Palantir Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ:PLTR) is set to report fourth-quarter earnings on Monday, highlighting a surge in AI-focused government and commercial initiatives, including partnerships with Nvidia Corp. (NASDAQ:NVDA) and the U.S. Navy. Palantir Expands AI Infrastructure With Chain Reaction In December 2025, Palantir unveiled Chain Reaction, a new operating system designed to address the growi...
Palantir Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ:PLTR) is set to report fourth-quarter earnings on Monday, highlighting a surge in AI-focused government and commercial initiatives, including partnerships with Nvidia Corp. (NASDAQ:NVDA) and the U.S. Navy. Palantir Expands AI Infrastructure With Chain Reaction In December 2025, Palantir unveiled Chain Reaction, a new operating system designed to address the growing demands of artificial intelligence infrastructure. The platform focuses on easing constraints in power and compute, rather than algorithms, helping utilities, data centers, and energy producers modernize aging assets and accelerate new construction. Chain Reaction also supports grid expansion and stability to meet rising demand from nationwide electrification and hyperscale data centers. Founding partners Nvidia and CenterPoint Energy bring credibility to the project. Government Contracts Remain Strong Palantir continues to deepen its government footprint. In December, the company renewed a three-year contract with France's DGSI, the country's domestic intelligence agency, extending a partnership that has lasted nearly a decade. Domestically, Palantir partnered with the U.S. Navy to deploy its Foundry and AI Platform across shipbuilding operations under the ShipOS program. The Navy has approved up to $448 million to accelerate AI adoption, with early pilots reportedly cutting planning and review timelines from weeks to minutes. The rollout will expand to submarine builders, shipyards and critical suppliers. Commercial Growth Accelerates With HD Hyundai In January 2026, Palantir broadened its partnership with HD Hyundai, extending its AI and Foundry platform to additional subsidiaries, including electric systems, robotics and marine services. Management highlighted the expansion as a lever for digital transformation, driving cross-subsidiary coordination, automated decision support and improved operational efficiency in areas such as maintenance and supply chain planning....
“I tell you now, there is an attempt by some of the longer serving chief constables to get rid of me,” says Ch Insp Andy George. “I can guarantee I know exactly what they think of me: that I’m a wee upstart, so I am, that doesn’t know my place,” he adds with a smile. The eldest son of a Protestant mother from Armagh in Northern Ireland and a father who was born in Malaysia but served in the Britis...
“I tell you now, there is an attempt by some of the longer serving chief constables to get rid of me,” says Ch Insp Andy George. “I can guarantee I know exactly what they think of me: that I’m a wee upstart, so I am, that doesn’t know my place,” he adds with a smile. The eldest son of a Protestant mother from Armagh in Northern Ireland and a father who was born in Malaysia but served in the British army, George is the longest-serving president of the National Black Police Association (NBPA). He was first elected in July 2020 to represent its 6,000 members, three months after the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis by the officer Derek Chauvin. Twice highly commended during his time in active service in Northern Ireland, which included a near decade in an armed response unit, George says he preferred to “keep his head down” early in his career. It was the death of his sister, Vikki, who killed herself at the age of 23, that led him to put time into the NBPA, a staff network that seeks to support black officers and improve the quality of the service to minority ethnic communities. His sister had struggled with her mental health but “the racism side was a big part of it”, he says. “She ended up calling herself the N-word and the P-word – it just ended up shattering herself as a person.” He discovered her body in the home he helped her find. George, 46, hoped to play his role in changes to British policing as it duly paid its lip service to the new awareness sweeping through the west of societal and racial iniquities, as a result of Floyd’s murder. View image in fullscreen Andy George in 2020, when he was first elected to represent the NBPA’s 6,000 members. Photograph: Paul McErlane/The Guardian His time has instead seen him face toxic abuse on social media and subject to a host of formal investigations after complaints about his comments on British policing. Most recently he was also ordered to return to core duties in what he believes is an attempt to marginalise th...
ozgurdonmaz On Sunday, India's government gave a key win to Apple ( AAPL ) by allowing foreign companies to provide machines to their contract manufacturers in certain areas for five years without tax risk. The decision was part of Indian Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman's 2026-27 annual budget, presented on Sunday. "In order to promote manufacturing of electronic goods by a contract manufactur...
ozgurdonmaz On Sunday, India's government gave a key win to Apple ( AAPL ) by allowing foreign companies to provide machines to their contract manufacturers in certain areas for five years without tax risk. The decision was part of Indian Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman's 2026-27 annual budget, presented on Sunday. "In order to promote manufacturing of electronic goods by a contract manufacturer and provide certainty on taxation of supply of capital equipment by a foreign company to such manufacturer, it is proposed to amend the Schedule IV to provide exemption to a foreign company for a period upto the tax year 2030-2031, on any income arising on account of providing capital goods, equipment or tooling to a contract manufacturer, being a company resident in India, who is located in a custom bonded area (warehouse referred to in section 65 of the Customs Act, 1962) and produces electronic goods on behalf of such foreign company for a consideration," said the government in a buget document. The rule change will apply until the 2030-31 tax year and only to facilities set up in 'customs-bonded' areas. These are technically considered as being outside India’s customs border. If devices are sold within India from such facilities, they will attract import taxes, making such factories attractive only for exports. Apple had been lobbying the Indian government to revise its income tax laws to ensure the company is not taxed for ownership of the high-end iPhone machinery it provides to its contract manufacturers, Reuters reported . In India, unlike in China, Apple was worried that if it paid for machines for its contract manufacturers, Indian law could consider it as a "business connection" and levy taxes on its iPhone sales profits. That had forced its contract manufacturers, Foxconn Technology ( FXCOF ) — which is formally known as Hon Hai Precision ( HNHAF ) ( HNHPF ) — and Tata to themselves spend billions of dollars on machines, the report noted. The move could promp...
Key Points Some on Wall Street appear to be concerned about a potential private credit crisis. Worrisome signs can be found in a few ultra-high-yield BDC stocks. However, one BDC stock appears to be in a good position to weather any storm. 10 stocks we like better than Ares Capital › Private credit has grown into an enormous industry. In 2020, the private credit market totaled around $2 trillion. ...
Key Points Some on Wall Street appear to be concerned about a potential private credit crisis. Worrisome signs can be found in a few ultra-high-yield BDC stocks. However, one BDC stock appears to be in a good position to weather any storm. 10 stocks we like better than Ares Capital › Private credit has grown into an enormous industry. In 2020, the private credit market totaled around $2 trillion. It grew roughly 50% by early 2025. Some experts predict the private credit market will reach close to $5 trillion by 2029. That projection, though, assumes that the bottom won't fall out of the private credit market. 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 » DoubleLine Capital CEO Jeffery Gundlach, known as "the Bond King," publicly warned in November 2025 that some companies providing private credit as making "garbage loans." Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) CEO Jamie Dimon expressed concerns a month earlier that direct lending standards had become too lenient and stated, "If we ever have a downturn, you're going to see quite a bit more credit issues." Wall Street appears to be sounding a warning about a possible private credit collapse. Should investors be worried about the ultra-high-yield business development company (BDC) stocks that have profited from the rise of private credit? Showing cracks Some BDCs are already showing potential cracks. Prospect Capital (NASDAQ: PSEC) is one example At first glance, Prospect Capital could look appealing. This BDC has a long history, with the same senior leadership team in place for 26 years. The stock trades at a steep discount to its net asset value (NAV). Prospect Capital also offers a forward dividend yield of 19.7%. However, investors should be leery of chasing that lofty yield. Prospect Capital's NAV has eroded significantly. The BDC also relies heavily on issuing perpetual preferred stock to raise capital, thereby increasing its fixed-paymen...
Richard Drury/DigitalVision via Getty Images The Invesco Large Cap Growth ETF ( PWB ) is a growth-oriented ETF with a high-conviction portfolio. Unlike peers, this fund has a lighter allocation to mega caps and a greater focus on other market-cap categories. This has become more evident now, as it has increased its exposure to mid caps by nearly 15% since my previous article covering PWB in late 2...
Richard Drury/DigitalVision via Getty Images The Invesco Large Cap Growth ETF ( PWB ) is a growth-oriented ETF with a high-conviction portfolio. Unlike peers, this fund has a lighter allocation to mega caps and a greater focus on other market-cap categories. This has become more evident now, as it has increased its exposure to mid caps by nearly 15% since my previous article covering PWB in late 2024. Sure, the fund keeps a relatively high sector alignment with other growth ETFs, driven by a large position in technology. However, its portfolio composition still offers some degree of diversification relative to peers, which is something particularly interesting now that the market leadership may be broadening going forward. The coming sections will detail PWB’s holdings and compare valuation, performance, volatility, and tradability with peers and the broader equity market. ETF Description & Highlights PWB offers focused exposure to companies with growth characteristics, tracking the Dynamic Large Cap Growth Intellidex Index. This index employs a multi-factor approach that seeks to identify companies across the equity market, primarily large caps, with upside potential. The index is composed of 50 companies, subject to quarterly reconstitution and rebalancing to reflect current market conditions. As of January 26, 2026, PWB had $1.5 billion under management, invested across 50 holdings, with an average market capitalization of $251.2 billion. Large caps make up 47.4% of the portfolio, about half of the fund, followed by mega caps at 39.3%, while mid caps account for only 13.4%. For comparison, in the Russell 1000 index, a mid- and large-cap benchmark represented by the iShares Russell 1000 ETF ( IWB ), mega caps are the biggest exposure, making up 41.0%, while large caps account for 33.6%. Overall, this highlights PWB’s strong alignment with the benchmark regarding a common large- and mega-cap tilt, though PWB maintains a relatively lighter exposure to mega caps. How...
Alllex Stock futures started February on a lower note, with sharp slides in gold and silver denting sentiment ahead of a packed week of key corporate earnings and economic data, while Bitcoin extended its drop below $80K. Here are some of Monday's biggest stock movers: Biggest stock losers HIVE Digital Technologies ( HIVE ) -8% - Shares dropped as Bitcoin hovered around $75,000, dragging down othe...
Alllex Stock futures started February on a lower note, with sharp slides in gold and silver denting sentiment ahead of a packed week of key corporate earnings and economic data, while Bitcoin extended its drop below $80K. Here are some of Monday's biggest stock movers: Biggest stock losers HIVE Digital Technologies ( HIVE ) -8% - Shares dropped as Bitcoin hovered around $75,000, dragging down other crypto-linked stocks amid broader market weakness, Fed uncertainty, and geopolitical tensions. Coinbase ( COIN ), MicroStrategy ( MSTR ), MARA Holdings ( MARA ), Riot Platforms ( RIOT ), Iren ( IREN ), CleanSpark ( CLSK ), and Terawulf ( WULF ) all declined between 4% and 8%. XPeng ( XPEV ) -5% - Shares of the EV maker dipped after delivering 20,011 vehicles in January, down 47% from December and 28% Y/Y. Despite the drop, the company ended 2025 with a presence in 60 countries, 380 overseas stores (+150% Y/Y), and over 1,000 global sales and service outlets. Oracle ( ORCL ) -4% - Shares dipped after the company said it plans to raise $45B–$50B in 2026 to fund expanded cloud infrastructure capacity, using a mix of debt and equity. About half of the funding is expected to come from equity-linked instruments and common stock, including mandatory convertible preferred securities and a newly authorized at-the-market equity program of up to $20B. The financing plan raised dilution concerns despite Oracle citing strong contracted demand from major OCI customers such as Nvidia, Meta, AMD, OpenAI, TikTok, and xAI. More on related stocks: Oracle: 'Buy' The Dip As Backlog Diversification Continues Oracle: Sell Before The AI Bubble Bursts Oracle: Meta Compute Reaffirms Bullish Thesis Oracle plans massive $50B debt-and-equity raise; shares down Blackstone mulls deeper bet on Oracle's Michigan data center - report
Alllex Stock futures started February on a lower note, with sharp slides in gold and silver denting sentiment ahead of a packed week of key corporate earnings and economic data, while Bitcoin extended its drop below $80K. Here are some of Monday's biggest stock movers: Biggest stock losers HIVE Digital Technologies ( HIVE ) -8% - Shares dropped as Bitcoin hovered around $75,000, dragging down othe...
Alllex Stock futures started February on a lower note, with sharp slides in gold and silver denting sentiment ahead of a packed week of key corporate earnings and economic data, while Bitcoin extended its drop below $80K. Here are some of Monday's biggest stock movers: Biggest stock losers HIVE Digital Technologies ( HIVE ) -8% - Shares dropped as Bitcoin hovered around $75,000, dragging down other crypto-linked stocks amid broader market weakness, Fed uncertainty, and geopolitical tensions. Coinbase ( COIN ), MicroStrategy ( MSTR ), MARA Holdings ( MARA ), Riot Platforms ( RIOT ), Iren ( IREN ), CleanSpark ( CLSK ), and Terawulf ( WULF ) all declined between 4% and 8%. XPeng ( XPEV ) -5% - Shares of the EV maker dipped after delivering 20,011 vehicles in January, down 47% from December and 28% Y/Y. Despite the drop, the company ended 2025 with a presence in 60 countries, 380 overseas stores (+150% Y/Y), and over 1,000 global sales and service outlets. Oracle ( ORCL ) -4% - Shares dipped after the company said it plans to raise $45B–$50B in 2026 to fund expanded cloud infrastructure capacity, using a mix of debt and equity. About half of the funding is expected to come from equity-linked instruments and common stock, including mandatory convertible preferred securities and a newly authorized at-the-market equity program of up to $20B. The financing plan raised dilution concerns despite Oracle citing strong contracted demand from major OCI customers such as Nvidia, Meta, AMD, OpenAI, TikTok, and xAI. More on related stocks: Oracle: 'Buy' The Dip As Backlog Diversification Continues Oracle: Sell Before The AI Bubble Bursts Oracle: Meta Compute Reaffirms Bullish Thesis Oracle plans massive $50B debt-and-equity raise; shares down Blackstone mulls deeper bet on Oracle's Michigan data center - report
Hemp and marijuana are the same species. So why all the different laws? toggle caption Nicholas Kamm/AFP via Getty Images Is it hemp, cannabis or marijuana? That depends on who's discussing the enigmatic plant that's legal in some forms (for now) but faces new restrictions in other forms this fall. The confusion comes as no surprise to Nick Johnson, author of the book Grass Roots, which looks at t...
Hemp and marijuana are the same species. So why all the different laws? toggle caption Nicholas Kamm/AFP via Getty Images Is it hemp, cannabis or marijuana? That depends on who's discussing the enigmatic plant that's legal in some forms (for now) but faces new restrictions in other forms this fall. The confusion comes as no surprise to Nick Johnson, author of the book Grass Roots, which looks at the history of the cannabis plant and its use as both an industrial material and a drug. "It's one of the world's oldest domesticated crops," Johnson says of cannabis. "And it's also incredibly cryptic. We still do not understand everything about its biology and why it does the things it does, how it creates the compounds and molecules it does." Cannabis "has over 480 constituents," according to the Drug Enforcement Administration, but U.S. regulators focus on just one: THC, the compound linked to the drug's famous psychoactive effects. Federal laws define legal hemp differently from illegal marijuana based on their levels of THC. As long as a plant contains less than 0.3% of one form of THC (with a much stricter limit taking effect later this year), it's considered hemp, not marijuana. And while marijuana is in the process of being reclassified as a Schedule III drug instead of a more restricted Schedule I, hemp is not a controlled substance. Sponsor Message Despite the different policies, qualities and uses, the plants are more similar than not. "Botanically speaking, both hemp and marijuana belong to a single species: Cannabis sativa," says Kelly Vining, an associate professor at Oregon State University who studies hemp genomics. In general, Vining says, taxonomists consider hemp and marijuana subspecies of Cannabis sativa. toggle caption Bill Chappell/NPR But legal definitions of hemp are in hot dispute, in Congress and around the United States. A new federal law will sharply limit the amount of THC (and similar compounds) in final products rather than focusing on plants...
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The Secret Day My yesterday has gone, has gone and left me tired, And now tomorrow comes and beats upon the door; So I have built To-day, the day that I desired, Lest joy come not again, lest peace return no more, Lest comfort come no more. So I have built To-day, a proud and perfect day, And I have built the towers of cliffs upon the sands; The foxgloves and the gorse I planted on my way; The thy...
The Secret Day My yesterday has gone, has gone and left me tired, And now tomorrow comes and beats upon the door; So I have built To-day, the day that I desired, Lest joy come not again, lest peace return no more, Lest comfort come no more. So I have built To-day, a proud and perfect day, And I have built the towers of cliffs upon the sands; The foxgloves and the gorse I planted on my way; The thyme, the velvet thyme, grew up beneath my hands, Grew pink beneath my hands. So I have built To-day, more precious than a dream; And I have painted peace upon the sky above; And I have made immense and misty seas that seem More kind to me than life, more fair to me than love — More beautiful than love. And I have built a house — a house upon the brink Of high and twisted cliffs; the sea’s low singing fills it; And there my Secret Friend abides, and there I think I’ll hide my heart away before tomorrow kills it A cold tomorrow kills it. Yes, I have built To-day, a wall against To-morrow, So let To-morrow knock — I shall not be afraid, For none shall give me death, and none shall give me sorrow, And none shall spoil this darling day that I have made. No storm shall stir my sea. No night but mine shall shade This day that I have made. This poem by the novelist, journalist and suffragist Stella Benson appears in her collection, Twenty, published in June 1918, shortly before the end of the first world war. (Some of her own reactions to the first world war are recorded here.) Benson (1892-1933) went to California that same year, largely because she was in poor health and her doctor had recommended the climate. I imagine that most of Twenty had been put together before she embarked on her travels. The Secret Day may have emerged from her fears concerning the journey and her future in a strange country. Interestingly, it illustrates the psychological need to find a sanctuary in time rather than space. Benson is aware that the device is an artificial one, but launches a convincing ap...
The latest in our series of writers paying tribute to their most rewatched comfort films is a trip back to 1992 for the unique rock comedy When the conversation of the most overrated band in history crops up I often want to put Queen forward as my suggestion. Their omnipresent hits represent the worst of bands who favour stadium-sized grandeur over true ambition. However, I can never truly get beh...
The latest in our series of writers paying tribute to their most rewatched comfort films is a trip back to 1992 for the unique rock comedy When the conversation of the most overrated band in history crops up I often want to put Queen forward as my suggestion. Their omnipresent hits represent the worst of bands who favour stadium-sized grandeur over true ambition. However, I can never truly get behind the idea of trashing Freddie and co when their music helped create one of my most beloved scenes in cinema history. Early in 1992’s Wayne’s World, a bunch of rockers squeeze into an AMC Pacer with custom flames painted on the side. As they drive past the automarts, car washes and beef stands of downtown Chicago, Bohemian Rhapsody plays on the car stereo. The song’s operatic verses are used for laughs (the “Let me go” line becomes a cry for help from a friend who is partied out and might “honk” in the backseat) while the breakdown in the middle creates space for a spot of high-speed headbanging. To me it’s as thrilling a car scene as anything in Bullitt or the Mad Max franchise. Continue reading...
A Chinese couple who left their young children at a hotel following a fight have ignited a heated discussion over how to punish irresponsible parents. The Beijing Chaoyang district police posted on January 22 that they received a phone call from a man who claimed to have been looking after his friends’ two children at a hotel. The children, a seven-year-old boy and a five-year-old girl, had been a...
A Chinese couple who left their young children at a hotel following a fight have ignited a heated discussion over how to punish irresponsible parents. The Beijing Chaoyang district police posted on January 22 that they received a phone call from a man who claimed to have been looking after his friends’ two children at a hotel. The children, a seven-year-old boy and a five-year-old girl, had been abandoned by their parents after the couple had a fight during a family trip to Beijing. Advertisement Both parents reportedly considered looking after their children as a sign that they had lost the fight, so they ended up leaving the city without them. The two children pictured with officers in the back of a police car. Photo: Sohu Their friend called the police, saying he was forced to look after the children on their behalf and he could not get in touch with them.
The PM has told Labour it is in the ‘fight of our lives’ against Nigel Farage’s challengers. To win, it must first agree on a line of attack After the past fortnight in which Labour’s internal bickering has once again distracted attention from government decisions that will affect real lives, it’s worth remembering how Keir Starmer briefly lifted his party’s gaze from its own navel to a higher pur...
The PM has told Labour it is in the ‘fight of our lives’ against Nigel Farage’s challengers. To win, it must first agree on a line of attack After the past fortnight in which Labour’s internal bickering has once again distracted attention from government decisions that will affect real lives, it’s worth remembering how Keir Starmer briefly lifted his party’s gaze from its own navel to a higher purpose a few months ago. That was back in September, the previous occasion when Andy Burnham’s name was being bandied around, when the prime minister seemed to galvanise Labour’s conference by telling it “we’ve got the fight of our lives ahead of us” against Reform UK and “racist” policies that would “tear the country apart”. This would be a “different battle”, he warned, because Labour was up against opponents who represented a strain of rightwing politics alien to a Britain that had never faced “a proposition like Reform before”. He has reiterated this view several times since, not least in a pre-Christmas interview , in which Starmer said that while he could still “sleep at night” under the Conservatives, that wouldn’t be the case if Nigel Farage’s party was in power. Tom Baldwin is the author of Keir Starmer , The Biography Continue reading...
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With an ACA fix uncertain in the Senate, Republicans replay old health care fights toggle caption J. Scott Applewhite/AP At the beginning of the year, it seemed like a bipartisan deal to extend the Affordable Care Act enhanced subsidies was within reach. A three-year extension passed in the House, but talks have sputtered in the Senate. Many Republicans in Congress assert the reason for those stal...
With an ACA fix uncertain in the Senate, Republicans replay old health care fights toggle caption J. Scott Applewhite/AP At the beginning of the year, it seemed like a bipartisan deal to extend the Affordable Care Act enhanced subsidies was within reach. A three-year extension passed in the House, but talks have sputtered in the Senate. Many Republicans in Congress assert the reason for those stalled talks goes all the way back to the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act in 2010. "You gotta remember, Democrats created Obamacare," Sen. Bernie Moreno, R-Ohio, told reporters on Thursday. "It's been an abject failure in terms of lowering costs." Moreno helped lead bipartisan talks in the Senate to come up with a solution to the sudden absence of enhanced subsidies that caused many people's premiums to double or triple. Most people affected by this live in states that Trump won, and Moreno is among the Republicans who have tried to come up with a deal to cushion the blow of these high premiums. Sponsor Message But even as the parties tried to work together to solve a present-day problem, anger over the original passage of the ACA keeps coming up. "Congressional Republicans can't seem to quit the Obamacare repeal fight, even though the politics of the Affordable Care Act have changed a lot over the past 15 years," says Jonathan Oberlander, a political scientist focused on health care at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. "It is, on balance, now a very popular program. Its main coverage policies, including the enhanced subsidies, have been in place for many years and helped tens of millions of Americans." That makes letting the enhanced subsidies expire politically hazardous, he says. "It is a terrible political look for congressional Republicans, and it's a terrible reality for many of their constituents who are going to face these skyrocketing premium payments," Oberlander says. Republicans are "likely to pay a price" in the upcoming midter...