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An analysis of campaign finance disclosures for the most contested U.S. House districts finds Democratic candidates outpacing Republican opponents in fundraising among the competitive races. Incumbents in battleground districts raised a collective sum exceeding $84 million last year, and Democratic challengers running in Republican-held districts b…
Guidewire Software Chief Executive Michael George Rosenbaum sold 1,200 shares on February 23, 2026, netting $150,600 under a 10b5-1 plan adopted on October 14, 2025. The transaction leaves Rosenbaum with 229,543 directly held shares. The move coincides with Guidewire’s announcement of a new $500 million repurchase authorization, completion of its p…
Cullinan Therapeutics (CGEM) looks like a tactical long: clinical momentum around its CD19 T-cell engager CLN-978, positive data flow from zipalertinib, and a multi-hundred-million dollar cash position reduce near-term financing risk. We outline an actionable trade with entry at $14.00, stop at $11.00 and a $22.00 target over a 180 trading-day hori…
IonQ shares ticked higher in after-hours trading as the company confirmed it was awarded a place on the Missile Defense Agency’s SHIELD indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract vehicle. The designation makes IonQ - and its subsidiaries - eligible to bid on future task orders across a wide range of defense-related capabilities, though any re…
Australia will begin a government-backed Royal Commission on Tuesday to examine antisemitism and social cohesion following a fatal mass shooting at a Hanukkah celebration in Bondi Beach that killed 15 people. The inquiry, led by retired judge Virginia Bell, can compel witnesses and is expected to deliver its findings by December this year. An openi…
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has issued a special exemption permitting intraday trading of tokenized shares in WisdomTree's Treasury Money Market Digital Fund. The relief removes the end-of-day pricing constraint that would otherwise apply, and officials say the change could shorten settlement times and make fund access easier for re…
Protara Therapeutics saw its stock decline following the publication of interim results from its Phase 2 ADVANCED-2 study of TARA-002 in patients with high-risk Non-Muscle Invasive Bladder Cancer. The data cover evaluable participants in both BCG-Unresponsive and BCG-Naïve cohorts, report favorable safety signals, and set expectations for registrat…
Silo Pharma Inc. authorized a board-approved program to repurchase up to $1 million of its common stock, triggering a 35.1% rise in after-hours trading. The company said purchases may occur on the open market or through negotiated transactions and stressed the plan is subject to regulatory, market and corporate constraints.
Bloom Burton & Co. has initiated coverage of Eupraxia Pharmaceuticals (EPRX) with a Buy rating and a $14.00 price target. The firm derived its valuation by averaging a discounted 5x peak sales multiple and a discounted cash flow model using a 12% discount rate, applying a 40% probability of success to both approaches. Bloom Burton expects top-line …
Huntington Bancshares director Gary Torgow purchased 14,200 shares of HBAN common stock on February 19, 2026, for $17.81 per share, a transaction valued at about $252,901. The move comes as the bank finalizes its merger with Cadence Bank, taking Huntington’s assets to roughly $279 billion and expanding its branch network to nearly 1,400 locations. …
Tandem Diabetes Care announced a private placement of $200 million in convertible senior notes due 2032, with an initial purchaser option for an additional $30 million. The unsecured notes will accrue semiannual interest and may be settled in cash, common stock, or a combination at the company's election. Tandem said net proceeds will fund capped c…
Evercore ISI reiterated an Outperform rating and a $345 price target on International Business Machines Corp. after the company’s shares dropped following a blog post about AI-assisted COBOL modernization. The research note emphasized that customers have had modernization choices for some time and continue to retain mainframes for reliability, scal…
Director Michael L. Dreyer sold 3,067 shares of F5, Inc. on February 20, 2026, for a total of $866,137, according to a Form 4 filing. The sale left Dreyer with 1,309 shares directly held. The transaction comes against a backdrop of robust first-quarter results, in which F5 reported earnings per share of $4.45 and revenue of $822 million, both excee…
Newmont has turned rock into cash: $7.3B of free cash flow, a sub-0.2 debt/equity ratio and double-digit returns on capital give the company both optionality and room to return capital. With gold still above pre-surge levels and miners trading on reasonable multiples (P/E ~19, EV/EBITDA ~9.9), we like a tactical long in NEM for a mid-term swing whi…
The U.S. women’s ice hockey team that won gold at the Milano Cortina Olympics has declined an invitation to attend President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address this week, citing schedule conflicts and post-Games commitments, USA Hockey said. The team defeated Canada 2-1 in overtime to take gold. The U.S. men’s team was also invited, but offi…
Morgan Stanley upgraded Booking Holdings to Overweight from Equalweight and set a $5,500 price target, citing expectations that early AI-powered travel products will route consumers to online travel agency apps and websites rather than complete transactions themselves. The broker highlighted Booking’s merchant-of-record status, data capture capabil…
Canadian generic drug maker Apotex Inc. is preparing for a potential initial public offering in Toronto during the first half of the year that could raise as much as C$1 billion (about $730 million). Bank advisers have been engaged, but final decisions on timing and deal size have not been made and plans remain subject to change.
U.S. equities tumbled on renewed tariff uncertainty after a U.S. court decision and an immediate presidential response introducing a temporary 15% global levy. Concurrent concerns about stress in the software and private credit sectors amplified risk aversion, sending money into Treasuries, gold and safe-haven currencies while oil rose to six-month…
Paramount Skydance submitted a higher bid for Warner Bros. Discovery in an effort to derail the studio's agreed sale to Netflix. The revised proposal improves on Paramount's earlier $108.4 billion, $30-per-share offer and is intended to address concerns about financing certainty. Netflix, which has an existing $27.75-per-share cash agreement, is pe…
Global Medical Response has assembled a banking group to manage a U.S. initial public offering that could raise about $1 billion. The Lewisville, Texas-based provider of air and ground emergency medical services has tapped JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America to work with KKR’s capital markets desk, and is also engaging Barclays and Goldman Sachs. De…
Stifel has initiated coverage of Gentherm Incorporated (NASDAQ:THRM) with a buy rating and a $41.00 12-month price target. At the time of the note, Gentherm shares traded at $32.53, implying roughly 26% upside to the target. Independent analysis cited in the coverage places a Fair Value near $39.86. The research house highlighted warmer demand for …
A bloc of 22 Senate Democrats unveiled legislation intended to compel the executive branch to reimburse duties and interest collected under tariffs the Supreme Court struck down under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act. The measure directs U.S. Customs and Border Protection to prioritize small businesses and mandates refunds within 180…
Whirlpool Corporation's stock fell about 7% after the company disclosed plans for concurrent public offerings of common stock and depositary shares representing interests in newly issued Series A Mandatory Convertible Preferred Stock. The offerings aim to raise roughly $800 million, with proceeds targeted for partial repayment of the company's revo…
A group of companies including Hims & Hers Health, Bed Bath & Beyond, Myriad Genetics, Keysight Technologies, EverQuote and Kratos Defense posted varied after-hours moves as earnings and guidance diverged from analyst expectations. Stock reactions tracked whether companies topped revenue and EPS estimates or issued forward guidance that missed mark…
U.S. stock indices closed lower on Monday as losses in Financials, Consumer Services and Industrials weighed on markets. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 1.66% to a new one-month low, the S&P 500 slipped 1.04%, and the Nasdaq Composite declined 1.13%. Market breadth was negative on both the NYSE and Nasdaq, while volatility, gold futures and s…
