(RTTNews) - Intel Corp. (INTC), a technology company, on Wednesday announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to repurchase the 49% equity interest in its Fab 34 Ireland joint venture from Apollo Global Management Inc. (APO) for $14.2 billion.
(RTTNews) - Intel Corp. (INTC), a technology company, on Wednesday announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to repurchase the 49% equity interest in its Fab 34 Ireland joint venture from Apollo Global Management Inc. (APO) for $14.2 billion.
vchal/iStock via Getty Images Lightbridge ( LTBR ) up 4.4% pre-market Wednesday after saying it received a notice of allowance from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for a patent application covering its nuclear fuel element technology, designed for pressurized heavy-water reactors, including CANDU-type designs. Lightbridge ( LTBR ) said the allowed claims describe a fuel assembly comprising a ...
vchal/iStock via Getty Images Lightbridge ( LTBR ) up 4.4% pre-market Wednesday after saying it received a notice of allowance from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for a patent application covering its nuclear fuel element technology, designed for pressurized heavy-water reactors, including CANDU-type designs. Lightbridge ( LTBR ) said the allowed claims describe a fuel assembly comprising a plurality of elongated fuel elements, each having a spirally twisted, multi-lobed profile that defines a plurality of spiral ribs; each fuel element includes a fuel kernel with fissile material disposed in a matrix of metal non-fuel material, surrounded by cladding, with a moderator-to-fuel ratio of 2.4 or less. " This Notice of Allowance further strengthens our U.S. intellectual property portfolio, particularly for our multi-lobed fuel element design optimized for pressurized heavy water reactors," Lightbridge ( LTBR ) President and CEO Seth Grae said. "The CANDU reactor fleet represents a significant global market opportunity, and this patent further reinforces our technology’s applicability to heavy-water reactor designs." More on Lightbridge Lightbridge Q4 2025 Earnings Call Prepared Remarks Transcript Lightbridge: Better Cash, Stronger R&D, Yet Dilution Risks Keep Me At Hold Financial information for Lightbridge
RYTHM ( Nasdaq: RYM ) on Wednesday said it has amended its trademark and recipe license agreements with a unit of Green Thumb Industries. The company said under the revised terms, Green Thumb will pay an annual fixed cash fee of $70 million, subject to yearly increases tied to a consumer price index-based escalator. The amendments, effective April 1, 2026, cover the use of certain brand intellectu...
RYTHM ( Nasdaq: RYM ) on Wednesday said it has amended its trademark and recipe license agreements with a unit of Green Thumb Industries. The company said under the revised terms, Green Thumb will pay an annual fixed cash fee of $70 million, subject to yearly increases tied to a consumer price index-based escalator. The amendments, effective April 1, 2026, cover the use of certain brand intellectual property under the existing agreements. RYM +35.08% premarket to $24.72. Source: Press Release More on RYTHM Financial information for RYTHM
JHVEPhoto Intel ( INTC ) is buying back a 49% equity interest in a joint venture related to its Fab 34 facility in Ireland from Apollo ( APO ) for $14.2B. The chipmaker signed an agreement with Apollo ( APO ) to repurchase the equity stake not owned by Intel in the JV. In 2024, Apollo-managed funds and affiliates led an $11.2B investment to acquire a 49% equity interest in a joint venture entity r...
JHVEPhoto Intel ( INTC ) is buying back a 49% equity interest in a joint venture related to its Fab 34 facility in Ireland from Apollo ( APO ) for $14.2B. The chipmaker signed an agreement with Apollo ( APO ) to repurchase the equity stake not owned by Intel in the JV. In 2024, Apollo-managed funds and affiliates led an $11.2B investment to acquire a 49% equity interest in a joint venture entity related to Fab 34, providing Intel with equity-like capital while preserving balance sheet strength. Intel said that the transaction provided it with significant financial flexibility and enabled the company to unlock and redeploy capital to advance its strategic priorities, including accelerating the buildout of Intel 4 and Intel 3, the most advanced processes manufactured in Europe, and of Intel 18A, the most advanced process developed and manufactured in the U.S. today. "Today, we have a stronger balance sheet, improved financial discipline and an evolved business strategy. We appreciate Apollo’s continued collaboration to reach this outcome as we realign our capital structure with our long-term strategy," said Intel's CFO David Zinsner. Intel noted that the repurchase is expected to be funded through cash on hand and proceeds from the issuance of new debt of about $6.5B. The transaction is expected to be accretive to ongoing EPS while strengthening Intel’s credit profile in 2027 and beyond. Intel continues to expect it will retire debt maturities as they come due in 2026 and 2027, according to the company. Fab 34 is a high-volume semiconductor fabrication facility for products using the Intel 4 and Intel 3 process technologies, including Intel Core Ultra and Intel Xeon 6 processors. Intel added that it continues to make significant capital investments in its Ireland campus to expand manufacturing capacity, strengthen execution, and deliver for customers building next-generation AI-enabled systems. More on Intel and Apollo Intel Still Leans On A Fragile CPU Business Intel...
据英国海运贸易行动中心消息，周三在卡塔尔近海遭无人机袭击的一艘成品油轮，为阿联酋所有，遇袭时正停泊在卡塔尔拉斯拉凡港北部海域。 Aqua 1水线以上部位受损，船上火情已得到控制。船上23名菲律宾船员均安然无恙。经纪商表示，该船由卡塔尔能源公司租用，遇袭时并未装载货物。截至目前，已有至少22艘船只在此次冲突中遭伊朗袭击。 责任编辑：陈钰嘉
据英国海运贸易行动中心消息，周三在卡塔尔近海遭无人机袭击的一艘成品油轮，为阿联酋所有，遇袭时正停泊在卡塔尔拉斯拉凡港北部海域。 Aqua 1水线以上部位受损，船上火情已得到控制。船上23名菲律宾船员均安然无恙。经纪商表示，该船由卡塔尔能源公司租用，遇袭时并未装载货物。截至目前，已有至少22艘船只在此次冲突中遭伊朗袭击。 责任编辑：陈钰嘉
Now that Nelson Peltz has won a surprise bidding war for Janus Henderson Group Plc , the activist investor can start to revamp the $493 billion asset manager he has circled for years. Peltz is paying about $8 billion, or $52 per share, for Janus Henderson – more than twice where its stock was trading when his Trian Fund Management disclosed its position in late 2020. At age 83, Peltz – who over th...
Now that Nelson Peltz has won a surprise bidding war for Janus Henderson Group Plc , the activist investor can start to revamp the $493 billion asset manager he has circled for years. Peltz is paying about $8 billion, or $52 per share, for Janus Henderson – more than twice where its stock was trading when his Trian Fund Management disclosed its position in late 2020. At age 83, Peltz – who over the years has famously tangled with corporate giants — is shelling out for what many see as a fixer-upper. Fees are getting squeezed in the age of low-cost index funds, and Janus Henderson’s performance has been mixed since the 2017 merger that created it. According to people familiar with Peltz’s thinking, Trian intends to use artificial intelligence to streamline Janus Henderson’s business and wring out time-consuming processes. Central to all of this is Trian’s partner in the deal, General Catalyst , the technology-focused investor that has backed Anthropic , Stripe and defense tech firm Anduril Industries Inc. , among others. General Catalyst has invested billions in AI companies, applications and partnerships. It recently launched a company called Percepta that deploys AI researchers, engineers and product managers across a range of businesses to transform traditional workflows using artificial intelligence. Soon on its to-do list: Janus Henderson. Percepta, whose founding team included alumni of data-analysis firm Palantir Technologies Inc. , will be part of Peltz’s effort to modernize middle- and back-office functions, according to people familiar with the plan. Janus already uses some AI tools but plans to deploy Percepta’s more-advanced technology to speed up lengthy fund-creation and other processes and meet investors’ growing demands, people familiar with the matter said. Without public shareholders to answer to, Janus will be able to spend big on these new technologies and make hires in other parts of the business. Representatives for Trian, General Catalyst and J...
Welcome back to Bloomberg’s Real Estate Monitor , a weekly breakdown of emerging trends, strategic challenges and blockbuster deals shaping the industry. Sign up now if you’re not already on the list. This week, find out about an upstart company that holds one of the biggest property reserves for US data centers . We’ll also untangle a corporate implosion that’s rocked the UK lending world , and o...
Welcome back to Bloomberg’s Real Estate Monitor , a weekly breakdown of emerging trends, strategic challenges and blockbuster deals shaping the industry. Sign up now if you’re not already on the list. This week, find out about an upstart company that holds one of the biggest property reserves for US data centers . We’ll also untangle a corporate implosion that’s rocked the UK lending world , and offer a look inside plans to develop a long-neglected spot in downtown Atlanta with help from some famous folks. There’s lots more, so let’s dig in. — Christine Maurus Market Snapshot Blackstone Inc $114.99 +3.0% Vistry Group PLC $328.00 -1.2% NVR Inc $6,589.83 +1.4% Brookfield Asset Management Ltd $44.45 +3.0% Market data as of 09:11 AM ET. Data is subject to provider delays. The big story Meet the little-known company that’s at the center of a massive data-center push in the US . Tract Capital, formed just four years ago, oversees a development firm that has collected more than 30,000 acres of land, on scattered sites from Virginia to Nevada. In total, that area is larger than the size of San Francisco. The goal is to equip all that space with power, get it ready for development within seven years, then flip it. The company is betting that its investments in powered land will pay off handsomely as infrastructure for AI operations becomes more and more essential to the US economy, Bloomberg reporters Aaron Weinman, Dawn Lim and Natalie Wong wrote. Not many people would argue with that wager these days. Yet the field of players has gotten crowded. The AI gold rush has lured prospectors ranging from the world’s biggest real estate firms to a former Texas governor to a Halloween attraction owner in Pennsylvania, and they’re all competing for power on an increasingly stretched grid. One thing it has in its favor is a big-name tenant: Nvidia has committed to lease a yet-unbuilt data center in the Nevada desert. And with that deal, an entity backed by Tract Capital was able to bo...
onceawitkin/iStock Unreleased via Getty Images Microsoft ( MSFT ) was in focus on Wednesday as Benchmark started coverage on the tech giant with a Buy rating and a $450 price target. “The company is emerging as the artificial intelligence orchestration juggernaut that empowers enterprise/consumer via its comprehensive portfolio of digital applications, collaboration & communication tools, and clou...
onceawitkin/iStock Unreleased via Getty Images Microsoft ( MSFT ) was in focus on Wednesday as Benchmark started coverage on the tech giant with a Buy rating and a $450 price target. “The company is emerging as the artificial intelligence orchestration juggernaut that empowers enterprise/consumer via its comprehensive portfolio of digital applications, collaboration & communication tools, and cloud services,” analyst Yi Fu Lee wrote in a note to clients. “We believe investors should take full advantage of the substantial drawdown since reaching a high of over $450 in October 2025 to accumulate Microsoft shares as part of their core long-term SaaS/software holdings. We advise investors not to try time/trade the market on this essential horizon infrastructure name dominating both the enterprise and consumer markets.” Delving deeper, Lee said the firm's bullish stance on Microsoft is based on the fact it owns the “proprietary data crown jewel” that powers the brain behind artificial intelligence, pointing to solutions such as Microsoft 365, Teams, Fabric, Dynamics, and LinkedIn. Lee also noted that the investment in OpenAI ( OPENAI ) is now worth around $227B, who is a “strategic” large long-term cloud customer. “We view leading frontier LLM providers OpenAI/Anthropic long duration Azure cloud usage commitment signifies a symbiotic relationship beneficial for both parties,” Lee explained. “OpenAI/Anthropic needs a reliable hyperscaler like Microsoft to operate their LLM, and these cutting edge LLM are offered as part of the menu of services to customers.” Lastly, Lee said Microsoft's total addressable market goes through “every layer of the tech stack,” as it operates in all three software categories (with Windows, GitHub, etc.), cybersecurity (Microsoft Security), and vertical (Dragon Medical). “We estimate global TAM is $730.5 billion in 2025 expanding at a CAGR of 11.4% closer to $1.25 trillion by 2030.” More on Microsoft Microsoft: Back To Pre-COVID Multiples - But...
onceawitkin/iStock Unreleased via Getty Images Microsoft ( MSFT ) was in focus on Wednesday as Benchmark started coverage on the tech giant with a Buy rating and a $450 price target. “The company is emerging as the artificial intelligence orchestration juggernaut that empowers enterprise/consumer via its comprehensive portfolio of digital applications, collaboration & communication tools, and clou...
onceawitkin/iStock Unreleased via Getty Images Microsoft ( MSFT ) was in focus on Wednesday as Benchmark started coverage on the tech giant with a Buy rating and a $450 price target. “The company is emerging as the artificial intelligence orchestration juggernaut that empowers enterprise/consumer via its comprehensive portfolio of digital applications, collaboration & communication tools, and cloud services,” analyst Yi Fu Lee wrote in a note to clients. “We believe investors should take full advantage of the substantial drawdown since reaching a high of over $450 in October 2025 to accumulate Microsoft shares as part of their core long-term SaaS/software holdings. We advise investors not to try time/trade the market on this essential horizon infrastructure name dominating both the enterprise and consumer markets.” Delving deeper, Lee said the firm's bullish stance on Microsoft is based on the fact it owns the “proprietary data crown jewel” that powers the brain behind artificial intelligence, pointing to solutions such as Microsoft 365, Teams, Fabric, Dynamics, and LinkedIn. Lee also noted that the investment in OpenAI ( OPENAI ) is now worth around $227B, who is a “strategic” large long-term cloud customer. “We view leading frontier LLM providers OpenAI/Anthropic long duration Azure cloud usage commitment signifies a symbiotic relationship beneficial for both parties,” Lee explained. “OpenAI/Anthropic needs a reliable hyperscaler like Microsoft to operate their LLM, and these cutting edge LLM are offered as part of the menu of services to customers.” Lastly, Lee said Microsoft's total addressable market goes through “every layer of the tech stack,” as it operates in all three software categories (with Windows, GitHub, etc.), cybersecurity (Microsoft Security), and vertical (Dragon Medical). “We estimate global TAM is $730.5 billion in 2025 expanding at a CAGR of 11.4% closer to $1.25 trillion by 2030.” More on Microsoft Microsoft: Back To Pre-COVID Multiples - But...
Investing.com -- Bernstein upgraded Western Digital to Outperform from Market Perform, hiking its price target to $340 from $170, arguing that a sharp pullback driven by fears over Google’s new TurboQuant compression algorithm has created a buying opportunity that is disconnected from the underlying fundamentals.
Investing.com -- Bernstein upgraded Western Digital to Outperform from Market Perform, hiking its price target to $340 from $170, arguing that a sharp pullback driven by fears over Google’s new TurboQuant compression algorithm has created a buying opportunity that is disconnected from the underlying fundamentals.
MikeMareen The U.S. Department of Defense said Wednesday it reached a long-term agreement with Boeing ( BA ) and Lockheed Martin ( LMT ) to significantly increase production capacity for a key component of the Patriot missile system, part of a broader effort to strengthen the defense industrial base. The seven-year framework aims to triple output of missile seekers used in the Patriot Advanced Cap...
MikeMareen The U.S. Department of Defense said Wednesday it reached a long-term agreement with Boeing ( BA ) and Lockheed Martin ( LMT ) to significantly increase production capacity for a key component of the Patriot missile system, part of a broader effort to strengthen the defense industrial base. The seven-year framework aims to triple output of missile seekers used in the Patriot Advanced Capability-3 Missile Segment Enhancement, or PAC-3 MSE, a system designed to intercept incoming threats such as ballistic missiles. The agreement follows a separate arrangement with Lockheed Martin, the prime contractor for the PAC-3 system, to boost overall missile production. Missile seekers, produced by Boeing ( BA ), play a central role in guiding interceptors to their targets by providing active tracking data. U.S. officials said expanding seeker production is intended to address supply bottlenecks that have constrained output in recent years. The initiative reflects a shift in procurement strategy toward engaging more directly with lower-tier suppliers, rather than focusing primarily on prime contractors. Officials said the approach is designed to provide more predictable demand signals across the supply chain, encouraging investment in manufacturing capacity, tooling and workforce development. Michael Duffey, the Pentagon’s acquisition chief, said the agreement is part of a broader push to accelerate weapons production and improve supply chain resilience. The department has increasingly emphasized speed and scalability in response to rising global security demands. The move comes as the U.S. and its allies continue to draw down inventories of advanced munitions amid ongoing conflicts and heightened geopolitical tensions. Expanding production of air and missile defense systems has been a priority for defense planners seeking to replenish stockpiles while meeting new operational requirements. At the same time, the proliferation of low-cost drones is reshaping the economic...