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SM Energy's Alpha Score of 53 sits in Mixed territory, offering no clear trade bias. Oil prices and earnings will determine the next move for the stock.
Brink's dropped 30% after announcing an all-stock deal for NCR Atleos. Institutional selling has created a discount, but merger execution risk remains the open question.
Firms have until Feb 28, 2027 to apply for a crypto licence under the FCA's final rulebook. Stablecoin capital requirements halved to 1%. DeFi with no controller stays exempt.
Federal FMLA lets employers require PTO use before unpaid leave. State laws in Massachusetts, California, and New York may block that. Know the difference.
Openchannelflow's website redesign, built with Sharp Creative and Creative Arc, won a Web Excellence Award for navigation and user experience. The site segments users into two pathways.
Scandinavian airline SAS placed its largest ever aircraft order, buying up to 40 Airbus widebody jets for over $10 billion, two years after exiting Chapter 11.
White House brokers Monday law enforcement session to settle cryptocurrency bill's crime rules before expected Senate vote. The outcome could decide the future of DeFi regulation in the U.S.
UK's FCA finalises crypto rulebook with Sept 2026 licence window. Stablecoin capital requirement cut to 1% after industry pushback. Regime takes effect October 2027.
Tesco's free strawberry giveaway at Wimbledon is a low-cost brand activation during a key promotional period for UK retailers. No financial details were disclosed.
Securitize, the tokenization firm behind BlackRock's $3 billion BUIDL fund, starts NYSE trading Thursday after SPAC vote approval. $400 million in proceeds, PIPE oversubscribed.
CoinGecko report: $347B in RWA perps traded May 2026; 1,472x jump from early 2025. Binance leads with 35.9% share. Micron volume up 17x month-over-month.
Indonesian court jails ex-minister Makarim 10 years for Chromebook graft. Ordered 809.6 billion rupiah restitution. He was also fined 1 billion rupiah.
Federal Court finds Ofir Birenbaum breached his confidential settlement with Cairo Takeaway after he and his solicitor made public statements that misrepresented the outcome as a victory.
Yann Sommer left Inter Milan as a free agent. The club's crypto partnerships with Gate.io remain intact, showing sports-crypto deals are player-independent.
AI infrastructure spending is lifting GDP forecasts, but productivity gains remain narrow. The gap between capital deployed and measurable efficiency gains is the key risk for markets pricing a sure thing.
Taylor's Education Group partners with SenTia School in Hanoi, adding a K-12 pipeline fed into British University Vietnam and Taylor's University. The move gives TEG a stronger foothold in Vietnam's growing bilingual education market.
Azerbaijan's central bank expects a crypto licensing law by year-end. Every firm serving the domestic market would need approval and face AML rules.
Japan's Financial Services Agency is reclassifying crypto as financial instruments. The change would let pension funds and asset managers buy Bitcoin for the first time. A decision is expected by year-end.
Japan's yen at ¥162 per dollar, worst since 1986. The carry trade is back, with short positions at 9-year highs. Bitcoin below $60k as macro forces align.
The KOF Economic Barometer rose to 101.2 in June, beating forecasts and returning above its long-term average. Manufacturing drove the gain, reducing pressure on the SNB to cut rates further.
Guy Carpenter projects 16.6% ROE for reinsurers in 2026, down from 18.9% in 2025, as capital hits a record $663 billion and catastrophe losses stay below the five-year average.
Bundesbank President Joachim Nagel warns inflation will stay 'significantly above target' even after the Middle East ceasefire, pushing back against ECB rate-cut bets.
ECB's Wunsch says case for further rate hikes is weakening, a week after the ECB raised rates to 2.25%. Services inflation at 3.5% is the key data point.
German jobless figure dropped 1,000 in June, defying consensus for a 7,000 rise, as the unemployment rate held at 6.3%. The data keeps the ECB in a grey zone ahead of US CPI.
Private credit and asset-based finance expand insurers' options, demanding sharper portfolio management and quicker shifts with a bigger penalty for being slow.
UK FCA finalizes crypto framework: Firms must apply by Feb 28, 2027, for new regime starting Oct 25, 2027. Stablecoin issuers get 1% capital requirement, BoE oversees largest stablecoins.
AeroVironment published its FQ4 slide deck late Tuesday. No earnings press release accompanied the filing. The stock has fallen about a third since the Army canceled a $1.7B contract in March. Management's September investor day will be the next big catalyst.
Institutional investors pulled $1.79B from Bitcoin ETFs and $273M from Ether ETFs last week, rotating into HYPE and XRP products. The shift tests the correlation between majors and altcoins.
Senate Republicans have four weeks before recess to pass the CLARITY Act, with NDAA scheduling and filibuster math as the biggest hurdles. Galaxy Research now puts 2025 passage odds at 50%.
Former UBS derivatives trader and DeFi protocol co-founder takes over from Takeshi Chino. PayPay's 40% stake in the exchange shapes the road ahead.