TGIF? Wall Street thinks so. After a weeklong selloff sent tech stocks plunging, along with the rest of the market, major indexes swung back up and set new milestones. 

The cargo was loaded in Indiana, Kentucky, and Ohio. Trucks full of Oculus headsets, Bose speakers, and products from Bath & Body Works were destined for warehouses all over the country. But they never made it there. When drivers took breaks to eat, sleep or refuel, thieves swooped in.

“They stole the trailer, obviously changed the identifying markers on the trailer,” and drove the goods down to Florida to be resold, said Timothy O’Malley, the special agent in charge of the Indianapolis field office at the FBI.

Over 18 months, a group of men staked out warehouses and tracked drivers. In total, they swiped more than a dozen trucks. These were not like the dramatic heists you see on TV. Cargo thefts usually aren’t.

“This one was kind of more just plain old bad guys watching trucks and then waiting for an opportunity to steal those loads,” O’Malley said.

When most people think about retail theft, they probably think of smash-and-grabs or someone sliding an extra apple or two into their bag at self-checkout. But the crime that’s perhaps affecting companies the most right now happens before any products make it to store: cargo theft.

It’s when people steal pallets off trucks or even whole trucks of goods. Last year was likely the biggest for cargo theft on record, according to the American Trucking Association. And the nature of the crime has changed.

“It went from fathers, sons, uncles, cousins, brothers all making up the crew to now massive international crime rings,” said Scott Cornell, chair of the Transported Asset Protection Association.

Rosario-Torres told us sales are down by 50% at his restaurant as Operation Metro Surge, the aggressive, deadly surge in immigration enforcement in Minnesota, enters its third month.

Masked, armed federal agents tend to depress foot traffic, but Rosario-Torres told us most of his employees are scared to come in too. He’s opening and closing the restaurant himself most days.

Customers will probably pay more for Valentine's Day roses this year thanks to tariffs placed on Colombia and Ecuador, which is where most flowers are imported from. But Miami International Airport is expecting to process more than 990 million cut flowers before the big day. Avianca Cargo, based in Colombia, is planning to transport 19,000 tons of flowers on 320 cargo flights, which is twice as many flights as usual.