FrankRamspott/E+ via Getty Images Introduction to the iShares Latin America 40 ETF The iShares Latin America 40 ETF ( ILF ), which was set up on the 25 th of October 2001, has so far garnered total assets under management of over $4 billion. This ETF, issued by BlackRock, Inc. ( BLK ), offers an annualized yield of 3.2% (distributions are made twice a year in June and December) at the time of writing and has an expense ratio of 0.47%. What Does ILF Do? ILF uses representative sampling (whereby it attempts to mimic the performance of an index, not by owning every stock that the index owns, and in the same proportion, but rather just a sample of stocks that, in total, have the same characteristics as the index). It passively tracks the S&P Latin America 40 Index (SLA4I). SLA4I, in turn, selects the 40 largest and most liquid stocks (by free float market capitalization) from five specific Latin American markets—Brazil, Mexico, Chile, Peru, and Colombia. SLA4I comes across as a good representation of blue-chip stocks from Latin America (the index is designed to represent 70% of the Latam region's total market capitalization) and is one of seven indices that jointly account for the S&P Global 1200. What Are the Standout Characteristics of ILF’s Portfolio? ILF’s tracking index not only chooses the largest stocks in Latin America, but it also assigns weights to its individual holdings on the basis of their free-float market capitalization; this makes this portfolio tilt very heavily to giant-cap stocks, which alone account for over two-thirds of the portfolio. Morningstar As far as country exposure goes, we know ILF covers five different options, but Brazilian stocks account for a huge chunk of this portfolio, both in terms of number (43% of all holdings), as well as market capitalization (59%). Country exposure From a sector angle, even though ILF provides exposure to stocks from 10 different sectors, two subplots stand out. 39% of the portfolio comes from just financial ...

欧洲央行周四一如市场预期维持利率不变，同时淡化美元波动对其未来决策的影响。与此同时，通胀前景基本未变，亦暗示未来数月政策将保持稳定。 自6月结束持续一年的降息周期以来，欧元区央行一直维持利率不变。经济增长表现出超乎预期的韧性，几乎消除了决策者提供进一步支持的压力。 欧洲央行承认全球贸易政策和地缘政治紧张局势仍存在不确定性，但表示中期内通胀仍将稳定在2%的目标水平，欧元区经济正沿着去年12月预测的轨道前进。 政策处于良好位置 欧洲央行总裁拉加德在记者会上表示，“当前形势总体平衡”，同时提及该前景面临的上行与下行风险，重申货币政策仍处于“良好位置”。 不过，在美元上周急挫后，管理委员会确实花时间讨论了汇率走势。 当被问及汇率问题时，拉加德表示欧洲央行正密切关注市场动向，但最终得出的结论是，近几个月并无重大变化。 “事实上自夏季以来，过去几周汇率始终陷于区间，”她补充道，决策者因此认定去年以来的汇率波动“已纳入我们的基线情境”。 消息人士表示，欧洲央行管委们讨论了向更多国家开放其流动性工具，以降低使用成本并简化操作流程，此举旨在提升欧元的国际地位。 市场预期2026年不会调整利率 欧元兑美元上涨会降低进口成本，尤其是能源，从而在当前通胀已低于目标（即便可能只是暂时）的情况下进一步压低通胀。 随着近几日美元跌势回调，从贸易加权口径看，欧元实际上弱于欧洲央行12月会议时的水平，这强化了市场和经济学家对2026年利率不变、而在2027年后期可能在一定程度上收紧政策的预期。 富瑞分析师Modupe Adegbembo表示：“我们的基线情境仍是欧洲央行年内维持利率不变”，并补充称当前风险更倾向于下次政策调整将是降息而非加息。 Adegbembo指出：“我们几乎看不到新出现的通胀压力，货币升值、技术创新可能引发的通缩冲击，以及中国推动贸易伙伴多元化的举措，都指向价格环境趋于温和。” 拉加德重申了央行的官方立场，即政策将取决于数据，且没有预设的利率路径。 通胀是欧洲央行的首要目标。上月受能源成本下降影响，欧元区通胀降至1.7%，且可能在预计于明年反弹之前进一步下探，这勾起了人们对新冠疫情前十年欧洲央行为重振通胀所作努力的记忆。 不过，值得注意的是，在强劲经济数据和能源价格上涨的推动下，长期通胀预期正逐步上升而非下降。 ”未来采取行动的门槛依然很高，“ LC Macro Advisors...

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Investors in Bath & Body Works Inc (Symbol: BBWI) saw new options begin trading today, for the March 27th expiration. At Stock Options Channel , our YieldBoost formula has looked up and down the BBWI options chain for the new March 27th contracts and identified one put and one call contract of particular interest. The put contract at the $19.00 strike price has a current bid of 50 cents. If an investor was to sell-to-open that put contract, they are committing to purchase the stock at $19.00, but will also collect the premium, putting the cost basis of the shares at $18.50 (before broker commissions). To an investor already interested in purchasing shares of BBWI, that could represent an attractive alternative to paying $22.05/share today. Because the $19.00 strike represents an approximate 14% discount to the current trading price of the stock (in other words it is out-of-the-money by that percentage), there is also the possibility that the put contract would expire worthless. The current analytical data (including greeks and implied greeks) suggest the current odds of that happening are 75%. Stock Options Channel will track those odds over time to see how they change, publishing a chart of those numbers on our website under the contract detail page for this contract. Should the contract expire worthless, the premium would represent a 2.63% return on the cash commitment, or 19.23% annualized — at Stock Options Channel we call this the YieldBoost. Below is a chart showing the trailing twelve month trading history for Bath & Body Works Inc, and highlighting in green where the $19.00 strike is located relative to that history: Turning to the calls side of the option chain, the call contract at the $23.50 strike price has a current bid of 85 cents. If an investor was to purchase shares of BBWI stock at the current price level of $22.05/share, and then sell-to-open that call contract as a "covered call," they are committing to sell the stock at $23.50. Considering the c...

Investors in Freeport-McMoran Copper & Gold (Symbol: FCX) saw new options begin trading today, for the March 27th expiration. At Stock Options Channel , our YieldBoost formula has looked up and down the FCX options chain for the new March 27th contracts and identified one put and one call contract of particular interest. The put contract at the $51.00 strike price has a current bid of 72 cents. If an investor was to sell-to-open that put contract, they are committing to purchase the stock at $51.00, but will also collect the premium, putting the cost basis of the shares at $50.28 (before broker commissions). To an investor already interested in purchasing shares of FCX, that could represent an attractive alternative to paying $58.64/share today. Because the $51.00 strike represents an approximate 13% discount to the current trading price of the stock (in other words it is out-of-the-money by that percentage), there is also the possibility that the put contract would expire worthless. The current analytical data (including greeks and implied greeks) suggest the current odds of that happening are 78%. Stock Options Channel will track those odds over time to see how they change, publishing a chart of those numbers on our website under the contract detail page for this contract. Should the contract expire worthless, the premium would represent a 1.41% return on the cash commitment, or 10.31% annualized — at Stock Options Channel we call this the YieldBoost. Below is a chart showing the trailing twelve month trading history for Freeport-McMoran Copper & Gold, and highlighting in green where the $51.00 strike is located relative to that history: Turning to the calls side of the option chain, the call contract at the $63.00 strike price has a current bid of $2.90. If an investor was to purchase shares of FCX stock at the current price level of $58.64/share, and then sell-to-open that call contract as a "covered call," they are committing to sell the stock at $63.00. Consid...

Investors in TJX Companies (Symbol: TJX) saw new options begin trading today, for the March 27th expiration. At Stock Options Channel , our YieldBoost formula has looked up and down the TJX options chain for the new March 27th contracts and identified one put and one call contract of particular interest. The put contract at the $140.00 strike price has a current bid of 31 cents. If an investor was to sell-to-open that put contract, they are committing to purchase the stock at $140.00, but will also collect the premium, putting the cost basis of the shares at $139.69 (before broker commissions). To an investor already interested in purchasing shares of TJX, that could represent an attractive alternative to paying $155.90/share today. Because the $140.00 strike represents an approximate 10% discount to the current trading price of the stock (in other words it is out-of-the-money by that percentage), there is also the possibility that the put contract would expire worthless. The current analytical data (including greeks and implied greeks) suggest the current odds of that happening are 83%. Stock Options Channel will track those odds over time to see how they change, publishing a chart of those numbers on our website under the contract detail page for this contract. Should the contract expire worthless, the premium would represent a 0.22% return on the cash commitment, or 1.62% annualized — at Stock Options Channel we call this the YieldBoost. Below is a chart showing the trailing twelve month trading history for TJX Companies, and highlighting in green where the $140.00 strike is located relative to that history: Turning to the calls side of the option chain, the call contract at the $160.00 strike price has a current bid of $1.71. If an investor was to purchase shares of TJX stock at the current price level of $155.90/share, and then sell-to-open that call contract as a "covered call," they are committing to sell the stock at $160.00. Considering the call seller will...

Investors in Coherent Corp (Symbol: COHR) saw new options begin trading today, for the March 27th expiration. At Stock Options Channel , our YieldBoost formula has looked up and down the COHR options chain for the new March 27th contracts and identified one put and one call contract of particular interest. The put contract at the $195.00 strike price has a current bid of $18.20. If an investor was to sell-to-open that put contract, they are committing to purchase the stock at $195.00, but will also collect the premium, putting the cost basis of the shares at $176.80 (before broker commissions). To an investor already interested in purchasing shares of COHR, that could represent an attractive alternative to paying $197.04/share today. Because the $195.00 strike represents an approximate 1% discount to the current trading price of the stock (in other words it is out-of-the-money by that percentage), there is also the possibility that the put contract would expire worthless. The current analytical data (including greeks and implied greeks) suggest the current odds of that happening are 60%. Stock Options Channel will track those odds over time to see how they change, publishing a chart of those numbers on our website under the contract detail page for this contract. Should the contract expire worthless, the premium would represent a 9.33% return on the cash commitment, or 68.19% annualized — at Stock Options Channel we call this the YieldBoost. Below is a chart showing the trailing twelve month trading history for Coherent Corp, and highlighting in green where the $195.00 strike is located relative to that history: Turning to the calls side of the option chain, the call contract at the $205.00 strike price has a current bid of $20.20. If an investor was to purchase shares of COHR stock at the current price level of $197.04/share, and then sell-to-open that call contract as a "covered call," they are committing to sell the stock at $205.00. Considering the call seller w...

Bradley Caslin /iStock Editorial via Getty Images Saudi Arabia’s national airline is holding early discussions with Boeing ( BA ) and Airbus ( EADSF ) ( EADSY ) about a potential aircraft order that could be the largest in its history, as the kingdom ramps up investment to expand travel and tourism. Saudia is evaluating a purchase of at least 150 aircraft, spanning both narrowbody and widebody models, Bloomberg News reported Thursday, citing people familiar with the talks. The airline has not yet settled on specific aircraft types or final quantities, and the discussions remain at a preliminary stage. Any deal would allow the carrier to replace older jets while also expanding its fleet, which currently numbers about 200 aircraft. There is no certainty the negotiations will lead to an agreement. The airline has made sizable purchases in recent years, ordering more than 100 Airbus ( EADSF ) ( EADSY ) narrowbody jets in 2024 and committing to dozens of Boeing ( BA ) 787 Dreamliners the year before, with additional options. Under Saudi Arabia’s aviation strategy, state-owned Saudia is expected to concentrate more heavily on religious travel, while new entrant Riyadh Air is positioned as a premium carrier aimed at international tourists. Saudia has also refreshed its leadership, pursued high-profile partnerships and invested in onboard upgrades, including plans to introduce Starlink internet service on select aircraft. More on Boeing, Airbus SE Boeing: The Growth Is Just Starting Boeing Is Flying Steady Into 2026 The Boeing Company (BA) Q4 2025 Earnings Call Transcript Boeing is said to trim defense supply-chain roles as workforce reshuffle continues Boeing wins record landing gear services deal with Singapore Airlines Group

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Investors in Barrick Mining Corp (Symbol: B) saw new options begin trading today, for the March 27th expiration. At Stock Options Channel , our YieldBoost formula has looked up and down the B options chain for the new March 27th contracts and identified one put and one call contract of particular interest. The put contract at the $42.00 strike price has a current bid of $1.40. If an investor was to sell-to-open that put contract, they are committing to purchase the stock at $42.00, but will also collect the premium, putting the cost basis of the shares at $40.60 (before broker commissions). To an investor already interested in purchasing shares of B, that could represent an attractive alternative to paying $45.30/share today. Because the $42.00 strike represents an approximate 7% discount to the current trading price of the stock (in other words it is out-of-the-money by that percentage), there is also the possibility that the put contract would expire worthless. The current analytical data (including greeks and implied greeks) suggest the current odds of that happening are 68%. Stock Options Channel will track those odds over time to see how they change, publishing a chart of those numbers on our website under the contract detail page for this contract. Should the contract expire worthless, the premium would represent a 3.33% return on the cash commitment, or 24.35% annualized — at Stock Options Channel we call this the YieldBoost. Below is a chart showing the trailing twelve month trading history for Barrick Mining Corp, and highlighting in green where the $42.00 strike is located relative to that history: Turning to the calls side of the option chain, the call contract at the $53.00 strike price has a current bid of 79 cents. If an investor was to purchase shares of B stock at the current price level of $45.30/share, and then sell-to-open that call contract as a "covered call," they are committing to sell the stock at $53.00. Considering the call seller will also...

Investors in The Gap Inc (Symbol: GAP) saw new options begin trading today, for the March 27th expiration. At Stock Options Channel , our YieldBoost formula has looked up and down the GAP options chain for the new March 27th contracts and identified one put and one call contract of particular interest. The put contract at the $25.00 strike price has a current bid of 35 cents. If an investor was to sell-to-open that put contract, they are committing to purchase the stock at $25.00, but will also collect the premium, putting the cost basis of the shares at $24.65 (before broker commissions). To an investor already interested in purchasing shares of GAP, that could represent an attractive alternative to paying $28.68/share today. Because the $25.00 strike represents an approximate 13% discount to the current trading price of the stock (in other words it is out-of-the-money by that percentage), there is also the possibility that the put contract would expire worthless. The current analytical data (including greeks and implied greeks) suggest the current odds of that happening are 73%. Stock Options Channel will track those odds over time to see how they change, publishing a chart of those numbers on our website under the contract detail page for this contract. Should the contract expire worthless, the premium would represent a 1.40% return on the cash commitment, or 10.23% annualized — at Stock Options Channel we call this the YieldBoost. Below is a chart showing the trailing twelve month trading history for The Gap Inc, and highlighting in green where the $25.00 strike is located relative to that history: Turning to the calls side of the option chain, the call contract at the $29.00 strike price has a current bid of 43 cents. If an investor was to purchase shares of GAP stock at the current price level of $28.68/share, and then sell-to-open that call contract as a "covered call," they are committing to sell the stock at $29.00. Considering the call seller will also col...

Investors in MGM Resorts International (Symbol: MGM) saw new options become available today, for the March 27th expiration. At Stock Options Channel , our YieldBoost formula has looked up and down the MGM options chain for the new March 27th contracts and identified one put and one call contract of particular interest. The put contract at the $35.00 strike price has a current bid of 4 cents. If an investor was to sell-to-open that put contract, they are committing to purchase the stock at $35.00, but will also collect the premium, putting the cost basis of the shares at $34.96 (before broker commissions). To an investor already interested in purchasing shares of MGM, that could represent an attractive alternative to paying $35.70/share today. Because the $35.00 strike represents an approximate 2% discount to the current trading price of the stock (in other words it is out-of-the-money by that percentage), there is also the possibility that the put contract would expire worthless. The current analytical data (including greeks and implied greeks) suggest the current odds of that happening are 61%. Stock Options Channel will track those odds over time to see how they change, publishing a chart of those numbers on our website under the contract detail page for this contract. Should the contract expire worthless, the premium would represent a 0.11% return on the cash commitment, or 0.83% annualized — at Stock Options Channel we call this the YieldBoost. Below is a chart showing the trailing twelve month trading history for MGM Resorts International, and highlighting in green where the $35.00 strike is located relative to that history: Turning to the calls side of the option chain, the call contract at the $37.00 strike price has a current bid of 9 cents. If an investor was to purchase shares of MGM stock at the current price level of $35.70/share, and then sell-to-open that call contract as a "covered call," they are committing to sell the stock at $37.00. Considering th...

Investors in Johnson Controls International plc (Symbol: JCI) saw new options become available today, for the May 15th expiration. One of the key inputs that goes into the price an option buyer is willing to pay, is the time value, so with 99 days until expiration the newly available contracts represent a possible opportunity for sellers of puts or calls to achieve a higher premium than would be available for the contracts with a closer expiration. At Stock Options Channel , our YieldBoost formula has looked up and down the JCI options chain for the new May 15th contracts and identified one put and one call contract of particular interest. The put contract at the $90.00 strike price has a current bid of 5 cents. If an investor was to sell-to-open that put contract, they are committing to purchase the stock at $90.00, but will also collect the premium, putting the cost basis of the shares at $89.95 (before broker commissions). To an investor already interested in purchasing shares of JCI, that could represent an attractive alternative to paying $130.75/share today. Because the $90.00 strike represents an approximate 31% discount to the current trading price of the stock (in other words it is out-of-the-money by that percentage), there is also the possibility that the put contract would expire worthless. The current analytical data (including greeks and implied greeks) suggest the current odds of that happening are 94%. Stock Options Channel will track those odds over time to see how they change, publishing a chart of those numbers on our website under the contract detail page for this contract. Should the contract expire worthless, the premium would represent a 0.06% return on the cash commitment, or 0.20% annualized — at Stock Options Channel we call this the YieldBoost. Below is a chart showing the trailing twelve month trading history for Johnson Controls International plc, and highlighting in green where the $90.00 strike is located relative to that history: Turn...

Investors in The Charles Schwab Corporation (Symbol: SCHW) saw new options become available today, for the March 27th expiration. At Stock Options Channel , our YieldBoost formula has looked up and down the SCHW options chain for the new March 27th contracts and identified one put and one call contract of particular interest. The put contract at the $95.00 strike price has a current bid of 17 cents. If an investor was to sell-to-open that put contract, they are committing to purchase the stock at $95.00, but will also collect the premium, putting the cost basis of the shares at $94.83 (before broker commissions). To an investor already interested in purchasing shares of SCHW, that could represent an attractive alternative to paying $101.78/share today. Because the $95.00 strike represents an approximate 7% discount to the current trading price of the stock (in other words it is out-of-the-money by that percentage), there is also the possibility that the put contract would expire worthless. The current analytical data (including greeks and implied greeks) suggest the current odds of that happening are 78%. Stock Options Channel will track those odds over time to see how they change, publishing a chart of those numbers on our website under the contract detail page for this contract. Should the contract expire worthless, the premium would represent a 0.18% return on the cash commitment, or 1.31% annualized — at Stock Options Channel we call this the YieldBoost. Below is a chart showing the trailing twelve month trading history for The Charles Schwab Corporation, and highlighting in green where the $95.00 strike is located relative to that history: Turning to the calls side of the option chain, the call contract at the $112.00 strike price has a current bid of 33 cents. If an investor was to purchase shares of SCHW stock at the current price level of $101.78/share, and then sell-to-open that call contract as a "covered call," they are committing to sell the stock at $11...

Investors in EQT Corp (Symbol: EQT) saw new options begin trading today, for the March 27th expiration. At Stock Options Channel , our YieldBoost formula has looked up and down the EQT options chain for the new March 27th contracts and identified one put and one call contract of particular interest. The put contract at the $51.00 strike price has a current bid of 99 cents. If an investor was to sell-to-open that put contract, they are committing to purchase the stock at $51.00, but will also collect the premium, putting the cost basis of the shares at $50.01 (before broker commissions). To an investor already interested in purchasing shares of EQT, that could represent an attractive alternative to paying $55.16/share today. Because the $51.00 strike represents an approximate 8% discount to the current trading price of the stock (in other words it is out-of-the-money by that percentage), there is also the possibility that the put contract would expire worthless. The current analytical data (including greeks and implied greeks) suggest the current odds of that happening are 70%. Stock Options Channel will track those odds over time to see how they change, publishing a chart of those numbers on our website under the contract detail page for this contract. Should the contract expire worthless, the premium would represent a 1.94% return on the cash commitment, or 14.18% annualized — at Stock Options Channel we call this the YieldBoost. Below is a chart showing the trailing twelve month trading history for EQT Corp, and highlighting in green where the $51.00 strike is located relative to that history: Turning to the calls side of the option chain, the call contract at the $60.00 strike price has a current bid of 87 cents. If an investor was to purchase shares of EQT stock at the current price level of $55.16/share, and then sell-to-open that call contract as a "covered call," they are committing to sell the stock at $60.00. Considering the call seller will also collect th...

Investors in Agnico Eagle Mines Ltd (Symbol: AEM) saw new options become available today, for the March 27th expiration. At Stock Options Channel , our YieldBoost formula has looked up and down the AEM options chain for the new March 27th contracts and identified one put and one call contract of particular interest. The put contract at the $190.00 strike price has a current bid of $9.30. If an investor was to sell-to-open that put contract, they are committing to purchase the stock at $190.00, but will also collect the premium, putting the cost basis of the shares at $180.70 (before broker commissions). To an investor already interested in purchasing shares of AEM, that could represent an attractive alternative to paying $192.28/share today. Because the $190.00 strike represents an approximate 1% discount to the current trading price of the stock (in other words it is out-of-the-money by that percentage), there is also the possibility that the put contract would expire worthless. The current analytical data (including greeks and implied greeks) suggest the current odds of that happening are 62%. Stock Options Channel will track those odds over time to see how they change, publishing a chart of those numbers on our website under the contract detail page for this contract. Should the contract expire worthless, the premium would represent a 4.89% return on the cash commitment, or 35.76% annualized — at Stock Options Channel we call this the YieldBoost. Below is a chart showing the trailing twelve month trading history for Agnico Eagle Mines Ltd, and highlighting in green where the $190.00 strike is located relative to that history: Turning to the calls side of the option chain, the call contract at the $200.00 strike price has a current bid of $13.10. If an investor was to purchase shares of AEM stock at the current price level of $192.28/share, and then sell-to-open that call contract as a "covered call," they are committing to sell the stock at $200.00. Considering t...

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On Wednesday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Chief Marketing Officer Kate Rouch complained on X after rival AI lab Anthropic released four commercials, two of which will run during the Super Bowl on Sunday, mocking the idea of including ads in AI chatbot conversations. Anthropic's campaign seemingly touched a nerve at OpenAI just weeks after the ChatGPT maker began testing ads in a lower-cost tier of its chatbot. Altman called Anthropic's ads "clearly dishonest," accused the company of being "authoritarian," and said it "serves an expensive product to rich people," while Rouch wrote , "Real betrayal isn't ads. It's control." Anthropic's four commercials , part of a campaign called "A Time and a Place," each open with a single word splashed across the screen: "Betrayal," "Violation," "Deception," and "Treachery." They depict scenarios where a person asks a human stand-in for an AI chatbot for personal advice, only to get blindsided by a product pitch. Read full article Comments

JHVEPhoto/iStock Editorial via Getty Images CVS Health ( CVS ) announced changes to its commercial formularies on Thursday to add biosimilars targeting bone disease therapies Prolia and Forteo, marketed by Amgen ( AMGN ) and Eli Lilly ( LLY ), in place of the branded medications. The company stated that low-cost alternatives manufactured by its biosimilar unit Cordavis and companies such as Celltrion ( CONI.F ) will be more than 50% cheaper than the brand-name treatments, which are approved in the U.S. for osteoporosis. Key U.S. patents for Forteo and Prolia expired in 2019 and 2025, respectively. The managed care giant added that its formulary changes, favoring biosimilar adoption, have helped generate $1.5B in gross savings for its customers and patients. The changes will be implemented by CVS’s ( CVS ) pharmacy benefit manager, CVS Caremark, effective April 1, “giving customers and their members more affordable options with strong clinical and supply confidence,” the company said. More on CVS CVS Health: Exploit The Sector Panic Ahead Of Earnings CVS Health Corporation (CVS) Analyst/Investor Day Prepared Remarks Transcript CVS Health Corporation (CVS) Analyst/Investor Day - Slideshow Healthcare lobbying efforts reach record high in Washington: report Health insurer headwinds are a great buying opportunity – analyst

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With Claude Opus 4.6 now available in Microsoft Foundry, developers can delegate complex tasks end‑to‑end and trust the AI to execute independently in production. At Microsoft we believe that intelligence and trust are the core requirements of agentic AI at scale. Built on Azure, Microsoft Foundry brings these capabilities together on a secure, scalable cloud foundation for enterprise AI. Today, with the launch of Claude Opus 4.6 in Microsoft Foundry, we bring even more capability to agents that increasingly learn from and act on business systems. Claude Opus 4.6 brings Anthropic’s most advanced reasoning capabilities into Microsoft Foundry, our interoperable platform where intelligence and trust come together to enable autonomous work. In Foundry, Opus 4.6 can activate knowledge from everywhere: leveraging Foundry IQ to access data from M365 Work IQ, Fabric IQ, and the web. The model is best applied to complex tasks across coding, knowledge work, and agent-driven workflows, supporting deeper reasoning while offering superior instruction following for reliability. Developers can now delegate their most complex work to AI systems for full-lifecycle development from, requirements gathering to implementation and maintenance. Business users can generate documents, perform research, and draft copy with professional polish and domain awareness. At Adobe, we’re continuously evaluating new AI capabilities that can help us deliver more powerful, responsible, and intuitive experiences for our customers. We’ve been testing Claude models in Microsoft Foundry and are excited about the direction of Anthropic’s model roadmap. Foundry gives us a flexible, enterprise-ready environment to explore frontier models while maintaining the trust, governance, and scale that are critical for Adobe. —Michael Marth, VP Engineering for Experience Manager and LLM Optimizer, Adobe Introducing Opus 4.6: Frontier intelligence, built for real work Claude Opus 4.6 is the latest version of Anthropic’s...

Anthropic’s Cowork AI assistant sent shockwaves through Wall Street this week. Now Anthropic is taking another leap forward, improving its model. Anthropic’s new Claude Opus 4.6 model, announced Thursday, is designed to make Cowork AI better for office and coding work, potentially raising even more concerns that the AI tool could replace specialized software packages that companies use for those tasks. Legal and financial analysis software stocks have plunged in recent days, bringing the broader stock market down with them. The Nasdaq just had its worst two-day tumble since April, and it’s down another 0.7% Thursday. Many experts wonder whether AI will ultimately cost some workers their jobs. Tech giants like Anthropic, OpenAI and Google are locked in a race to build AI models that they hope will underpin the future workplace. Anthropic rival OpenAI just introduced a new platform for creating AI agents meant to function like colleagues Thursday morning. And Anthropic launched its Cowork tool in January. It remains uncertain whether AI investments will pay off for businesses adopting the technology. Anthropic is betting that its new model will help it replicate the massive success of its Claude Code software but for other types of office work. “We think that Opus 4.6 is going to be an inflection point for knowledge work in many ways,” Dianne Penn, head of product management for research, said in an interview with CNN ahead of the announcement. What’s new One of those ways involves how Opus 4.6 processes data. Anthropic says it’s expanded Opus’ context window, which is the amount of information a model can remember at once, from 200,000 tokens to one million. Tokens are a unit of measurement referring to how AI models understand text. The longer and more complex a query is, the more tokens it requires. Giving Claude the ability to process more information at once should enable it to handle more complicated tasks, like making sweeping changes to entire code bases, said...

Bitcoin tumbled well below $70,000 as the unwinding of leveraged bets and broader market turbulence deepened a selloff that’s hammered cryptocurrencies over the past three weeks. and Silver fell sharply, wiping out its two-day recovery as the white metal struggled to find a floor following a historic market rout. Bloomberg's Mike McGlone joins to discuss. (Source: Bloomberg)