In this article DIA Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNT Aerial view of Mt. Fuji, Tokyo Tower and modern skyscrapers in Tokyo on a sunny day. Yongyuan | E+ | Getty Images Asia-Pacific markets were mixed on Friday, after all three major Wall Street indexes declined overnight pressured by a drop in private credit stocks and Iran-U.S. tensions. Prospects of a strike on Iran have risen with...
In this article DIA Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNT Aerial view of Mt. Fuji, Tokyo Tower and modern skyscrapers in Tokyo on a sunny day. Yongyuan | E+ | Getty Images Asia-Pacific markets were mixed on Friday, after all three major Wall Street indexes declined overnight pressured by a drop in private credit stocks and Iran-U.S. tensions. Prospects of a strike on Iran have risen with U.S. President Donald Trump saying that he would take a call to decide on military action on Tehran in the next 10 days. Oil prices jumped in reaction to that news, with U.S. crude rising $1.24, or 1.9%, to close at $66.57 per barrel in U.S. trading. Global benchmark Brent gained $1.31, or 1.86%, to settle at $71.66. Over in Asia, traders will assess inflation data out from Japan, with headline inflation for January dipping below the Bank of Japan 2% target for the first time in 45 months. Japan's Nikkei 225 was down 1.04%, while the Topix was 1.12% lower. South Korea's Kospi bucked the trend to rise 0.66%, but the small-cap Kosdaq fell 0.19%. China's central bank will also release its loan prime rate decision today. The current one year and five year LPRs stands at 3% and 3.5% respectively. Markets on mainland China and Hong Kong are still closed for the Lunar New Year holiday. Australia's S&P/ASX 200 slipped 0.2% in early trade. Overnight in the U.S., private credit and software stocks were also under pressure, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average shedding 0.54%, and the broad-based S&P 500 slipped 0.28%. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite lost 0.31%. —CNBC's Sean Conlon and Pia Singh contributed to this report.
If you like to follow the stock market and keep up with booming industries, you're probably aware of Palo Alto Networks (NASDAQ: PANW) , a leader in the cybersecurity realm. You might even be wishing you had invested in it years ago. To give you an idea of how the stock has performed, if you'd invested in it five years ago with just $100, you'd now have a position worth $255 (as of Feb. 13). If yo...
If you like to follow the stock market and keep up with booming industries, you're probably aware of Palo Alto Networks (NASDAQ: PANW) , a leader in the cybersecurity realm. You might even be wishing you had invested in it years ago. To give you an idea of how the stock has performed, if you'd invested in it five years ago with just $100, you'd now have a position worth $255 (as of Feb. 13). If you'd invested $10,000, your stake would be worth $25,475. Both of those gains reflect annualized average returns of 20.6% for Palo Alto Networks, versus a still-respectable 12.6% gain for the S&P 500 index over the same period. Image source: Getty Images. Continue reading
On February 17, 2026, Seldon Capital disclosed a new position in Pampa Energía (NYSE:PAM) , acquiring 142,151 shares in an estimated $12.58 million trade. According to an SEC filing published February 17, 2026, Seldon Capital LP established a new position in Pampa Energía (NYSE:PAM) , acquiring 142,151 shares. The fund’s quarter-end stake in Pampa Energía was valued at $12.58 million, capturing bo...
On February 17, 2026, Seldon Capital disclosed a new position in Pampa Energía (NYSE:PAM) , acquiring 142,151 shares in an estimated $12.58 million trade. According to an SEC filing published February 17, 2026, Seldon Capital LP established a new position in Pampa Energía (NYSE:PAM) , acquiring 142,151 shares. The fund’s quarter-end stake in Pampa Energía was valued at $12.58 million, capturing both purchase activity and quarter-end price effects. Pampa Energía is a leading integrated energy company in Argentina, with a diversified portfolio spanning power generation, oil and gas, and petrochemicals. The company leverages its significant installed generation capacity and extensive transmission network to deliver reliable energy solutions to a broad customer base. Its multi-segment strategy and operational scale position it as a key player in the Argentine energy market. Continue reading
Shop owners of a 70-year-old "takoyaki", or octopus balls, restaurant chat while cooking along a street in the Taito Ward area of Tokyo on February 21, 2025. Richard A. Brooks | Afp | Getty Images Japan's headline inflation rate fell to 1.5% in January, its lowest level since March 2022. The reading ended a run of 45 straight months in which inflation had remained above the Bank of Japan's 2% targ...
Shop owners of a 70-year-old "takoyaki", or octopus balls, restaurant chat while cooking along a street in the Taito Ward area of Tokyo on February 21, 2025. Richard A. Brooks | Afp | Getty Images Japan's headline inflation rate fell to 1.5% in January, its lowest level since March 2022. The reading ended a run of 45 straight months in which inflation had remained above the Bank of Japan's 2% target. Core inflation rate, which excludes fresh food prices, eased to 2%, the lowest level since January 2024 and matching the 2% forecast by economists polled by Reuters. It was down from 2.4% in December . The so-called "core-core" inflation — excluding prices of fresh food and energy — came in at 2.6%, compared with 2.9% in December. The slowdown was driven by declines in fresh food, raw meat and fresh flower prices, as well as a sharper drop in petroleum products. Goods inflation fell to 1.6% from 2.7%, its lowest level since August 2021, while services inflation held steady at 1.4%. In January, the Bank of Japan upgraded its inflation forecasts for fiscal 2026, which begins April 1. It projected core inflation at 1.9% and "core-core" inflation at 2.2%, up from 1.8% and 2%, respectively, in its October 2025 outlook. The BOJ also wrote in its outlook that the year-over-year rise in consumer prices is likely to fall below 2% in the first half of 2026, as food prices stabilize and government efforts to ease living costs. Rice inflation slowed for an eighth straight month to 27.9%. Among those measures is an election pledge by Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi to suspend an 8% food tax for two years. Takaichi swept to a landslide victory in the Feb. 8 Lower House election, with the ruling Liberal Democratic Party winning 316 seats, the strongest showing by a single party since the end of World War II. The inflation reading comes after Japan's economy grew 0.1% in the fourth quarter on Monday, narrowly avoiding a technical recession . — This is breaking news, please check back for...
Texas Roadhouse missed Street estimates on both the top and bottom lines in the fourth quarter as high beef prices weighed on profits. But the restaurant chain's strong comparable restaurant sales through the first seven weeks of the first quarter of 2026 paired with no change in management's commodity inflation outlook for the year are keeping shares afloat Thursday evening. Revenue in the quarte...
Texas Roadhouse missed Street estimates on both the top and bottom lines in the fourth quarter as high beef prices weighed on profits. But the restaurant chain's strong comparable restaurant sales through the first seven weeks of the first quarter of 2026 paired with no change in management's commodity inflation outlook for the year are keeping shares afloat Thursday evening. Revenue in the quarter ending Dec. 30 increased 3.1% year over year to $1.48 billion, missing the LSEG-complied Wall Street consensus estimate of $1.496 billion. Earnings per share dropped 26% on an annual basis to $1.28, missing expectations of $1.51, LSEG data showed. TXRH YTD mountain Texas Roadhouse YTD Shares of Texas Roadhouse rose about 2.5% in after-hours trading to around $187 per share. The move would erase Thursday's regular-hours trading losses. The stock was already off to a good start to 2026, gaining about 10% as of Thursday's close. Bottom line This was a weak quarter from Texas Roadhouse, but the market was giving it a pass because everyone knew beef costs were going to be an issue. On the surface, we were a little underwhelmed by the comp sales growth this quarter. After delivering 6.1% comp growth in the third quarter and guiding 5.4% growth through the first five weeks of the fourth quarter, sales growth slipped back to 4.2% for the entire quarter, missing analyst forecasts of about 5.2%. The 4.2% increase was driven by a 1.9% increase in traffic and 2.3% increase in average check. The results lagged due to a slowdown as the quarter progressed, with comps sales up 6.1%, 4.8% and 2.2% in October, November, and December, respectively. Adverse weather in December may have weighed on the results. Management also called out a negative impact from the timing of Christmas. Usually, this cadence would spell trouble for a restaurant chain or retailer. Positively, though, sluggishness was a temporary trend. One of the best things that came out of this earnings release was the company ...
(RTTNews) - The Malaysia stock market has tracked higher in two straight sessions, collecting more than a dozen points or 0.6 percent along the way. The Kuala Lumpur Composite Index now sits just above the 1,750-point plateau although it's likely to open under pressure on Friday.
(RTTNews) - The Malaysia stock market has tracked higher in two straight sessions, collecting more than a dozen points or 0.6 percent along the way. The Kuala Lumpur Composite Index now sits just above the 1,750-point plateau although it's likely to open under pressure on Friday.
Bloomberg Television brings you the latest news and analysis leading up to the final minutes and seconds before and after the closing bell on Wall Street. Today's guests are BlackRock’s Gargi Chaudhuri, CRH’s Jim Mintern, White House’s Council of Economics Advisers Pierre Yared, Stagwell’s Mark Penn, Evercore’s Greg Melich, Goldman Sachs’ Alexandra Wilson-Elizondo, Raymond James’s Wilma Burdis, Po...
Bloomberg Television brings you the latest news and analysis leading up to the final minutes and seconds before and after the closing bell on Wall Street. Today's guests are BlackRock’s Gargi Chaudhuri, CRH’s Jim Mintern, White House’s Council of Economics Advisers Pierre Yared, Stagwell’s Mark Penn, Evercore’s Greg Melich, Goldman Sachs’ Alexandra Wilson-Elizondo, Raymond James’s Wilma Burdis, Portal Innovations’ John Flavin, C.H. Robinson’s Dave Bozeman, Draper Associates’s Tim Draper, Cay Skin's Winnie Harlow, former model Dee Ocleppo Hilfiger, Market America's Loren Ridinger, and ISA Grutman's Isabela Grutman. (Source: Bloomberg)
MELBOURNE, Australia and INDIANAPOLIS, Feb. 20, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Telix Pharmaceuticals Limited (ASX: TLX, NASDAQ: TLX, "Telix") today announces its financial results for the year ended December 31, 2025.
MELBOURNE, Australia and INDIANAPOLIS, Feb. 20, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Telix Pharmaceuticals Limited (ASX: TLX, NASDAQ: TLX, "Telix") today announces its financial results for the year ended December 31, 2025.
stockcam/iStock Unreleased via Getty Images I have a confession to make. I have always loved playing chess. But in recent years, I have become obsessed with chess collecting. This includes everything from sets to pens to stamps to trophies and so much more. The biggest focus of my collection, however, would be chess clocks. As of this writing, I own 116 of them, one of which dates back as early as...
stockcam/iStock Unreleased via Getty Images I have a confession to make. I have always loved playing chess. But in recent years, I have become obsessed with chess collecting. This includes everything from sets to pens to stamps to trophies and so much more. The biggest focus of my collection, however, would be chess clocks. As of this writing, I own 116 of them, one of which dates back as early as 1890. And almost all of them have been purchased since late 2022. I call it speedrunning to bankruptcy. While some of these have been purchased from other collectors in the space, as well as other miscellaneous websites and auctions, I would venture to say that more than half of them have been acquired from eBay Inc. ( EBAY ). So naturally, when I saw shares of the online auction site jump around 3.1% on Feb. 19 after management announced financial results for the final quarter of the company's 2025 fiscal year, and in response to the company informing investors that the business had acquired another online property, I felt as though it was a good time to revisit my previous thesis on the business. My last article about eBay was published way back in July of 2020. In that article, I argued that the business deserved more of a "Hold" rating than anything else. Although I acknowledged that synergies associated with another acquisition that the business decided on could provide upside for investors, I believed that the stock was not cheap enough to justify a bullish outlook. In that time since then, shares have risen 68.7%, falling woefully short of the 108.8% increase that the S&P 500 enjoyed. However, the pure fundamental improvements that we have seen, especially as of late, justify optimism. Admittedly, the number of active buyers on the platform is not growing like I would prefer it to. But management has been successful in ramping up revenue and boosting certain profitability metrics. And with this latest acquisition in play, I would say that some upside is warranted. E...
Tottenham’s Tudor age begins with a north London derby, Guardiola ponders Haaland’s role and Wirtz has a chance to flummox Forest Aston Villa, third in the Premier League, chasing Champions League qualification and the Europa League title, will be expected to beat Leeds on home soil. But Unai Emery’s side have struggled of late in games where the pressure is on and the onus is upon them to be the ...
Tottenham’s Tudor age begins with a north London derby, Guardiola ponders Haaland’s role and Wirtz has a chance to flummox Forest Aston Villa, third in the Premier League, chasing Champions League qualification and the Europa League title, will be expected to beat Leeds on home soil. But Unai Emery’s side have struggled of late in games where the pressure is on and the onus is upon them to be the aggressor. After exiting the FA Cup to Newcastle , Marco Bizot’s moment of madness all but ending their hopes of reaching the fifth round, it is back to league duty. They eked out an ugly win over Brighton , just the kind of result they would be happy with this weekend, but recently they also lost at home to 10-man Brentford and to Everton. Before that they drew at lowly Crystal Palace, though Oliver Glasner’s side have been a bogey team for Villa. This week Bizot apologised for his rush of blood. Which Villa will turn up against Leeds? Ben Fisher Aston Villa v Leeds , Saturday 3pm (all times GMT) Brentford v Brighton, Saturday 3pm Chelsea v Burnley, Saturday 3pm West Ham v Bournemouth, Saturday 5.30pm Continue reading...
F1 chief executive ‘is listening to drivers’ complaints’ He admits the rules could change if racing isn’t exciting Stefano Domenicali, the chief executive of Formula One, has issued an urgent plea for calm after the damning driver criticism of the sport’s new regulations that has emerged during pre-season testing. But the Italian conceded that F1 is prepared to intervene and enforce changes should...
F1 chief executive ‘is listening to drivers’ complaints’ He admits the rules could change if racing isn’t exciting Stefano Domenicali, the chief executive of Formula One, has issued an urgent plea for calm after the damning driver criticism of the sport’s new regulations that has emerged during pre-season testing. But the Italian conceded that F1 is prepared to intervene and enforce changes should the racing prove disappointing. There has been a clamour of discontent over how the new regulations will play out, particularly the role of energy management rather than driving flat-out. Not least from the four-time champion Max Verstappen, who dismissed the new rules as being “anti-racing” and insinuated that he might leave F1 if he no longer enjoyed driving the new cars. Continue reading...