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  • Five EU finance ministers asked the Commission to craft a bloc-wide windfall tax on energy companies after a sharp gas price surge.
  • The White House is weighing a wider Cabinet reorganization amid the Iran conflict and rising gasoline prices, increasing political uncertainty ahead of midterms.
  • UBS advises waiting for wider credit spreads before buying bonds and favors sovereign duration hedges amid underpriced geopolitical and oil risks.
  • Morgan Stanley expects the Fed to begin cutting rates in the second half of 2026 despite an oil-driven inflation uptick.
  • Analysts recommended tactical longs in UiPath, Nano Dimension, NiSource, Delta, Zoetis and Target Hospitality on valuation and execution setups.

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Using FXN as a Tactical Energy-Alpha Vehicle: A Mid-Term Long Idea

Using FXN as a Tactical Energy-Alpha Vehicle: A Mid-Term Long Idea

FXN, the First Trust Energy AlphaDEX Fund, offers a compact, active-tilted way to capture an energy rebound without single-stock concentration. The fund trades near its 52-week high at $20.47, but its smart-beta construction, modest yield and reasonable P/E leave room for relative alpha if oil and sector flows re-accelerate. I outline a mid-term (4…

LTC Properties director increases stake with $266,000 purchase as firm navigates SHOP-focused transition

LTC Properties director increases stake with $266,000 purchase as firm navigates SHOP-focused transition

LTC Properties director David L. Gruber acquired 7,000 shares of common stock on March 5, 2026, spending $266,000 at $38.00 per share. The transaction comes as the REIT trades close to its 52-week high and amid mixed quarterly results that included an EPS beat-in-line and a substantial revenue miss, as LTC pursues Senior Housing Operating Partnersh…

Buy Capital One on the Pullback — Attractive Cash Flow and Cheap Book Value, Even If Credit Stress is Rising

Buy Capital One on the Pullback — Attractive Cash Flow and Cheap Book Value, Even If Credit Stress is Rising

Capital One (COF) has a mix of forces working for and against it: meaningful free cash flow ($26.14B), a market cap near $116.7B and a price-to-book around 1.06 point to underlying value, while credit-cycle pressure and a recent earnings miss have pushed the stock lower. For patient, risk-aware investors, this is a tradeable long: enter around $188…

Cleveland Fed’s Hammack: Inflation Must Fall to 2% or Policy May Tighten

Cleveland Fed’s Hammack: Inflation Must Fall to 2% or Policy May Tighten

Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland President Beth Hammack said she expects inflation to move toward the Fed’s 2% target but warned that if price pressures do not meaningfully ease later this year the central bank may need to adopt tighter policy. Hammack signaled that rates should remain on hold for an extended period given the current outlook, but …

Kinetik General Counsel Sells 1,260 KNTK Shares to Cover Tax Withholding; Q4 2025 EPS Far Outpaces Forecast

Kinetik General Counsel Sells 1,260 KNTK Shares to Cover Tax Withholding; Q4 2025 EPS Far Outpaces Forecast

Lindsay Ellis, Kinetik Holdings Inc.'s General Counsel, Chief Compliance Officer and Corporate Secretary, sold 1,260 shares of Class A common stock on March 4, 2026, to satisfy tax-withholding obligations tied to the vesting of equity awards. The trade totaled $59,119 at $46.92 per share. The transaction occurs amid a 29% year-to-date share gain an…

Kinetik COO Sells Shares to Cover Taxes After 2025 Incentive Vesting

Kinetik COO Sells Shares to Cover Taxes After 2025 Incentive Vesting

Kinetik Holdings Inc. Chief Operating Officer Matthew Wall sold 3,222 Class A shares on March 4, 2026 to satisfy tax withholding tied to the vesting of compensation from the 2025 annual incentive award. The transaction totaled $151,176 based on a $46.92 sale price. The stock is trading around $45.60 and has risen 29% year-to-date amid mixed quarter…

MaxLinear CFO Disposes $746,427 in Shares Across Three Days

MaxLinear CFO Disposes $746,427 in Shares Across Three Days

MaxLinear Inc. Chief Financial Officer and Chief Corporate Strategy Officer Steven G. Litchfield reported sales of company stock totaling $746,427 over three consecutive days in early March 2026, according to a Form 4 filing. The transactions reduced his direct holdings to 343,435 shares. The share sales occurred amid recent downward pressure on th…

Iran conflict lifts U.S. Gulf heavy crudes to multi-year highs

Iran conflict lifts U.S. Gulf heavy crudes to multi-year highs

Heavy crude grades from the U.S. Gulf Coast surged as Middle Eastern output curbs and the effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz pushed buyers toward U.S. barrels. Mars sour traded at an $11 premium to WTI, its highest level since April 2020, while benchmark Brent settled at $92.69 a barrel amid the supply disruption.

Yelp COO Disposes of About $60K in Shares as Company Faces Mixed Signals

Yelp COO Disposes of About $60K in Shares as Company Faces Mixed Signals

Yelp Chief Operating Officer Joseph R. Nachman executed a pre-arranged sale of 2,499 shares on March 6, 2026, for roughly $60,450, according to a Form 4 filing. The transaction followed a recent grant of performance-based restricted stock units and comes amid active share repurchases, a recent quarterly beat, tempered guidance, and divergent analys…

FormFactor CFO Sells $313,034 in Stock Under Pre-Arranged Plan

FormFactor CFO Sells $313,034 in Stock Under Pre-Arranged Plan

FormFactor Inc. CFO and SVP Global Finance Aric Brendan McKinnis sold 3,462 shares on March 5, 2026 under a Rule 10b5-1 plan, generating $313,034. The transaction follows recent share price swings even as the company reported better-than-expected fourth-quarter results and carries a market capitalization of $6.59 billion.

Vertiv, Lumentum, Coherent and EchoStar to Be Added to S&P 500

Vertiv, Lumentum, Coherent and EchoStar to Be Added to S&P 500

S&P Dow Jones Indices will add Vertiv, Lumentum, Coherent and EchoStar to the S&P 500 as part of its quarterly rebalance, replacing Match Group, Molina Healthcare, LambWeston and Paycom. The announcement produced notable after-hours price moves for the companies named and underscores the influence index-tracking funds exert on large-cap share deman…