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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 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.
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…
U.S. Senator Mark Kelly has advanced legislation to suspend the 18.4-cent-per-gallon federal gasoline tax through October 1, seeking to lower retail pump prices that have risen amid the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran. The proposal would require the Treasury Department to oversee the suspension to ensure that consumers receive the intended relief.
Tidewater Inc. Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Chief Administrative Officer Rubio Samuel R sold 22,461 shares of Tidewater common stock on March 5, 2026, generating proceeds of $1,798,003. The transaction occurred at prices between $80.01 and $80.51. The sale follows a year in which Tidewater shares have climbed nearly 90% and…
Daniel A. Hudson, Executive Vice President and General Counsel of Tidewater (NYSE:TDW), sold 5,195 shares of the company's common stock on March 5, 2026 for a total of $418,509. The transaction occurred amid Tidewater's stronger-than-expected fourth-quarter 2025 financial performance and a Raymond James price-target increase to $117.
A federal judge in Manhattan dismissed a civil lawsuit by 535 plaintiffs seeking to hold Binance and founder Changpeng Zhao responsible for transactions alleged to have supported 64 attacks between 2017 and 2024, finding the complaint did not plausibly show the defendants culpably associated themselves with or sought to ensure the success of the at…
Jean Davidson, executive director of the National Symphony Orchestra, said she will step down and take a leadership role at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in California. Her departure comes during months of controversy at the Kennedy Center over governance changes, a legal challenge from an ex-officio board member, canceled per…
A federal judge in Boston dismissed the case of Any Lucia Lopez Belloza after she declined to board an ICE-arranged flight from Honduras to the United States. The judge said her refusal removed the court’s sole remaining basis for jurisdiction; her attorney plans to appeal. The litigation follows her detention at Logan Airport, a prior judicial ord…
Sheri B. Bronstein, Bank of America’s Chief People Officer, sold 60,000 shares on March 5, 2026, generating $2.99 million at weighted average prices between $49.65 and $50.24. The bank has several concurrent capital and strategic actions, including a Yen-denominated note redemption, new bond issuance, a role in an IPO, a data partnership with the L…
Granite Ridge Resources (GRNT) is a small-cap oil & gas producer trading at a low EV/EBITDA multiple and an elevated dividend yield. The company's path to positive free cash flow in 2027 looks achievable if production ramps and costs hold; that creates a tradeable asymmetric setup. This idea lays out an entry, stop, targets and the risks that could…
Japan, France and Canada are developing approaches separate from a U.S.-led critical minerals trade bloc to secure supplies of rare earths and other critical metals outside China. Proposed measures include import quotas, subsidies for Western Hemisphere projects, and a buyers' club led by Canada to build a dependable non-Chinese supply chain. Offic…
Former U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer has resigned from the board of Trump Media & Technology Group, according to an SEC filing. The filing states his departure was not the result of disagreements with management or the board. The move occurs as the company, known for its Truth Social platform, weighs a spinoff of the social network an…
Innospec Executive Vice President and CFO Ian Cleminson sold 2,380 shares of the company's common stock on February 27, 2026, through a series of transactions priced between $75.5001 and $77.0713. The sales totaled approximately $182197. After the trades, Cleminson retains direct ownership of 20,357 Innospec shares. The firm's stock has fallen abou…
S&P Dow Jones Indices carried out a routine but broad reconstitution of its indexes, adding Vertiv, EchoStar, Lumentum and Coherent to the S&P 500 while removing four other companies. The S&P 100 will also see semiconductor and industrial entrants, with veteran financial firms exiting that blue-chip list. Market participants anticipate substantial …
Goldman Sachs warned that oil prices may climb above $100 per barrel as early as next week unless there is evidence of a near-term recovery in crude and product flows through the Strait of Hormuz. The bank said it will revisit its price outlook if its assumption of a gradual normalization of flows over the coming days is not validated. Current base…
HP trades at roughly $19.47 with a market cap near $17.8B, a P/E around 7 and an EV/EBITDA of ~5.6. The stock has been punished by rising memory costs and conservative near-term guidance, but AMD design wins, healthy free cash flow ($2.88B) and a 6%+ dividend yield create a high-probability asymmetric trade. We outline an actionable entry, stop and…
Steven B. Klinsky, a director at New Mountain Finance Corp (NASDAQ: NMFC), purchased 237,873 shares of the company on March 5, 2026, at $8.10 per share, a transaction valued at $1,926,771. The stock was trading at $7.98 at the time of reporting, with New Mountain Finance maintaining a market capitalization of $807 million. The Form 4 filing details…
Dr. Vinay Prasad, who has led the Food and Drug Administration's division overseeing vaccines and biotech drug approvals for about a year, will leave the agency at the end of April. FDA Commissioner Marty Makary confirmed the departure and said federal health officials have begun looking for Prasad's replacement. Prasad had taken a one-year leave f…
BridgeBio Pharma director Andrea Ellis sold 64,921 shares on March 4, 2026, for $4,211,301 under a Rule 10b5-1 plan while exercising options to acquire the same number of shares at $8.45 each. The company reported Q4 revenue above estimates driven by Attruby sales, recorded a larger-than-expected adjusted loss, and said interim Phase 3 FORTIFY data…
Saks Global announced the closure of 15 additional locations as part of its bankruptcy restructuring, trimming underperforming outlets to prioritize more profitable, higher-end stores. The company said it is largely finished with store shutdowns but is still finalizing counts with some landlords. Inventory flow has started to recover as hundreds of…
President Donald Trump on March 6 warned that escalating costs tied to college football - particularly name, image and likeness (NIL) payments - are damaging collegiate athletics broadly. Speaking at a White House East Room event with sports leaders, he urged Congress to pass legislation to change how NIL deals are handled and said he might issue a…
Quest Diagnostics Senior Vice President Karthik Kuppusamy sold 2,628 shares on March 4, 2026, at $204.86 per share for about $538,372 and on the same day received 6,200 shares valued at $1,270,132 as settlement of a performance stock award. The transactions took place with shares trading close to a 52-week high; the company recently reported strong…
Christopher Gustanski, Phinia Inc.'s vice president of Operational Excellence, sold 3,812 shares of common stock on March 4, 2026, in a transaction valued at $277,239. The sale came as Phinia reported fourth-quarter 2025 results that beat on revenue but missed on earnings per share. At the time of reporting, the company's share price was lower than…
Patrick Plewman, senior vice president for Diagnostic Services at Quest Diagnostics (DGX), completed a planned sale of 2,855 shares on March 5, 2026, for $588,729 under a Rule 10b5-1 plan. The transactions followed the settlement of a performance stock award and occurred as the stock traded near its 52-week high. Plewman’s direct ownership after th…
