You don’t have to completely redesign a smartphone to make the latest version a solid upgrade over its predecessor. While Apple Inc. went with a bold new look for its Pro models last year and has enjoyed strong demand ever since, Samsung Electronics Co. refrained from a similar visual shakeup for its Galaxy S26 Ultra. But don’t let familiarity fool you: The new handset is my favorite “Ultra” phone...
You don’t have to completely redesign a smartphone to make the latest version a solid upgrade over its predecessor. While Apple Inc. went with a bold new look for its Pro models last year and has enjoyed strong demand ever since, Samsung Electronics Co. refrained from a similar visual shakeup for its Galaxy S26 Ultra. But don’t let familiarity fool you: The new handset is my favorite “Ultra” phone that the company has released in several years. Instead of a major overhaul, the leading Android phone maker put its efforts behind one very practical hardware innovation: a privacy display that will immediately appeal to anyone who constantly scrolls through confidential information on their screen. If you work in finance, medicine, government or any other field where you regularly handle sensitive material, this is a major draw. Samsung also built in quality-of-life improvements like faster charging speeds. And while the S26 Ultra still contains the same camera sensors as its last few predecessors, the company made tweaks to help those cameras capture more light and detail. There are some new artificial intelligence capabilities, like automated tasks through Google's Gemini model, which allows you to automate multi-step tasks like booking a ride home or reordering a favorite meal delivery. But these are still in their infancy and don’t offer a compelling enough reason on their own to buy this device. Samsung did throw in at least one new AI feature — natural language image editing — that I’ve found myself using frequently. Two other newly announced Samsung phones — the Galaxy S26 and S26+ — received price increases this year, making for a tougher sales proposition. The Ultra, however, still comes in at the same $1,300 mark as before, even with some improvements that include Qualcomm Inc. ’s latest chip. After a week of testing ahead of the phone’s March 11 release, here are six of my favorite aspects of the device: Privacy Display When activated, the 6.9-inch OLED screen...
adventtr/iStock via Getty Images Investment thesis Gold will undergo a paradigm shift in 2026, decreasing its dependence on macroeconomic conditions and becoming the safest and most protective asset during periods of heightened geopolitical turbulence. Given the extremely high price volatility fueled by events in Iran and capital inflows from China, my forecast for gold is now $6,000 per ounce by ...
adventtr/iStock via Getty Images Investment thesis Gold will undergo a paradigm shift in 2026, decreasing its dependence on macroeconomic conditions and becoming the safest and most protective asset during periods of heightened geopolitical turbulence. Given the extremely high price volatility fueled by events in Iran and capital inflows from China, my forecast for gold is now $6,000 per ounce by mid-2026. With this in mind, I am looking for additional opportunities to invest capital profitably in order to monetize the expected growth in total return while receiving stable monthly payments. This article suggests a profitable combination of the NEOS Gold High Income ETF ( IAUI ) and the VanEck Junior Gold Miners ETF ( GDXJ ), allowing you to earn a high dividend yield of around 7% and capitalize on the continued growth of gold prices from the high operating leverage of gold mining companies. The economic situation for gold Gold's current economic situation shows both record growth in prices to historic levels and increased volatility, fueled by events in Iran. Currently, the paradigm is shifting, where previous fundamental factors such as inflation and the US macroeconomic environment are becoming less prominent, whereas investors' risk-off/risk-on behavior and central banks' actions in forming gold and foreign exchange reserves are coming to the fore. Just one factor, with the appointment of Kevin Warsh in three days in February, has led to a $1,200 drop in the price of gold, underscoring the extreme volatility in the market. Considering the extreme rise in energy prices (oil and gas), prices for gold may get a boost from rising inflation, and at the same time, the chances of the Fed not cutting rates in 2026 are growing. In the past week, there was an expectation that the July 29, 2026 meeting would see a 25 basis point rate cut (67.3% probability). But now, things have changed, so the probability of a rate cut is only 49.0%. Ultimately, the Fed's rate cut in 2026 ...
(RTTNews) - The Commerce Department released a report on Friday showing business inventories in the U.S. crept slightly higher in the month of December. The report said business inventories inched up by 0.1 percent in December after coming in unchanged in November. Economists had expected business inventories to remain flat. The modest increase in business inventories came as wholesale inventories...
(RTTNews) - The Commerce Department released a report on Friday showing business inventories in the U.S. crept slightly higher in the month of December. The report said business inventories inched up by 0.1 percent in December after coming in unchanged in November. Economists had expected business inventories to remain flat. The modest increase in business inventories came as wholesale inventories rose by 0.2 percent, while manufacturing and retail inventories both edged up by 0.1 percent. Meanwhile, the Commerce Department said business sales climbed by 0.5 percent in December after growing by 0.6 percent in November. While retail sales came in unchanged, manufacturing sales increased by 0.5 percent and wholesale sales jumped by 1.0 percent. With sales rising by much more than inventories, the total business inventories/sales ratio slipped to 1.36 in December from 1.37 in November. The views and opinions expressed herein are the views and opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of Nasdaq, Inc.
Jacob Bethell described England’s T20 World Cup semi-final defeat by India as “a tough pill to swallow” after his first century in the format failed to prevent his team’s elimination in Thursday’s record-obliterating Mumbai run-fest. The 22-year-old had never scored a senior hundred in any format and for any side when he first broke into the England team towards the end of 2024. But less than six ...
Jacob Bethell described England’s T20 World Cup semi-final defeat by India as “a tough pill to swallow” after his first century in the format failed to prevent his team’s elimination in Thursday’s record-obliterating Mumbai run-fest. The 22-year-old had never scored a senior hundred in any format and for any side when he first broke into the England team towards the end of 2024. But less than six months after banking his debut ton against South Africa in an ODI he became just the fourth Englishman to reach triple figures in all three international formats – just a week after Harry Brook’s spectacular innings against Pakistan made him the third. “I always had the self-belief to be able to do it,” Bethell said. “Me and Brooky were joking about who was going to be the first to get all three. He was like: ‘You’re batting at three so it’s got to be you.’ Then he took my spot at three and did it, but I managed to do it at four. Both of us can be very proud of ourselves but at the end of the day his came in a winning cause and mine in a losing cause. He’ll always have that up on me.” Bethell’s debut first-class century came in the Ashes Test in Sydney in January, when his second-innings 154 did not stop Australia cantering to victory by five wickets. It took him 162 balls to reach triple figures at the SCG, compared with 45 in Mumbai. “They’re not comparable, really,” he said of the two innings. “The skills and mental thinking are different, but both feelings are pretty good. But both of them have come in losing causes, which is a weird feeling. Cricket is a cruel game, personal performances don’t always solidify into team performances. Both of those are tough pills to swallow but I’m very proud of the way I went about both knocks.” Though England conceded 253 to leave themselves a daunting task in their semi-final run chase Bethell said the mood at the innings break had been entirely optimistic: “That’s always the way. Tunes were on, everyone was ready to go out and get t...
Alibaba Group BABA faces a challenging road ahead despite posting headline numbers that appear encouraging on the surface. The company's second quarter of fiscal 2026, which ended Sept. 30, 2025, revealed a widening gap between revenue momentum and the financial health that investors actually care about — and fresh regulatory intervention in February 2026 has done little to ease concerns. Cloud In...
Alibaba Group BABA faces a challenging road ahead despite posting headline numbers that appear encouraging on the surface. The company's second quarter of fiscal 2026, which ended Sept. 30, 2025, revealed a widening gap between revenue momentum and the financial health that investors actually care about — and fresh regulatory intervention in February 2026 has done little to ease concerns. Cloud Intelligence Group revenues rose 34% year over year to RMB 39.8 billion, a figure management has proudly spotlighted. Yet the celebration stops at the revenue line. GAAP net income fell 53%, operating cash flow declined by RMB 21.3 billion, and free cash flow turned to a net outflow of RMB 21.8 billion — a stark reversal from the prior year's RMB 13.7 billion inflow. The cloud segment's growth, while impressive in absolute terms, is being purchased at an increasingly steep price. The company has deployed approximately RMB 120 billion in capital expenditure over the past four quarters to fund AI and cloud infrastructure, leaving profitability deeply compressed. Non-GAAP diluted earnings per ADS collapsed 71% to RMB 4.36. With no revenue guidance issued for the year, visibility into when this investment cycle will turn accretive remains elusive. Compounding investor anxiety, regulatory headwinds resurfaced just months later. On Feb. 13, 2026, China's State Administration for Market Regulation summoned Alibaba and other major platforms, instructing them to eliminate all forms of "involution-style competition" — a broad directive targeting aggressive promotional tactics that have been central to Alibaba's quick commerce growth strategy. The meeting marked the third and most sweeping regulatory intervention on fair competition over the past year, broadening scrutiny from food-delivery services to the wider e-commerce and social-media sectors. For Alibaba stock, cloud revenue growth is real, but sustainability is unproven when backed by negative free cash flow. Meanwhile, Beijing's...
Shares of Samsara rose sharply Friday after the Internet of Things company shook off worries about disruption by artificial intelligence with its fiscal fourth-quarter earnings report. Samsara whose technology connects physical operations like shipping and manufacturing, reported adjusted earnings of 18 cents a share for the quarter. Like other software stocks, Samsara has struggled in 2026, dropp...
Shares of Samsara rose sharply Friday after the Internet of Things company shook off worries about disruption by artificial intelligence with its fiscal fourth-quarter earnings report. Samsara whose technology connects physical operations like shipping and manufacturing, reported adjusted earnings of 18 cents a share for the quarter. Like other software stocks, Samsara has struggled in 2026, dropping 17% as of Thursday’s close of trading.
The early intel from George RR Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire novels paints the Targaryens as tyrants – so making them the heroes is going to require some hefty literary PR There must be a few Game of Thrones fans out there who have rather mixed feelings about the news that Warner Bros is to bring George RR Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire “universe” to the big screen . On the one hand, the prospe...
The early intel from George RR Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire novels paints the Targaryens as tyrants – so making them the heroes is going to require some hefty literary PR There must be a few Game of Thrones fans out there who have rather mixed feelings about the news that Warner Bros is to bring George RR Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire “universe” to the big screen . On the one hand, the prospect of a properly enormous fantasy epic featuring dragons the size of commuter trains is undeniably appealing; on the other, have they really thought this thing through? Reports suggest that the feature film will take as its source material Aegon Targaryen’s conquest, which brought the purple-eyed, dragon-riding clan to continental Westeros (and united six of its seven kingdoms) about 300 years before the events of HBO’s Game of Thrones itself. There’s also a TV series happening, which will presumably cover much of the same ground in greater detail. At first glance, this ought to make even the most reluctant fantasy acolyte want to punch the air. After all, Aegon’s conquest is the sort of story cinema was invented for: dragons blotting out the sky, castles melting like cheese toasties under a blowtorch; an entire continent being thrillingly upended by a bunch of platinum-haired dragonlords. Continue reading...
St Martin-in-the-Fields, London Shiva Feshareki’s Divine Feminine fails to find its focus despite soprano Emma Tring’s incandescent, fearless performance of Celtic deity Brigid S hiva Feshareki ’s Divine Feminine is many things, but this latest work from the multi-award-winning British-Iranian composer and turntablist is not, as billed, an opera. Premiered at St Martin-in-the-Fields, transforming ...
St Martin-in-the-Fields, London Shiva Feshareki’s Divine Feminine fails to find its focus despite soprano Emma Tring’s incandescent, fearless performance of Celtic deity Brigid S hiva Feshareki ’s Divine Feminine is many things, but this latest work from the multi-award-winning British-Iranian composer and turntablist is not, as billed, an opera. Premiered at St Martin-in-the-Fields, transforming the nave, gallery and sanctuary of the central London church into an intricately amplified “360° soundscape”, Divine Feminine might be an installation, a piece of music-theatre, even a therapy session. What it’s not is a story urgently and solely committed to being told through song. This isn’t stylistic gatekeeping. Terminology matters – if only because it creates a useful frame of reference and expectation. Art loses energy if it has no solid architecture to bounce off, no walls to scale or dismantle. As it was, this meditative celebration of the divine feminine – a concept never explicitly defined here, but doing sun salutations at the nexus of fecundity and sisterhood, rebirth and goddess-energy – chanted and shouted and stamped and danced, but never found its focus. Continue reading...
Looking at the universe of stocks we cover at Dividend Channel, on 3/10/26, Public Service Enterprise Group Inc (Symbol: PEG), PPL Corp (Symbol: PPL), and Ameren Corp (Symbol: AEE) will all trade ex-dividend for their respective upcoming dividends. Public Service Enterprise Group Inc will pay its quarterly dividend of $0.67 on 3/31/26, PPL Corp will pay its quarterly dividend of $0.285 on 4/1/26, ...
Looking at the universe of stocks we cover at Dividend Channel, on 3/10/26, Public Service Enterprise Group Inc (Symbol: PEG), PPL Corp (Symbol: PPL), and Ameren Corp (Symbol: AEE) will all trade ex-dividend for their respective upcoming dividends. Public Service Enterprise Group Inc will pay its quarterly dividend of $0.67 on 3/31/26, PPL Corp will pay its quarterly dividend of $0.285 on 4/1/26, and Ameren Corp will pay its quarterly dividend of $0.75 on 3/31/26. As a percentage of PEG's recent stock price of $83.92, this dividend works out to approximately 0.80%, so look for shares of Public Service Enterprise Group Inc to trade 0.80% lower — all else being equal — when PEG shares open for trading on 3/10/26. Similarly, investors should look for PPL to open 0.75% lower in price and for AEE to open 0.67% lower, all else being equal. Below are dividend history charts for PEG, PPL, and AEE, showing historical dividends prior to the most recent ones declared. Public Service Enterprise Group Inc (Symbol: PEG): PPL Corp (Symbol: PPL): Ameren Corp (Symbol: AEE): In general, dividends are not always predictable, following the ups and downs of company profits over time. Therefore, a good first due diligence step in forming an expectation of annual yield going forward, is looking at the history above, for a sense of stability over time. This can help in judging whether the most recent dividends from these companies are likely to continue. If they do continue, the current estimated yields on annualized basis would be 3.19% for Public Service Enterprise Group Inc, 3.00% for PPL Corp, and 2.69% for Ameren Corp. In Friday trading, Public Service Enterprise Group Inc shares are currently trading flat, PPL Corp shares are down about 1.6%, and Ameren Corp shares are off about 1.7% on the day. Click here to learn which 25 S.A.F.E. dividend stocks should be on your radar screen » Also see: Defense Dividend Stocks ETFs Holding IMS Institutional Holders of ALNY The views and opi...
A company's own top management tend to have the best inside view into the business, so when company officers make major buys, investors are wise to take notice. Presumably the only reason an insider would take their hard-earned cash and use it to buy stock of their company in the open market, is that they expect to make money — maybe they find the stock very undervalued, or maybe they see exciting...
A company's own top management tend to have the best inside view into the business, so when company officers make major buys, investors are wise to take notice. Presumably the only reason an insider would take their hard-earned cash and use it to buy stock of their company in the open market, is that they expect to make money — maybe they find the stock very undervalued, or maybe they see exciting progress within the company, or maybe both. So in this series we look at the largest insider buys by the ''top brass'' over the trailing six month period, one of which was a total of $186.6K by Michael Holt, Chief Financial Officer at Morningstar Inc (Symbol: MORN). Purchased Insider Title Shares Price/Share Value 03/04/2026 Michael Holt Chief Financial Officer 1,000 $186.59 $186,590.00 Holt's average cost works out to $186.59/share. Shares of Morningstar Inc were changing hands at $189.20 at last check, trading up about 1.6% on Friday. The chart below shows the one year performance of MORN shares, versus its 200 day moving average: Looking at the chart above, MORN's low point in its 52 week range is $149.08 per share, with $316.71 as the 52 week high point — that compares with a last trade of $189.20. The current annualized dividend paid by Morningstar Inc is $2/share, currently paid in quarterly installments, and its most recent dividend has an upcoming ex-date of 04/02/2026. Below is a long-term dividend history chart for MORN, which can be of good help in judging whether the most recent dividend with approx. 1.1% annualized yield is likely to continue. Click here to find out which other top insider buys by the ''top brass'' you need to know about » Also see: 10 Components Hedge Funds Are Selling Top Ten Hedge Funds Holding NZRO RZV Historical Stock Prices The views and opinions expressed herein are the views and opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of Nasdaq, Inc.
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TLDR Jefferies reiterated a Buy rating on Microsoft with a $675 price target Analyst Brent Thill says Microsoft’s Azure and M365 platform gives it a strong edge in enterprise AI spending AI margins are tracking ahead of cloud margins at a similar stage of development Microsoft trades at ~21x FY2027 earnings, below its 10-year average of 23.5x The average Wall Street price target of $594.02 implies...
TLDR Jefferies reiterated a Buy rating on Microsoft with a $675 price target Analyst Brent Thill says Microsoft’s Azure and M365 platform gives it a strong edge in enterprise AI spending AI margins are tracking ahead of cloud margins at a similar stage of development Microsoft trades at ~21x FY2027 earnings, below its 10-year average of 23.5x The average Wall Street price target of $594.02 implies ~44.6% upside from current levels 💥 Find the Next KnockoutStock! Get live prices, charts, and KO Scores from KnockoutStocks.com , the data-driven platform ranking every stock by quality and breakout potential. Microsoft (MSFT) has gotten a fresh vote of confidence from Jefferies, with analyst Brent Thill saying the company is best placed to win the enterprise AI race. He kept his Buy rating and $675 price target in place after meeting with Microsoft’s head of investor relations. Microsoft Corporation, MSFT Thill’s core argument is straightforward: Microsoft doesn’t need to own the best AI model. It just needs to own the platform where AI models are built, deployed, and managed — and it already does. The company’s combined Azure and Microsoft 365 footprint puts it at the center of how large businesses are thinking about AI. With over 450 million paid M365 users, Microsoft already sits inside the daily workflows of a huge chunk of the enterprise world. Thill said AI tools could actually grow the total addressable market for M365, rather than simply replace existing features. As firms layer AI into everyday software, they tend to spend more — not less. AI Margins Are Tracking Ahead of Cloud One detail that caught the analyst’s attention: AI margins are running ahead of where cloud margins were at a comparable stage. That’s a good sign for how the business might scale as demand continues to build. Thill also pointed to the growing role of AI agents — software that can work across multiple applications and call APIs to complete tasks. Microsoft’s platform sits in the middle of ...
MercadoLibre (NASDAQ: MELI) is rapidly expanding its ecosystem across e-commerce, payments, and credit, even as the stock trades well below prior highs. I examine how 78 million fintech users, rising engagement, and accelerating revenue growth could position the company for significant long-term upside if operating leverage continues to improve. Stock prices used were the market prices of Feb. 27,...
MercadoLibre (NASDAQ: MELI) is rapidly expanding its ecosystem across e-commerce, payments, and credit, even as the stock trades well below prior highs. I examine how 78 million fintech users, rising engagement, and accelerating revenue growth could position the company for significant long-term upside if operating leverage continues to improve. Stock prices used were the market prices of Feb. 27, 2026. The video was published on March 5, 2026. Continue reading
Police in Canada have concluded that a missing Iranian activist was most likely the victim of murder, prompting fears that his disappearance has the hallmarks of a transnational repression campaign targeting critics of Tehran. Masood Masjoody, a mathematician critical of both Iran’s theocratic regime and the exiled family of the former shah, went missing in early February in the city of Burnaby, B...
Police in Canada have concluded that a missing Iranian activist was most likely the victim of murder, prompting fears that his disappearance has the hallmarks of a transnational repression campaign targeting critics of Tehran. Masood Masjoody, a mathematician critical of both Iran’s theocratic regime and the exiled family of the former shah, went missing in early February in the city of Burnaby, British Columbia. Police are still searching for Masjoody’s body, and a spokesperson for the integrated homicide investigations team, which is part of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), said all of the evidence investigators have collected indicates foul play. “We are treating this as a homicide,” Sgt Freda Fong said. Activists who have documented Iran’s recent deadly crackdown on protesters fear the disappearance reflects a policy of attempting to silence members of the diaspora community who are critical of the Iran’s theocracy. “[Masood] has been very vocal against not only opposition groups, but also the regime,” said Tadayon Tahmasbi, an Iranian based in the Netherlands. Tahmasbi, who survived an attempt on his life in June 2024 believed to be linked to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), said the regime in Tehran is working “to stifle and silence voices abroad more than it ever did before”. “I can only hope the truth of his disappearance and those behind it are caught. For now, we across the diaspora are very worried for Masood,” he added. Masjoody obtained his doctorate in mathematics from Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, specializing in discrete mathematics and graph theory. He was hired as a sessional instructor that same year and taught mostly undergraduate courses, including one on analytical and quantitative reasoning. But Masjoody sparred with the mathematics department, including a clash over his “alternative grading system” and his class assignments. He also faced allegations of sexual harassment and made repeated misogynistic and violen...