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Here's your midday brief for Thursday, February 19th. I'm Alex O'Sillah for the Wall Street Journal.

Walmart is no longer the country's largest company by revenue after falling behind Amazon for the first time.

That's despite reporting strong growth in the most recent quarter. The company says U.S. comparable sales, a key retail metric, rose 4.6%. It attracted more

shoppers to its groceries and online delivery. As Walmart's new CEO John Ferner takes over,

his challenge will be maintaining years of quarterly sales growth. The U.S. imported a record

$4.33 trillion in goods and services last year. And a new report from the Commerce Department

out today shows that the annual trade deficit was nearly unchanged from 2024 at just over $900 billion.

That's despite major shifts in trade policy. The Trump administration's

April tariffs targeted the trade gap in goods, but the goods deficit still climbed to a record

$1.24 trillion. And Nissan is recalling over 300,000 SUVs over potential faulty gears and

engine failure risks in certain models that could

increase the chances of a crash. Dealers will reprogram software and replace parts for owners of the

SUVs, a compact crossover called Rogue, to fix the problems. Heads up, an artificial intelligence

tool helped us make this episode by creating summaries that were based on WSJ reporting and then reviewed and adapted by an editor. We'll have more coverage of the day's

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