Thicha Satapitanon/iStock via Getty Images The last time I spoke about Eli Lilly ( LLY ) it was with a Seeking Alpha article entitled " Eli Lilly: Moving To 'Strong Buy' Rating On Revenue Growth Beyond Zepbound ." I had rated this stock a "Strong Buy" the last time around, and I'm going to maintain this rating yet again. There are several reasons why I believe that I should keep this rating. The f...
Thicha Satapitanon/iStock via Getty Images The last time I spoke about Eli Lilly ( LLY ) it was with a Seeking Alpha article entitled " Eli Lilly: Moving To 'Strong Buy' Rating On Revenue Growth Beyond Zepbound ." I had rated this stock a "Strong Buy" the last time around, and I'm going to maintain this rating yet again. There are several reasons why I believe that I should keep this rating. The first reason is because despite competition in the obesity and Type 2 Diabetes [T2D] space, the company still continues to deliver revenue growth in both of these particular segments. When looking at MOUNJARO first, this particular drug achieved revenue growth in Q1 of 2026 of 125% to $8.66 billion. With respect to ZEPBOUND, revenue growth during this same quarter was 80% to $4.16 billion. The point is that these mainstay drugs of this company continue to perform well. As I went over last time, the company was also gearing up to submit regulatory applications for potential U.S. marketing approval of FOUNDAYO [orforglipron] for the treatment of patients with obesity. The company was not only able to receive FDA approval of this oral GLP-1 inhibitor to treat this group of patients, but also 4 weeks since market launch, it has been able to achieve 7,335 U.S. prescriptions . While this obesity pill does have to go up against Novo Nordisk ( NVO ) WEGOVY [Semaglutide] , it is still too early to say how this battle will play out. The thing is that this company is already looking to push the battle in the obesity space. How so? Well, there is a once-weekly injectable triple GLP-1, GIP, and glucagon agonist [triple agonist] it is looking at developing, known as Retatrutide, for the treatment of patients with obesity, sleep apnea, and osteoarthritis pain of the knee. There are going to be regulatory submissions for all three of these indications with this drug in 2026. If that wasn't enough, the company is also looking to advance its amylin receptor agonist, Eloralintide, for obesity ...
PayPal Holdings (NasdaqGS:PYPL) has launched a new integrated payments solution with BigCommerce for U.S. merchants. The rollout includes PayPal Store Sync to connect merchant product catalogs with AI-driven shopping channels such as Microsoft Copilot and Meta. PayPal is also introducing PayPal Ads ID, a commerce-focused identity tool for ad targeting and measurement. For investors watching how pa...
PayPal Holdings (NasdaqGS:PYPL) has launched a new integrated payments solution with BigCommerce for U.S. merchants. The rollout includes PayPal Store Sync to connect merchant product catalogs with AI-driven shopping channels such as Microsoft Copilot and Meta. PayPal is also introducing PayPal Ads ID, a commerce-focused identity tool for ad targeting and measurement. For investors watching how payment companies respond to shifting online retail habits, this set of launches shows where...
Last year marked the 90th anniversary of the Social Security Act being signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Since the first retired-worker benefit was mailed in January 1940, Social Security has been providing a financial foundation for aging workers who could no longer do so for themselves. In May 2025, we also witnessed the average monthly retired-worker benefit surpass $2,000 for...
Last year marked the 90th anniversary of the Social Security Act being signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Since the first retired-worker benefit was mailed in January 1940, Social Security has been providing a financial foundation for aging workers who could no longer do so for themselves. In May 2025, we also witnessed the average monthly retired-worker benefit surpass $2,000 for the first time . But not all history is shaping up as positive for America's foremost retirement program. The financial outlook for Social Security has been deteriorating for decades, leading some workers to believe it won't be there when they retire. While there's a silver lining on this front and Social Security's longevity as a whole, the existing payout schedule, including annual cost-of-living adjustments (COLA), is far from sturdy -- and actions taken by President Donald Trump in July 2025 appear to have made things worse . Continue reading
Flutter Sees Post-Earnings Boost as FanDuel Shows Signs of RecoveryFlutter Entertainment (NYSE:FLUT) reported 17% revenue growth in the first quarter of 2026 and said it is seeing early signs of improvement in its U.S. sportsbook business, while announcing changes to the leadersh
Flutter Sees Post-Earnings Boost as FanDuel Shows Signs of RecoveryFlutter Entertainment (NYSE:FLUT) reported 17% revenue growth in the first quarter of 2026 and said it is seeing early signs of improvement in its U.S. sportsbook business, while announcing changes to the leadersh
Saudi Arabia’s state oil company’s profits up 26% to £26.9bn in first three months of year Business live – latest updates Saudi Arabia’s state oil company reported a 26% jump in profits in its first quarter as its east-west pipeline allowed it to ship millions of barrels of oil out of the Gulf despite conflict in the Middle East . Profits at Saudi Aramco hit $33.6bn (£26.9bn) in the first three mo...
Saudi Arabia’s state oil company’s profits up 26% to £26.9bn in first three months of year Business live – latest updates Saudi Arabia’s state oil company reported a 26% jump in profits in its first quarter as its east-west pipeline allowed it to ship millions of barrels of oil out of the Gulf despite conflict in the Middle East . Profits at Saudi Aramco hit $33.6bn (£26.9bn) in the first three months of the year, while revenue rose nearly 7% compared with a year earlier to $115.5bn. Continue reading...
Karen Krasney, EVP, General Counsel of Capricor Therapeutics (NASDAQ:CAPR) , exercised 25,000 options for common stock and immediately sold the resulting shares for a transaction value of approximately $793,000, as disclosed in the SEC Form 4 filing . Transaction value based on SEC Form 4 weighted average sale price ($31.70). * 1-year price change calculated using May 8, 2026 as the reference date...
Karen Krasney, EVP, General Counsel of Capricor Therapeutics (NASDAQ:CAPR) , exercised 25,000 options for common stock and immediately sold the resulting shares for a transaction value of approximately $793,000, as disclosed in the SEC Form 4 filing . Transaction value based on SEC Form 4 weighted average sale price ($31.70). * 1-year price change calculated using May 8, 2026 as the reference date. Continue reading
At 5:26 am local time on August 10, 2025, a massive wedge of rock with a volume of at least 63.5 million cubic meters detached from a mountain above Alaska’s Tracy Arm fjord. The falling rock plummeted into the deep waters at the terminus of the South Sawyer Glacier and caused an initial 100-meter-high breaking wave that tore across the fjord at speeds exceeding 70 meters a second. When this wave ...
At 5:26 am local time on August 10, 2025, a massive wedge of rock with a volume of at least 63.5 million cubic meters detached from a mountain above Alaska’s Tracy Arm fjord. The falling rock plummeted into the deep waters at the terminus of the South Sawyer Glacier and caused an initial 100-meter-high breaking wave that tore across the fjord at speeds exceeding 70 meters a second. When this wave hit the opposite shoreline, it surged up the steep rocks to a height of 481 meters above sea level. “It was the second highest tsunami ever recorded on Earth,” says Aram Fathian, a researcher at the University of Calgary and co-author of a recent Science study that reconstructed this event in detail. “But until now, almost nobody heard about it because it was a near-miss event,” he adds. There were no injuries or fatalities reported following the Tracy Arm fjord tsunami, mostly because it happened early in the morning. But we might not be so lucky next time. Landslide megatsunamis Earthquake-generated tsunamis usually reach runup heights of a few tens of meters when they strike land. Landslide tsunamis, like the one that happened in Tracy Arm, are often more localized but also way more violent. When millions of tons of rock suddenly fall into a confined body of water like a narrow fjord, the variation in water depth and the direct displacement of the water column produce extremely high waves. Since 1925, scientists have documented 27 such events with runups exceeding 50 meters. The highest was the 1958 Lituya Bay tsunami, which reached 530 meters. Read full article Comments
tness74/iStock via Getty Images Today is a historic date in the history of the railroad industry. On the morning of May 10, 1869, a crowd gathered at a desolate stretch of Utah Territory called Promontory Summit. Two locomotives faced each other on a single track, separated by one final rail. Workers from the Central Pacific and Union Pacific ( UNP ) railroads witnessed a ceremonial golden spike c...
tness74/iStock via Getty Images Today is a historic date in the history of the railroad industry. On the morning of May 10, 1869, a crowd gathered at a desolate stretch of Utah Territory called Promontory Summit. Two locomotives faced each other on a single track, separated by one final rail. Workers from the Central Pacific and Union Pacific ( UNP ) railroads witnessed a ceremonial golden spike connect the two tracks to create a transcontinental railroad. The occasion was marked by church bells ringing in San Francisco and cannons being fired in New York City. Union Pacific The transcontinental railroad shortened weeks of dangerous wagon travel into days of much easier passage and helped to open the American West to settlement and commerce. Over the generations that followed, the American freight rail system evolved into a patchwork of regional carriers divided largely between East and West. For the last 100 years, shipments crossing the country still required handoffs between competing railroads, adding time, cost, and complication. Exactly 157 years since the golden spike connected the continent, the same Union Pacific brand exists after a series of mergers and bankruptcies that included a corporate lineage of Union Pacific Rail Road (1862–1880), the Union Pacific Railway (1880–1897), the Union Pacific Railroad Mark I (1897–1998), and the Union Pacific Railroad Mark II (1969–present). Today, Union Pacific ( UNP ) and Norfolk Southern ( NSC ) want to create America's first true transcontinental railroad being run by a single company. By combining Union Pacific's expansive western network with Norfolk Southern's deep reach into eastern manufacturing and population centers, the two companies would stitch together over 50K route miles across 43 states. If regulators approve the deal, the single-line freight service will run coast to coast, with no handoffs, a development that would disrupt the rails and trucking industries. Trucking stocks : Knight-Swift Transportati...
His first story collection, Reward System, was a cult hit. Now comes a novel that’s a bleakly funny appraisal of millennial relationships, technology and ennui. He talks about love, precarity and being called the ‘voice of a generation’ Jem Calder’s writing career had a fairytale start. Sally Rooney emailed him, impressed with a short story he’d submitted to the literary magazine she was editing s...
His first story collection, Reward System, was a cult hit. Now comes a novel that’s a bleakly funny appraisal of millennial relationships, technology and ennui. He talks about love, precarity and being called the ‘voice of a generation’ Jem Calder’s writing career had a fairytale start. Sally Rooney emailed him, impressed with a short story he’d submitted to the literary magazine she was editing soon after Conversations with Friends came out. It was the first story he’d ever completed. Calder was already “a huge fan” of Rooney’s, so the whole thing was surreal, he tells me. “I can’t really imagine what could top that, to be honest.” That story ultimately ended up in Reward System, Calder’s 2022 collection of six interconnected tales following a cast of sad young things living in an unnamed city. It was hailed as a book of the year ; a review in this paper placed Calder among “the most talented young writers of fiction at work today”. Now, his debut novel, I Want You to Be Happy, picks up some of the themes of the first book: the trials of modern love, millennial ennui, consumer culture, technology, political and ecological doom. And it’s already got some famous fans: David Szalay has sung its praises, while Andrew O’Hagan says Calder is his “new favourite writer”. Continue reading...
A staggering 44% of human languages are endangered – with culture, tradition and whole ways of understanding the world at stake We are lucky to know anything at all about the Ubykh language. In the 1800s, tens of thousands of people spoke it on the Black Sea coast. When Russia conquered the region, the Ubykhs resisted until they were forced into exile in the Ottoman empire. Transported thousands o...
A staggering 44% of human languages are endangered – with culture, tradition and whole ways of understanding the world at stake We are lucky to know anything at all about the Ubykh language. In the 1800s, tens of thousands of people spoke it on the Black Sea coast. When Russia conquered the region, the Ubykhs resisted until they were forced into exile in the Ottoman empire. Transported thousands of miles by a traumatised community now scattered across Turkey, Ubykh survived until 1992 when its last fluent speaker died. It was one of at least 244 languages that has become extinct since 1950, and soon – unless anything changes – my grandmother’s language will have joined them. Over the next 40 years, language loss has been predicted to triple without intervention. Yet we hear about language endangerment far less often than we hear about other wounding losses to our planet’s diversity or history. Deforestation in Costa Rica is being reversed following the realisation of the enormous natural and scientific resource that may disappear with its trees. International archaeologists rallied to preserve and restore ancient remains in Syria following the destruction wreaked by Islamic State. But the efforts of those labouring to document or preserve minority languages are rarely celebrated. Continue reading...
Previously prohibited use of websites such as Omoggle that connect a streamer to a stranger’s video feed now allowed Last week, at 4am, 19-year-old Sammy Amz was scrolling through X when something caught his eye: a popular Twitch streamer was competing in a 1v1 “mog-off” with a stranger, and losing. The next day he opened the Omoggle gaming website and began to play. Quickly he matched with anothe...
Previously prohibited use of websites such as Omoggle that connect a streamer to a stranger’s video feed now allowed Last week, at 4am, 19-year-old Sammy Amz was scrolling through X when something caught his eye: a popular Twitch streamer was competing in a 1v1 “mog-off” with a stranger, and losing. The next day he opened the Omoggle gaming website and began to play. Quickly he matched with another user – green dots appeared on their faces onscreen, as the website began to compare their measurements: canthal tilt, palpebral fissure ratio, nose-to-face width ratio and so on. Continue reading...
They have opposite views on the flying of the union jack, but could they agree on the need for safe and legal asylum routes into the UK? Maxine, 62, Barnsley Occupation Retail sales assistant Continue reading...
They have opposite views on the flying of the union jack, but could they agree on the need for safe and legal asylum routes into the UK? Maxine, 62, Barnsley Occupation Retail sales assistant Continue reading...