BBC South Asia correspondent Azadeh Moshiri visited Sheikh Hasina's former residence which is now a memorial for the student protesters killed in the 2024 uprising.
BBC South Asia correspondent Azadeh Moshiri visited Sheikh Hasina's former residence which is now a memorial for the student protesters killed in the 2024 uprising.
The S&P 500 Index ($SPX ) (SPY ) today is down -0.22%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average ($DOWI ) (DIA ) is down -0.38%, and the Nasdaq 100 Index ($IUXX ) (QQQ ) is down -0.23%. March E-mini S&P futures (ESH26 ) are down -0.20%, and March E-mini Nasdaq futures...
The S&P 500 Index ($SPX ) (SPY ) today is down -0.22%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average ($DOWI ) (DIA ) is down -0.38%, and the Nasdaq 100 Index ($IUXX ) (QQQ ) is down -0.23%. March E-mini S&P futures (ESH26 ) are down -0.20%, and March E-mini Nasdaq futures...
Chris Liddell, White House deputy chief of staff for policy, listens during an American Workforce Policy Advisory Board meeting in the East Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Friday, June 26, 2020. Al Drago | Bloomberg | Getty Images Anthropic on Friday announced it has appointed longtime executive and political operative Chris Liddell to its board of directors. Liddell previous...
Chris Liddell, White House deputy chief of staff for policy, listens during an American Workforce Policy Advisory Board meeting in the East Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Friday, June 26, 2020. Al Drago | Bloomberg | Getty Images Anthropic on Friday announced it has appointed longtime executive and political operative Chris Liddell to its board of directors. Liddell previously served as the CFO of Microsoft , the vice chairman of General Motors and the deputy White House chief of staff during President Donald Trump's first term. He has also been involved in three presidential transition cycles, according to his website. Anthropic's decision to add Liddell to its board could foster some goodwill with the Trump administration, which has lashed out at the artificial intelligence startup in recent months. David Sacks , the venture capitalist serving as the administration's AI and crypto czar, accused Anthropic of supporting "woke AI" in October because of its stance on regulation. "My career has taught me the governance of transformative technologies matters as much as the technologies themselves," Liddell said in a statement on Friday. "Anthropic's approach—building AI that's both capable and responsible—is critical for our future, and it's why I'm proud to be joining the company's Board." Read more CNBC tech news Tech IPO hype gets drowned out on Wall Street by prospect of $1 trillion in debt sales FTC tells Tim Cook to look into reports Apple News is censoring conservatives Anthropic closes $30 billion funding round as cash keeps flowing into top AI startups Waymo begins deploying next-gen Ojai robotaxis to extend its U.S. lead On Thursday, Anthropic announced that it would contribute $20 million to Public First Action, which backs pro-AI regulation candidates , including Republicans Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee and Pete Ricketts from Nebraska. Trump signed an executive order in December to push for a single regulatory framework for AI, establ...
French judge marked French duo higher than US pair Petition calling for probe approaches 15,000 signatures ISU says it has ‘full confidence’ in scoring system The International Skating Union (ISU) has defended the integrity of Olympic ice dance judging after a single judge’s scoring gap became central to the outcome of the gold medal contest, insisting variations across panels are expected and tha...
French judge marked French duo higher than US pair Petition calling for probe approaches 15,000 signatures ISU says it has ‘full confidence’ in scoring system The International Skating Union (ISU) has defended the integrity of Olympic ice dance judging after a single judge’s scoring gap became central to the outcome of the gold medal contest, insisting variations across panels are expected and that safeguards exist to prevent bias from determining results. In a statement released Friday, the governing body rejected suggestions that the judging system failed during the competition, which saw France’s Laurence Fournier Beaudry and Guillaume Cizeron narrowly defeat Americans Madison Chock and Evan Bates in one of the closest and most disputed finishes of the Milano Cortina Games. Continue reading...
FG Trade/E+ via Getty Images Not all is as it seems in the stock market these days. Even the current "healthy rotation" appears to be anything but. The "market rotation" appears more mechanical and is attributable to extremely high dispersion. There has recently been a strong "rotation" into stocks like Walmart ( WMT ) and out of the software sector. However, that may be related more to a trade an...
FG Trade/E+ via Getty Images Not all is as it seems in the stock market these days. Even the current "healthy rotation" appears to be anything but. The "market rotation" appears more mechanical and is attributable to extremely high dispersion. There has recently been a strong "rotation" into stocks like Walmart ( WMT ) and out of the software sector. However, that may be related more to a trade and, more importantly, could change as companies continue to report results. Dispersion Is Very High Right now, dispersion in the S&P 500 is very high, as measured by the S&P 500 dispersion index. This is a view of how individual stocks within the S&P 500 are moving relative to one another. When the dispersion index is high, it indicates that stocks move very differently from one another, with large gaps between winners and losers. The S&P 500 Dispersion Index is currently at 36.9, one of its highest levels over the past decade. TradingView Currently, the S&P 500 constituent implied volatility index is elevated at 42.3, suggesting that option positioning may be driving these movements rather than a fundamental shift. The implied volatility constituent index is the average implied volatility of S&P 500 stocks, computed using equal weights. Meanwhile, the S&P 500 implied volatility index, the VIX, is much lower, around 20.7 as of Feb. 12. TradingView This spread indicates that implied dispersion in the stock market is currently very high. In fact, the spreads of the constituent implied volatility index and the VIX index move in nearly lock-step with the S&P 500 dispersion index. TradingView Option Flows One of the strongest groups in recent weeks is the State Street Consumer Staples SPDR ETF ( XLP ), which could be viewed as a rotation into safety; some even might say it's the market's way of broadening out. However, when examining the top two companies, Walmart and Costco ( COST ), neither has reported results; Walmart will report next week. This could be key. During January a...
华尔街正深陷 AI 带来的颠覆恐慌 。这场风波最初始于投资者抛售软件公司股票，但很快蔓延至被认为易受自动化冲击的行业，推动美国股市本周大幅下挫。 这场 AI 恐慌抛售 甚至波及了私人信贷、房地产经纪、数据分析、法律服务和保险等板块。 在 Anthropic 发布法律 AI 插件后，全球科技股率先遭受冲击。但随着一系列 AI 模型升级与新品发布，投资者的不安情绪进一步加剧。 巴克莱股票策略师伊曼纽尔...
Where's the Trump phone? We're going to keep talking about it every week . Last week, we spoke to executives from the company for the first time, and this week we're back with more details on how it began. Trump Mobile may bear the US president's name, but he didn't come up with the idea, and neither did any Trump. In fact, it was the executives at MVNO Liberty Mobile that approached the Trumps wi...
Where's the Trump phone? We're going to keep talking about it every week . Last week, we spoke to executives from the company for the first time, and this week we're back with more details on how it began. Trump Mobile may bear the US president's name, but he didn't come up with the idea, and neither did any Trump. In fact, it was the executives at MVNO Liberty Mobile that approached the Trumps with a pitch for the company, and it wasn't their first rodeo; five years earlier, Liberty Mobile tested the same playbook with world champion boxer Canelo Álvarez. That's according to Don Hendrickson and Eric Thomas, the two Trump Mobile executives … Read the full story at The Verge.
Shares of Vertiv Holdings (NYSE: VRT) surged 20% higher this week through 11 a.m. Friday, according to data provided by S&P Global Market Intelligence . The stock hit a 52-week high $255.54 per share this week, more than doubling in one year. While the broader market is wrestling with fears of an artificial intelligence (AI) bubble, Vertiv Holdings just proved that the core physical systems poweri...
Shares of Vertiv Holdings (NYSE: VRT) surged 20% higher this week through 11 a.m. Friday, according to data provided by S&P Global Market Intelligence . The stock hit a 52-week high $255.54 per share this week, more than doubling in one year. While the broader market is wrestling with fears of an artificial intelligence (AI) bubble, Vertiv Holdings just proved that the core physical systems powering up AI data centers are in higher demand than ever. Image source: Getty Images. Continue reading
Earnings Call Insights: Healthcare Realty Trust Incorporated (HR) Q4 2025 Management View CEO Peter Scott stated, “2025 was a transformational year at Healthcare Realty 2.0...We have the best-in-class portfolio. We have scale in the right markets, and we are aligned with leading health systems.” Scott highlighted the completion of the asset management platform revamp, noting, “cash leasing spreads...
Earnings Call Insights: Healthcare Realty Trust Incorporated (HR) Q4 2025 Management View CEO Peter Scott stated, “2025 was a transformational year at Healthcare Realty 2.0...We have the best-in-class portfolio. We have scale in the right markets, and we are aligned with leading health systems.” Scott highlighted the completion of the asset management platform revamp, noting, “cash leasing spreads have improved 60 basis points, tenant retention has improved 220 basis points, and we see a meaningful uptick in our lease IRRs and lease payback period.” Scott reported the achievement of $10 million run rate G&A savings, with total G&A expense at $45 million, and completion of the asset disposition plan with $1.2 billion of assets sold at a 6.7% cap rate, exiting 14 noncore markets. “We are confident we have the premier outpatient medical portfolio, confirmed by the nearly 5% same-store NOI growth number that we generated in 2025.” Scott further noted improvements in the balance sheet: “We have reduced net debt to EBITDA nearly a full turn to 5.4x...We also took the long overdue step to rightsize our dividend.” The company completed its leadership overhaul and welcomed Dan Gabbay as CFO: “Dan and I have known each other for 20 years...He brings an exceptional blend of financial acumen, strategic insight and capital markets expertise.” CFO Daniel Gabbay stated, “2025 ended strong. In Q4, we reported normalized FFO per share of $0.40 and same-store cash NOI growth of 5.5%. Additionally, FAD per share was $0.32, resulting in a quarterly dividend payout ratio of 75%.” Outlook The midpoint of 2026 normalized FFO guidance is $1.61 per share. Scott said, “embedded within the midpoint of our guidance is approximately 5% core earnings growth, which offsets the necessary dilution we proactively incurred from our back-end weighted 2025 dispositions and deleveraging.” Same-store cash NOI growth for 2026 is projected at 3.5% to 4.5%. Gabbay confirmed, “We are forecasting normalized F...
Earnings Call Insights: Eversource Energy (ES) Q4 2025 Management View Joseph Nolan, President, CEO & Chairman, stated that "2025 was another year of strong execution across the organization" and highlighted full year non-GAAP earnings per share of $4.76, along with dividends of $3.01 per share, a 5.2% increase. He emphasized operational performance, capital investments surpassing $4 billion, and ...
Earnings Call Insights: Eversource Energy (ES) Q4 2025 Management View Joseph Nolan, President, CEO & Chairman, stated that "2025 was another year of strong execution across the organization" and highlighted full year non-GAAP earnings per share of $4.76, along with dividends of $3.01 per share, a 5.2% increase. He emphasized operational performance, capital investments surpassing $4 billion, and significant progress on smart meter installations in Massachusetts, with over 100,000 meters deployed. Nolan also discussed successful collaboration with regulators and policymakers, particularly around affordability initiatives and constructive rate outcomes, and the completion of the onshore substation for the Revolution Wind project. Nolan announced a new 5-year capital investment plan of $26.5 billion, increasing infrastructure investment by $2.3 billion, primarily targeting electric and natural gas distribution. "This new plan increases our necessary infrastructure investment over the next 5 years by $2.3 billion." He confirmed the company’s strategy to continue regulatory engagement, the anticipated sale of Aquarion Water Company, and the pursuit of storm cost recovery in Connecticut, noting, "We are driving forward on several major fronts... executing relentlessly on completing our offshore wind commitments, enhancing storm cost securitization and managing the potential sale of Aquarion." John Moreira, Executive VP, CFO & Treasurer, reported GAAP earnings of $4.56 per share for 2025, including a net loss of $75 million related to the offshore wind sale, and non-GAAP earnings of $4.76 per share. He stated, "Our revised non-GAAP earnings guidance for 2025 was in the range of $4.72 to $4.80." Moreira also detailed segment performance, regulatory decisions, and financing needs, emphasizing the 5-year capital plan and the company’s intent to maintain a cushion over rating agency downgrade thresholds. Outlook The company projects 2026 earnings per share in the range of $4....
In trading on Friday, shares of Mineralys Therapeutics Inc (Symbol: MLYS) crossed below their 200 day moving average of $27.66, changing hands as low as $27.33 per share. Mineralys Therapeutics Inc shares are currently trading up about 1.5% on the day. The chart below shows th
In trading on Friday, shares of Mineralys Therapeutics Inc (Symbol: MLYS) crossed below their 200 day moving average of $27.66, changing hands as low as $27.33 per share. Mineralys Therapeutics Inc shares are currently trading up about 1.5% on the day. The chart below shows th
迪拜环球港务集团首席执行官Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem辞职，成为因与声名狼藉的金融家杰弗里·爱泼斯坦存在关联而下台的最具影响力商界人士之一。 执掌全球最大物流企业之一的Bin Sulayem活跃于全球政商高层圈子，常年出席达沃斯世界经济论坛。他的离任紧随受爱泼斯坦文件影响而宣布离职的 高盛 首席律师Kathy Ruemmler。 Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem...
迪拜环球港务集团首席执行官Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem辞职，成为因与声名狼藉的金融家杰弗里·爱泼斯坦存在关联而下台的最具影响力商界人士之一。 执掌全球最大物流企业之一的Bin Sulayem活跃于全球政商高层圈子，常年出席达沃斯世界经济论坛。他的离任紧随受爱泼斯坦文件影响而宣布离职的 高盛 首席律师Kathy Ruemmler。 Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem 兼任迪拜环球港务集团董事长的Bin Sulayem在爱泼斯坦于2008年因教唆未成年人卖淫等指控被判入狱之前，以及之后十余年间一直与这位被定罪的恋童癖者保持联系。美国司法部公布的一系列电子邮件和彭博新闻社去年获取的信息使得两人的关系浮出水面。 Bin Sulayem周五在一份监管声明中宣布辞职，这在该地区高管很少因公众争议而放弃职位的情况下尤为罕见。 在Bin Sulayem与爱泼斯坦的密切关系曝光后，至少两家与政府有关联的投资基金暂停与迪拜环球港务集团的业务。 Bin Sulayem和迪拜环球港务集团均未回应置评请求。 责任编辑：王许宁
supersizer/E+ via Getty Images After the bell on Thursday, we received fourth quarter results from Twilio ( TWLO ). The customer engagement platform has been a nice growth story in recent years, and the company has finally started to deliver some solid GAAP operating profits. While a number of software and services names have been under pressure recently, Twilio's solid quarter and guidance could ...
supersizer/E+ via Getty Images After the bell on Thursday, we received fourth quarter results from Twilio ( TWLO ). The customer engagement platform has been a nice growth story in recent years, and the company has finally started to deliver some solid GAAP operating profits. While a number of software and services names have been under pressure recently, Twilio's solid quarter and guidance could set the stock up for a strong 2026. Previous coverage of the name It was about six months ago when I last covered the stock, right after Twilio had reported its second quarter results for 2025. Revenues came in nicely ahead of estimates, while bottom line improvement continued. With management providing its usual conservative guidance, investors weren't too thrilled initially. I thought that provided an opportunity, and since then, the stock rallied more than 11.5% (to Thursday's close), compared to a 6.9% rise in the S&P 500, despite a recent pullback. The Q4 earnings report For the final period of 2025, revenues came in at $1.37 billion, up 14% on a reported basis and 12% in terms of organic growth, with pass-through revenue from incremental U.S. carrier fees providing a boost as detailed on the Q3 earnings call . Both numbers, however, were still well ahead of the 10.2% growth that analysts were looking for. Twilio has not missed top line estimates in the past five years, and each of the beats in last year's quarters were at least $33 million. The company reported over 402,000 active customer accounts at the end of 2025, up from over 325,000 a year earlier. The dollar-based net expansion rate was 109% for Q4 2025, up three percentage points year over year and seven points in the last two years. The strong results were described as following by Khozema Shipchandler, CEO of Twilio: 2025 was one of the most balanced and successful years of execution in Twilio’s history and has fundamentally transformed our financial profile and innovation velocity. We accelerated revenue gr...
Heather Diehl/Getty Images News A shakeup of top officials at HHS is continuing as Deputy Secretary Jim O'Neill will be leaving that post. O'Neill and General Counsel Mike Stuart will take other positions within the Trump administration, HHS officials told Politico . O'Neill is also acting director of the CDC. It is unclear whether the change impacts that role. The departure of O'Neill and Stuart ...
Heather Diehl/Getty Images News A shakeup of top officials at HHS is continuing as Deputy Secretary Jim O'Neill will be leaving that post. O'Neill and General Counsel Mike Stuart will take other positions within the Trump administration, HHS officials told Politico . O'Neill is also acting director of the CDC. It is unclear whether the change impacts that role. The departure of O'Neill and Stuart comes on the heels of another Politico report on a staff email sent by HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Thursday that Director of Medicare and CMS Deputy Administrator Chris Klomp will now oversee all HHS operations. The email also noted several CMS and FDA officials will also become senior counselors at the respective agencies. More on drugmakers Merck: Keytruda Remains Resilient Despite LOE Risks - Buy Upon Correction Pfizer: A Great Opportunity Post Earnings Bristol-Myers: Walking Blindfolded To A $30 Billion Patent Cliff SA Sentiment: Which company will be the next to join the $1T club? Eli Lilly boosts weight loss pill inventory ahead of FDA decision
Figure Technology Solutions ( FIGR ) on Friday said its adjusted net revenue is expected to be in the range of $155.5M to $160.5M, vs. $154.4M consensus . Full-year 2025 adjusted net revenue is expected to be between $512.5M and $517.5M, vs. $508.9M consensus . Shares were 3.60% higher at $35.30 during late morning trading. The company expects Q4 adjusted EBITDA of $80.0M-$83.0M and 2025 adjusted ...
Figure Technology Solutions ( FIGR ) on Friday said its adjusted net revenue is expected to be in the range of $155.5M to $160.5M, vs. $154.4M consensus . Full-year 2025 adjusted net revenue is expected to be between $512.5M and $517.5M, vs. $508.9M consensus . Shares were 3.60% higher at $35.30 during late morning trading. The company expects Q4 adjusted EBITDA of $80.0M-$83.0M and 2025 adjusted EBITDA of $249.0M-$252.0M. "We achieved triple-digit year-over-year growth in Consumer Loan Marketplace volume, increased adoption of Figure Connect, and saw expanding activity within our blockchain ecosystem, reinforcing the diversity and scalability of our model," said CEO Michael Tannenbaum on FIGR's Q4 results. Separately, the blockchain-native capital marketplace for tokenized assets announced a secondary public offering of up to 4.23M shares of series A blockchain common stock. Upon completion of the proposed offering, Figure intends to repurchase from underwriters class A shares subject to the proposed offering at an aggregate amount of up to $30M. The price per share will be equal to the amount paid by the underwriters to the selling stockholders. The share repurchase is expected to be funded using cash on hand. More on Figure Technology Solutions, Inc. Figure Technology Solutions: Blockchain Meets Lending Figure: A Compelling Rally As Loan Volumes Accelerate Figure Technology Solutions: Still Has Plenty Of Upside Left Crypto stocks lead week's financial losers; Asian banks rise Figure Technology reports preliminary Q4 2025, December operating data