Friday's Frantic Headlines: PPI, Iran Tensions & OpenAI's $110B Funding Round

Economic data, corporate news, and geopolitics all took markets by storm on the final trading day of a volatile February. Kevin Hincks turns to PPI which showed a 0.8% increase, a number that signals an uptick but one he isn't too concerned about. Crude oil's spike shows U.S. and Iran tensions aren't coming down. On the corporate headlines, Kevin talks about OpenAI closing its latest $110 billion funding round.

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