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Moody's Ratings affirmed Welltower Inc.'s A3 long-term issuer rating and raised the outlook to positive from stable, citing continued revenue and earnings expansion and an expected material improvement in credit metrics over the next 12 months. The firm also affirmed related A3 and P-2 ratings across Welltower's debt instruments and a backed rating…
Chicago Federal Reserve President Austan Goolsbee told Fox News on Thursday that he expects several interest-rate cuts later in 2026 and described himself as relatively optimistic compared with many Fed colleagues. At the same time, he urged the Federal Reserve to avoid front-loading cuts until there is clear evidence that inflation is moving back …
Canada is pressing the United States to scale back or eliminate tariffs affecting steel, aluminium and automobiles, and Ottawa says such concessions could be implemented through bilateral sector-specific agreements negotiated alongside a review of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA). Dominic LeBlanc, the minister responsible for Canad…
SunCoke Energy's chief financial officer, Marinko Mark W., bought 10,000 shares on February 25, 2026, in two tranches for a total of $58,396, increasing his direct ownership to 71,798 shares. The share purchases come as the stock trades close to its 52-week low and following a fourth-quarter 2025 earnings shortfall, although revenue exceeded foreca…
S&P Global Ratings upgraded Hudbay Minerals to BB- from B+ with a stable outlook after the miner posted stronger-than-expected 2025 results that lifted EBITDA, produced $174 million in adjusted free operating cash flow and allowed the company to reduce leverage. A multi-stage financing agreement with Mitsubishi Corp. for a stake in the Copper World…
S&P Global Ratings upgraded Micron Technology to BBB from BBB- with a positive outlook, attributing the move to stronger scale and accelerated growth driven by artificial intelligence demand. The agency said AI-related products materially boosted Micron’s EBITDA and cash flow, revised long-term compounded revenue expectations higher, and expects th…
DRDGOLD (DRD) is a niche gold-retreatment business that offers leveraged exposure to rising gold prices without the operational footprint of a large miner. At $36.98, valuation (P/E ~17.7, PB ~4.9) already prices some recovery, but recent technicals and sector momentum argue for a disciplined long trade. Entry $37.00, stop $32.00, target $44.00 ove…
Peter Haytaian, executive vice president and president of the Carelon services division at Elevance Health Inc. (NYSE:ELV), is planning to leave the company. Haytaian led the rapidly expanding Carelon unit, which provides pharmacy benefits and other services beyond traditional insurance. He had been viewed as a potential successor to Chief Executiv…
Bombardier's CEO said the company currently operates about 60 business jets in India and sees room for growth as the country invests in airport infrastructure, including roughly a dozen airports under construction. Limited local infrastructure has constrained sales to date, but planned spending on aviation facilities over the coming years could ope…
Elliott Management Corp. has asked investment banks to pitch for roles on a potential initial public offering for its book retail holdings, Barnes & Noble and Waterstones, according to people familiar with the discussions. The investment firm is weighing a combined London listing but has not ruled out a U.S. listing. Rothschild & Co. is advising El…
Michael W. McCurdy, Chief Banking Officer at Beacon Financial Corp (NASDAQ: BBT), sold 17,333 shares on February 26, 2026, for $538,016 at prices between $30.91 and $31.17. The transaction occurred near the stock's 52-week high of $31.95. Beacon recently finished a rebranding to Beacon Bank after a multi-bank merger, and RBC Capital raised its pric…
The head of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention said there are significant concerns about data and pathogen-sharing provisions in recent U.S. bilateral health agreements with African countries. Zimbabwe has withdrawn from negotiations over a $367 million, five-year pact citing privacy and equity worries, and Zambia has pushed back…
U.S. authorities have arrested Gerald Eddie Brown, Jr., a former F-35 Lightning II instructor pilot who once led units responsible for nuclear delivery systems, charging him with providing and conspiring to provide defense services to Chinese military pilots. The Justice Department says Brown negotiated with Su Bin beginning in August 2023, travele…
Gladstone Commercial Corp Chief Financial Officer Gary Gerson purchased 275 shares on February 25, 2026, spending $3,427 at an average price of $12.465 per share. The transaction leaves Gerson with 23,475 shares directly and additional shares held indirectly by family members. The stock has risen roughly 4% over the past week and is up about 19% ye…
Shares of Inspire Medical Systems jumped roughly 40% on Thursday after the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services signaled it will add six product-specific HCPCS codes for hypoglossal nerve stimulation devices in the April 2026 Integrated Outpatient Code Editor update, with those codes effective Jan. 1, 2026. Keybanc analyst Brett Fishbin identif…
David Jeffrey Richardson, a director at Lattice Semiconductor Corp (NASDAQ: LSCC), sold 12,779 shares of the company's common stock on February 25, 2026, in two separate transactions totaling roughly $1.28 million. The dispositions came as Lattice reported solid quarterly revenue, provided strong guidance for the coming quarter, and saw several ana…
The U.S. government has set an internal objective to process roughly 4,500 refugee applications per month from white South Africans, according to a State Department contracting document dated January 27. The document also details installation of prefabricated modular units on embassy grounds in Pretoria to create a secure temporary processing site,…
The U.S. comptroller of the currency indicated he would consider allowing senior members of Congress to see an unredacted application from World Liberty Financial to become a national trust bank. Democratic senators raised conflict-of-interest concerns during a Senate Banking Committee hearing and urged the regulator to withhold or delay review, wh…
Research firm IDC forecasts a 12.9% decline in global smartphone shipments in 2026, driven by an unprecedented shortage of memory chips. The firm sees shipments falling to roughly 1.1 billion units from 1.26 billion in the prior year. Elevated demand for advanced memory to support AI workloads is draining supply and raising component costs, prompti…
CrowdStrike (CRWD) is a Buy. The stock is trading well below its 52-week high after a sector-wide AI-driven correction, but the company’s cloud-native Falcon platform, strong free cash flow generation ($1.17B last reported), and deep telemetry moat position it to benefit as enterprises demand trusted security for AI agents. Trade plan: enter at $37…
Chemung Financial Corp. director Robert H. Dalrymple sold 2,833 shares on February 26, 2026, raising $160,231. The transaction, disclosed on a Form 4 filing, leaves Dalrymple with 1,351 directly held shares. The regional bank's shares trade near fair value and the board approved a quarterly dividend payable April 1, 2026.
TrueBlue EVP and Chief Legal Officer Garrett Ferencz bought 7,000 shares of TrueBlue at $3.61 per share on February 25, 2026, for a total of $25,270. The transaction increases his direct holdings to 234,135 shares. The purchase comes as the stock trades near its 52-week low and after a sustained six-month decline. Separately, TrueBlue announced sev…
RBC has released its preferred pharmaceutical stock selections, splitting recommendations between momentum and value strategies. Eli Lilly is flagged as the top momentum choice with a $1,250 price target driven by its GLP-1 franchise and the potential launch of oral orforglipron. AbbVie is RBC’s top value pick at a $260 target, backed by immunology…
Equity trading on Thursday produced a mix of notable declines among large-cap technology and semiconductor firms and sharp advances in selected names ranging from quantum computing to small-cap consumer stocks. News items tied to chip supply and product shipments coincided with heavy selling in several mega-cap chipmakers, while earnings beats and …
Traders are gearing up for a concentrated slate of U.S. economic releases on Friday, February 27, 2026, with the Producer Price Index (PPI) and its core measures leading the docket. A variety of additional indicators - from regional manufacturing surveys and construction spending to rig counts and weekly CFTC speculative position reports across com…
