TUESDAY 2/21/17; PMI Mfg Indexes; AAP; GPC; HEP; HD; LL; M; MDR; MDT; WMT; Fed Speak; SPX, INDU, COMPQ, NDX, RUT and NYA All-Time Record Highs; 2-Year Note Auction; Natural Gas Crashes -9%; CXO; EIX; FE; FSLR; LZB; NFX; NEM; PZZA; RRGB; XPO

Australia’s ASX 200 begins trading flat. More earnings are on tap in the land down under with BHP Billiton reporting 





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LZB +1.7%. NFX -0.3%. NEM -2.1%. The pizza is cold at Papa John’s. PZZA -3.3%. RRGB is up a tasty +3.2%. Texas Roadhouse is road kill. TXRH crashes -10%. GBT is losing blood crashing -10%. XPO explodes +3.7% higher. Activist investor Starboard raises its stake in Tribune. TRCO +2.5%.