Looking at options trading activity among components of the S&P 500 index, there is noteworthy activity today in Palo Alto Networks, Inc (Symbol: PANW), where a total volume of 61,472 contracts has been traded thus far today, a contract volume which is representative of appr
Looking at options trading activity among components of the S&P 500 index, there is noteworthy activity today in Palo Alto Networks, Inc (Symbol: PANW), where a total volume of 61,472 contracts has been traded thus far today, a contract volume which is representative of appr
Torsten Asmus/iStock via Getty Images U.S. senators Elizabeth Warren and Sheldon Whitehouse are pushing for an investigation into unusual trading patterns seen in oil futures ( CL1:COM ), noticed immediately preceding two major government announcements related to the Iran conflict. Warren has sent a letter to Michael Selig, chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. "On the morning of M...
Torsten Asmus/iStock via Getty Images U.S. senators Elizabeth Warren and Sheldon Whitehouse are pushing for an investigation into unusual trading patterns seen in oil futures ( CL1:COM ), noticed immediately preceding two major government announcements related to the Iran conflict. Warren has sent a letter to Michael Selig, chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. "On the morning of March 23 , oil futures trading surged dramatically in the minutes before President Trump posted on Truth Social announcing talks with Iran to potentially de-escalate the war—a post that sharply increased stock market indexes and lowered crude prices. There was no public news preceding the announcement to explain the price movement," wrote the Senators. "The same pattern appears to have recurred on April 7 , 2026. In the hours before President Trump announced a two-week ceasefire with Iran—an announcement that sent oil prices down ~15%—traders placed an ~$950M bet on oil prices falling," said the Senators. The senators raised concerns about recurring misappropriation of material nonpublic government information, and the extent to which individuals inside or outside the government have acted on such information. Warren and Whitehouse have requested written responses by April 30. More on Oil Futures Commodities: Oil Supported By Ongoing Supply Risks Reinventing The Petrodollar: How U.S. Energy Dominance Is Shifting The Global Balance Of Power Oil Just Doesn't Want To Correct With Persistent Ceasefire Uncertainty - WTI Technical Analysis Iran's claims Strait of Hormuz is open are "nonsense," says Adm. Stavridis Trump says U.S. is readying military if Iran fails to comply – report
Military euphemisms can be deadly. Yet the brutal rhetoric of the US and Israel is proving still more lethal “Metaphors can kill,” the linguist George Lakoff wrote in an influential essay on the Gulf war. “The use of a metaphor with a set of definitions becomes pernicious when it hides realities in a harmful way.” He described the effects of the US employment of business cost-and-benefit analogies...
Military euphemisms can be deadly. Yet the brutal rhetoric of the US and Israel is proving still more lethal “Metaphors can kill,” the linguist George Lakoff wrote in an influential essay on the Gulf war. “The use of a metaphor with a set of definitions becomes pernicious when it hides realities in a harmful way.” He described the effects of the US employment of business cost-and-benefit analogies, sporting comparisons and the fairytale of the just war with heroes and villains. All veiled the reality of conflict. Euphemism was long the preferred choice for the US military. Spokespeople discussed “collateral damage” rather than civilian deaths and “surgical strikes”, framing destruction as both precise and part of a necessary and ultimately healing process. Donald Trump chooses naked menace instead. This week he issued a genocidal threat against Iran, having previously threatened to bomb it “back to the stone age” and destroy bridges and power plants – schools and medical facilities having already been pulverised. He said that he was “not at all” concerned about potential war crimes. Do you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a response of up to 300 words by email to be considered for publication in our letters section, please click here . Continue reading...
Suspect arrested but not identified and has allegedly made similar threats to OpenAI’s San Francisco headquarters A person tossed a molotov cocktail at the home of Sam Altman , OpenAI ’s CEO, before the sun rose on Friday, according to statements from San Francisco police. The suspect, who allegedly threw the explosive at the home in the Russian Hill neighborhood around 3:43am, has been arrested b...
Suspect arrested but not identified and has allegedly made similar threats to OpenAI’s San Francisco headquarters A person tossed a molotov cocktail at the home of Sam Altman , OpenAI ’s CEO, before the sun rose on Friday, according to statements from San Francisco police. The suspect, who allegedly threw the explosive at the home in the Russian Hill neighborhood around 3:43am, has been arrested but not identified. The person allegedly made similar threats about OpenAI’s headquarters in the city. Continue reading...
Quantum computing is no longer a physics experiment. Google’s Willow chip, IBM’s quantum roadmap expansion, and IonQ’s commercial contracts have pushed the technology from research labs toward real enterprise applications. Markets are pricing in the possibility that quantum could deliver an inflection point similar to generative AI in 2023. The question for investors is how ... The Quantum Computi...
Quantum computing is no longer a physics experiment. Google’s Willow chip, IBM’s quantum roadmap expansion, and IonQ’s commercial contracts have pushed the technology from research labs toward real enterprise applications. Markets are pricing in the possibility that quantum could deliver an inflection point similar to generative AI in 2023. The question for investors is how ... The Quantum Computing ETF That Could Be Bigger Than AI, and 2 Tech Funds Riding the Same Wave
Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF (NYSEARCA:VTI) holds roughly $2.1 trillion in assets and has earned its place in millions of retirement portfolios. The appeal is straightforward: one fund, the entire U.S. equity market, a 0.03% expense ratio, and a 25-year track record. The problem for retirees living off their portfolios is that VTI’s income engine ... Retirees Love This $578 Billion ETF, But Swi...
Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF (NYSEARCA:VTI) holds roughly $2.1 trillion in assets and has earned its place in millions of retirement portfolios. The appeal is straightforward: one fund, the entire U.S. equity market, a 0.03% expense ratio, and a 25-year track record. The problem for retirees living off their portfolios is that VTI’s income engine ... Retirees Love This $578 Billion ETF, But Switching to These 2 Could Boost Income by 40%
TARIK KIZILKAYA YouTube ( GOOG ) ( GOOGL ) is reportedly raising U.S. prices for its Premium subscriptions for the first time in nearly three years—part of a pattern of recent increases across the streaming-media industry. The Alphabet-owned streaming giant is bumping prices for its Premium Lite plan (ad-free viewing for content excluding songs and music videos) by $1/month, going to $8.99 per mon...
TARIK KIZILKAYA YouTube ( GOOG ) ( GOOGL ) is reportedly raising U.S. prices for its Premium subscriptions for the first time in nearly three years—part of a pattern of recent increases across the streaming-media industry. The Alphabet-owned streaming giant is bumping prices for its Premium Lite plan (ad-free viewing for content excluding songs and music videos) by $1/month, going to $8.99 per month from $7.99, TechCrunch reported. For the Individual plan, it's raising the price by $2, to $15.99/month from $13.99. And for its Family plan, the price rises by $4, to $26.99/month from $22.99. Meanwhile, YouTube Music's Individual plan rises to $11.99/month from $10.99, and the Music Family plan increases to $18.99/month from $16.99, according to the report. YouTube told TechCrunch that the increases apply both to new and existing subscribers, with existing subs getting a 30-day notice of their increases. “This change allows us to maintain the features our members value most: ad-free viewing, background play, and a massive library of 300M+ tracks on YouTube Music," the company said according to the report. More on Alphabet Alphabet Stock Defies AI's Gravity Alphabet: Q1 Is The Moment Of Truth Why Alphabet's Growth Story Is Being Misread Cadence might benefit from Broadcom's TPU deal with Google, Anthropic: BNP Apple leads global smartphone shipments in Q1 despite overall shipments declining: Counterpoint
Margaret Atwood’s The Testaments and the Oscar-winning film One Battle After Another are grim parables of today. But they are not without hope As Margaret Atwood has said , all dystopian fiction is “really about now”. No wonder the genre is flourishing. This week Atwood’s bleak vision of a future America as a patriarchal theocracy returned to TV screens with the adaptation of her prize-winning 201...
Margaret Atwood’s The Testaments and the Oscar-winning film One Battle After Another are grim parables of today. But they are not without hope As Margaret Atwood has said , all dystopian fiction is “really about now”. No wonder the genre is flourishing. This week Atwood’s bleak vision of a future America as a patriarchal theocracy returned to TV screens with the adaptation of her prize-winning 2019 novel The Testaments , the long-awaited sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale. Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another , set in a chillingly recognisable militarised America, swept the Oscars last month. Back in 1984 when Atwood wrote The Handmaid’s Tale, she feared that its central premise – that the US could be transformed from a liberal democracy into Gilead, a theocratic dictatorship after a coup – was too outrageous to convince readers. She need not have worried. By the time the novel was made into the award-winning TV series in 2017 , it was all too believable. Arriving just after Donald Trump’s election in 2016 and the rollback of women’s rights, the show felt made for the moment. Atwood was hailed as a prophet. The red-and-white handmaid robes became a symbol of female defiance across the globe. “For a long time we were going away from Gilead and then we turned around and started going back,” Atwood said of her decision to write a follow-up more than 30 years later. Do you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a response of up to 300 words by email to be considered for publication in our letters section, please click here . Continue reading...
Taiwan Semiconductor's preliminary Q1 revenue performance shows that the AI boom shows no signs of letting up. The pure-play foundry is still plowing forward, full steam ahead.
Taiwan Semiconductor's preliminary Q1 revenue performance shows that the AI boom shows no signs of letting up. The pure-play foundry is still plowing forward, full steam ahead.
narvo vexar Commvault Systems ( CVLT ) rose 10% after a report that the data protection software company is exploring a sale after getting takeover interest from several parties. Commvault ( CVLT ) is working with Goldman Sachs to evaluate its options after receiving interest from private equity firms and strategic buyers, according to a Reuters report on Friday, which cited people familiar with t...
narvo vexar Commvault Systems ( CVLT ) rose 10% after a report that the data protection software company is exploring a sale after getting takeover interest from several parties. Commvault ( CVLT ) is working with Goldman Sachs to evaluate its options after receiving interest from private equity firms and strategic buyers, according to a Reuters report on Friday, which cited people familiar with the matter. Thoma Bravo is among the firms that have expressed interest in Commvault ( CVLT ) in recent weeks, according to the report. One source told Reuters that the tech PE firm had earlier made an offer for the company, without saying when and at what price. Commvault has a market cap of about $3.5 billion. Commvault, Goldman Sachs, and Thoma Bravo declined to comment to Reuters. The Reuters report comes after a Betaville "uncooked" alert earlier Friday said that Commvault ( CVLT ) has been the subject of takeover speculation. More on CommVault Systems Commvault Systems Continues Transition Against Headwinds (Downgrade) Commvault Systems, Inc. (CVLT) Q3 2026 Earnings Call Transcript Commvault Systems, Inc. 2026 Q3 - Results - Earnings Call Presentation Commvault Systems seesaws amid takeover speculation Commvault expands AI and data security features with real-time governance tools
Dmitry Vinogradov Shares of GRAIL ( GRAL ) fell on Friday after both Mizuho Securities and Piper Sandler launched coverage of the cancer test maker with Neutral ratings following a trial setback for Galleri, its multi-cancer early detection test. The recommendations came after the Illumina ( ILMN ) spinoff said in March that a large clinical trial, which tested Galleri in more than 140K people in ...
Dmitry Vinogradov Shares of GRAIL ( GRAL ) fell on Friday after both Mizuho Securities and Piper Sandler launched coverage of the cancer test maker with Neutral ratings following a trial setback for Galleri, its multi-cancer early detection test. The recommendations came after the Illumina ( ILMN ) spinoff said in March that a large clinical trial, which tested Galleri in more than 140K people in the U.K. National Health Service, didn't meet the primary goal. “We view the Galleri test as a leader in [multicancer early detection] given its large clinical trial catalog,” wrote Mizuho analyst Bradley Bowers with a $58 target on the stock, according to Bloomberg. However, “early physician feedback questions competitive advantage," the analyst argued, adding that Galleri’s most recent data release missed the main goal and “MCED volume inflection is more likely in 2027, after FDA approval.” Piper analyst David Westenberg issued a $54 price target on the stock. “GRAIL defined the MCED category and holds the largest clinical datasets of any company in the space,” Westenberg wrote, noting that Piper wants to monitor how the reimbursement and regulatory pathway evolves. More on GRAIL, Inc. GRAIL: NHS-Galleri Trial Results Are A Foul Ball, Not A Strikeout An Early Cancer Detection Test, Put To The Test GRAIL: The NHS-Galleri Setback - I Would Wait For Low $30s To Buy (Rating Downgrade) Grail upgraded at TD Cowen; says selloff is buying opportunity GRAIL announces leadership transition
Getty Images Tariffs, weak traffic at Asian restaurants, and now...an overhang!? FY 2025 was lukewarm for HF Foods Group Inc. ( HFFG ), and FY 2026 doesn’t smell any better. Well, the stock is already down almost 80% since its IPO in 2018 and just over 50% in the last year. While I wasn't as bullish as Wall Street (after all, they've held the 'Strong Buy' recommendation for a while), I stayed some...
Getty Images Tariffs, weak traffic at Asian restaurants, and now...an overhang!? FY 2025 was lukewarm for HF Foods Group Inc. ( HFFG ), and FY 2026 doesn’t smell any better. Well, the stock is already down almost 80% since its IPO in 2018 and just over 50% in the last year. While I wasn't as bullish as Wall Street (after all, they've held the 'Strong Buy' recommendation for a while), I stayed somewhere in the middle with a 'Hold.' Seeking Alpha Can't say that was my best call. Since my last article here last November, the stock has fallen just over 4%. It lost to the S&P once again. And, to be honest, I adopted a much more bearish tone in the last article. HF Foods was the classic 'cheap for a reason.' But it looked too cheap to dump, and if you were in around $2, it was better to wait for some kind of catalyst. What could that be? That might be your question. If you ask me, I'd imagine them taking advantage of the softness of the economy, which is probably leaving a lot of distributors bankrupt, and scooping up some of their local competitors. That fits the thesis pretty well. HF Foods, the main supplier to small ethnic restaurants, could be set up for a rebound if traffic comes back with more experimental concepts. The CEO himself told us that their TAM is ~$50 billion, and with a revenue of $1.2 billion, they would be sitting at a market share of ~2 to 3%, being the 'big guys.' That is, a lot of room to grow. And the IPO was already a first attempt at that. But there are a few bumps here. Family-run Asian restaurants (HF Foods’ core customers) are struggling in a value-driven market dominated by big chains. Without scale, they can't keep up, and they end up buying less. The Debt/EBITDA ratio is above 4.5x (also considering ST debt), making debt-driven M&A out of reach. Issuing debt would simply be too expensive. With $100 million in ATM deals on the table, they could dilute the shareholder stake by almost 50% to raise capital for the M&A. That's not good at all, ...
Arm Holdings' powerful developer-hardware ecosystem fuels a self-reinforcing growth loop, strengthening its dominance in mobile chips despite rising competition.
Arm Holdings' powerful developer-hardware ecosystem fuels a self-reinforcing growth loop, strengthening its dominance in mobile chips despite rising competition.