Novak Djokovic said he will double his prayers on Wednesday night after receiving a massive slice of luck in the quarter-finals of the Australian Open as the Serb was thoroughly outplayed for two sets by an inspired Lorenzo Musetti before the Italian was forced to retire due to injury while leading 6-4, 6-3, 1-3. Musetti had been working towards one of the best victories of his career, dominating ...
Novak Djokovic said he will double his prayers on Wednesday night after receiving a massive slice of luck in the quarter-finals of the Australian Open as the Serb was thoroughly outplayed for two sets by an inspired Lorenzo Musetti before the Italian was forced to retire due to injury while leading 6-4, 6-3, 1-3. Musetti had been working towards one of the best victories of his career, dominating Djokovic from the baseline and establishing an authoritative lead before his retirement. “I don’t know what to say except that I feel really sorry for him. He was a far better player, I was on my way home tonight,” Djokovic said. “I don’t know what to say, these kinds of things happen in sport. It happened to me a few times, but being in the quarters of a grand slam, two sets to love up, and being in full control, I mean, so unfortunate. I don’t know what else I can say. I wish him a speedy recovery. And he should have been the winner today, there’s no doubt.” Despite Djokovic’s dominant 9-1 record against Musetti before the match, the pair have enjoyed numerous dramatic battles, most notably their 3am tussle at Roland Garros in 2024, won by Djokovic in five gruelling sets after struggling badly to break down Musetti’s incredible defence in painfully slow night time conditions. Perhaps Djokovic’s wariness of Musetti’s defensive skills and physicality is the reason why he was so desperate to shorten points. He approached the net 19 times in the opening set alone, throwing in numerous serve and volley attempts, desperately looking to attack early and at all costs. He did not fare very well. Not only is Musetti one of the fastest players in the game, he is incredibly resourceful and blessed with an endless arsenal of shots. The Italian continually picked Djokovic off at the net with a variety of spectacular passing shots. Musetti also served incredibly well and struck his forehand brilliantly, marching to a two-set lead. After going down two sets to one, Djokovic was treated b...
Find your next quality investment with Simply Wall St's easy and powerful screener, trusted by over 7 million individual investors worldwide. Amazon.com (NasdaqGS:AMZN) is closing all Amazon Go and Amazon Fresh physical stores and converting many locations to Whole Foods Market stores. The company plans to invest in more than 100 new Whole Foods Market locations as part of a broader reshaping of i...
Find your next quality investment with Simply Wall St's easy and powerful screener, trusted by over 7 million individual investors worldwide. Amazon.com (NasdaqGS:AMZN) is closing all Amazon Go and Amazon Fresh physical stores and converting many locations to Whole Foods Market stores. The company plans to invest in more than 100 new Whole Foods Market locations as part of a broader reshaping of its grocery footprint. Amazon is also announcing corporate layoffs affecting up to 30,000 jobs globally, including roles in AWS and Prime Video. The changes reflect a major shift in how Amazon approaches physical retail, operations, and workforce structure. For you as an investor, the pivot toward Whole Foods Market places more emphasis on a single, established grocery banner and reduces the focus on Amazon-branded formats that used different store concepts and technologies. At the same time, the layoffs in AWS and Prime Video indicate that this is not just a retail decision; it reaches into core parts of the business tied to cloud and content. Management is aligning physical retail, cost structure, and AI adoption in one broad move, which can change how resources are allocated across the group. As this develops, the mix of revenue streams, capital needs, and competitive positioning within both grocery and cloud services may differ from what you have been used to with NasdaqGS:AMZN. Stay updated on the most important news stories for Amazon.com by adding it to your watchlist or portfolio. Alternatively, explore our Community to discover new perspectives on Amazon.com. NasdaqGS:AMZN Earnings & Revenue Growth as at Jan 2026 How Amazon.com stacks up against its biggest competitors Investor Checklist Quick Assessment ✅ Price vs Analyst Target : At US$244.68 versus an average analyst target of about US$295.90, the price is roughly 17% below consensus. ✅ Simply Wall St Valuation : The shares are described as trading about 40.2% below an estimated fair value. ✅ Recent Momentum: The...
AB Volvo (publ) press release ( VLVLY ): Q4 GAAP EPS of SEK 4.73. Revenue of SEK 123.8B (-10.6% Y/Y). Operating cash flow in the Industrial Operations amounted to SEK 19,319 M (24,270). Adjusted operating income of SEK 12.8 billion (14.0) with an adjusted operating margin of 10.3% (10.1). In Q4, deliveries of new trucks decreased by 3% compared with the prior year and amounted to 56,683 trucks. " ...
AB Volvo (publ) press release ( VLVLY ): Q4 GAAP EPS of SEK 4.73. Revenue of SEK 123.8B (-10.6% Y/Y). Operating cash flow in the Industrial Operations amounted to SEK 19,319 M (24,270). Adjusted operating income of SEK 12.8 billion (14.0) with an adjusted operating margin of 10.3% (10.1). In Q4, deliveries of new trucks decreased by 3% compared with the prior year and amounted to 56,683 trucks. " In total, currency-adjusted net sales in our truck business declined by 3% to SEK 85.3 billion." In Q4, Construction Equipment's deliveries decreased by 46%. Volvo Buses' deliveries increased by 7% to 1,851 units. The Board of Directors proposes an ordinary dividend of SEK 8.50 per share and an extra dividend of SEK 4.50 per share. Forward-looking guidance: Based on the currency exchange rates on December 31, 2025, the currency effect on operating income from net flows in foreign currency and the translation of operating income in foreign subsidiaries is expected to be negative in amount of approximately SEK 2 billion in Q1 2026 when compared with Q1 2025. The net of capitalization and amortization of research and development expenses is expected to have a positive impact on operating income of approximately SEK 3 billion for the full year 2026 . The effect for full year 2026 compared with full year 2025 is expected to be approximately SEK 1 billion negative. The effective tax rate for the full year 2026 is estimated to be approximately 24%. More on AB Volvo (publ) Volvo: No Real Upside, Even After Recent Delivery Numbers Seeking Alpha’s Quant Rating on AB Volvo (publ) Historical earnings data for AB Volvo (publ) Dividend scorecard for AB Volvo (publ) Financial information for AB Volvo (publ)
French Finance Minister Roland Lescure shrugged off gyrations in the yen after chairing a meeting of his Group of Seven counterparts. “When you enlarge the focus and you look at the recent movement of the yen, you feel that the recent strength of the yen has been pretty small compared with the overall devaluation that’s been taking place over the last 18 months,” he told Bloomberg Television. Spea...
French Finance Minister Roland Lescure shrugged off gyrations in the yen after chairing a meeting of his Group of Seven counterparts. “When you enlarge the focus and you look at the recent movement of the yen, you feel that the recent strength of the yen has been pretty small compared with the overall devaluation that’s been taking place over the last 18 months,” he told Bloomberg Television. Speaking from Paris on Wednesday, Lescure — who previously worked in finance — said that moves in the currency form part of a bigger picture. “This is a trend that the markets are pricing in,” he said. “It reflects different fundamentals in Japan, in Europe, and in the States. The markets do their job — I believe they do it quite well, so we might as well let them do it.” After months of declines, the yen has strengthened rapidly since last Friday, when reports of rate checks by US authorities stoked speculation over the potential for currency intervention. The yen reached the strongest level against the dollar since October on Wednesday morning in Tokyo, touching 152.10, with the moves helped by remarks from President Donald Trump that indicated he’s comfortable seeing a decline in the dollar. Asked if G-7 finance chiefs discussed the matter on Tuesday, Lescure said it was good practice not to share details of such talks. More generally, he stuck to the group’s traditional mantra. “It’s up to the market to determine the value of the foreign exchange currencies,” he said. “I was on the market for 20 years before being in politics, and there’s one thing I know is that foreign exchange markets should do their job. Finance ministers should do their job to make sure that growth again is balanced, is secure, that productivity is strong.” France’s Finance Minister Tells G-7 to Avoid Unilateral Measures Bank of France Chief Laments Minimal Effort to Cut Deficit France Says Trump Must Stop Threatening Champagne Tariffs
Get insights on thousands of stocks from the global community of over 7 million individual investors at Simply Wall St. Oracle, ticker NYSE:ORCL, has secured a significant stake in a new U.S. based TikTok joint venture as a managing investor and security partner. The deal restructures TikTok's U.S. operations away from ByteDance to address national security and data privacy concerns. Oracle will p...
Get insights on thousands of stocks from the global community of over 7 million individual investors at Simply Wall St. Oracle, ticker NYSE:ORCL, has secured a significant stake in a new U.S. based TikTok joint venture as a managing investor and security partner. The deal restructures TikTok's U.S. operations away from ByteDance to address national security and data privacy concerns. Oracle will provide cloud infrastructure and data governance services to the venture as part of the agreement. Oracle enters this TikTok joint venture with its shares at $174.9 and a mixed recent track record, including a 2.8% decline over the past week and a 10.6% decline year to date. Over longer periods, returns of 7.7% over 1 year, 105.0% over 3 years, and 200.3% over 5 years indicate how NYSE:ORCL has rewarded patient holders through past cycles. For investors watching Oracle, this TikTok role adds a consumer facing dimension to a company better known for databases and enterprise cloud. The arrangement also puts Oracle at the center of a closely watched test of how big tech, data security, and regulators interact, which many investors may track alongside traditional metrics such as growth, margins, and cash generation. Stay updated on the most important news stories for Oracle by adding it to your watchlist or portfolio. Alternatively, explore our Community to discover new perspectives on Oracle. NYSE:ORCL 1-Year Stock Price Chart Why Oracle could be great value For Oracle, stepping in as both managing investor and security partner in TikTok USDS turns its existing cloud-hosting role into equity exposure to one of the largest consumer apps in the U.S. This puts Oracle in a different conversation to peers like Microsoft and Amazon, giving it a consumer-facing asset tied directly to its core strengths in cloud infrastructure, data management, and security oversight. How this fits the Oracle AI and cloud narrative The TikTok joint venture aligns with the same story investors have been...
Starmer speaks to Burnham after by-election row The prime minister claimed that only Labour could beat Reform UK in Gorton and Denton. Asked if he would welcome Burnham back into the Commons, the prime minister said "that's a matter for Andy" and that he was doing a "first-class job" as mayor of Greater Manchester. Speaking to reporters on the plane to China, Sir Keir Starmer rejected claims that ...
Starmer speaks to Burnham after by-election row The prime minister claimed that only Labour could beat Reform UK in Gorton and Denton. Asked if he would welcome Burnham back into the Commons, the prime minister said "that's a matter for Andy" and that he was doing a "first-class job" as mayor of Greater Manchester. Speaking to reporters on the plane to China, Sir Keir Starmer rejected claims that Burnham had been told in advance that he would not be accepted as a candidate, adding: "I know who was talking to Andy on Saturday and that wasn't said." The prime minister spoke to Andy Burnham on Monday and was in touch with him again on Tuesday, following Labour's decision to block him from standing in the Gorton and Denton by-election. "You can see from their [Reform's] candidate what politics they're going to bring to that constituency, the politics of division, of toxic division, of tearing people apart. "That's not what that constituency is about, it's not what Manchester is about, so this is a straight fight between Labour and Reform and there's only one party that can stop the politics of Reform in the by-election and that's the Labour Party." The academic-turned-political campaigner Matt Goodwin has been selected as Reform's candidate in the forthcoming by-election. A 10-member panel of Labour's ruling National Executive Committee (NEC) blocked Burnham's candidacy over the weekend, citing the "disproportionate" cost to the party of taking part in a contest to replace him as mayor. Burnham denied reports that he had been told beforehand by Downing Street that he would be prevented from standing. "It is simply untrue to say that I was told that I would be blocked," he told reporters. "I went through the whole weekend having conversations with people in No 10." Sir Keir was among eight NEC members voting to bar Burnham, who has been seen by some as a potential rival for the party leadership should he enter Parliament. Around 50 Labour MPs later signed a letter urging...
Crovik Media/iStock via Getty Images 2026 is proving to be a tricky market to invest in, though many of us were prepared for volatility with the major indices exiting 2025 at heightened multiples. To maintain gains this year, I continue to advocate for a rotation of our portfolios into small- and mid-cap stocks to reduce our exposure to a possible downward multiples correction in large-cap momentu...
Crovik Media/iStock via Getty Images 2026 is proving to be a tricky market to invest in, though many of us were prepared for volatility with the major indices exiting 2025 at heightened multiples. To maintain gains this year, I continue to advocate for a rotation of our portfolios into small- and mid-cap stocks to reduce our exposure to a possible downward multiples correction in large-cap momentum names. Often, these small-cap stocks are rebound stories, but here, investors are too focused on the risks and not on the cheap valuations that price in these risks. Rekor Systems ( REKR ) is a good example of this. The roadway intelligence software company has seen its share price decline ~25% over the past year, with the stock also down more than 50% relative to peaks above $3 briefly notched in October. Data by YCharts I last wrote a "Buy" rating on Rekor in September, when the stock was trading near $1.80. While I fully acknowledge that this is a position that has required tremendous patience, I also believe that Rekor's upcoming earnings and the fact that the company is beginning to convert large statewide deals into revenue will be a fantastic catalyst for the stock in 2026. I retain my "Buy" rating here. The next major catalyst for Rekor will be its Q4 earnings print (expected in mid- to late February), where the company should also release its expectations for FY26. With expectations already low for the company (Wall Street is only expecting ~21% revenue growth, which is slower than growth in the most recent quarter and may not fully reflect all the company's latest deals), this is a good "Buy" before the earnings cycle. Revenue Begins Accelerating, With the Georgia Deal a Major Catalyst Let's first turn our attention to the recent progress that Rekor has been making. As a reminder for investors who are newer to the stock, the company is mainly a supplier to government (state-level) transportation agencies, giving highway authorities the software to monitor roadwa...