Aaron Rodgers has said that the 2026 season will be the final one of his NFL career. “Yes. This is it,” the Steelers quarterback told reporters in Pittsburgh on Wednesday when asked if the upcoming campaign would be his last. The four-time MVP agreed last weekend to return to the Steelers on a one-year deal reportedly worth up to $25m. The 42-year-old, who is entering his 22nd NFL season, led the ...
Aaron Rodgers has said that the 2026 season will be the final one of his NFL career. “Yes. This is it,” the Steelers quarterback told reporters in Pittsburgh on Wednesday when asked if the upcoming campaign would be his last. The four-time MVP agreed last weekend to return to the Steelers on a one-year deal reportedly worth up to $25m. The 42-year-old, who is entering his 22nd NFL season, led the Steelers to the AFC North division title last season. The Steelers hired Mike McCarthy, Rodgers’s coach for 13 seasons with the Green Bay Packers, after Mike Tomlin stepped down this offseason. McCarthy and Rodgers defeated Tomlin’s Steelers to win the Super Bowl during the 2010 season in Green Bay, and the quarterback earned two of his four MVPs playing under McCarthy. After signing a one-year deal with the Steelers last June, he told the Pat McAfee Show that the 2025 season would probably be his final in the NFL. He then guided the Steelers to the division title and a playoff appearance, throwing for 3,322 yards, 24 touchdowns and seven interceptions. Rodgers said Wednesday that he contemplated retirement after Tomlin resigned following the Steelers’ playoff loss to the Houston Texans in January, but the hiring of McCarthy changed his mind. “When [Tomlin] said he was stepping away, that was an emotional moment just because we all love him so much and care about him, and I thought that was probably it for me in Pittsburgh,” Rodgers said. “But when the decision was made to hire [McCarthy], I started opening my mind back up to coming back.” After 18 seasons with the Packers, Rodgers played for the New York Jets from 2023 to 2024. He told reporters that playing under McCarthy again would be a “full circle” moment. “There was some doubt for sure, but I had good conversations with Mike going back to when he was hired. It’s nice to come back. It felt different than last year, cause I knew some of the guys and the people that work here,” Rodgers said. “So it felt good coming in.”
Leading broker B.Riley recently upgraded shares of cloud cybersecurity firm Zscaler (ZS) to a “Buy” rating from “Neutral.” Dispelling fears about the so-called “SaaSpocalypse," the firm cited Zscaler's private cloud network, a large database of cybersecurity clients, and reliability as reasons for the upgrade. B.Riley lowered its price target to $225 from $275 due to a correction in the valuation ...
Leading broker B.Riley recently upgraded shares of cloud cybersecurity firm Zscaler (ZS) to a “Buy” rating from “Neutral.” Dispelling fears about the so-called “SaaSpocalypse," the firm cited Zscaler's private cloud network, a large database of cybersecurity clients, and reliability as reasons for the upgrade. B.Riley lowered its price target to $225 from $275 due to a correction in the valuation multiples of the wider sector. Even so, the revised price target suggests potential upside of about 29% from current levels. About Zscaler Stock Founded in 2007, Zscaler is a cloud cybersecurity company focused on zero-trust security, secure internet access, cloud-delivered enterprise security, and secure access service edge (SASE). Essentially, Zscaler is trying to replace traditional corporate network security architectures with cloud-native security. Valued at a market capitalization of $28.1 billion, ZS stock is down almost 23% on a year-to-date (YTD) basis. So, share price weakness remains. But can the recent upgrade from B.Riley provide a much-needed flip to Zscaler's fortunes? Zscaler's Robust Q2 As with many companies exposed to “SaaS will become irrelevant” fears, the financials of Zscaler remain solid. The company's second-quarter results are a prime example of this strength. For Q2 2026, Zscaler reported a beat on both revenue and earnings. Revenue grew 26% year-over-year (YOY) to $815.8 million as the company's ARR went up by 25% in the same period to $3.4 billion. Meanwhile, non-GAAP earnings increased at an even higher rate of 29.5% to $1.01 per share, surpassing the consensus estimate of $0.89. Notably, this was the ninth consecutive quarter showing an earnings beat from the company. Zscaler guided for Q3 revenue between $834 million and $836 million, while the Street is expecting $835.7 million in revenue. Similarly, Zscaler guided for earnings between $1 per share and $1.01 per share. The Street expects the same. Coming to the cash flows, net cash from oper...
This image contained in a court filing by the Department of Justice on Aug. 30, 2022, and partially redacted by the source, shows a photo of documents seized during the Aug. 8, 2022, FBI search of former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate. Department of Justice | AP A former federal prosecutor has been charged with stealing the sealed volume of the report prepared by then-special counsel J...
This image contained in a court filing by the Department of Justice on Aug. 30, 2022, and partially redacted by the source, shows a photo of documents seized during the Aug. 8, 2022, FBI search of former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate. Department of Justice | AP A former federal prosecutor has been charged with stealing the sealed volume of the report prepared by then-special counsel Jack Smith about the defunct criminal case against President Donald Trump over his retention of classified government documents after leaving office in January 2021. Carmen Mercedes Lineberger is accused in a four-count indictment unsealed Wednesday of saving the sealed portion of Smith's report on her government-issued computer under the file name "Bundt_Cake_Recipe.pdf," and then emailing the report from her DOJ email account to her personal Gmail account on Dec. 1, 2025. At the time of the alleged conduct, the 62-year-old Lineberger was managing Assistant U.S. Attorney in Fort Pierce, Fla., according to the indictment in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida. Read more CNBC politics coverage Trump’s face doesn’t belong on U.S. passport, senators tell Rubio Jan. 6 police officers sue Trump to block $1.8B ‘lawfare’ fund Breakthrough agreement in housing bill gives investors wins Democrats make demands of U.S. trade representative ahead of U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement review Lineberger is charged with theft of government property and counts related to the removal and altering of public records in the indictment. Judge Aileen Cannon on Jan. 21, 2025 issued an order prohibiting the DOJ, as well as its officers and employees, from "releasing, sharing, or transmitting" Volume II of Smith's report, which was filed in the court. Lineberger appeared in court in Fort Pierce on Wednesday and was released without having to post bond. CNBC has requested comment from Lineberger's criminal defense attorney and from the U.S. Attorney's Office. Cannon in July 2024 dismis...
(RTTNews) - After moving sharply lower over the past several sessions, treasuries showed a strong move back to the upside during trading on Wednesday. Bond prices surged in morning trading and continued to turn in a strong performance throughout the afternoon. Subsequently, the yield on the benchmark ten-year note, which moves opposite of its price, plunged 9.5 basis points to 4.572 percent. The t...
(RTTNews) - After moving sharply lower over the past several sessions, treasuries showed a strong move back to the upside during trading on Wednesday. Bond prices surged in morning trading and continued to turn in a strong performance throughout the afternoon. Subsequently, the yield on the benchmark ten-year note, which moves opposite of its price, plunged 9.5 basis points to 4.572 percent. The ten-year yield gave back ground after spiking to its highest levels since early January of 2025 in the previous session. Treasuries benefitted from a substantial pullback by the price of crude oil, with U.S. crude oil futures plummeting by nearly 6 percent amid renewed optimism about an end to the U.S.-Iran war. Crude oil futures tumbled below $100 a barrel after President Donald Trump claimed the U.S. conflict with Iran is in the "final stages." At the same time, Trump continued to leave open the possibility of renewing military attacks against Iran, telling reporters, "We'll either have a deal or we're going to do some things that are a little bit nasty." Bond traders seemed to shrug off the minutes of the Federal Reserve's latest monetary policy meeting, which provided some additional details about officials' mixed views about the outlook for rates. The Fed said participants generally judged that continued elevated inflation readings together with uncertainty related to the Middle East conflict could necessitate keeping rates unchanged for longer than previously anticipated. Several participants felt it would likely be appropriate to cut rates once there are clear indications that disinflation is firmly back on track or if solid signs emerge of greater weakness in the labor market, the Fed said. However, the minutes revealed a majority of participants felt that some policy firming would likely become appropriate if inflation were to continue to run persistently above 2 percent. The views and opinions expressed herein are the views and opinions of the author and do not nec...
Jean Salata, chair of EQT Group, joins Dani Burger on "Bloomberg Deals." EQT manages around $310 billion in assets. EQT this week won the mandate to manage a new EU fund for investing in quantum computing, artificial intelligence and other deep tech companies. (Source: Bloomberg)
Jean Salata, chair of EQT Group, joins Dani Burger on "Bloomberg Deals." EQT manages around $310 billion in assets. EQT this week won the mandate to manage a new EU fund for investing in quantum computing, artificial intelligence and other deep tech companies. (Source: Bloomberg)
The Roundhill Memory ETF (CBOE:DRAM) launched on April 2, 2026 and has returned roughly 79% since inception, very nearly doubling investor capital in about seven weeks. That is the kind of performance you normally see from a single-stock momentum trade rather than a diversified fund. It happened because DRAM holds the three companies sitting on ... DRAM Has Nearly Doubled Since Its April Launch an...
The Roundhill Memory ETF (CBOE:DRAM) launched on April 2, 2026 and has returned roughly 79% since inception, very nearly doubling investor capital in about seven weeks. That is the kind of performance you normally see from a single-stock momentum trade rather than a diversified fund. It happened because DRAM holds the three companies sitting on ... DRAM Has Nearly Doubled Since Its April Launch and After Following the AI Memory Shortage Daily These 3 Semiconductor ETFs Keep Rising in My Research
Tammy Kiely, senior managing director in technology investment banking at Evercore, and Wally Cheng, head of global technology M&A at Morgan Stanley, join Dani Burger on "Bloomberg Deals. (Source: Bloomberg)
Tammy Kiely, senior managing director in technology investment banking at Evercore, and Wally Cheng, head of global technology M&A at Morgan Stanley, join Dani Burger on "Bloomberg Deals. (Source: Bloomberg)
Michael Bay is set to direct a military drama based on the recent rescue of two US crew members who crashed in Iran. According to Deadline, the director of action films such as Armageddon and Transformers will work with Universal Pictures to bring the story to the screen. In April, two soldiers were rescued after their fighter jet was downed, something Donald Trump called “one of most daring searc...
Michael Bay is set to direct a military drama based on the recent rescue of two US crew members who crashed in Iran. According to Deadline, the director of action films such as Armageddon and Transformers will work with Universal Pictures to bring the story to the screen. In April, two soldiers were rescued after their fighter jet was downed, something Donald Trump called “one of most daring search-and-rescue operations in US history”. In a statement, Bay says the film will celebrate “the true heroism and unwavering dedication of our service members”. The as-yet-untitled project will be based on a book by Mitchell Zuckoff to be released in 2027. Zuckoff’s book 13 Hours, about the attack on an American compound in Benghazi, was previously turned into a movie by Bay in 2016. The film starred John Krasinski and became one of Bay’s lowest-grossing films. In a two-star review, the Guardian’s Peter Bradshaw wrote that it was “like playing Call of Duty for 72 hours straight – only without the subtlety and insight”. During his presidential campaign at the time, Trump showed his support of the movie by renting out a cinema so his supporters could watch it for free. Bay’s most recent film, the Jake Gyllenhaal-led action thriller Ambulance, was a box office disappointment back in 2022. He was set to direct a Will Smith action vehicle in 2024 but a year later the project fell apart over reports of creative differences between the pair, who had previously worked on Bad Boys and its first sequel. Last year, Bay also directed a Super Bowl advert for the Secret Service. On social media, the film-maker wrote: “Filming Secret Service Super Bowl commercial: President Trump wanted to meet me. I’m the only person standing in front of AF1, Marine One lands, and the President walks up to me: surreal.”
Critics worry Google is losing ground to flashier rivals, but rapid Gemini adoption and AI-native integrations are driving monetization behind the scenes.
Critics worry Google is losing ground to flashier rivals, but rapid Gemini adoption and AI-native integrations are driving monetization behind the scenes.
Soros Fueling Opposition To Texas Data Center Expansion: Report A new investigation has connected Wall Street billionaire and Democrat megadonor George Soros to a national progressive network of activist groups opposing data center expansion in Texas. The Dallas Express reported that Open Society Foundations, founded and funded by Soros, has provided more than $7.6 million to the national Indivisi...
Soros Fueling Opposition To Texas Data Center Expansion: Report A new investigation has connected Wall Street billionaire and Democrat megadonor George Soros to a national progressive network of activist groups opposing data center expansion in Texas. The Dallas Express reported that Open Society Foundations, founded and funded by Soros, has provided more than $7.6 million to the national Indivisible Project since 2017 , including a two-year $3 million grant in 2023. Indivisible Centex, the local Bell County chapter of the national Indivisible network, has been active in opposing data center projects in Temple, Texas. Indivisible Centex reportedly held a “week of action” in late April against data center projects in Temple. Activities included a “Protest & Petition” event at Temple City Hall on April 24, efforts to recall city council members who supported the projects, and a virtual Zoom event on April 27 titled “Thirsty for Power: When Data Centers Drain Our Water.” The protests come amid significant data center expansion in the area. Rowan broke ground earlier this year on Project Temple, a 300-megawatt hyperscale campus on roughly 700 acres with a minimum investment of $700 million, and is developing additional phases in the area. Separately, Meta has been building its own large data center campus in Temple since 2022. The Temple City Council's April vote to annex and rezone about 700 acres along Bob White Road for the Rowan project drew opposition from residents concerned about water use, electricity demand, and infrastructure strain, concerns that prompted a separate group, Stop the Temple Data Center, to launch a recall effort against the mayor and two council members. Soros and friends, being agents of chaos and whatnot, are fueling the early stages of a “Luddite revolution” against data center expansion. Since mid-2025, the site has warned that exploding residential electricity bills, limited local job gains, and public unease over AI’s societal impacts wou...
It's not an ideal time to be buying a new PC or doing a major upgrade. Price crunches for RAM and storage chips are making all kinds of components more expensive, and the shift to DDR5 in modern Intel and AMD CPUs means that a lot of people would need to pay money to replace their current DDR4 kits if they wanted to step up to a significantly newer, faster CPU and motherboard. AMD may have somethi...
It's not an ideal time to be buying a new PC or doing a major upgrade. Price crunches for RAM and storage chips are making all kinds of components more expensive, and the shift to DDR5 in modern Intel and AMD CPUs means that a lot of people would need to pay money to replace their current DDR4 kits if they wanted to step up to a significantly newer, faster CPU and motherboard. AMD may have something on the horizon for people who are looking to stretch their current PC (and its DDR4 RAM kit) just a little further. Leaks spotted by Tom's Hardware point to the existence of an "AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D 10th Anniversary Edition," a re-release of a 4-year-old out-of-circulation CPU that might nevertheless be an upgrade for people with older Ryzen CPUs in Socket AM4 motherboards. The "X3D" in the chip's name signifies that it comes with 64MB of extra L3 cache stacked on top of the main CPU die, bringing the total amount of L3 cache to 96MB. Workloads that benefit from extra cache—including most games—will perform much better on the 5800X3D than they do on the vanilla Ryzen 7 5800X. Read full article Comments
design master/iStock via Getty Images One of my favorite things to do when it comes to investing is to look around for new opportunities. Lately, I've been looking at more high-yield prospects. What I have found is that while there are some that are attractive, many of them are suboptimal for investors to own. Yes, the hefty distributions are nice to see. And in some cases, you can expect these op...
design master/iStock via Getty Images One of my favorite things to do when it comes to investing is to look around for new opportunities. Lately, I've been looking at more high-yield prospects. What I have found is that while there are some that are attractive, many of them are suboptimal for investors to own. Yes, the hefty distributions are nice to see. And in some cases, you can expect these opportunities to outperform or at least match the broader market. But others are frankly unsustainable in terms of yield. And those are the ones that tend to underperform the most. A good example of this, unfortunately, is AGNC Investment Corp. ( AGNC ). Coming into it, I was open-minded about it as a prospect. After all, who doesn't want a 13.4% yield? But after looking at the data closely, I have no choice but to rate this a ‘sell’ to reflect my view that investors should expect it to continue to underperform compared to other opportunities that exist. Taking a look at AGNC Investment Corp. Operationally speaking, AGNC Investment Corp. is a rather interesting prospect. Management describes it as a major player in the provision of private capital to the US housing market. It does this by investing mostly in agency residential mortgage-backed securities. And it utilizes leverage in order to do so. You don't get a hefty yield like what it offers without some sort of leverage, after all. Management mentioned in the company's annual report that it invests in mortgage pass-through securities and collateralized mortgage obligations. These are interesting because the principal and interest payments of the ones that they invest in are guaranteed by GSEs such as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. And because of the fact that this enterprise is structured as a REIT, it pays out a lot of its distributions and gets to avoid taxes at the corporate level. Instead, investors are directly responsible for the tax bill. At first glance, AGNC Investment Corp. might seem ideal for many investors. Mana...
Ategra Capital Management reduced its stake in Axos Financial (AX +2.61%) by 39,577 shares in the first quarter, an estimated $3.61 million trade based on quarterly average pricing, according to a May 15, 2026, SEC filing. What happened According to the SEC filing dated May 15, 2026, Ategra Capital Management sold 39,577 shares of Axos Financial in the first quarter. The estimated transaction valu...
Ategra Capital Management reduced its stake in Axos Financial (AX +2.61%) by 39,577 shares in the first quarter, an estimated $3.61 million trade based on quarterly average pricing, according to a May 15, 2026, SEC filing. What happened According to the SEC filing dated May 15, 2026, Ategra Capital Management sold 39,577 shares of Axos Financial in the first quarter. The estimated transaction value was $3.61 million, calculated using the mean unadjusted close for the quarter. The fund’s position in Axos Financial ended the period at 113,765 shares, with a quarter-end value of $9.68 million. What else to know This was a reduction of Ategra’s Axos Financial stake, which now makes up 4.81% of its 13F reportable AUM. Top holdings after the filing: NYSE: TFC: $18.19 million NASDAQ:FISI: $17.89 million (10.5% of AUM) NYSE: BBT: $15.34 million NYSE: CFG: $14.91 million NASDAQ:HWBK: $11.54 million (6.8% of AUM) As of May 14, 2026, shares of Axos Financial were priced at $83.44, up about 19% over the past year and underperforming the S&P 500, which is instead up about 25%. Company Overview Metric Value Revenue (TTM) $1.4 billion Net Income (TTM) $476.1 million Price (as of market close 2026-05-14) $83.44 Company snapshot Axos offers consumer and business banking products, including deposit accounts, mortgage loans, commercial lending, auto loans, and securities-backed loans. The firm serves individual consumers, small businesses, and institutional clients across the United States. It operates a technology-driven platform to deliver digital banking and securities solutions nationwide. Axos Financial, Inc. is a diversified financial services provider with a focus on digital banking and securities solutions. The company leverages a technology-driven platform to deliver a broad range of banking and lending products efficiently to both retail and commercial clients. Axos's scalable business model and nationwide reach position it competitively within the regional banking sector. W...
After years of slogging through the retail wilderness, Target (TGT 4.27%) had good news for investors on Wednesday: It's alive. The retailer surprised the market with comparable sales up 5.6%, its best performance in years, on a 4.7% increase in comparable traffic, showing that customers are returning to its stores. New CEO Michael Fiddelke said that the results "were stronger than expected, provi...
After years of slogging through the retail wilderness, Target (TGT 4.27%) had good news for investors on Wednesday: It's alive. The retailer surprised the market with comparable sales up 5.6%, its best performance in years, on a 4.7% increase in comparable traffic, showing that customers are returning to its stores. New CEO Michael Fiddelke said that the results "were stronger than expected, providing encouraging early signs that our clarified strategy is resonating with our guests." Overall revenue rose 6.7% to $25.44 billion, which easily beat estimates at $24.66 billion. The company also delivered margin improvement with an adjusted operating margin up from 3.7% to 4.5%, and adjusted earnings per share rose from $1.30 to $1.71, ahead of the consensus at $1.46. Among the highlights in Q1 were that sales increased in all six of its core merchandising categories, and it reported 27% growth in same-day delivery on digital sales growth of 8.9%. Non-merchandise sales, which includes membership programs like Target Circle 360 as well as its Roundel media network grew nearly 25%. Target also raised its guidance for the full year, saying it now expected net sales to grow around 4%, compared to a previous range of 2%, and for net sales to grow every quarter this year. It called for a full-year operating margin of at least 4.8%, up from the 4.6% in reported in 2025, and it sees adjusted EPS near the high end of its previous guidance range of $7.50-$8.50. Target stock was up in pre-market trading, but it dipped during the earnings call and remained down in the regular session. As of 2:04 p.m. ET, the retail stock was down 4.8%. Why Target gave up its gains Part of the reason for the strong performance was that Target was up against easy comps. In the quarter a year ago, comparable sales declined 5.7%, so the company is essentially just recouping those lost sales with this report. Management also said that growth would slow in the second quarter, when it faces tougher comps d...