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April's employment report showed payroll gains well above expectations and an unemployment rate that held steady, but a deeper read reveals divergent survey signals: employers report record payroll employment while households report a loss of jobs. The labor force is contracting rapidly, participation is near multi-decade lows outside the pandemic,…
Anthropic has entered into a $1.8 billion agreement with Akamai Technologies to secure cloud computing capacity as demand for its artificial intelligence software grows. Akamai shares surged after the company disclosed a long-term cloud arrangement with a frontier model provider without naming the partner. Akamai and Anthropic both declined to comm…
In a loud, crowded college auditorium, New York City’s Rent Guidelines Board provisionally set ranges that keep a rent freeze on the table for roughly one million regulated apartments. The board voted 7-1, with one abstention, to recommend 0-2% increases for one-year leases and 0-4% for two-year leases ahead of a final vote on June 25. Tenants and …
The cessation of Spirit Airlines' operations and its expedited liquidation process have made a number of late-model A320neo airframes and GTF engines available for disassembly. Industry participants say removing GTF Pratt & Whitney engines from grounded Spirit jets and leasing them to carriers with sidelined aircraft is offering limited, temporary …
A recent regulatory filing reveals that Eileen Wynne, a member of the board of directors for Monolithic Power Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: MPWR), has completed a sale of company stock. The transaction occurred on May 6, 2026, involving the disposal of 335 shares of common stock. This sale was executed at a price point of $1,582.68 per share, resulting in …
A recent regulatory filing from the Securities and Exchange Commission has revealed that a high-ranking executive at Portland General Electric Co. (NYSE: POR) has sold a portion of her holdings in the company. Maria Angelica Espinosa, who serves as the Senior Vice President, Chief Legal Officer, Chief Compliance Officer, and Corporate Secretary, co…
By 2:30 p.m. New York time on Friday, options trading in Cisco Systems Inc. reached 101,940 contracts. Call activity accounted for the bulk of the flow with 82,501 contracts, while puts totaled 19,439 contracts. Multiple call strikes across May 2026 and a January 2027 contract registered the largest executed volumes and varied open interest levels.
Diversified Energy Company reported that all resolutions at its Annual General Meeting held on May 6, 2026, were approved by shareholders with overwhelming support. The resolutions included the re-election of board members, ratification of independent auditors, and advisory votes on executive compensation and its frequency. The company emphasizes i…
Recent regulatory filings have revealed that Nicole Lamb-Hale, the Vice President, Chief Accounting Officer, and Corporate Secretary at Cummins Inc. (NYSE: CMI), has completed a series of stock transactions totaling approximately $1.65 million. The sales, which took place on May 8, 2026, involved the disposal of common stock across three distinct t…
A Reuters poll of 15 analysts indicates Colombia's economy likely expanded 2.2% in the first quarter, down from 2.6% a year earlier. The survey also shows downward revisions to growth expectations for 2026 and 2027, while agriculture, oil and mining output are expected to be the weakest in over a decade. Consumption and public sector employment are…
OnlyFans has agreed to sell a 16% stake to investment firm Architect Capital in a transaction that values the subscription-based adult-content platform at $3.15 billion. The terms call for Architect to pay $535 million for the minority stake, according to reporting on the deal. The companies have not publicly commented, and the transaction follows …
Michael Eugene Lee, serving as Senior Vice President and Chief Regulatory Officer at Five Star Bancorp (NASDAQ: FSBC), has completed a sale of company common stock. The transaction occurred on May 7, 2026, involving the disposal of 1,641 shares at a price point of $41.26 per share. This divestment resulted in total proceeds of $67,707.The sale take…
Uber’s pivot from building autonomous cars in-house to coordinating fleets and technology partners positions the company as a gatekeeper for the robotaxi era. Strong Q1 results, rising membership and capital-light robotaxi deals give Uber optionality without the cash burn of vehicle development. I like a controlled long into recent weakness with a …
Options volume in Micron Technology surged to 1.28 million contracts by 2:20 p.m. New York time on Friday, driven by elevated call activity and record put interest. The stock climbed 13.1% to $731.24 as three-month volatility rose and skew moved further negative, with several May 8, 2026 strikes seeing the heaviest trading.
Rhonda R. Turner, the Senior Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer at Benchmark Electronics Inc (NYSE:BHE), has completed a sale of company common stock. According to recent filings with the SEC, the transaction took place on May 6, 2026. The divestment occurred while the company's stock was trading in close proximity to its 52-week high…
President Donald Trump announced via a Truth Social post that Russia and Ukraine have agreed to a three-day ceasefire covering May 9, 10 and 11. The pause reportedly includes a halt to kinetic operations and a prison exchange of 1,000 people from each country. Trump said he requested the pause and that Presidents Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelens…
Britain's Financial Conduct Authority warned that a tribunal hearing on legal challenges to its £9.1 billion car finance compensation scheme is unlikely to take place before October. The regulator told lenders to prepare for the possibility the scheme could be wholly scrapped and said it was discussing with the Tribunal and challengers the potentia…
Quentin A. Fendelet, serving as Corporate Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer (CAO) for Vicor Corp (NASDAQ: VICR), has completed a series of transactions involving the acquisition and subsequent sale of company common stock. Reported on May 6, 2026, the activity involved the exercise of non-qualified stock options followed by open-market sa…
U.S. equities climbed to record levels on Friday, recovering from the prior session as strength in semiconductor stocks and a stronger-than-expected April jobs report lifted the market. Chipmakers from AMD and Intel to Nvidia and memory names registered sizable moves, while large energy names retreated amid evolving developments in the Strait of Ho…
Saudi quick-delivery startup Ninja has retained Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, Riyad Capital and UBS to advise on a possible Riyadh initial public offering that could seek about $1 billion in proceeds, with a potential timetable toward the end of 2026 or early 2027. The company is still weighing its options and could opt for alternative capital-raising …
Block Inc. shares climbed after the company reported first-quarter 2026 results that outperformed expectations and raised its outlook for the year. The fintech beat EPS estimates, posted triple-digit growth in several operating metrics across Cash App and Square, and announced a raised full-year plan calling for robust gross profit and adjusted EPS…
President Donald Trump announced a temporary three-day ceasefire in the Russia-Ukraine war, to run from May 9 through May 11. The pause, he said, will suspend all kinetic activity and include an exchange of 1,000 prisoners from each side. Trump posted the announcement on Truth Social and said he had requested the halt directly from both leaders, wh…
Cheniere (LNG) trades below short-term moving averages but sits on durable cash generation and a direct play on a widened Henry Hub - TTF arbitrage. With $2.46B in trailing free cash flow, EV/EBITDA ~7.1 and a market cap near $50.5B, the risk/reward favors a long trade into $300 over the next 180 trading days, with a disciplined $225 stop.
Markets experienced pronounced intraday volatility on Friday, with major semiconductor names among the strongest performers and several cloud and small-cap stocks posting outsized moves in both directions. Intel and Micron led gains among mega-cap chipmakers, while a mix of large-, mid- and small-cap companies moved on discrete news including corpo…
On Monday, May 11, 2026, the release of existing home sales data will be the focal point for market participants, with a forecast of 4.05 million annualized units against a prior reading of 3.98 million. A string of Treasury auctions and additional indicators, including the CB Employment Trends Index and month-over-month housing sales, are also sch…
