Technip Energies ( THNPF ) has launched a share buy-back program of up to €150M, with up to €120M to be used to purchase common shares for cancellation and up to €30M to be used to fulfill the company’s obligations under equity compensation plans. The maximum number of shares that can be acquired under the plan is 5M. The program will run through December 31, 2026. The plan will be carried out pur...
Technip Energies ( THNPF ) has launched a share buy-back program of up to €150M, with up to €120M to be used to purchase common shares for cancellation and up to €30M to be used to fulfill the company’s obligations under equity compensation plans. The maximum number of shares that can be acquired under the plan is 5M. The program will run through December 31, 2026. The plan will be carried out pursuant to the 2025 authorization, allowing the firm to buy up to 10% of its issued share capital at prices ranging from the nominal value of the shares up to 110% of the market price of the shares during a period of 18 months. The company intends to propose to the shareholders at the 2026 AGM to renew the repurchase authorization. Source: Press Release More on Technip Energies N.V. Technip Energies N.V. 2025 Q4 - Results - Earnings Call Presentation Technip Energies N.V. (THNPY) Q4 2025 Earnings Call Transcript Technip Energies: Positioned To Win Across Energy Cycles Ecovyst announces sale of Advanced Materials & Catalysts segment to Technip Energies for $530M Seeking Alpha’s Quant Rating on Technip Energies N.V.
The Reform UK leader has a lucrative side-hustle sending paid-for Cameo messages. But an analysis of more than 4,000 show they include videos for a neo-Nazi group and a rioter. Henry Dyer reports Continue reading...
The Reform UK leader has a lucrative side-hustle sending paid-for Cameo messages. But an analysis of more than 4,000 show they include videos for a neo-Nazi group and a rioter. Henry Dyer reports Continue reading...
China, the world’s biggest crude importer, is close to tapping its vast commercial oil reserves as the Middle East war shows no signs of ending, according to FGE NexantECA. Refiners could start taking as much as 1 million barrels a day over the next four to six weeks, the industry consultant told Bloomberg. Processors — particularly in southern China — may be allowed to draw on commercial stockpil...
China, the world’s biggest crude importer, is close to tapping its vast commercial oil reserves as the Middle East war shows no signs of ending, according to FGE NexantECA. Refiners could start taking as much as 1 million barrels a day over the next four to six weeks, the industry consultant told Bloomberg. Processors — particularly in southern China — may be allowed to draw on commercial stockpiles to limit the extent of run cuts or prevent shutdowns, it said. It’s a lever that China can afford to pull. After more than a year of aggressive stockpiling, Beijing has built up an estimated 1.4 billion barrels of reserves that could be tapped if the Strait of Hormuz remains effectively shut. Strategic inventories would likely be left untouched, but even drawing on commercial stocks would require layers of internal approvals. “Given sailing times, it would be a bit early for Gulf disruptions to be felt in China,” said Antoine Halff , co-founder and chief analyst at geospatial analytics company Kayrros. China’s above-ground crude oil stocks dipped by about 7 million barrels between March 5 and 16, but this could be nothing more than “normal short-term volatility,” he said. Kayrros estimated earlier this month that China’s above-ground commercial inventories were at 851 million barrels, and its strategic stockpiles were 413 million barrels. Erica Downs, a senior research scholar at Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy, said last week the reserves totaled around 1.4 billion barrels. Beijing told its biggest oil refiners to restrict fuel exports in the first week of the war, while Sinopec has reduced activity . Rystad Energy estimates run cuts across the country of 400,000 to 800,000 barrels a day in March and April, while FGE said it expects reductions of 1.5 million barrels a day from this week. Such moves are likely to be “precautionary”, according to China-based GL Consulting, adding that state-owned refiners are expected to prioritize gasoline and diesel...
Investing.com-- Chinese artificial intelligence stocks, especially those with exposure to OpenClaw and AI agents, rose sharply on Wednesday after market major NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) lauded the technology. AI startups MiniMax Group Inc (HK:0100) and Zhipu (trading as Knowledge Atlas (HK:2513)) rallied 16% and 10%, respectively. Both companies, which are regarded among China’s leading AI developers, h...
Investing.com-- Chinese artificial intelligence stocks, especially those with exposure to OpenClaw and AI agents, rose sharply on Wednesday after market major NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) lauded the technology. AI startups MiniMax Group Inc (HK:0100) and Zhipu (trading as Knowledge Atlas (HK:2513)) rallied 16% and 10%, respectively. Both companies, which are regarded among China’s leading AI developers, had launched agentic offerings similar to OpenClaw over the past two weeks. Cloud and AI computing firms UCloud Technology Co Ltd (SS:688158), QingCloud Technologies Corp (SS:688316), and Hangzhou Shunwang Tech (SZ:300113) surged between 12% and 14%. Among larger AI names, Baidu Inc (HK:9888) rose 0.6%, Alibaba Group (HK:9988) added 2.8%, while Tencent (HK:0700) lagged after unit Tencent Music Entertainment Group (HK:1698) logged underwhelming quarterly earnings. Alibaba was also aided by the company hiking its AI service prices on strong demand. Chinese AI stocks took a strong lead-in from Wall Street after Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang touted OpenClaw and AI agents in an overnight interview with CNBC. “This is definitely the next ChatGPT,” Huang told CNBC. Nvidia also launched its own tools for OpenClaw and autonomous AI agents this week. Chinese AI majors were seen piling heavily into OpenClaw and similar services over the past month, amid growing bets that AI agents will represent the next major growth driver for the industry. OpenClaw is an open-source AI tool that can perform independent, automated tasks directly on a user’s personal computer. The software achieved viral fame on its capability to perform tasks such as sorting files, checking emails, and responding to messages. The software was seen being rapidly adopted by Chinese AI companies in the past month, with startups such as Moonshot and Minimax introducing similar tools to capitalize on hype over AI agents. But Chinese regulators adopted a more cautious approach. China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technol...
伊拉克与库尔德斯坦达成协议，恢复通过这个半自治地区的一条管道输送石油，现在开始从其基尔库克油田出口石油。作为OPEC第二大产油国，伊拉克正努力缓解霍尔木兹海峡关闭带来的影响。 北方石油公司周三在声明中表示，已恢复向土耳其杰伊汉港输送和出口基尔库克原油，初始出口能力为25万桶/天。石油部长Hayyan Abdul Ghani表示，这不包括通过北方管道从库尔德斯坦输送的21万桶/天。 来自库尔德斯坦和...
伊拉克与库尔德斯坦达成协议，恢复通过这个半自治地区的一条管道输送石油，现在开始从其基尔库克油田出口石油。作为OPEC第二大产油国，伊拉克正努力缓解霍尔木兹海峡关闭带来的影响。 北方石油公司周三在声明中表示，已恢复向土耳其杰伊汉港输送和出口基尔库克原油，初始出口能力为25万桶/天。石油部长Hayyan Abdul Ghani表示，这不包括通过北方管道从库尔德斯坦输送的21万桶/天。 来自库尔德斯坦和基尔库克油田的原油输送到地中海港口杰伊汉港，可以远离波斯湾冲突地区。 伊拉克目前的 日产 量约为130万桶，远低于冲突爆发前的430万桶。 责任编辑：何云
John M Lund Photography Inc/DigitalVision via Getty Images Are you guys following the Six Flags ( FUN ) soap opera? Well, I am. And, as a child who grew up in Brazil, this whole story reminds me of 'Avenida Brasil'. Every day I'd join my grandparents in the living room to see it. Time passed and my soap operas changed. Today I opened my computer for another day of work and saw that Jana Partners i...
John M Lund Photography Inc/DigitalVision via Getty Images Are you guys following the Six Flags ( FUN ) soap opera? Well, I am. And, as a child who grew up in Brazil, this whole story reminds me of 'Avenida Brasil'. Every day I'd join my grandparents in the living room to see it. Time passed and my soap operas changed. Today I opened my computer for another day of work and saw that Jana Partners is already pushing for a sale of Six Flags. And I thought I was impatient. I swear I imagined that Jana would work with the new management on a 1-2 year turnaround (maybe leveraging Swifters or Kelce fans along the way) and then sell it. A portfolio of parks with more 'sauce' (post-Cedarfication, as I told you in the last article ) would be worth fatter multiples, and then the story would be complete. Seeking Alpha If you ask me, they've started to see the risks more clearly. And no, I'm not naive enough to think Scott Ostfeld reads my reports here on Seeking Alpha while having breakfast in NY (who knows, right?). Many variables are far beyond Kelce's big footballer's reach. Bad weather is one of them. A rainy summer or a snowy season here and there could eat away at Six Flags' margins. And I'm not even talking about this year's soft economy. The problem is that Six Flags can't afford another bad year. Rain or shine, the rents need to be paid. Selling a park here and there will help, but the multiples they paid for underperforming Six Flags parks out there are much lower than I had in mind. Now Jana Partners has suggested a scenario of a total sale that I wasn't considering (I only imagined monetization via REIT or turnaround). I think it deserves another article. Or should I say, another chapter of the soap opera? Total Divestiture Thesis: What to Expect? I think you've already understood the rationale behind Jana's new report. The turnaround would take a long time, and there are a ton of risks involved. Now, whether they entered this already aiming for a divestiture from t...
The Manus logo is displayed on a smartphone screen, with the Meta logo visible in the background. Cheng Xin | Getty Images News | Getty Images Artificial intelligence start-up Manus, recently acquired by Meta, launched a new desktop application Monday that brings its AI agent directly onto personal laptops. The company's general agent — which can execute complex, multi-step tasks — previously oper...
The Manus logo is displayed on a smartphone screen, with the Meta logo visible in the background. Cheng Xin | Getty Images News | Getty Images Artificial intelligence start-up Manus, recently acquired by Meta, launched a new desktop application Monday that brings its AI agent directly onto personal laptops. The company's general agent — which can execute complex, multi-step tasks — previously operated exclusively in the cloud, and was typically accessed through a web interface. However, through the new Manus Desktop application, a feature called 'My Computer' lets its agents work directly with local files, tools and applications on a user's device. The expanded offering aligns Meta and Manus's agents more closely with OpenClaw, an open-sourced AI agent that is also downloaded onto users' local devices. OpenClaw was founded by Austrian software developer Peter Steinberger late last year, and its popularity has helped spark an AI agent frenzy . Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang described OpenClaw as the " next ChatGPT ' in an interview with Jim Cramer on CNBC's "Mad Money" Tuesday. Steinberger has also been hired by ChatGPT maker OpenAI, which represents one of Meta's main AI competitors. Unlike OpenClaw, which is free and open-sourced under an MIT license, Manus is primarily a paid subscription service. According to Manus, its My Computer offering allows its agent to read, analyze, edit files, and launch or control applications on the machine. For example, the company said that users can instruct Manus to organize thousands of internal images on their hard drive. Beyond file management, My Computer is also compatible with coding applications and can create an app within minutes, it said. Those capabilities will be added to existing Manus capabilities, which include integration with services such as Google Calendar, Gmail, and various third-party platforms. While such capabilities offer much promise, experts have also flagged potential security and privacy issues with granting ...