Ares Capital ( ARCC ) shares fell 2.04% to $19.49 in the afternoon trade on Monday, extending losses for eight straight sessions. The business development company lost nearly 4.83% in the preceding seven sessions. ARCC closed 1.34% lower on Friday at $19.89. ARCC is down about 4.5% over the past month . Looking at Seeking Alpha's Quant Rating, ARCC has a Hold rating with a score of 3.06 out of 5. ...
Ares Capital ( ARCC ) shares fell 2.04% to $19.49 in the afternoon trade on Monday, extending losses for eight straight sessions. The business development company lost nearly 4.83% in the preceding seven sessions. ARCC closed 1.34% lower on Friday at $19.89. ARCC is down about 4.5% over the past month . Looking at Seeking Alpha's Quant Rating, ARCC has a Hold rating with a score of 3.06 out of 5. The company received an A in the prospect of valuation, while it got a D for momentum and an F for growth. However, Wall Street analysts and Seeking Alpha analysts are bullish, rating ARCC a Buy . Turning to the Wall Street community, 12 out of 14 analysts gave ARCC a Buy or above, and two analysts have given the stock a Hold recommendation. Seeking Alpha analyst Dmytro Lebid, rated ARCC a Buy , saying that Ares Capital is the BDC sector's gold standard. Lebid added that ARCC's highly diversified portfolio of 587 companies and lower non-accruals (1.0%) signal superior credit quality as well as its portfolio structure and credit policy provide greater resilience. Overall, the stock slipped nearly 15% in the past year, compared to around a 14.3% rise in the broader S&P 500 Index. More on Why Market Timing Feels Right - And Often Goes Wrong AI Capex At Unsustainable Levels Revvity, Inc. (RVTY) Q4 2025 Earnings Call Transcript January jobs report to be delayed by partial government shutdown Market Voices: U.S.-India trade deal, Iger on Disney, Devon-Coterra
This article first appeared on GuruFocus. Tesla Inc. (TSLA, Financials) got off to a good start in Denmark in 2026. According to data from Mobility Denmark, new car registrations grew 2.7% year-over-year in January, hitting 458 units.The slight rise is a bright spot in what has generally been a slow start for Tesla in Europe. Wider regional data suggest that performance is unequal. For example, gr...
This article first appeared on GuruFocus. Tesla Inc. (TSLA, Financials) got off to a good start in Denmark in 2026. According to data from Mobility Denmark, new car registrations grew 2.7% year-over-year in January, hitting 458 units.The slight rise is a bright spot in what has generally been a slow start for Tesla in Europe. Wider regional data suggest that performance is unequal. For example, growth in Nordic nations is partly offset by reduced demand in important markets like France and Norway.Tesla's gain in Denmark comes after a challenging year in 2025, when sales in Europe declined by 27% because Chinese manufacturers and local brands were making it harder to supply cars. The company's recent price changes and new variants of the Model 3 and Model Y are meant to help it get back some of its market share in a congested EV market.January is always a slow month for sales, but the numbers show that Tesla may be stabilizing in smaller European countries even as it tries to get things going again across the continent.
Today, OpenAI launched a macOS desktop app for Codex, its large language model-based coding tool that was previously used through a command line interface (CLI) on the web or inside an integrated development environment (IDE) via extensions. By launching a desktop app, OpenAI is catching up to Anthropic's popular Claude Code, which already offered a macOS version. Whether the desktop app makes sen...
Today, OpenAI launched a macOS desktop app for Codex, its large language model-based coding tool that was previously used through a command line interface (CLI) on the web or inside an integrated development environment (IDE) via extensions. By launching a desktop app, OpenAI is catching up to Anthropic's popular Claude Code, which already offered a macOS version. Whether the desktop app makes sense compared to the existing interfaces depends a little bit on who you are and how you intend to use it. The Codex macOS app aims to make it easier to manage multiple coding agents in tandem, sometimes with parallel tasks running over several hours—the company argues that neither the CLI nor the IDE extensions are ideal interfaces for that. Read full article Comments
The tennis pay row has escalated further with the world’s top 10 male and female players rejecting an offer from the grand slams to set up a player council that would give them a greater say in the running of the major championships. In correspondence sent to Wimbledon, the French Open and US Open last week, the players turned down the offer of a meeting with representatives of the three grand sla...
The tennis pay row has escalated further with the world’s top 10 male and female players rejecting an offer from the grand slams to set up a player council that would give them a greater say in the running of the major championships. In correspondence sent to Wimbledon, the French Open and US Open last week, the players turned down the offer of a meeting with representatives of the three grand slams at the Indian Wells Masters in March and accused the tournament organisers of ignoring their concerns about pay and player welfare. “Before committing to another meeting, it would be more productive for the grand slams to provide substantive responses, individually or collectively, to the specific proposals the players have put forward regarding prize money at a fair share of grand slam revenues, and player health, welfare, and benefits contributions,” the letter states. The players have been lobbying for a greater share of the money made by those organising the grand slam championships since last year’s French Open when a delegation, including Carlos Alcaraz, Jannik Sinner, Aryna Sabalenka and Coco Gauff, urged executives from all four tournaments to increase their prize funds to 22% of revenue by 2030, which would be in line with ATP and WTA Tour events. Alcaraz will receive AUS$2.8m (£1.43m) for completing the career grand slam by beating Novak Djokovic in Melbourne on Sunday as part of a record Australian Open prize fund of AUS$85m, the second highest of the majors after the US Open. Despite being a significant increase it remains about 16% of the tournament’s income. At Wimbledon last year, the total prize pot of £50m was 12.3% of the Championships’ £406.5m revenue. Three of the grand slams, minus the Australian Open, wrote to the players in December offering a meeting on setting up a grand slam player council, but ignored their demands on pay and welfare. In a further indication of the in-fighting, Tennis Australia is not involved in the dispute, as it has aligned ...
After more than a year of haggling, US President Donald Trump on Monday announced a major trade deal between Washington and New Delhi that significantly de-escalates economic tensions between the two nations. A White House official also confirmed to the South China Morning Post the deal will also remove the 25 per cent punitive Russia oil tariffs. Trump in a social media post earlier said that he ...
After more than a year of haggling, US President Donald Trump on Monday announced a major trade deal between Washington and New Delhi that significantly de-escalates economic tensions between the two nations. A White House official also confirmed to the South China Morning Post the deal will also remove the 25 per cent punitive Russia oil tariffs. Trump in a social media post earlier said that he held a phone call with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Advertisement “He [Modi] agreed to stop buying Russian Oil, and to buy much more from the United States and, potentially, Venezuela. This will help END THE WAR in Ukraine, which is taking place right now, with thousands of people dying each and every week!” Trump added that “Out of friendship and respect for Prime Minister Modi and, as per his request, effective immediately, we agreed to a Trade Deal between the United States and India, whereby the United States will charge a reduced Reciprocal Tariff, lowering it from 25 per cent to 18 per cent. They will likewise move forward to reduce their Tariffs and Non Tariff Barriers against the United States, to ZERO.” Advertisement More to follow...
jetcityimage/iStock Editorial via Getty Images Investment Thesis In these times of high political uncertainty, it is particularly important to follow an investment approach that can help you to perform well across different macroeconomic and geopolitical scenarios. Portfolios that combine income and dividend growth while offering a broad sector and geographical diversification can bring many benef...
jetcityimage/iStock Editorial via Getty Images Investment Thesis In these times of high political uncertainty, it is particularly important to follow an investment approach that can help you to perform well across different macroeconomic and geopolitical scenarios. Portfolios that combine income and dividend growth while offering a broad sector and geographical diversification can bring many benefits at the same time for investors, such as: The constant generation of dividend income. Potential for both dividend growth and capital appreciation. Reduction of the downside risk of your portfolio to protect you against market downturns. In today's article, I will show you how to build a $75,000 dividend portfolio that holds the Schwab U.S. Dividend Equity ETF ( SCHD ) as a core position, enhanced by my top 10 high-yield dividend companies I have selected for 2026. Through the inclusion of companies such as Allianz ( ALIZF ) ( ALIZY ), Axa ( AXAHY ) ( AXAHF ) ( AXA:CA ), Nestlé ( NSRGY ) ( NSRGF ), and Petrobras ( PBR ), the portfolio also benefits from currency diversification, reducing the portfolio's dependence on the U.S. dollar alone. This allows investors to diversify currency exposure and receive dividend payments not only in U.S. dollars but also in euros, Swiss francs, and Brazilian reais, adding another layer of diversification to the portfolio while prioritizing income from U.S.-based companies. The portfolio is further complemented by the Vanguard Real Estate Index Fund ETF Shares ( VNQ ) to enhance the portfolio proportion allocated to the Real Estate Sector and the NEOS Nasdaq 100 High Income ETF ( QQQI ) to raise the portfolio's potential for dividend income. Additionally, Visa (NYSE: V ), Nike ( NKE ), Microsoft ( MSFT ), AbbVie ( ABBV ), and Enbridge ( ENB ) have been added to this portfolio to ensure an attractive portfolio mix of income and dividend growth, making it suitable for investors of different age groups and for those who would like to position...
OpenAI on Monday released a new desktop application for its Codex artificial intelligence coding system, a tool the company says transforms software development from a collaborative exercise with a single AI assistant into something more akin to managing a team of autonomous workers. The Codex app for macOS functions as what OpenAI executives describe as a "command center for agents," allowing dev...
OpenAI on Monday released a new desktop application for its Codex artificial intelligence coding system, a tool the company says transforms software development from a collaborative exercise with a single AI assistant into something more akin to managing a team of autonomous workers. The Codex app for macOS functions as what OpenAI executives describe as a "command center for agents," allowing developers to delegate multiple coding tasks simultaneously, automate repetitive work, and supervise AI systems that can run for up to 30 minutes independently before returning completed code. "This is the most loved internal product we've ever had," Sam Altman, OpenAI's chief executive, told VentureBeat in a press briefing ahead of Monday's launch. "It's been totally an amazing thing for us to be using recently at OpenAI." The release arrives at a pivotal moment for the enterprise AI market. According to a survey of 100 Global 2000 companies published last week by venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, 78% of enterprise CIOs now use OpenAI models in production , though competitors Anthropic and Google are gaining ground rapidly. Anthropic posted the largest share increase of any frontier lab since May 2025, growing 25% in enterprise penetration, with 44% of enterprises now using Anthropic in production. The timing of OpenAI's Codex app launch — with its focus on professional software engineering workflows — appears designed to defend the company's position in what has become the most contested segment of the AI market: coding tools. Why developers are abandoning their IDEs for AI agent management The Codex app introduces a fundamentally different approach to AI-assisted coding. While previous tools like GitHub Copilot focused on autocompleting lines of code in real-time, the new application enables developers to "effortlessly manage multiple agents at once, run work in parallel, and collaborate with agents over long-running tasks." Alexander Embiricos , the product lead fo...
In a stressful time, this could be a lifesaver. You're used to your Social Security payments coming like clockwork, maybe so much so that you don't even check your bank account to verify that the deposit came through each month. So when you get a letter from the Social Security Administration saying you've been overpaid and that the government will start withholding 50% of your checks, it's only n...
In a stressful time, this could be a lifesaver. You're used to your Social Security payments coming like clockwork, maybe so much so that you don't even check your bank account to verify that the deposit came through each month. So when you get a letter from the Social Security Administration saying you've been overpaid and that the government will start withholding 50% of your checks, it's only natural to be alarmed. Fortunately, there are steps you can take to minimize how much you lose from future checks, or maybe even avoid garnishment altogether. You can request a lower overpayment recovery rate You may be able to avoid Social Security garnishment altogether if you have the cash on hand to repay the excess in a lump sum. For many people, this isn't an option, so your next-best bet is to request a lower overpayment recovery rate. The standard overpayment recovery rate is 50%. So if you receive $2,000 monthly checks, you could lose up to $1,000 per month until you've repaid the excess. This high repayment rate means you'll pay back what you owe more quickly, but it can leave you struggling to get by on half the benefits you're used to. Fortunately, the Social Security Administration gives you the chance to request a lower overpayment recovery rate if losing half your checks would put you in a financial bind. Even if you only manage to drop the recovery rate to 40%, that would save you an extra $200 per month in our example above. How to request a lower overpayment recovery rate You'll need to fill out a Request for Change in Overpayment Recovery Rate form to kick off the process. You'll answer some basic questions about yourself. Then you'll need to provide a detailed picture of your finances, including the value of your assets (home, cars, etc.), monthly household income, and monthly household expenses. There's also a space where you can share any other relevant information the government might need to understand your financial situation. The Social Security Adm...
A major census test faces cutbacks — with postal workers tapped to help count toggle caption John Raoux/AP The Trump administration is scaling back plans for this year's field test of the 2030 census, raising concerns about the Census Bureau's ability to produce a reliable population tally for redistributing political representation and federal funding in the next decade. The 2026 test was designe...
A major census test faces cutbacks — with postal workers tapped to help count toggle caption John Raoux/AP The Trump administration is scaling back plans for this year's field test of the 2030 census, raising concerns about the Census Bureau's ability to produce a reliable population tally for redistributing political representation and federal funding in the next decade. The 2026 test was designed to help the bureau improve the accuracy of the country's upcoming once-a-decade head count. A mix of communities in six states, as well as a national sample of households, was expected to take part in the experiment. But the agency is now set to reduce the number of test sites to two — Spartanburg, S.C., and Huntsville, Ala. — while adding plans to try replacing temporary census workers with U.S. Postal Service staff, according to a Federal Register notice that was made available for public inspection Monday before its official publication. Sponsor Message The bureau is also cutting a plan to provide Spanish- and Chinese-language versions of the census test's online form, which is now set to only be available in English. Spokespeople for the bureau and its parent agency, the Commerce Department, did not immediately respond to NPR's questions, including about what prompted these changes and whether counting for the test is still scheduled to start in March. In a statement Monday announcing the "launch of the 2026 Census Test," the bureau said it "remains committed to conducting the most accurate count in history for the 2030 Census and looks forward to the continued partnership with local communities." Among the locations no longer part of the census test are rural communities in western Texas and Indigenous tribal lands within Arizona and North Carolina. Those include the Fort Apache Reservation, home to the White Mountain Apache Tribe; San Carlos Reservation, home to the San Carlos Apache Tribe; and the Qualla Boundary, home to the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. Terri...
Nikada/iStock Unreleased via Getty Images Apple Inc. ( AAPL ) entered the new fiscal year beating earnings expectations and guiding a strong Q2 , despite the limited upside of AI features in the iPhone 17 after the delayed Siri overhaul last year. It seems that consumers don't have AI high on their list when upgrading to a new phone. Therefore, this iPhone cycle is running hotter than anticipated,...
Nikada/iStock Unreleased via Getty Images Apple Inc. ( AAPL ) entered the new fiscal year beating earnings expectations and guiding a strong Q2 , despite the limited upside of AI features in the iPhone 17 after the delayed Siri overhaul last year. It seems that consumers don't have AI high on their list when upgrading to a new phone. Therefore, this iPhone cycle is running hotter than anticipated, pushing the company into supply chase mode, a dynamic that I haven't seen since the 5G transition. To be direct, I'm not bullish on Apple because the recent results confirmed the iPhone cycle momentum. This is a nice upside, but it's not the core pillar of my bull case. The main pillar of my bull case is the Gemini partnership, a topic I covered extensively in my pre-earnings coverage . For reference, the upside that I see comes mainly from an AI distribution model, where Apple could charge model providers for default assistant or large language model (“LLM”) placement, and from an iPhone upgrade perspective, given that Apple Intelligence is only available for iPhone 15 Pro models and iPhone 16 models or newer. That said, this article is focused on the Q1 earnings results and some of the risks that I see this year, particularly around gross margins. Q1 Highlights: iPhone Demand and Services on Fire Despite the skepticism last year due to the delay of big Siri upgrades, iPhone sales totaled $85.27B in the last quarter. To put that figure into perspective, please take a look below at the revenue growth of the iPhone product line for the last 3 years. Author Compilation The demand for the new iPhone 17 is so high that management said in the earnings call that the company is in supply chase mode and is currently constrained due to the availability of advanced nodes used for its SoCs. Here are some of the remarks from CEO Tim Cook during the last earnings call on the unprecedented demand: First of all, we were thrilled with the customer response on the latest iPhone lineup. It ...
Douglas Rissing/iStock via Getty Images The January Employment Situation report will be delayed due to the partial government shutdown that started on Sunday, according to media reports. The nonfarm payroll and unemployment rate data was scheduled to be released on Friday, Feb. 6. However, Congress didn't pass legislation to fund the government before the stopgap spending measure expired on Sunday...
Douglas Rissing/iStock via Getty Images The January Employment Situation report will be delayed due to the partial government shutdown that started on Sunday, according to media reports. The nonfarm payroll and unemployment rate data was scheduled to be released on Friday, Feb. 6. However, Congress didn't pass legislation to fund the government before the stopgap spending measure expired on Sunday, Feb. 1. The jobs report "will be rescheduled upon the resumption of government funding," an associate commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics told Bloomberg News. With the partial government shutdown, the BLS suspended its data collection, processing, and dissemination. The December Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey, which was due to be released on Tuesday, will also be delayed, the article said. More on the US Economy ISM Manufacturing PMI expands for the first time in a year in January House Speaker Johnson is confident partial shutdown will end by Tuesday 3 Things To Expect From The January 2026 Job Report
After a strong rally, Broadcom (AVGO) stock has come under pressure, dropping 20% from its 52-week high of $414.61. Broadcom is a key supplier of semiconductors, enterprise software, and security solutions, and the company continues to benefit from solid demand tailwinds. In particular, the company's artificial intelligence (AI) focused semiconductor products are seeing significant momentum, while...
After a strong rally, Broadcom (AVGO) stock has come under pressure, dropping 20% from its 52-week high of $414.61. Broadcom is a key supplier of semiconductors, enterprise software, and security solutions, and the company continues to benefit from solid demand tailwinds. In particular, the company's artificial intelligence (AI) focused semiconductor products are seeing significant momentum, while adoption of VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) has been strengthening its infrastructure software business. The main concern weighing on AVGO shares is profitability, particularly gross margins. Management recently projected that first-quarter consolidated gross margin could decline by 100 basis points sequentially. This is largely due to a higher mix of AI-related revenue, which carries lower margins compared to Broadcom’s software business. As AI revenue becomes a larger share of the business, overall gross margins may remain under pressure throughout the fiscal year. The company also noted that margins will continue to fluctuate depending on the balance between infrastructure software and semiconductor sales, as well as the specific product mix within chips. That said, Broadcom is focusing on improving operating leverage, implying that the company expects higher revenue volumes to translate into stronger operating profit dollars, even if gross margin percentages decline. In other words, Broadcom believes it can offset some margin compression through scale and efficiency. Looking ahead to the second half of the fiscal year, Broadcom expects to ship more AI systems. This will involve passing through additional component costs that are not manufactured by Broadcom, similar to how memory and other components are bundled into XPU. As a result, gross margin percentages may fall further because more third-party costs will flow through revenue. However, the company expects total gross margin dollars to rise, even if margins as a percentage of revenue decline. Broadcom believes opera...
What Happened? Shares of memory chips maker Micron (NYSE:MU) jumped 5.7% in the afternoon session after investor optimism grew amid an industry-wide memory supply shortage and soaring demand for its chips used in artificial intelligence (AI) applications. The surge in demand was tied to data center operators expanding their AI capabilities. Micron's high-bandwidth memory (HBM) products were in hig...
What Happened? Shares of memory chips maker Micron (NYSE:MU) jumped 5.7% in the afternoon session after investor optimism grew amid an industry-wide memory supply shortage and soaring demand for its chips used in artificial intelligence (AI) applications. The surge in demand was tied to data center operators expanding their AI capabilities. Micron's high-bandwidth memory (HBM) products were in high demand, with its chips designed into new GPUs from Nvidia and AMD. Major tech companies also signaled plans to increase their spending to support growing AI needs. This industry-wide memory supply shortage drove prices for dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) to their highest levels since 2019. Both Micron and a key competitor mentioned that their HBM products were sold out for 2026, highlighting the strong market conditions. More from Yahoo Scout What caused Micron's stock to surge today? What are analysts saying about Micron's price targets? How has Micron performed over the past year? How is AI demand affecting memory chip prices? Is now the time to buy Micron? Access our full analysis report here, it’s free. What Is The Market Telling Us Micron’s shares are extremely volatile and have had 42 moves greater than 5% over the last year. In that context, today’s move indicates the market considers this news meaningful but not something that would fundamentally change its perception of the business. The previous big move we wrote about was 12 days ago when the stock gained 5.9% on the news that analysts at multiple firms, including Barclays, Stifel, and TD Cowen, raised their price targets on the stock, citing strong demand for its AI-related memory chips. Barclays increased its price target to $450, while Stifel lifted its target to $360, and TD Cowen also set a new target of $450. The optimism was fueled by Micron's strong performance, as its recent earnings report showed that sales grew by more than 50% from the year-ago period, with its cloud memory division revenue near...
"To find out now that after all that time, the level of trust that I had built up, to find that all that time he's been lying to me and pretending that he was supporting my case and supporting getting justice for Stephen."
"To find out now that after all that time, the level of trust that I had built up, to find that all that time he's been lying to me and pretending that he was supporting my case and supporting getting justice for Stephen."
A shortage of mental health beds and poor communication between agencies contributed to the death of a teenage girl on hospital grounds, an inquest has found. Ellame Ford-Dunn, 16, who had a history of self-harm, died in March 2022 after absconding from an acute children’s ward where she had been put because of a dearth of appropriate mental health beds. Her family and campaigners say Ellame’s dea...
A shortage of mental health beds and poor communication between agencies contributed to the death of a teenage girl on hospital grounds, an inquest has found. Ellame Ford-Dunn, 16, who had a history of self-harm, died in March 2022 after absconding from an acute children’s ward where she had been put because of a dearth of appropriate mental health beds. Her family and campaigners say Ellame’s death exposed a mental health system “crumbling at the seams”. The inquest jury at West Sussex coroner’s court was told that Ellame absconded “multiple times” during her stay at Worthing hospital’s Bluefin ward, which was not a specialist mental health unit. Jurors concluded the decision to place Ellame there was “inappropriate” and “more than minimally” contributed to her death. They found “inadequate provision” of mental health beds also contributed to her death. The coroner, Joanne Andrews, said she would issue a prevention of future deaths report to warn that more children would die unless the inadequate provision of mental health beds was tackled. Ellame’s parents Ken and Nancy Ford-Dunn urged the government to increase funding for mental health services to ensure “other families don’t have to experience the worst thing imaginable”. When Ellame absconded she was not immediately followed by staff, because they were not allowed to chase patients out of the ward, the inquest heard. It took 59 minutes for her to be found by police, the jury was told. University hospitals Sussex (UHSussex), which runs the acute ward, was fined £200,000 last year in a separate prosecution over Ellame’s death. Her mental health care was provided by Sussex partnership NHS foundation trust (SPFT). Jurors concluded that “poor coordination, communication and accountability” between “multiple agencies” also contributed to Ellame’s death. “Inconsistency in nursing handovers” and a lack of guidance for staff were another factor in her death, they found. The jury foreman said: “The instructions given to...