chanakon laorob/iStock via Getty Images Investment Overview Vir Biotechnology, Inc. ( VIR ) stock is soaring today , up nearly 30% in early trading, reaching >$9.5 per share, which reflects a market cap valuation of $1.33bn. San Francisco, California-headquartered Vir, which describes itself as: A clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on powering the immune system to transform lives by ...
chanakon laorob/iStock via Getty Images Investment Overview Vir Biotechnology, Inc. ( VIR ) stock is soaring today , up nearly 30% in early trading, reaching >$9.5 per share, which reflects a market cap valuation of $1.33bn. San Francisco, California-headquartered Vir, which describes itself as: A clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on powering the immune system to transform lives by discovering and developing medicines for serious infectious diseases and cancer... Announced three pieces of significant news today. Firstly, Vir reported updated data from its Phase 1 dose escalation study of candidate VIR-5500, which is a member of the T-cell engager ("TCE") drug class, in patients with prostate cancer. Vir describes its mechanism of action ("MoA") as follows: T-cell engagers (TCEs) are powerful anti-tumor agents that can direct the immune system, specifically T-cells, to destroy cancer cells. VIR-5500 combines a bispecific PSMA and CD3 binding TCE with the PRO-XTEN ® masking technology. The PRO-XTEN ® masking technology is designed to keep the TCEs inactive (or masked) until they reach the tumor microenvironment, where tumor-specific proteases cleave off the mask and activate the TCEs, leading to killing of cancer cells by T-cells. By confining the activity to the tumor microenvironment, we aim to circumvent the traditionally high toxicity associated with unmasked TCEs and increase their efficacy and tolerability. Additionally, the mask is designed to help drug candidates stay in the bloodstream longer in their inactive form, allowing them to better reach the site of action and potentially allowing for less frequent dosing regimens. The data was summarized in a press release as below: – Updated Phase 1 dose-escalation data (n=58) show VIR-5500 monotherapy has a favorable safety profile and was well tolerated with no dose-limiting toxicities observed to date– Dose-dependent anti-tumor activity was observed, with 82% PSA50 and 53% PSA90 declines and RECIST...
Sitthiphong/iStock via Getty Images Blue Owl Capital ( OWL ) ( OBDC ) has been battered in recent months, with shares down about 27% s o far in 2026 as the alternative asset manager has faced a convergence of market pressures. W orries resurfaced last week when t he firm permanently restricted withdrawals from a $1.6B private credit vehicle and sold $1.4 B in loans to pension funds and its own ins...
Sitthiphong/iStock via Getty Images Blue Owl Capital ( OWL ) ( OBDC ) has been battered in recent months, with shares down about 27% s o far in 2026 as the alternative asset manager has faced a convergence of market pressures. W orries resurfaced last week when t he firm permanently restricted withdrawals from a $1.6B private credit vehicle and sold $1.4 B in loans to pension funds and its own insurance company . The Blue Owl situation stoked concerns about liquidity risks in the broader $1.8T private credit market. Still, despite the sharp selloff, many analysts took a bullish position on the stock and the sector as a whole. These optimists argued that the decline was a n overreaction . That said, others implored investors to heed the warning that de eper troubles may be brewing in private credit markets. What Do Seeking Alpha Analysts Say About Blue Owl’s Future? Many analysts defended Blue Owl in the wake of its recent selloff, pointing t o the c ompany’s strong balance sheet, with approximately 85% of management fees derived from permanent capital . They also pointed to the fact that the $1.4 B loan sale cleared at 99.7% of par value , suggesting the credit book remains fundamentally sound. On the bearish side, analysts highlighted the structural challenges facing private credit, including elevated redemption requests expected to continue through at least the second quarter of 2026 . At the same time, these skeptics stressed concerns about AI disruption risks to software companies that comprise roughly 8% to 11% of Blue Owl’s portfolio. Some analysts warned that the current turmoil could be the early stages of a broader credit downcycle. Here’s a breakdown of what some analysts had to say: Stone Fox Capital , Rating: Strong Buy: “The financial metrics don’t support the recent stock dip. The market tends to sell first and ask questions later, which appears to be the case here despite all logical research… The only issue facing the business is lower interest rates...
While the financial media has been focused on the broader tech meltdown, MSFT stock just emitted an unusual beacon that could point to a quick upside opportunity.
While the financial media has been focused on the broader tech meltdown, MSFT stock just emitted an unusual beacon that could point to a quick upside opportunity.
adventtr/iStock via Getty Images The gold rally is not stopping, and gold miners are still relishing it. The underlying momentum has lifted the materials sector as one of the best-performing sectors for the year. Despite the early 2026 turbulence, I have not observed bearish signals, suggesting that we must be circumspect about anticipating a decisive reversal in trend that could send gold mining ...
adventtr/iStock via Getty Images The gold rally is not stopping, and gold miners are still relishing it. The underlying momentum has lifted the materials sector as one of the best-performing sectors for the year. Despite the early 2026 turbulence, I have not observed bearish signals, suggesting that we must be circumspect about anticipating a decisive reversal in trend that could send gold mining stocks down for the rest of the year. That said, it remains to be seen whether the peak in January could still mark the recent highs for Newmont Corporation ( NEM ). The post-earnings reaction appears to be relatively muted compared to the recovery that came after the January fall. As we also saw from NEM's recent earnings update , I believe investors were arguably disappointed, given that Newmont's gold production forecast for 2026 indicates that a stronger outlook might only pan out from 2027 onwards. Therefore, this could hamper the company's ability to capitalize fully on the near-term price dynamics, taking some sheen off its glittering rally. In my previous update on Newmont , although I kept a neutral stance, I indicated that the strong bullish momentum hasn’t faltered and is expected to remain persistent. Hence, the onward advance marking the stock’s 2026 uptrend did not surprise me. However, the early January stumble still offers us an opportunity as a reflection point to contemplate whether further upside for NEM is still appropriate, especially for investors who are sitting on massive gains right now. NEM price chart (long-term, monthly) (TradingView) For a stock that has returned more than 150% in the past year, this is a very consequential question that I believe every investor must look at themselves in the eye and ask whether it's time to take some risks off the table. Because if you think that the gold rally could encounter a major stumbling block from here, then taking (at least some) profits on NEM make sense, as the price action on the stock clearly shows...
When Irish filmmaker Ruairi Robinson began uploading a series of short clips created with Seedance 2.0 - TikTok developer ByteDance's newest video generation model - it was hard to deny that the footage was much more impressive than what we've seen from other gen AI outfits. The clips' star (a digital duplicate of Tom Cruise) looked a lot like the real thing as it fought Brad Pitt, humanoid robots...
When Irish filmmaker Ruairi Robinson began uploading a series of short clips created with Seedance 2.0 - TikTok developer ByteDance's newest video generation model - it was hard to deny that the footage was much more impressive than what we've seen from other gen AI outfits. The clips' star (a digital duplicate of Tom Cruise) looked a lot like the real thing as it fought Brad Pitt, humanoid robots, and zombies. And the characters moved with a complex fluidity almost passing for choreography and amplified by kinetic "camerawork." Gen AI enthusiasts love to proclaim that the traditionally produced entertainment industry is cooked, and some of … Read the full story at The Verge.
zimmytws/iStock via Getty Images Uncertainty around trade and tariffs has returned as Washington has slapped a 10% global tariff on imports. Kevin Hebner, Global Investment Strategist with TD Epoch, joins MoneyTalk to discuss how investors should be reassessing risk and the potential impact on the U.S. dollar. Transcript Greg Bonnell: Trade uncertainty has returned to the markets, with the US Supr...
zimmytws/iStock via Getty Images Uncertainty around trade and tariffs has returned as Washington has slapped a 10% global tariff on imports. Kevin Hebner, Global Investment Strategist with TD Epoch, joins MoneyTalk to discuss how investors should be reassessing risk and the potential impact on the U.S. dollar. Transcript Greg Bonnell: Trade uncertainty has returned to the markets, with the US Supreme Court ruling against some of the Trump administration tariffs and Washington responding by slapping a fresh round of levies on global imports. Joining us now to discuss what it all means for investors is Kevin Hebner, Global Investment Strategist with TD Epoch. Kevin, great to have you back on the program. Kevin Hebner: Hey, Greg. Greg Bonnell: Always, every time we meet with each other, it's like, there's so many more things to talk about. Let's talk about the developments over the past couple of days with tariffs. What's the big takeaway for investors? Kevin Hebner: The big takeaway is the Supreme Court gave Trump a timeout. So he likes to tariff by tweet, and so the Supreme Court has said, well, you can't do that for a few months. You're going to have to do all these investigations. You're going to have to get some public comments and then use different laws, and then you can go back to tweeting the way you've been and putting tariffs on countries at whim. But at least for the next 150 days, Trump can't do that. Greg Bonnell: So this 10% that he, in reaction to the developments on Friday-- first, it was going to be 10% over the weekend. He upped it to the 15%. Is this not tariff by tweet? What's the mechanism for here to start putting those in play? Kevin Hebner: Yeah, so the piece of legislation he's using now, it suggests there's a balance of payments crisis. And the law says that you can do that, up to 15%, for up to 150 days. So it's an easy thing to do, and that's what he wanted, similar to what Nixon did back in '71. So that's easy for him to do. And then there...
kodda BlackRock ( BLK ), Brookfield Asset Management ( BAM ), EIG Partners and KKR ( KKR ) are among potential investors that have held early-stage talks with Kuwait Petroleum Corp. over a $7B stake sale in its crude oil pipeline network, Reuters reported Tuesday. Chinese state enterprises China Silk Road Fund and China Merchants Capital, along with I Squared Capital and Macquarie Infrastructure P...
kodda BlackRock ( BLK ), Brookfield Asset Management ( BAM ), EIG Partners and KKR ( KKR ) are among potential investors that have held early-stage talks with Kuwait Petroleum Corp. over a $7B stake sale in its crude oil pipeline network, Reuters reported Tuesday. Chinese state enterprises China Silk Road Fund and China Merchants Capital, along with I Squared Capital and Macquarie Infrastructure Partners, also have showed interest, according to the report. The potential agreement reportedly could be structured with ~$1.5B in equity and the remainder financed through debt with a pool of banks. The process to formally launch the oil pipeline network stake sale could start as soon as the end of this month, the report said. If Kuwait succeeds in structuring a deal, it would join other major crude oil producers in the region, such as Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, in selling under concession a minority stake in its pipelines. More on BlackRock and Brookfield Asset Management BlackRock: A Quality Compounder To Buy Now Evaluating BlackRock: Management's Latest Numbers Point To A Hold Brookfield Asset Management: A High-Quality Dividend Growth Machine
Environment secretary says payments will be limited to £100,000 per farm so ‘more farmers can benefit’ Some farmers will lose money by opting into environment schemes under new plans to cap payments available for sustainable farming. Emma Reynolds, the environment secretary, said the new system is “fairer”, adding: “Too much of our most productive land was removed from conventional farming.” Farme...
Environment secretary says payments will be limited to £100,000 per farm so ‘more farmers can benefit’ Some farmers will lose money by opting into environment schemes under new plans to cap payments available for sustainable farming. Emma Reynolds, the environment secretary, said the new system is “fairer”, adding: “Too much of our most productive land was removed from conventional farming.” Farmers will be disincentivised from taking large amounts of their land out of food production and rewilding it for nature, under her plans. Continue reading...
Laurence des Cars steps down days after parliamentary inquiry called Paris museum a ‘state within a state’ The president of the Louvre in Paris has resigned, four months after a gang of thieves broke into the museum’s Apollo gallery and made off with €88m (£76m) of Napoleonic jewellery in France’s most dramatic heist in decades . Laurence des Cars, who had offered to step down in the immediate aft...
Laurence des Cars steps down days after parliamentary inquiry called Paris museum a ‘state within a state’ The president of the Louvre in Paris has resigned, four months after a gang of thieves broke into the museum’s Apollo gallery and made off with €88m (£76m) of Napoleonic jewellery in France’s most dramatic heist in decades . Laurence des Cars, who had offered to step down in the immediate aftermath of the burglary, tendered her resignation to Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday in what the French president called “an act of responsibility”, the Elysée Palace said. Continue reading...
JHVEPhoto/iStock Editorial via Getty Images The U.S. FDA on Tuesday granted traditional approval for a first-line combination regimen involving Braftovi, an oral cancer drug developed by Pfizer ( PFE ) in partnership with companies such as Japan's Ono Pharmaceutical ( OPHLF ) ( OPHLY ) for colorectal cancer. The decision, based on data from the company’s Phase 3 BREAKWATER trial, permits the marke...
JHVEPhoto/iStock Editorial via Getty Images The U.S. FDA on Tuesday granted traditional approval for a first-line combination regimen involving Braftovi, an oral cancer drug developed by Pfizer ( PFE ) in partnership with companies such as Japan's Ono Pharmaceutical ( OPHLF ) ( OPHLY ) for colorectal cancer. The decision, based on data from the company’s Phase 3 BREAKWATER trial, permits the marketing of the once-daily drug as part of a combination therapy for previously untreated mCRC patients with a BRAF V600E mutation in their cancers. In December 2024, the FDA greenlighted Braftovi under its accelerated approval pathway for the same indication after BREAKWATER met one of its dual primary endpoints related to confirmed overall response rate. Regarding its other dual primary endpoint of progression-free survival, the FDA said that Braftovi, with cancer therapy cetuximab, led to a median PFS of 12.8 months in the study for newly diagnosed BRAF V600E-mutant mCRC patients. More on Pfizer, Ono Pharmaceutical Pfizer: A Risky 6.3% Yield For Income-Oriented Investors Q4 Healthcare Dividends: Johnson & Johnson Kept Outshining Pfizer (Rating Upgrades) Pfizer: Recovery Isn't Over, Battered Valuation Still Discounts Its Turnaround Game CDC vaccine panel to meet in March after delay Pfizer strikes $495M deal for obesity drug rights in China
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Hi, it’s Ryan Gould in New York, taking a closer look at the story behind PayPal attracting takeover interest. Also today, Warner Bros. weighs Paramount’s new offer and private equity ratchets up its bet on London office refurbs.. Today’s top stories Warner Bros. says board is reviewing new Paramount offer. SpaceX’s IPO redraws 2026 road map for listing hopefuls. CECO Environmental reaches $2.2 bi...
Hi, it’s Ryan Gould in New York, taking a closer look at the story behind PayPal attracting takeover interest. Also today, Warner Bros. weighs Paramount’s new offer and private equity ratchets up its bet on London office refurbs.. Today’s top stories Warner Bros. says board is reviewing new Paramount offer. SpaceX’s IPO redraws 2026 road map for listing hopefuls. CECO Environmental reaches $2.2 billion deal to buy Thermon. Uber buys parking app SpotHero to grow Its customer base. Hunter, hunted When PayPal spun out of eBay in 2015 , it was billed as the beginning of a long road toward the digital payments pioneer becoming the de facto consolidator in a growing but fragmented industry. A little more than 10 years later, PayPal shareholders are looking blankly at a stock chart that shows a share price gain of about 20% since then. It turns out, they’re not the only ones looking. We reported yesterday that the payments giant is attracting takeover interest from potential buyers after a stock slump wiped out almost half of its value over the past year. At least one large rival is looking at the whole company, while some other suitors are only interested in certain PayPal assets. How did we get here? The fact that PayPal, which was founded in the late 1990s as an early mover in what was then a relatively unknown digital economy, is now being discussed as a target says as much about payments as it does about PayPal. For much of the past decade, and particularly during the pandemic, digital payments companies prized scale: more users meant more transactions, which meant more data, which therefore meant more leverage over merchants. But as e-commerce growth normalized, competition intensified. Apple’s ubiquitous Apple Pay software became embedded into iPhones and iPads. Still-private Stripe tightened its grip on small and midsize businesses. Adyen doubled down on enterprise. PayPal, which still processes almost $2 trillion in annual transaction volume, has wrestled with how...
May arabica coffee (KCK26 ) today is up +6.00 (+2.16%), and May ICE robusta coffee (RMK26 ) is up +72 (+2.02%). Coffee prices recovered from early losses today and are moving higher, with arabica rebounding from a 15-month low. Strength in the Brazilian real has sparked short-covering in coffee futures...
May arabica coffee (KCK26 ) today is up +6.00 (+2.16%), and May ICE robusta coffee (RMK26 ) is up +72 (+2.02%). Coffee prices recovered from early losses today and are moving higher, with arabica rebounding from a 15-month low. Strength in the Brazilian real has sparked short-covering in coffee futures...
The S&P 500 Index ($SPX ) (SPY ) today is up +0.50%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average ($DOWI ) (DIA ) is up +0.75%, and the Nasdaq 100 Index ($IUXX ) (QQQ ) is up +0.90%. March E-mini S&P futures (ESH26 ) are up +0.45%, and March E-mini Nasdaq futures...
The S&P 500 Index ($SPX ) (SPY ) today is up +0.50%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average ($DOWI ) (DIA ) is up +0.75%, and the Nasdaq 100 Index ($IUXX ) (QQQ ) is up +0.90%. March E-mini S&P futures (ESH26 ) are up +0.45%, and March E-mini Nasdaq futures...
In this article MSFT Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNT Elon Musk attends the 56th annual World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting in Davos, Switzerland, January 22, 2026. Denis Balibouse | Reuters Microsoft on Tuesday announced a collaboration with SpaceX 's Starlink satellite internet service to expand connectivity across the world. It's a sign of the software company's willingness to col...
In this article MSFT Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNT Elon Musk attends the 56th annual World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting in Davos, Switzerland, January 22, 2026. Denis Balibouse | Reuters Microsoft on Tuesday announced a collaboration with SpaceX 's Starlink satellite internet service to expand connectivity across the world. It's a sign of the software company's willingness to collaborate with Tesla CEO Elon Musk 's family of businesses, as the world's richest person takes Microsoft partner OpenAI to court. "Through our collaboration with Starlink, Microsoft is combining low-Earth orbit satellite connectivity with community-based deployment models and local ecosystem partnerships," Microsoft's chief sustainability officer, Melanie Nakagawa, wrote in a blog post . In alliance with Starlink and an internet service provider in Kenya, Microsoft is working to connect 450 community hubs in the country, Nakagawa wrote. The work will add to demand for Musk's space company , which has contracts with the Department of Defense and NASA and could potentially go public this year. Read more CNBC tech news AI robots may outnumber workers in a few decades, ex-Citi executive says Google spinout Aalyria valued at $1.3 billion as investors pour into space-based communications Sam Altman defends AI resource usage: Water concerns 'fake,' and 'humans use energy too' Microsoft Xbox chief Phil Spencer retires, replaced by AI executive Asha Sharma In his case against OpenAI CEO Sam Altman , Musk is looking to recover as much as $134 billion from the nonprofit OpenAI Foundation, which holds over $100 billion in equity in the for-profit AI lab, according to a January legal filing. Musk cofounded OpenAI in 2015 along with several others, including LinkedIn founder and Microsoft board member Reid Hoffman. Musk has been critical of Microsoft on his social network X, and said earlier this month that the company "has a responsibility to investigate " Hoffman's association with con...
The tech sector is getting repriced as investors figure out how AI will disrupt entire industries for the next several years. The picking of winners and losers has begun, and a few companies will stand the test of time and continue to break out in 2026 and beyond. Three of these long-term winners are Micron (NASDAQ: MU) , Nokia (NYSE: NOK) , and Broadcom (NASDAQ: AVGO) . Let's have a look at why. ...
The tech sector is getting repriced as investors figure out how AI will disrupt entire industries for the next several years. The picking of winners and losers has begun, and a few companies will stand the test of time and continue to break out in 2026 and beyond. Three of these long-term winners are Micron (NASDAQ: MU) , Nokia (NYSE: NOK) , and Broadcom (NASDAQ: AVGO) . Let's have a look at why. Micron continues to impress with record revenue and expanding margins. The stock is up more than 300% in the past 12 months, but many analysts believe this isn't the top for the memory manufacturer. AI's demand for more memory isn't going to subside anytime soon. There are only a few global manufacturers of high-bandwidth memory, and Micron is one of them. With pricing power, a multi-year and multi-billion dollar backlog, Micron is well-positioned for several years of dominance. Continue reading