) "High wealth and income in big commuting zones do not trickle down," according to Rolf Pendall, director at the Urban Institute'sMetropolitan Housing and Communities Policy Center and lead author of that report. And, like San Francisco, those wealthier cities often have low housing and population densities.

-Quentin Fottrell; 415-439-6400; [e-mail]

RELATED: Why this generation won't be as wealthy as the last one (http://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-decades-long- post-war-growth-of-americas-middle-class-is-at-an-end-2016-07-20)

RELATED: Confusing 'best before' food labels are about to get simpler (http://www.marketwatch.com/story/this-is-why- americans-throw-out-165-billion-in-food-every-year-2016-07-22)

RELATED: Most Americans are one medical bill away from the street (http://www.marketwatch.com/story/most-americans- are-one-medical-emergency-away-from-financial-disaster-2017-01-12)


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All major U.S. stock markets will be closed on Monday February 20, 2017, in observance of President's Day.