Seeking Alpha More on Sea Sea Limited: Riding This Wave Higher; Bullish Opportunity Sea Limited's Pullback Is Creating A Rare Opportunity Sea: Market Fear Creates A Compelling Entry Point For An SEA Growth Giant Sea beats top-line and bottom-line estimates; introduces FY26 outlook Sea Q4 Preview: What to expect
Seeking Alpha More on Sea Sea Limited: Riding This Wave Higher; Bullish Opportunity Sea Limited's Pullback Is Creating A Rare Opportunity Sea: Market Fear Creates A Compelling Entry Point For An SEA Growth Giant Sea beats top-line and bottom-line estimates; introduces FY26 outlook Sea Q4 Preview: What to expect
AMD reveals its Ryzen AI 400 series at MWC 2026 as the successor to the Ryzen 8000G range These chips have been refocused on AI, with an NPU that hits 50 TOPS It means a desktop PC will qualify for Windows 11's Copilot+ features Over at MWC 2026 AMD has revealed new Ryzen AI processors designed to bring a powerful NPU – and Copilot+ (AI) features – to desktop PCs. As TechSpot flagged up, the Ryzen...
AMD reveals its Ryzen AI 400 series at MWC 2026 as the successor to the Ryzen 8000G range These chips have been refocused on AI, with an NPU that hits 50 TOPS It means a desktop PC will qualify for Windows 11's Copilot+ features Over at MWC 2026 AMD has revealed new Ryzen AI processors designed to bring a powerful NPU – and Copilot+ (AI) features – to desktop PCs. As TechSpot flagged up, the Ryzen AI 400 series (which comes alongside Pro variants for businesses) is built with Zen 5 CPU cores (as with Ryzen 9000), along with an RDNA 3.5 integrated GPU and an XDNA 2-powered NPU for accelerating on-device AI tasks. The idea is to provide a relatively wallet-friendly all-in-one processor for more budget-oriented PCs which don't have a discrete graphics card, bringing in the ability to use AI features with an NPU that's rated at 50 TOPS. That's fast enough to qualify as a Copilot+ PC and to access Windows 11's AI trappings therein, such as Windows Studio Effects for improving video chats. The flagship model is the Ryzen AI 7 450G, which offers eight cores (16 threads), 24MB of cache, and boosts up to 5.1GHz, packing Radeon 860M graphics. The latter is RDNA 3.5 and has eight Compute Units (CUs). There are also Ryzen AI 5 chips, the 440G and 435G, which have six cores (12 threads) and boost up to 4.8GHz and 4.5GHz respectively (with 22MB and 14MB cache). They step down to a Radeon 840M integrated GPU with four CUs, but all chips have the full-fat NPU with (up to) 50 TOPS. The TDP of these processors is 65W, but they also come in low-power versions (GE models) that only use 35W. According to TechSpot, AMD (and other sources) have said that these Ryzen AI 400 desktop models won't be sold as boxed standalone products, at least not initially – they'll be for PC makers (OEMs) instead. Get daily insight, inspiration and deals in your inbox Sign up for breaking news, reviews, opinion, top tech deals, and more. Contact me with news and offers from other Future brands Receive email...
Google’s shifting algorithm has threatened traffic to Reach’s free-to-read websites - Chris Batson/Alamy Stock Photo The Daily Mirror’s owner has slumped to its biggest loss in more than a decade after a collapse in Google traffic led to a steep drop in digital readership. Reach, formerly known as Trinity Mirror, fell £165m into the red after warning of a “sharp decline in referral traffic” from t...
Google’s shifting algorithm has threatened traffic to Reach’s free-to-read websites - Chris Batson/Alamy Stock Photo The Daily Mirror’s owner has slumped to its biggest loss in more than a decade after a collapse in Google traffic led to a steep drop in digital readership. Reach, formerly known as Trinity Mirror, fell £165m into the red after warning of a “sharp decline in referral traffic” from the search giant. The loss, which reversed a £63m profit last year, was driven by a £223m impairment charge following a decline in visitors from Google’s search engine, which cut growth forecasts. “The unhelpful referrer and macro environments have tempered our view on digital growth over the near term,” said Piers North, Reach’s chief executive. The loss for the publisher of the Daily Mirror, Express and dozens of regional newspapers is the deepest of the Reach era. The business was rebranded from Trinity Mirror in 2018 after the purchase of the Express titles from media mogul Richard Desmond. Trinity Mirror last reported a similar-sized loss in 2014, when it fell £160m into the red. The company has been grappling with Google’s shifting algorithm, which has threatened traffic to free-to-read websites. Google’s introduction of “AI Overviews”, which give short descriptions of news topics, has left media sites scrambling to attract visitors as more readers turn to the search engine for information or advice. Data from Ipsos for January showed that Reach had suffered a collapse in page views for some of its biggest local titles, which have suffered from Google’s AI shift. Page views of Surrey Live tumbled almost 85pc, Leeds Live’s page views fell by 77pc, and Bristol Live dropped just under 70pc. Despite the falls, Reach hailed its own use of AI, claiming that a tool called “Guten”, which rehashes stories from across its titles, is used for 26pc of its articles. The publisher has been forced to push into subscriptions for its red top and regional papers, adding premium subscrip...
AutoZone press release ( AZO ): Q2 GAAP EPS of $27.63 beats by $0.34 . Revenue of $4.27B (+8.1% Y/Y) misses by $40M . During the quarter ended February 14, 2026, AutoZone opened 43 new stores in the U.S., 18 in Mexico and three in Brazil for a total of 64 net new stores. As of February 14, 2026, the Company had 6,709 stores in the U.S., 913 in Mexico and 152 in Brazil for a total store count of 7,...
AutoZone press release ( AZO ): Q2 GAAP EPS of $27.63 beats by $0.34 . Revenue of $4.27B (+8.1% Y/Y) misses by $40M . During the quarter ended February 14, 2026, AutoZone opened 43 new stores in the U.S., 18 in Mexico and three in Brazil for a total of 64 net new stores. As of February 14, 2026, the Company had 6,709 stores in the U.S., 913 in Mexico and 152 in Brazil for a total store count of 7,774. More on AutoZone AutoZone: Recent Pullback Creates An Opportunity In A Durable Auto Parts Leader AutoZone: It's In The Buy Zone AutoZone, Inc. 2026 Q1 - Results - Earnings Call Presentation AutoZone Q2 2026 Earnings Preview AutoZone outlines accelerated store growth and 350+ new openings in fiscal 2026 while investing $1.6B in CapEx
jetcityimage/iStock Editorial via Getty Images After four consecutive sessions of gains, UnitedHealth ( UNH ) slipped ~2% in the premarket on Tuesday after the managed care giant announced plans to sell a range of securities from time to time using a “shelf” process. According to a prospectus filed with the SEC on Monday, the Eden Prairie, Minnesota-based company intends to sell any combination of...
jetcityimage/iStock Editorial via Getty Images After four consecutive sessions of gains, UnitedHealth ( UNH ) slipped ~2% in the premarket on Tuesday after the managed care giant announced plans to sell a range of securities from time to time using a “shelf” process. According to a prospectus filed with the SEC on Monday, the Eden Prairie, Minnesota-based company intends to sell any combination of debt, preferred stock, common stock, warrants, and guarantees as part of one or more offerings. UnitedHealth ( UNH ) said that it intends to use the net proceeds from the offerings for debt refinancing or repayment, stock buybacks, acquisitions, working capital requirements, and other general corporate purposes. The announcement comes after the company, with its Q4 results, projected its first annual revenue decline in decades and reported $24.4B in cash and cash equivalents as of Dec. 31, 2025, indicating a ~4% YoY drop. More on UnitedHealth UnitedHealth: Compelling Value Proposition, But Risks Greatly Elevated UnitedHealth: 3 Reasons Not To Buy (Revisited) UnitedHealth: After The Collapse Dividend Roundup: Home Depot, UnitedHealth, Cigna, Nvidia, and more Trump administration to hold back $259M in Medicaid payments to Minnesota
(RTTNews) - Wyndham Hotels & Resorts, Inc. (WH) announced Tuesday that following a comprehensive search process, Amit Sripathi has been appointed Chief Financial Officer, effective immediately. Sripathi, who most recently served as Chief Development Officer - North America, succeeds Kurt Albert who has served as Interim CFO since November. Additionally, the Company has named David Wilner, a 30-yea...
(RTTNews) - Wyndham Hotels & Resorts, Inc. (WH) announced Tuesday that following a comprehensive search process, Amit Sripathi has been appointed Chief Financial Officer, effective immediately. Sripathi, who most recently served as Chief Development Officer - North America, succeeds Kurt Albert who has served as Interim CFO since November. Additionally, the Company has named David Wilner, a 30-year franchise sales veteran, as Chief Development Officer - North America. Both Sripathi and Wilner will report to Geoff Ballotti, President and Chief Executive Officer. Sripathi joined Wyndham in 2021 and has served in a variety of leadership roles at the Company. Prior to Wyndham, he was with RLJ Lodging Trust, responsible for Capital Markets and Corporate Finance and served in roles of increasing responsibility in the Real Estate, Lodging and Gaming investment banking group at Deutsche Bank. In his new role, Wilner will lead the Company's North American franchise sales and architecture design & construction teams. During his nearly eight years at the Company, he has helped franchisees tap into the power of the Wyndham Advantage and the Company's iconic brands. Prior to joining Wyndham, Wilner spent 20 years as part of the franchise sales leadership team for La Quinta. In conjunction with this announcement, Wyndham has reaffirmed its full-year 2026 outlook provided in its fourth-quarter 2025 earnings report. The views and opinions expressed herein are the views and opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of Nasdaq, Inc.
Hong Kong’s flagship exhibition venue is ramping up its line-up of medical, technology, finance and education events this year, including hosting the LEAP East technology exhibition that will be held outside the Middle East for the first time this summer. The Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre said events linked to the four sectors would account for 43 per cent of activities held at the ve...
Hong Kong’s flagship exhibition venue is ramping up its line-up of medical, technology, finance and education events this year, including hosting the LEAP East technology exhibition that will be held outside the Middle East for the first time this summer. The Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre said events linked to the four sectors would account for 43 per cent of activities held at the venue this year, with the number rising by about 10 per cent year on year. Monica Lee-Muller, the venue’s managing director, said on Tuesday the centre was aligning its business strategy with Hong Kong’s push to strengthen its status as a global hub for innovation, finance and talent exchange. Advertisement “Medical, innovation and technology, finance and education have become some of the most prominent keywords in global economic development,” she said, adding that the centre aimed to stay “ahead of the curve” by attracting events tied to emerging sectors. Several major international medical conferences were scheduled to take place at the venue this year, she said. These include the World Cancer Congress 2026 in September and the 15th China Chest Pain Centre Congress in April, which is expected to attract more than 3,000 healthcare leaders and doctors from mainland China, Belt and Road countries and beyond. Advertisement Earlier this year, the 41st Asia-Pacific Academy of Ophthalmology Congress, held alongside the 37th Hong Kong Ophthalmological Symposium, drew more than 10,000 specialists and featured over 300 lectures.
ArLawKa AungTun/iStock via Getty Images Diversification is Easier in Theory Than in Practice Talking to clients about portfolio diversification is easy. We all know the script: "We might need to add some uncorrelated investments that can help protect you when stocks tank." To make room for the alternatives, you move a client from, say, a 60/40 stock/bond allocation to 50/30/20. Things may go well ...
ArLawKa AungTun/iStock via Getty Images Diversification is Easier in Theory Than in Practice Talking to clients about portfolio diversification is easy. We all know the script: "We might need to add some uncorrelated investments that can help protect you when stocks tank." To make room for the alternatives, you move a client from, say, a 60/40 stock/bond allocation to 50/30/20. Things may go well for a while. The hard part comes when alternatives underperform for a year or two. The client starts questioning the allocation. The behavioral friction builds. The script for when stocks decline is well known: “Hey, the market is down. We just need to hold and not get scared out of the market so we can potentially benefit from the rebound.” But when stocks are up, and the alternative investment is not, the conversation might become: “Tell me again why you bought that thing.” It's tough to stay disciplined when you're justifying the underperforming slice of the portfolio, especially when it’s out of the benchmark. Here’s a Potential Solution – Clients Can Have Their Cake and Eat It Too Capital-efficient strategies are a potential solution. They’ve been around for a long time. Sometimes they’re called return-stacking. Others call them portable alpha. The concept is to add an alternative, non-correlated asset on top of the core equity or bond position, not instead of it. Simplify has recently introduced a capital efficient strategy – the Simplify US Equity PLUS Managed Futures Strategy ETF ( CTAP ). CTAP combines 100% exposure to U.S. large-cap stocks PLUS 100% exposure to managed futures – a strategy that has historically provided a source of non-correlated returns. Suppose you start with a portfolio of $60 in stocks and $40 in bonds. If you were to replace, say, $30 of the stocks with CTAP, the $60 allocation to stocks would be unchanged, as would the $40 allocation to bonds. But the portfolio would have an additional $30 in managed futures without reducing any of the stock...
solarseven/iStock via Getty Images Chip stocks were in the red premarket on Tuesday after Asian markets fell, including South Korea's KOSPI Composite Index ( KOSPI ), amid ongoing clashes between the U.S. and Iran. Shares of South Korean giant Samsung Electronics ( SSNLF ) slumped about 10%. Chip stocks on Wall Street ( SMH ) ( SOXX ) are down more than 3.5%. Here are the top 15 chip stocks and ho...
solarseven/iStock via Getty Images Chip stocks were in the red premarket on Tuesday after Asian markets fell, including South Korea's KOSPI Composite Index ( KOSPI ), amid ongoing clashes between the U.S. and Iran. Shares of South Korean giant Samsung Electronics ( SSNLF ) slumped about 10%. Chip stocks on Wall Street ( SMH ) ( SOXX ) are down more than 3.5%. Here are the top 15 chip stocks and how far they have fallen off their recent highs. Nvidia ( NVDA ) -14.4 % Broadcom ( AVGO ) -24.8% Micron Technology ( MU ) -11.2 Advanced Micro Devices ( AMD ) -27.9% Texas Instruments ( TXN ) -8.7% Arista Networks ( ANET ) -22.6% Dell Technologies ( DELL ) -9.5% Sandisk ( SNDK ) -16.7% Synopsys ( SNPS ) -31.7% Lumentum ( LITE ) -7.5% Keysight Technologies ( KEYS ) -4.8% Celestica ( CLS ) -27.7% ON Semiconductor ( ON ) -10.6% Fabrinet ( FN ) -7.8% Credo Technology ( CRDO ) -47.2% More on tech Earnings Season Ends On A Down Note; Next Up: Rates, Risk, And Rotation Software Likely Bottomed Last Week: 3 Companies I'm Buying SaaS: Is There Opportunity In The Destruction? Shift focus from Middle East to AI and private credit risks, says Steven Glass: CNBC interview Bank of America economists reject AI ‘doomsday’ narrative behind market selloff