July arabica coffee (KCN26 ) on Friday closed down -0.65 (-0.26%), and July ICE robusta coffee (RMN26 ) closed down -36 (-1.07%). Coffee prices settled lower on Friday, with arabica posting a 19-month nearest-futures low and robusta posting a 7-week low. Weakness in the Brazilian real (^USDBRL ) weighed on...
July arabica coffee (KCN26 ) on Friday closed down -0.65 (-0.26%), and July ICE robusta coffee (RMN26 ) closed down -36 (-1.07%). Coffee prices settled lower on Friday, with arabica posting a 19-month nearest-futures low and robusta posting a 7-week low. Weakness in the Brazilian real (^USDBRL ) weighed on...
POET Technologies (NASDAQ:POET) trades at $13.89 as of June 2, 2026. Our 24/7 Wall St. price target for POET is $10.41 over the next 12 months, implying 25% downside from current levels. Our recommendation is sell with moderate confidence of 50%, reflecting mixed signals between bullish analyst sentiment and a stretched price after a sharp ... Prediction: Poet’s 220% Surge Sets Up a Potential Corr...
POET Technologies (NASDAQ:POET) trades at $13.89 as of June 2, 2026. Our 24/7 Wall St. price target for POET is $10.41 over the next 12 months, implying 25% downside from current levels. Our recommendation is sell with moderate confidence of 50%, reflecting mixed signals between bullish analyst sentiment and a stretched price after a sharp ... Prediction: Poet’s 220% Surge Sets Up a Potential Correction
Dragon Claws/iStock via Getty Images My last article on Birchcliff Energy Ltd. ( BIREF ) noted that this company has not been able to make appropriate use of leverage. However, this company has a relatively new CEO who has made an emphasis on increasing efficiency. Should that campaign prove to be successful, then this is a sort of turnaround situation that could prove very rewarding in addition t...
Dragon Claws/iStock via Getty Images My last article on Birchcliff Energy Ltd. ( BIREF ) noted that this company has not been able to make appropriate use of leverage. However, this company has a relatively new CEO who has made an emphasis on increasing efficiency. Should that campaign prove to be successful, then this is a sort of turnaround situation that could prove very rewarding in addition to the higher prices. Stock Price This company had been very good at growing production. Sometimes the debt got to breathtaking levels. While the company has always reduced the debt ratio in the past, the stock price has long been range-bound because no long-term benefits ever appeared from acquisitions or growth. As a result, this stock was primarily a trading vehicle. Birchcliff Energy Common Stock Price History And Key Valuation Measures (Seeking Alpha Website June 5, 2026) Since the last article , this stock has really not done much. The general strategy of buying when the stock price hits $3 or less and then selling over $6 still seems to look good based upon history. Sometimes the stock has gotten to higher levels than that range. But that progress has clearly never lasted. Now, with a relatively new CEO having an efficiency goal and the corporate presentation spending a fair amount of time on gained efficiencies, it is possible that the company will not need to borrow as much, and growth will show up as more earnings. That would enable the stock price to get out of the current (long-term) price range. It would also mark a material change from the last CEO. Debt Ratio The guidance for the debt ratio hints at a possible change in the debt strategy. (Note: This is a Canadian producer that reports using Canadian dollars.) Birchcliff Energy Five Year Summarized Outlook (Birchcliff Energy Corporate Presentation May 2026) I cannot remember ever seeing a goal to repay the debt to that low a debt ratio as shown above. If management sticks to that plan, it will represent a majo...
Xianming Liu, head of XPeng's General Intelligence Center, told Electrek that the company spends roughly RMB 300 million a month training AI models for autonomous driving.
Xianming Liu, head of XPeng's General Intelligence Center, told Electrek that the company spends roughly RMB 300 million a month training AI models for autonomous driving.
watch now VIDEO 3:23 03:23 Iran war impact on oil supply and inventories will show in July, says S&P Global's Dan Yergin Power Lunch President Donald Trump faces the risk that Iran will close the Bab el-Mandeb Strait if the conflict in the Middle East escalates, a scenario that would slash oil supplies to an already deeply disrupted market. The Bab el-Mandeb is one of the world's key trade chokepo...
watch now VIDEO 3:23 03:23 Iran war impact on oil supply and inventories will show in July, says S&P Global's Dan Yergin Power Lunch President Donald Trump faces the risk that Iran will close the Bab el-Mandeb Strait if the conflict in the Middle East escalates, a scenario that would slash oil supplies to an already deeply disrupted market. The Bab el-Mandeb is one of the world's key trade chokepoints, connecting the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden and Arabian Sea. It has acted as crucial relief valve for the oil market as exports through the Strait of Hormuz have plunged due to Iranian attacks on tanker and cargo ships. Saudi Arabia surged oil flows through its East-West pipeline after Hormuz closed, redirecting millions of barrels per day to the Red Sea. Those barrels are transiting the Bab el-Mandeb to Asia, which has helped offset some of the lost supply to key economies like Japan and South Korea. Oil and product exports through the Bab el-Mandeb nearly doubled to 7.2 million barrels per day in April compared to 3.9 million bpd in February before the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran, according to data provided by Kpler. Iran's Revolutionary Guard threatened Monday to close the Bab el-Mandeb if Israel did not halt strikes in Gaza and Lebanon, according to the state news agency Tasnim. Tehran has insisted that any peace deal with the U.S. must include the withdrawal of Israel from Lebanon. Iran closing the Bab el-Mandeb would cut off the Saudi barrels that are heading to Asia, said Matt Smith, director of commodity research at Kpler. "That would be a step up in terms of escalation and in terms of market impact," Smith said. The flow of oil through the Red Sea is one of the factors that has kept crude prices from surging higher, he said. U.S. crude oil prices spiked 8% at the session high Monday after Iran's threat against Bab el-Mandeb. Prices pulled back after Israel and Lebanon agreed Wednesday to implement a ceasefire, but it is far from certain the truce will actual...
Wingstop近日正式启动了公司历史上首个全国性忠诚度计划“Club Wingstop”，该计划以积分为基础、体验为导向，旨在通过文化会员制加强消费者连接。受此消息提振，多家华尔街机构预计该计划将为公司带来显著的销售增长。 计划详情：体验式会员制，打造“会员优先”文化 Club Wingstop于上月底正式全国上线，其核心理念是“会员优先用餐”。会员每消费1美元可获得10点积分，可用于兑换鸡翅、...
Wingstop近日正式启动了公司历史上首个全国性忠诚度计划“Club Wingstop”，该计划以积分为基础、体验为导向，旨在通过文化会员制加强消费者连接。受此消息提振，多家华尔街机构预计该计划将为公司带来显著的销售增长。 计划详情：体验式会员制，打造“会员优先”文化 Club Wingstop于上月底正式全国上线，其核心理念是“会员优先用餐”。会员每消费1美元可获得10点积分，可用于兑换鸡翅、薯条等热门菜品。与传统积分计划不同，Club Wingstop还融入了独家体验、限量版商品、会员专属活动等元素。为配合发布，Wingstop与真人秀明星Maura Higgins合作推出限量版“Club in a Box”礼盒，内含蓝牙音箱、拍立得相机等定制商品，会员仅需94美分即可购买。 公司首席品牌官Donnie Upshaw表示：“这不仅仅是积分和福利，我们正在建立一个社区，让最忠实的粉丝获得只有Wingstop才能提供的文化体验。” 机构看好：同店销售有望提升3%以上 瑞穗证券分析师Nick Setyan在周四重申对Wingstop的跑赢大市评级，目标价维持280美元。他估计，忠诚度计划可为同店销售增长贡献逾3%。法国 巴黎银行 分析师Steve McManus则认为，该计划有助于Wingstop更好地满足顾客需求，解决近期出现的“价值摩擦”问题。 此前Wingstop已在部分市场进行了试点，数据显示试点市场中近50%的活跃顾客已注册该计划，会员的消费频率较加入前提升了7%，新顾客注册率超过30%。管理层表示，目前公司拥有超过6000万数字用户数据库，这将为忠诚度计划的推广提供坚实基础。 挑战与机遇：股价承压，计划成增长关键 Wingstop近期面临销售压力。公司2025财年第四季度国内同店销售额下降5.8%，为22年来首次出现负增长。2026年第一季度同店销售额同比进一步下滑8.7%，但公司仍凭借成本控制超出了每股收益预期。今年以来，Wingstop股价累计下跌超过40%。 公司预计2026年全球门店数量将增长15%至16%，同时指引同店销售额将出现低单位数下降。管理层预计，在忠诚度计划、智能厨房系统及新营销活动的共同推动下，销售有望在今年下半年出现转折。公司长期目标是平均单店销售额达到300万美元，而忠诚度计划被视为实现这一目标的关键杠杆之一。 责任编辑：张俊 ...
U.S.-traded chipmakers plunged on Friday, losing over $1 trillion in market value, with deep losses in AI heavy hitters including Nvidia, Micron Technology and Advanced Micro Devices, as Broadcom's weak report earlier this week reverberated across Wall Street. The PHLX chip index slumped almost 8.5% in afternoon trading, putting it on track for its deepest one-day loss since Wall Street's "Libe...
U.S.-traded chipmakers plunged on Friday, losing over $1 trillion in market value, with deep losses in AI heavy hitters including Nvidia, Micron Technology and Advanced Micro Devices, as Broadcom's weak report earlier this week reverberated across Wall Street. The PHLX chip index slumped almost 8.5% in afternoon trading, putting it on track for its deepest one-day loss since Wall Street's "Liberation Day" tariff selloff in April 2025. Friday's selloff added to losses on Thursday after Broadcom gave a quarterly report that showed demand for its custom AI chips business falling short of lofty expectations.
FEATURE AI-related valuations might be a bubble. No one told Google parent Alphabet though. On Friday, SpaceX entered into a cloud service agreement with Google. The latter will pay $920 million a month for access to about 110,000 Nvidia GPUs.
FEATURE AI-related valuations might be a bubble. No one told Google parent Alphabet though. On Friday, SpaceX entered into a cloud service agreement with Google. The latter will pay $920 million a month for access to about 110,000 Nvidia GPUs.
Hello and welcome to the newsletter, a grab bag of daily content from the Odd Lots universe. Sometimes it’s us, Joe Weisenthal and Tracy Alloway, bringing you our thoughts on the most recent developments in markets, finance and the economy. And sometimes it’s contributions from our network of expert guests and sources. Whatever it is, we promise it will always be interesting. If you like chatting ...
Hello and welcome to the newsletter, a grab bag of daily content from the Odd Lots universe. Sometimes it’s us, Joe Weisenthal and Tracy Alloway, bringing you our thoughts on the most recent developments in markets, finance and the economy. And sometimes it’s contributions from our network of expert guests and sources. Whatever it is, we promise it will always be interesting. If you like chatting with us, check out the Odd Lots Discord , where you can hang out and talk with us and with other listeners 24/7. Joe and Tracy are heading to Hong Kong where they’ll be attending Bloomberg Invest Hong Kong as well as hosting our now-sold out live trivia night on June 11. Since they’re mid-flight, this edition of the newsletter is written by two Odd Lots producers — Kevin Lozano and Cale Brooks — and it’s about the Knicks and inflation. Here’s what Cale is thinking about... The May non-farm payrolls report is out today and the 172,000 increase is more than double the expected gain many economists predicted. Attention is now turning toward a possible interest rate hike in the coming months, as observers expect the acceleration in inflation to be with us for a while. Per the data from last month, the annual inflation rate in April 2026 was 3.8% and the energy and supply drivers don’t seem to be letting up. We take it for granted that energy shocks push up prices. And consumers at the pump can attest . But the mechanism that translates input shortages into steadily increasing prices has remained contentious among analysts and economists. Obviously, higher costs cut into profit margins, but why should firms be able to pass those through to higher consumer prices? And if firms can raise prices whenever their costs go up, why wait for a shock or crisis? Since 2020, we’ve seen several instances of energy and supply-chain shocks, as well as several installations of sweeping tariff walls. The expectation immediately after Liberation Day was that businesses would pass higher transport...
Trulieve CEO Kim Rivers has her competitors scrambling to catch-up and take advantage of a perfect collision of regulatory reform and corporate strategy.
Trulieve CEO Kim Rivers has her competitors scrambling to catch-up and take advantage of a perfect collision of regulatory reform and corporate strategy.
Key PointsVanguard Dividend Appreciation ETF focuses on companies with a 10-year track record of increasing dividends while Vanguard High Dividend Yield ETF targets high forecasted yields
Key PointsVanguard Dividend Appreciation ETF focuses on companies with a 10-year track record of increasing dividends while Vanguard High Dividend Yield ETF targets high forecasted yields