A massive wave of supply-side incentives and direct stimulus is set to propel the U.S. economy toward a 15% earnings growth surge in 2026, says Jason Trennert, CEO of Strategas Research Partners, as tax provisions ignite a domestic manufacturing renaissance. Stimulus Meets Industrial Growth Speaking on the Real Eisman Playbook, Trennert highlighted President Donald Trump‘s “one big beautiful bill” as the primary catalyst for economic resilience in 2026. This legislation is expected to inject approximately $150 billion into the system via tax refunds and immediate stimulus. Beyond consumer spending, the bill's “supply-side” provisions are designed to overhaul the U.S. industrial landscape. Don't Miss: Specifically, new rules allow companies to write off the entire cost of building a domestic factory immediately, rather than depreciating the expense over a decade. Trennert suggests this will compel CEOs to shift from financial engineering, such as stock buybacks, toward “real engineering” and capital spending. A Confluence Of Tailwinds The optimistic 14% to 15% earnings growth projection is supported by a unique alignment of cultural and economic events. Trennert also points to the 250th anniversary of the United States and the hosting of the World Cup as significant drivers of domestic activity. With real GDP projected at 3% and inflation hovering around 2.5%, the resulting 5.5% nominal GDP creates a “sanguine” environment for 2026. These factors make a near-term recession unlikely, though experts remain watchful regarding whether these capital investments can stay ahead of inflationary pressures as the calendar turns to 2027. Trending: It’s no wonder Jeff Bezos holds over $250 million in art — this alternative asset has outpaced the S&P 500 since 1995, delivering an average annual return of 11.4%. Here’s how everyday investors are getting started. Shifting Market Leadership This industrial-heavy growth marks a departure from the tech-dominated rallies of previous ye...

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Debra Cafaro, chairman and CEO of Ventas, discusses the company’s ongoing expansion in senior housing. She tells Romaine Bostick and Katie Greifeld on "The Close" that Ventas is focused on acquiring large senior living communities in high-demand U.S. markets. (Source: Bloomberg)

This article first appeared on GuruFocus. Insights into Tom Gayner (Trades, Portfolio)'s Fourth Quarter 2025 13F Filing Tom Gayner (Trades, Portfolio) recently submitted the 13F filing for the fourth quarter of 2025, providing insights into his investment moves during this period. Thomas Gayner is Co-Chief Executive Officer of Markel Corporation. He oversees the investing activities for the company, as well as the Markel Ventures diverse industrial and service businesses. Gayner joined Markel in 1990 to form Markel Gayner Asset Management which provided equity investment counsel for Markel Corporation as well as outside clients.Prior to joining Markel, Mr. Gayner served as vice president of Davenport & Co of Virginia and as a Certified Public Accountant with PriceWaterhouseCoopers LLP.Gayner serves as the Chairman of the Board of the Davis Series Mutual Funds and on the boards of the Colfax Corporation, Graham Holdings, Cable One and Markel. He is a trustee of The Community Foundation of Richmond, Bon Secours Health System, and a member of the Investment Advisory Committee of the Virginia Retirement System. He is a graduate of the University of Virginia and The Lawrenceville School. Gayner outlined in Markel's 2019 Letter to Shareholders a four-part discipline: First, Markel looks for businesses earning good rates of return that use only modest leverage to do so. Second, the firm looks for management teams with equal measure of talent and integrity. Third, Markel looks for businesses with opportunities to reinvest its capital and grow organically or by acquisition, and/or with capital discipline to repurchase shares or pay dividends. And fourth, the firm looks to acquire these holdings at fair prices: The long term returns should be similar to the underlying growth in intrinsic value of the company itself. Summary of New Buy Tom Gayner (Trades, Portfolio) added a total of 1 stock, among them: The most significant addition was Brown & Brown Inc (NYSE:BRO), with 11,00...

“I would be grateful if they take me. If they don’t, there’s nothing I can do.” At first glance, the North Korean prisoner of war captured in Ukraine looked rather calm as he appeared on MBC’s investigative programme, PD Notebook. But in reality, only one outcome awaits if he fails to make it to South Korea . “I won’t survive,” the prisoner said, describing what would happen to him if he were returned to North Korea. Advertisement In North Korea , soldiers are taught that being captured is an act of treason and urged to choose death instead. “Everyone else blew themselves up. I failed,” the prisoner said. The two captured soldiers – severely wounded and lamenting that they should have died as well – are just in their 20s. Nevertheless, both expressed an explicit desire to be sent to South Korea, and not repatriated to the North. Advertisement International law is clear on this matter. The Geneva Convention requires prisoners of war to be repatriated after hostilities end. However, if there is a credible risk of torture or persecution, repatriation against a prisoner’s will is prohibited. Seoul’s stance is also clear. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has repeatedly emphasised that North Korean prisoners are considered South Korean nationals under constitutional interpretation, and that if they seek asylum in the South, the government will accept them and provide protection and help.

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美國總統特朗普日前宣布與印度達成貿易協議，指印度總理莫迪承諾停止購買俄羅斯石油，轉而購入美國及委內瑞拉原油，以換取美國將印度商品的總體關稅從50%降至18%。然而，此項被特朗普形容為有助結束烏克蘭戰爭的協議，在實際執行上面臨重重障礙。綜合半島電視台、華爾街日報及德國之聲等媒體分析，印度能否以及是否願意徹底擺脫俄羅斯石油，存在極大疑問。 印度態度未明 俄方稱未獲通知 據半島電視台報道，自特朗普本周一宣布協議後，印度政府並未公開證實已承諾停止購買俄羅斯石油或轉向委內瑞拉原油。克里姆林宮發言人佩斯科夫亦於週二向記者表示，俄方未從印度收到相關訊息。 德國之聲指出，特朗普是在與莫迪通電話後，於社交媒體上公布此協議。莫迪雖對關稅減免表示「欣慰」，並讚揚特朗普的領導力，但其帖文並未明確提及停止購買俄羅斯石油的承諾。 印度依賴俄油甚深 驟停代價高昂 根據半島電視台引述數據，印度目前每日進口近110萬桶俄羅斯原油，約佔其總進口量的30%。相較於2022年俄烏戰爭前僅佔2.5%的比例，依賴度大幅加深。華爾街日報同樣指出，印度約有三分之一的石油進口依賴俄羅斯。 分析普遍認為，印度若突然完全停止進口俄油，將帶來嚴重經濟後果。半島電視台引述印度石油部長普里去年的警告，指此舉將大幅推高能源價格加劇通脹，並稱「世界無法承受將俄羅斯排除在石油市場之外」。能源分析師沃洛申指出，立即停止進口將導致全球油價飆升，並威脅印度經濟增長。 此外，印度煉油商過去兩年因採購折扣俄油而獲利豐厚。分析師波卡納表示，若轉向成本更高的美國或委內瑞拉石油，將擠壓煉油利潤，最終可能將成本轉嫁予消費者。據分析公司Kpler估計，完全轉離俄羅斯可能使印度每年進口成本增加90億至110億美元。 轉購委內瑞拉石油 面臨多重現實障礙 特朗普建議印度轉購委內瑞拉石油，但此方案在操作上面臨諸多挑戰。半島電視台分析指出： 距離與成本：委內瑞拉距離印度約為俄羅斯的兩倍、中東的五倍，運輸成本顯著更高。目前俄羅斯烏拉爾原油相對於布蘭特原油有每桶10-20美元的折扣，而委內瑞拉梅瑞原油折扣僅約5-8美元。綜合運費及折扣損失，印度進口每桶油成本可能增加6-8美元。 原油特性：委內瑞拉原油屬於高硫、高黏度的重質原油，需要複雜的煉油設施才能處理。印度僅有少數煉油廠具備此能力，且需與更貴的輕質原油混合煉製，進一步增加成本。 產能與供應：委內瑞拉當前產能極限...

Listen to this article On 4 December 2025, the US government released its National Security Strategy (NSS). According to the NSS, Washington will prioritise the security of the Western Hemisphere, strengthen its economic security by replacing globalist agendas, and build a burden-sharing alliance system. A sense of anxiety has descended on many US allies and partners in Europe and Asia. But Taiwan’s responses were generally positive, as the NSS underscores Taiwan’s strategic location in the first island chain and recognises its semiconductor dominance. Yet given a more inward-looking United States, Taiwan should remain cautious of the underlying risks set out in the NSS and avoid misinterpreting Washington’s military and economic strategy. Following the publication of the NSS, Taiwanese leaders welcomed its prioritisation of deterrence against a Taiwan contingency, with Taiwan’s Defence Minister asserting that ‘peace and stability in the Indo-Pacific are the biggest core interest of the United States’. Many Taiwanese analysts also praised the NSS as the confirmation of US assistance in the defence of Taiwan, with one expert located in Taiwan arguing that ‘to protect Taiwan is to protect the United States’. Indeed, Taipei’s positive attitudes are understandable. Yet it should avoid overconfidence and misinterpretation. These assessments of the NSS present an overly rosy picture for Taiwan and position its defence as a vital interest of the United States. But the United States is now embracing ‘flexible realism’ and prioritising dominance in the Western Hemisphere. It is difficult to support the claim that stability in the Indo-Pacific constitutes the United States’ biggest core interest and that Taiwan is ‘irreplaceable’ to US security strategy. The NSS itself makes no such assertion. Instead, as Under Secretary of War for Policy Elbridge Colby stated in 2025, Taiwan was important but not an ‘existential interest’ for the United States. Similarly, Michael Anton, the ...

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Soaring Trucker Rejection Rates Suggest "Epic Year" For Drivers Trucking advocacy group American Truckers United set the narrative late last year that the Trump administration's crackdown on fraudulent, non-domiciled commercial driver's licenses that flooded US highways during the Biden-Harris regime era - linked to deadly crashes nationwide and the collapse in spot rates for mom-and-pop American truckers - was finally set to end and begin transitioning into industry tailwinds in 2026. The note was penned on Dec. 27 and titled "Trump's Highway Enforcement Lays Groundwork For U.S. Trucking Revival. " ATU pointed out that the Trump administration's purging of illegal alien truck drivers was set to create fairer wages, safer roads, and protect the jobs of honest, hard-working citizen truckers. ATU noted a reversal in trucking spot rates in late 2025. Fast forward to today, rejection rates published on X by FreightWaves founder and CEO Craig Fuller show what is shaping up to be a stellar year for American truckers. Fuller posted Truckload Rejection Index (TRI) data from SONAR showing rejection rates of 14%. TRI tracks the percentage of contracted truckload shipments that carriers reject instead of hauling at the agreed contract rate, and only suggests that truck capacity is tightening after the Trump administration began purging illegals from the trucking industry. Fuller emphasized, "26 could be an epic year for truckers." Rejection rates break 14% as the rally in trucking continues 26 could be an epic year for truckers pic.twitter.com/dwkcYFZt6l — Craig Fuller 🛩🚛🚂⚓️ (@FreightAlley) February 4, 2026 Fuller also cites rising manufacturing trends (see ZH MFG note ) in the US, which only suggest a boom year for truckers. Some of the strongest signals for future freight demand The tide is turning pic.twitter.com/Kxubut0SUb — Craig Fuller 🛩🚛🚂⚓️ (@FreightAlley) February 4, 2026 Great news for truckers. Tailwinds certainly have arrived. Tyler Durden Fri, 02/06/2026 - 18:00

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Snap (NYSE:SNAP), a developer of the Snapchat visual messaging app with AR features, closed Friday at $5.22, up 1.95%. The stock has still fallen 24.68% this week. It gained today as investors reassessed Snap’s post-earnings sell-off in the light of analyst upgrades. Trading volume reached 89.0 million shares, coming in about 96% above its three-month average of 45.4 million shares. Snap IPO'd in 2017 and has fallen 79% since going public. How the markets moved today The S&P 500 (SNPINDEX:^GSPC) rose 1.97% to 6,932, while the Nasdaq Composite (NASDAQINDEX:^IXIC) gained 2.18% to finish at 23,031. Among social media peers, Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:META) closed at $661.46, down 1.31%, while Pinterest (NYSE:PINS) ended at $19.60, up 1.45%. Pinterest announced a workforce reallocation, cutting almost 15% of its staff, as it focuses more attention on artificial intelligence (AI) activities. What this means for investors Snap’s slight rebound today came after a difficult week for the company. Wednesday’s Q4 earnings beat expectations, but ad revenue was lower than forecast. Falling daily user numbers also raised concerns, particularly given potential regulatory challenges that could restrict under-18s from using its services. It pared losses slightly after B. Riley upgraded the stock to Buy from Neutral, maintaining a $10 price target. The analyst argued Snap is successfully developing new revenue opportunities. Today, Stifel upgraded Snap to Hold from Sell. Investors will be watching Snap’s augmented reality Spectacles launch, due this year. Snap’s push for an early-mover advantage could backfire if the quality isn’t there. Should you buy stock in Snap right now? Before you buy stock in Snap, consider this: The Motley Fool Stock Advisor analyst team just identified what they believe are the 10 best stocks for investors to buy now… and Snap wasn’t one of them. The 10 stocks that made the cut could produce monster returns in the coming years. Consider when Netflix made this l...

PM Images/DigitalVision via Getty Images Introduction The Dividend Champions list is a monthly compilation of companies which have consistently increased their annual dividend payouts. However, since this list is only produced once per month, the data in it can quickly get out of date. Furthermore, with around 700 companies on the list, the sheer amount of data can quickly become overwhelming. In this weekly series, I highlight recent and upcoming dividend related activity for dividend stocks on the Dividend Champions list. In the data presented below, Yield is forward annualized and Years reflects the up-to-date streak, including dividends declared since the last edition of the Dividend Champions list. Dividend Changes In the past week, the following companies declared dividends which changed from their previous payouts. Increases: Company Symbol Ex-Div Pay Old Rate New Rate Increase Yield Years Archer-Daniels-Midland Company ( ADM ) 2/17 3/10 0.51 0.52 1.96% 3.14% 51 Ameren Corporation ( AEE ) 3/10 3/31 0.71 0.75 5.63% 2.85% 13 The Allstate Corporation ( ALL ) 3/2 4/1 1 1.08 8.00% 2.08% 16 Allegion plc ( ALLE ) 3/13 3/31 0.51 0.55 7.84% 1.22% 13 Ares Management Corporation ( ARES ) 3/17 3/31 1.12 1.35 20.54% 4.14% 7 Brookfield Renewable Partners L.P. ( BEP ) 2/27 3/31 0.373 0.392 5.09% 5.15% 17 The Cigna Group ( CI ) 3/5 3/19 1.51 1.56 3.31% 2.14% 6 CMS Energy Corporation ( CMS ) 2/17 2/27 0.5425 0.57 5.07% 3.13% 20 CSG Systems International, Inc. ( CSGS ) 3/18 4/1 0.32 0.34 6.25% 1.70% 14 Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation ( CTSH ) 2/18 2/26 0.31 0.33 6.45% 1.71% 7 Exponent, Inc. ( EXPO ) 3/6 3/20 0.3 0.31 3.33% 1.55% 14 First Industrial Realty Trust, Inc. ( FR ) 3/31 4/20 0.445 0.5 12.36% 3.35% 14 FirstService Corporation ( FSV ) 3/31 4/7 0.275 0.305 10.91% 0.76% 12 Genpact Limited ( G ) 3/16 3/31 0.17 0.1875 10.29% 1.86% 10 International Bancshares Corporation ( IBOC ) 2/13 2/27 0.7 0.73 4.29% 1.96% 17 Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. ( ICE ) 3/17 3/31 0...

The S&P 500 on Friday rose 1.97%, recording its best day since May, as it rebounded from a week of dramatic selling triggered yet again by the AI boom and what it will mean for the economy, companies and the labor market. The Nasdaq Composite also surged 2.18% on Friday. But the rebound masked a sell-off in many tech names. Shares of Amazon, the fifth largest public company in the world, sank 5.58% after it said Thursday that it planned to spend $200 billion in the coming year. That money is primarily expected to be spent on the Amazon Web Services division, the largest cloud provider in the world. Since Monday, Amazon's stock has plunged 12% and shed more than $310 billion in market value. Two other tech giants, Microsoft and Meta, have met similar fates this week. Both companies also announced hundreds of billions of dollars in planned spending on AI this year. Collectively, Amazon, Microsoft, Meta and Alphabet plan to shell out around $650 billion this year to expand their data center and AI capabilities. Taken together, the four companies shed nearly $1 trillion in market value over the last five days. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite also finished the week in the red. But there were definite bright spots. Industrial stocks such as Caterpillar and a handful of energy firms soared on the expectation that their services would be in high demand for data centers. The industrial and energy sectors of the S&P 500 were two of the best performers on Friday. Tech was as well, boosted by chipmakers. Shares of Nvidia also boomed, rising nearly 8%. The AI chip maker is now worth more than $4.5 trillion. After saying earlier this week that the sell-off was "the most illogical thing in the world," Nvidia CEO went on CNBC to back the sector again on Friday. Huang said the stunning levels of spending was appropriate given the "incredibly high" demand for AI applications. Likewise, Apple jumped 7% this week. The iPhone maker has been largely spared from recent AI-induced sell-of...

Palantir Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ:PLTR - Get Free Report) shares shot up 4.5% during mid-day trading on Friday . The stock traded as high as $137.69 and last traded at $135.90. 62,042,888 shares traded hands during mid-day trading, an increase of 25% from the average session volume of 49,618,789 shares. The stock had previously closed at $130.01. Get Palantir Technologies alerts: Sign Up Key Headlines Impacting Palantir Technologies Here are the key news stories impacting Palantir Technologies this week: Analysts Set New Price Targets A number of analysts have commented on PLTR shares. Robert W. Baird upgraded Palantir Technologies from a "neutral" rating to an "outperform" rating and set a $200.00 target price on the stock in a research report on Tuesday. Northland Securities upgraded shares of Palantir Technologies from a "market perform" rating to an "outperform" rating and set a $190.00 price target on the stock in a report on Tuesday. Morgan Stanley lifted their target price on shares of Palantir Technologies from $155.00 to $205.00 and gave the company an "equal weight" rating in a report on Tuesday, November 4th. Cantor Fitzgerald reissued a "neutral" rating on shares of Palantir Technologies in a research report on Tuesday. Finally, Mizuho set a $195.00 target price on shares of Palantir Technologies in a research note on Tuesday. One analyst has rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, ten have issued a Buy rating, twelve have given a Hold rating and two have given a Sell rating to the stock. Based on data from MarketBeat, the stock presently has an average rating of "Hold" and an average price target of $191.95. Read Our Latest Stock Analysis on Palantir Technologies Palantir Technologies Stock Performance The stock has a market cap of $323.91 billion, a P/E ratio of 215.72, a P/E/G ratio of 3.35 and a beta of 1.64. The firm has a 50 day simple moving average of $174.49 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of $173.19. Palantir Technologies (NASDAQ...

herstockart/iStock via Getty Images The last time I wrote about Corbus Pharmaceuticals ( CRBP ), it was with respect to a Seeking Alpha article entitled " Corbus Pharmaceuticals: Downgrade To Hold Due To Narrow Focus Windows ". With respect to this article, I noted that the biotech had decided to narrow its focus on the development of its very own Nectin-4 antibody-drug conjugate [ADC] CRB-701 for the treatment of Nectin-4-expressing solid tumors. It chose to put its focus on using this drug towards the targeting of patients with head and neck squamous cell carcinoma [HNSCC] and cervical cancer. As an update for this candidate, the company believes that it is in line to begin a registrational study for it targeting HNSCC patients in mid-2026. However, this time around, I want to go over another update that the company had reported on, which is the use of its oral CB1 inverse agonist CRB-913 for the treatment of patients with obesity. It reported some single-ascending dose [SAD] and multiple-ascending dose [MAD] dosing data from a phase 1a study for this program, which I will be going over below. If this data has already been reported, then what exactly do investors have left to look forward to? The company initiated a phase 1b dose-range finding study known as CANYON-1 based on the prior phase 1a study data. Thus, the company believes that it is going to be able to release 12-week data from the phase 1b study in the summer of 2026. Based on this fact, I believe that the company deserves to maintain a "Hold" rating. This, plus also the fact that the company didn't do so badly with the release of phase 1a data, showing that a cohort of obesity patients [12 of them] achieved a placebo-adjusted mean weight loss of 2.9% at Day 14. It will be intriguing to see if long-term data produces substantially better weight loss. CRB-913 for Weight Loss is Off to a Good Start, With More Evidence Needed As I noted above, Corbus Pharmaceuticals is in the process of gearing up to init...

Meta Platforms, Inc. (NASDAQ:META - Get Free Report)'s stock price dropped 1.3% during mid-day trading on Friday . The company traded as low as $646.50 and last traded at $661.46. Approximately 17,632,253 shares were traded during mid-day trading, a decline of 0% from the average daily volume of 17,687,252 shares. The stock had previously closed at $670.21. Get Meta Platforms alerts: Sign Up Meta Platforms News Summary Here are the key news stories impacting Meta Platforms this week: Analyst Ratings Changes Several equities research analysts have recently issued reports on the company. The Goldman Sachs Group reaffirmed a "buy" rating on shares of Meta Platforms in a research report on Tuesday, October 14th. Oppenheimer downgraded Meta Platforms from an "outperform" rating to a "market perform" rating in a research note on Thursday, October 30th. Benchmark downgraded Meta Platforms from a "buy" rating to a "hold" rating in a research report on Thursday, October 30th. Zacks Research lowered Meta Platforms from a "strong-buy" rating to a "hold" rating in a report on Tuesday, November 18th. Finally, UBS Group restated a "buy" rating and issued a $872.00 price objective (up previously from $830.00) on shares of Meta Platforms in a research note on Thursday, January 29th. Five equities research analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, thirty-nine have issued a Buy rating and seven have issued a Hold rating to the company's stock. According to MarketBeat.com, Meta Platforms has a consensus rating of "Moderate Buy" and an average price target of $847.40. Get Our Latest Research Report on Meta Platforms Meta Platforms Stock Performance The company has a quick ratio of 2.60, a current ratio of 2.60 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.27. The firm has a 50-day moving average of $656.48 and a 200 day moving average of $695.54. The stock has a market capitalization of $1.67 trillion, a P/E ratio of 28.15, a PEG ratio of 1.14 and a beta of 1.28. Meta Platforms (NASDAQ...

Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT - Get Free Report) was up 1.9% during mid-day trading on Friday . The company traded as high as $401.79 and last traded at $401.14. Approximately 52,478,194 shares traded hands during trading, an increase of 39% from the average daily volume of 37,747,590 shares. The stock had previously closed at $393.67. Get Microsoft alerts: Sign Up Key Headlines Impacting Microsoft Here are the key news stories impacting Microsoft this week: Analyst Ratings Changes Several equities research analysts recently issued reports on the stock. BMO Capital Markets dropped their target price on shares of Microsoft from $625.00 to $575.00 and set an "outperform" rating on the stock in a report on Thursday, January 29th. New Street Research increased their price target on Microsoft from $670.00 to $675.00 and gave the company a "buy" rating in a report on Thursday, January 29th. Wolfe Research cut their price objective on Microsoft from $625.00 to $530.00 and set an "outperform" rating for the company in a report on Thursday, January 29th. Raymond James Financial reduced their price objective on Microsoft from $630.00 to $600.00 and set an "outperform" rating for the company in a research report on Thursday, October 30th. Finally, Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft dropped their target price on Microsoft from $630.00 to $575.00 and set a "buy" rating on the stock in a research report on Thursday, January 29th. Two analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, thirty-nine have given a Buy rating and three have issued a Hold rating to the stock. According to data from MarketBeat, Microsoft has an average rating of "Moderate Buy" and a consensus price target of $596.95. View Our Latest Research Report on Microsoft Microsoft Stock Up 1.9% The company has a market capitalization of $2.98 trillion, a PE ratio of 25.09, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 1.62 and a beta of 1.08. The company's fifty day moving average is $470.24 and its 200-day moving av...

Shares of NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA - Get Free Report) rose 7.9% during trading on Friday . The stock traded as high as $187.00 and last traded at $185.41. Approximately 228,489,864 shares changed hands during mid-day trading, an increase of 34% from the average daily volume of 170,979,781 shares. The stock had previously closed at $171.88. Get NVIDIA alerts: Sign Up NVIDIA News Summary Here are the key news stories impacting NVIDIA this week: Positive Sentiment: Nvidia is reported to be committing about $20 billion to OpenAI, a high‑visibility strategic move that reinforces NVDA’s central role in the AI infrastructure ecosystem and likely supports further demand for its data‑center GPUs. Read More. Nvidia is reported to be committing about $20 billion to OpenAI, a high‑visibility strategic move that reinforces NVDA’s central role in the AI infrastructure ecosystem and likely supports further demand for its data‑center GPUs. Read More. Positive Sentiment: CEO Jensen Huang told CNBC that the industry’s ~$660 billion capex buildout for AI infrastructure is sustainable, and other coverage quotes him and customers saying demand is “through the roof” — comments that validate long‑term revenue visibility for NVDA’s chips. Read More. CEO Jensen Huang told CNBC that the industry’s ~$660 billion capex buildout for AI infrastructure is sustainable, and other coverage quotes him and customers saying demand is “through the roof” — comments that validate long‑term revenue visibility for NVDA’s chips. Read More. Positive Sentiment: Broad market and semiconductor sector rebounds lifted large-cap chips; NVDA, as the AI‑chip leader, led the rally as investors rotated back into tech after a recent sell‑off. Read More. Broad market and semiconductor sector rebounds lifted large-cap chips; NVDA, as the AI‑chip leader, led the rally as investors rotated back into tech after a recent sell‑off. Read More. Neutral Sentiment: Suppliers and industry players (e.g., Wistron) are signalin...

Announced new AWS agreements with OpenAI , Visa, the NBA , BlackRock, Perplexity, Lyft, United Airlines, DoorDash, Salesforce, U.S. Air Force, Adobe, Thomson Reuters, AT&T, S&P Global, National Bank of Canada, London Stock Exchange Group, Choice Hotels, Accenture, Indeed, HSBC, CrowdStrike, and more. Continued gaining significant momentum with AWS custom chips: Trainium and Graviton now have a combined annual revenue run rate of over $10 billion and growing at a triple digit percentage year-over-year. Trainium2 is fully subscribed with 1.4 million chips landed, and powers the majority of inference on Bedrock, a service used by 100,000+ companies. Trainium2 powers Project Rainier, the world’s largest operational AI compute cluster with 500,000+ Trainium2 chips, which Anthropic is using to train its industry-leading AI model, Claude. Trainium3 is now delivering production workloads and seeing strong demand, with nearly all Trainium3 supply of chips expected to be committed by mid-2026. Trainium4 is expected to start delivering in 2027, with 6 times the FP4 compute performance, 4 times more memory bandwidth, and 2 times more high memory bandwidth capacity than Trainium3. Introduced Graviton5, AWS’s most powerful and advanced CPU for a broad set of cloud workloads. Used by over 90% of the top 1,000 AWS customers, Graviton is up to 40% more price-performant than leading x86 processors, and enables applications to run faster, reduce costs, and meet sustainability goals. Added 20+ fully-managed models on Amazon Bedrock, including from Amazon Nova as well as Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, NVIDIA, Qwen, Mistral AI, Stability AI, Cohere, MiniMax AI, and Moonshot AI—enabling customers to test and switch between models without rewriting code while accessing breakthrough capabilities in coding, reasoning, and agentic workflows. Expanded its family of Nova models , including Nova 2 Lite and Nova 2 Pro for frontier intelligence with lower costs and latency, and Nova 2 Sonic for multil...

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The showpiece to kick off the Games happened across multiple venues but politics and protests were also present The most striking thing about the opening ceremony isn’t a single prop, celebrity cameo or piece of choreography: it’s the geography. For the first time, an Olympic opening ceremony in effect happened across multiple live venues all at once, with Milan, Cortina, Livigno and Predazzo linked into one narrative structure. It felt less like a show in a stadium and more like watching a country perform itself in real time. The organising concept – “Armonia”, the idea that different elements can move together without losing their identity – isn’t just branding. It shapes how the ceremony actually functioned. Sitting in San Siro, you’re constantly aware that somewhere else, at that exact moment, another piece of the story is unfolding. It created a strange sense of scale: intimate and enormous at once. In an era when global attention is fragmented across screens and platforms, Italy staged the opposite – a ceremony built on simultaneity, connection and shared rhythm. Continue reading...

Robinhood advanced with crypto as volatility and trading engagement shaped positioning ahead of the company’s earnings report. Expand NASDAQ : HOOD Robinhood Markets Today's Change ( 13.81 %) $ 10.04 Current Price $ 82.72 Key Data Points Market Cap $65B Day's Range $ 77.14 - $ 84.32 52wk Range $ 29.66 - $ 153.86 Volume 2.3M Avg Vol 27M Gross Margin 89.78 % Robinhood Markets (HOOD +13.81%), a commission-free trading platform, closed Friday at $82.82, up 13.95% for the session. The stock moved higher as rebounding cryptocurrency prices lifted crypto-exposed brokers and helped shares recover from recent weakness ahead of Friday’s earnings report, while investors are watching how upcoming results reflect crypto activity and trading engagement. The company’s trading volume reached 53.8 million shares, approximately 97% higher than its three-month average of 27.4 million shares. Robinhood Markets went public in 2021 and has grown 138% since its IPO. How the markets moved today S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) added 1.97% to finish at 6,930, while the Nasdaq Composite (NASDAQINDEX: ^IXIC) advanced 2.18% to close at 23,031. Within financial services, industry peers Charles Schwab (SCHW +3.06%) closed at $105.08 (up 3.02%) and Interactive Brokers Group (IBKR +7.34%) finished at $74.59 (up 7.34%) as investor interest broadened across retail brokerages. What this means for investors Robinhood shares rebounded Friday as a rise in cryptocurrency prices lifted crypto-exposed brokers ahead of the company’s earnings report. The move followed a sharp sell-off earlier in the week and reinforced the extent to which the stock tracks shifts in digital-asset sentiment rather than broader equity-market trends. After a steep pullback, investors remain split on whether renewed strength in crypto prices can translate into durable trading activity or simply reflects another short-term swing. That uncertainty has kept Robinhood’s shares volatile, with price action driven more by expectations around e...

Feb 6 (Reuters) - Crypto-focused Erebor Bank became the first bank to receive a national bank charter during ​the second term of the Trump administration, the ‌Wall Street Journal reported on Friday. The approval allows the Palmer Luckey-backed entity ‌to operate as a bank nationwide, and occurred less than eight months after it applied for a charter with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. The OCC did not ⁠immediately respond to a ‌Reuters request for comment. Launched by Anduril co-founder Luckey, Erebor received conditional approval from U.S. banking ‍regulators in October. Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale is an investor in the bank, while Peter Thiel has also been widely reported to back ​the initiative. Erebor plans to serve technology businesses in artificial ‌intelligence, crypto, defense and manufacturing, as well as individuals who work at or invest in them, according to its charter application. It is also aiming to fill the void left by Silicon Valley Bank's collapse in 2023, which was a ⁠key banking channel for early-stage technology ​firms and venture capitalists deemed ​too risky by traditional banks. Many startups struggled to access capital and meet immediate obligations, such as payrolls ‍after the ⁠bank collapsed. Like Anduril and Palantir, Erebor takes its name from J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings" series. In ⁠the books, Erebor is the "Lonely Mountain", a fortress whose treasures are reclaimed ‌from the dragon Smaug. (Reporting by Ateev Bhandari in ‌Bengaluru; Editing by Vijay Kishore)