Russia’s first domestically-built ice-class tanker is closing in on the US-sanctioned Arctic LNG 2 plant, expanding the facility’s fleet of vessels able to transport the fuel in winter. The Alexey Kosygin tanker has completed its monthlong maiden journey across the eastern part of the Northern Sea Route and is preparing to dock at the Novatek PJSC -led plant, according to ship-tracking data compil...
Russia’s first domestically-built ice-class tanker is closing in on the US-sanctioned Arctic LNG 2 plant, expanding the facility’s fleet of vessels able to transport the fuel in winter. The Alexey Kosygin tanker has completed its monthlong maiden journey across the eastern part of the Northern Sea Route and is preparing to dock at the Novatek PJSC -led plant, according to ship-tracking data compiled by Bloomberg. Once the Alexey Kosygin docks at Arctic LNG 2, it will be only the second ever ice-class tanker to do so. It is rated Arc-7, the highest ice-class ranking, which means the ship can service the plant in the winter. Until now, the only such vessel going to the facility has been the Christophe de Margerie. Designed to be Russia’s largest liquefied natural gas plant, Arctic LNG 2 is central to the country’s ambition to triple annual LNG output to 100 million tons and capture a 20% share of the global market. The addition of another ice-class tanker to the plant’s winter fleet would support LNG production and exports during the season when thick ice covers Arctic waters. The operator and Novatek, the project’s largest shareholder, did not respond to Bloomberg requests for comment on the current or future operations of the vessel. With a design capacity of nearly 20 million tons per year, Arctic LNG 2 began producing super-chilled fuel at the end of 2023 but only started exports in the summer of 2024 after western sanctions delayed shipments. During winter, when ice thickens along the Northern Sea Route, only tankers with reinforced hulls can load cargoes at Arctic LNG 2. Most vessels servicing the facility are not designed to operate in such conditions, and western restrictions have made it difficult to procure additional ice-class ships. Domestic construction of ice-class tankers has also taken longer than expected due to limited expertise in Russia. The Alexey Kosygin, built at the Zvezda shipyard in the country’s Far East, was originally scheduled for deliver...
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For Immediate Releases Chicago, IL – January 26, 2026 – Zacks.com announces the list of stocks featured in the Analyst Blog. Every day the Zacks Equity Research analysts discuss the latest news and events impacting stocks and the financial markets. Stocks recently featured in the blog includeMicrosoft Corp. MSFT, Anheuser-Busch InBev SA/NV BUD, CVS Health Corp. CVS and Stran & Co., Inc. SWAG. Here are highlights from Monday’s Analyst Blog: Top Stock Reports for Microsoft, Anheuser-Busch and CVS Health The Zacks Research Daily presents the best research output of our analyst team. Today's Research Daily features new research reports on 12 major stocks, including Microsoft Corp., Anheuser-Busch InBev SA/NV and CVS Health Corp., as well as a micro-cap stock, Stran & Co., Inc.. The Zacks microcap research is unique as our research content on these small and under-the-radar companies is the only research of its type in the country. These research reports have been hand-picked from the roughly 70 reports published by our analyst team today. You can see all of today’s research reports here >>> Ahead of Wall Street The daily 'Ahead of Wall Street' article is a must-read for all investors who would like to be ready for that day's trading action. The article comes out before the market opens, attempting to make sense of that morning's economic releases and how they will affect that day's market action. You can read this article for free on our home page and can actually sign up there to get an email notification as this article comes out each morning. You can read today's AWS here >>> Pre-Markets Lower Ahead of Massive Polar Vortex Today's Featured Research Reports Microsoft’s shares have outperformed the Zacks Computer - Software industry over the past year (+2.3% vs. -3.7%). The company demonstrates strong fundamentals anchored by Azure's 25% cloud market share and strategic AI integration through OpenAI. Microsoft generates exceptional operating cash flows, exceeding $100 ...
When David Warr was 11 he thought he was dying. At his school swimming lesson, he jumped in and swam – then realised with horror that his feet couldn’t feel the bottom. He recalls his teacher, standing on the side of the pool, shouting at him to “just swim” and his own immobilising fear. “I thought, ‘I can’t. I don’t know what to do.’ I started to panic hard. I thought, ‘She’s going to let me die....
When David Warr was 11 he thought he was dying. At his school swimming lesson, he jumped in and swam – then realised with horror that his feet couldn’t feel the bottom. He recalls his teacher, standing on the side of the pool, shouting at him to “just swim” and his own immobilising fear. “I thought, ‘I can’t. I don’t know what to do.’ I started to panic hard. I thought, ‘She’s going to let me die.’” Warr, 61, has blocked out how he reached safety, but for five decades he refused to go out of his depth again. He lives on the island of Jersey where water is a fact of life – but even when his sons were small, he would only wade a bit, and watch them swim with envy and pride. In contrast, he felt he was “battling the water”. Warr runs a tea and coffee business and also works as a politician; he’s a deputy for the St Helier South district. He doesn’t go on holiday often, but last year he and his wife visited Norway and stayed in a hotel on a lake. The water was murky and dark. There were no shallows. Warr’s wife swam; he dipped in a toe. “I thought, ‘I’m not going in there. I don’t trust myself.’” A few days later, they passed a long zip wire. Warr plays tennis and keeps fit, and “the sense of holding age at bay is strong” for him. “I have this thing in me, which is, if there’s an inadequacy, I want to overcome that.” Warr went on the zip wire, and when he and his wife returned to Jersey, he asked his boys’ old swimming teacher, Sally Minty-Gravett, for lessons. She had repeatedly swum the Channel, so she knew what she was doing. View image in fullscreen Dream team … Sally Minty-Gravett and David Warr. Photograph: Courtesy of David Warr They met at the bottom of a slipway. Warr put on goggles and a hat. “All the gear, and no idea.” In the first lesson, he practised floating. After a few sessions, he became more confident, but he still couldn’t go out of his depth. When Minty-Gravett asked him to jump off the slipway into the deep, it was “the most fearful moment … Here I...
Investors once again pulling away from the dollar has given precious metals yet another boost, with gold and silver both rallying to new highs . Gold has risen past $5,000/ounce for the first time, and silver has hurtled through $100/ounce, having only made that level for the first time on Friday. It is now trading around $109/ounce. The yen intervention risk adds to a catalogue of risks sending t...
Investors once again pulling away from the dollar has given precious metals yet another boost, with gold and silver both rallying to new highs . Gold has risen past $5,000/ounce for the first time, and silver has hurtled through $100/ounce, having only made that level for the first time on Friday. It is now trading around $109/ounce. The yen intervention risk adds to a catalogue of risks sending traders into precious metals, including ongoing worries about Federal Reserve independence and erratic policymaking from the White House.
Martinez is arguably not as imperious as he once was. But it is difficult to pinpoint exactly why. A World Cup winner with Argentina in 2022, having joined Villa for £17m in 2020, he has been one of the club's best performers. This season, though, the cracks have begun to show - for which it is easy to blame his failed move to United. An emotional Martinez appeared to be saying goodbye after Villa...
Martinez is arguably not as imperious as he once was. But it is difficult to pinpoint exactly why. A World Cup winner with Argentina in 2022, having joined Villa for £17m in 2020, he has been one of the club's best performers. This season, though, the cracks have begun to show - for which it is easy to blame his failed move to United. An emotional Martinez appeared to be saying goodbye after Villa's final home game of last season, against Tottenham in May. Villa were open to letting him leave, looking at Brentford's Mark Flekken among others, but then Manchester United manager Ruben Amorim lost the battle to bring him to Old Trafford. United's data suggested Senne Lammens was going to be one of Europe's best, that although he was not good as Martinez now, signing the Belgian made more sense, financially and for the future. They wanted to spend money in attacking areas - signing Matheus Cunha, Benjamin Sesko and Bryan Mbuemo - with Amorim overruled on a move for Martinez as Lammens joined from Royal Antwerp instead. On 31 August, the day before the transfer deadline, Martinez was left out for a 3-0 home defeat by Crystal Palace. When asked about Martinez's whereabouts, head coach Unai Emery repeated the name of stand-in keeper Marco Bizot several times. He returned after the international break for a 0-0 draw at Everton on 13 September - with Emery calling him "the best goalkeeper in the world", and one who had a "massive" commitment to Villa. But has Martinez been as consistent this season? There has been more than one late withdrawal from a game - including two following the warm-ups before matches against Brighton and Feyenoord. He has saved 76.1% of the shots he has faced this season - the most in the league - and is fifth on Opta's 'goals prevented' stats list with 17. He has made 55 saves - the 12th-highest total of any Premier League goalkeeper this season. His 'expected goals on target conceded' tally - which measures the likelihood of an on-target shot resul...
Key Points AppLovin has been the subject of numerous short-seller reports. Nothing has come of their allegations yet, and the company has some big-name investors. The stock is reasonably valued, and the company has some solid growth opportunities. 10 stocks we like better than AppLovin › Among the most controversial artificial intelligence (AI) stocks out there is AppLovin (NASDAQ: APP), which has...
Key Points AppLovin has been the subject of numerous short-seller reports. Nothing has come of their allegations yet, and the company has some big-name investors. The stock is reasonably valued, and the company has some solid growth opportunities. 10 stocks we like better than AppLovin › Among the most controversial artificial intelligence (AI) stocks out there is AppLovin (NASDAQ: APP), which has been the subject of various short-seller reports accusing the company of various misdeeds. The most common accusation against it has been that it installs apps onto users' devices without their permission, which would be a violation of app store policies and could get its software banned from these platforms. However, nothing has ever materialized from these allegations, and AppLovin continued to post strong growth throughout 2025. However, the shorts haven't given up. A new short-seller, CapitalWatch, has become the fourth to call out AppLovin, accusing it of being heavily involved in money laundering tied to Chinese and Cambodian criminal syndicates. The short report says the company uses an "Ad-Spend-as-Laundering" model. It further claims that AppLovin illegally distributes gambling and fraudulent apps, secretly downloading them onto people's devices without user consent. Where to invest $1,000 right now? Our analyst team just revealed what they believe are the 10 best stocks to buy right now. Continue » While it's rare to see a company so relentlessly attacked, the stock does have its fans. Billionaire hedge fund manager Chase Coleman of Tiger Global Management holds a stake in AppLovin, as does billionaire Philippe Laffont of Coatue Management. Meanwhile, highly regarded investor Michael Lowenstein has more than a third of Kensico Capital's multibillion-dollar portfolio in the stock. It would be hard to imagine that these wealthy investors didn't do their due diligence. AppLovin has been on a roller-coaster ride over the past year, and reached a peak near the end of ...
Nikada Asian equities are trading broadly lower, ahead of a crucial Federal Reserve policy meeting later this week, led by sharp declines in Japan, where the Nikkei is under the most pressure after the yen surged against the U.S. dollar. Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 ( NKY:IND ) dropped 1.7% to 52,937 on selling of big auto exporters and electric appliances like Toyota Motor ( TM ), Honda Motor ( H...
Nikada Asian equities are trading broadly lower, ahead of a crucial Federal Reserve policy meeting later this week, led by sharp declines in Japan, where the Nikkei is under the most pressure after the yen surged against the U.S. dollar. Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 ( NKY:IND ) dropped 1.7% to 52,937 on selling of big auto exporters and electric appliances like Toyota Motor ( TM ), Honda Motor ( HMC ), Nissan Motor ( NSANY ), and Panasonic Holdings ( PCRFF ), whose shares fell in the range of 4%. A weak currency is generally favorable for Japanese exporters because it helps elevate the value of their overseas earnings. The yen hit a two-month high in the upper 153 range against the U.S. dollar in Tokyo on Monday morning, extending its rise from late last week amid wariness of possible yen-buying interventions by U.S. and Japanese authorities. At 1:30 AM ET, the dollar ( USD:JPY ) fetched 154.28 yen. The Shanghai Composite ( SHCOMP ) slipped 0.10%, while the Hang Seng ( HSI ) fell 0.20%. Wall Street finished the week in the red, though stocks bounced off midweek lows amid geopolitical jitters. Earnings reports kept traders busy, while safe-haven demand boosted gold, which neared $5,000 an ounce. For the week, the S&P 500 fell 0.4%, the Nasdaq dipped 0.1%, and the Dow dropped 0.5%. U.S. futures are trading lower early Monday, with the Dow ( INDU ) down 0.07%, the S&P 500 ( SPX ) slipping 0.04%, and the Nasdaq ( US100:IND ) falling 0.12%. More on Asian markets Japan's yen grabs attention as traders await possible intervention PGJ: One Of The Less-Appealing Chinese ETFs Hang Seng Index: Dropped 1.5%, But Bullish Trend Intact With USD Weakness As A Tailwind FXI: Stocks Replace Real Estate Best performing chip stocks in the last 12 months