Good morning . Benjamin Netanyahu signals restraint on energy strikes and downplays Iran’s capabilities. The bank of a family that lent to popes and emperors may be up for sale. And NASA is overhauling its moon-landing plans. Listen to the day’s top stories . Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel would avoid future attacks on Iran’s energy infrastructure, after strikes on key Middle East gas operations s...
Good morning . Benjamin Netanyahu signals restraint on energy strikes and downplays Iran’s capabilities. The bank of a family that lent to popes and emperors may be up for sale. And NASA is overhauling its moon-landing plans. Listen to the day’s top stories . Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel would avoid future attacks on Iran’s energy infrastructure, after strikes on key Middle East gas operations sent energy prices soaring. The war will end a lot faster than people think, according to the prime minister, because Tehran is no longer able to enrich uranium or manufacture ballistic missiles. Oil declined . Europe’s biggest naval powers don’t see a way of reopening the Strait of Hormuz to commercial shipping before the Iran war subsides. During conflict, escorts wouldn’t be enough to protect vessels in a situation requiring a “deeply complex” multinational range of air, maritime and strike capabilities, UK Defense Minister Al Carns warned. EU leaders expressed anxiety at a Brussels summit at the darkening economic situation and called for a “moratorium” on strikes against energy facilities. Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni was said to be particularly passionate, warning that the energy situation is serious. As markets and officials grapple with the fallout, traders are using AI tools like Anthropic’s Claude to parse the Iran war’s impact, cutting research time by hours or even days. The Fugger family was once one of Europe’s most influential banking dynasties , building trading routes and lending money to Holy Roman Emperors and popes. Now, a private bank founded by one of its descendants may be coming up for sale. Point72, Balyasny Ban Staff Bets in Prediction-Market Crackdown Unilever Is Talks to Merge Food Business With McCormick Super Micro Co-Founder Charged With Sending AI Tech to China Check out our Markets Today live blog for all the latest news and analysis relevant to UK assets. Deep Dive: The City That Said No to Cars Paris has been transformed from a car...
"Little things that we're just so busy in life that we tend to dismiss or move on from very quickly but if you can slow things down, for all of us, not just anybody in my situation.
"Little things that we're just so busy in life that we tend to dismiss or move on from very quickly but if you can slow things down, for all of us, not just anybody in my situation.
IEA makes 10 recommendations to help households and businesses prepare for a drawn-out disruption to energy markets The world’s energy watchdog has advised governments to reduce highway speeds and encouraged workers to carpool or, ideally, work from home to combat soaring oil prices and impending fuel shortages caused by the Middle East conflict. It has also recommended countries consider limiting...
IEA makes 10 recommendations to help households and businesses prepare for a drawn-out disruption to energy markets The world’s energy watchdog has advised governments to reduce highway speeds and encouraged workers to carpool or, ideally, work from home to combat soaring oil prices and impending fuel shortages caused by the Middle East conflict. It has also recommended countries consider limiting car access to designated zones in large cities, by giving vehicles with odd-numbered plates access on different weekdays to those with even-numbered plates. Work from home where possible to save petrol. Reduce highway speed limits by at least 10km/h to reduce fuel usage. Encourage public transport to reduce oil demand. Limit car access to roads in large cities through a number-plate rotation scheme. Increase car sharing. Encourage efficient driving for commercial vehicles through load optimisation and vehicle maintenance. Divert LPG use from transport to preserve it for essential needs like cooking. Avoid air travel where possible. Encourage electric cooking and other options to reduce reliance on LPG. Help industrial facilities switch between different petrochemical feedstocks to free up LPG. Continue reading...
Comic Relief: Funny for Money 7pm, BBC One The fundraiser bonanza is back, with hosts including Davina McCall, Nick Mohammed, Katherine Ryan and Catherine Tate – as Nan! Highlights include a world exclusive of Traitors: The Movie: The Sequel and a dizzying Amandaland sketch. Plus, Greg James finishes his 1,000km tandem bike ride challenge, while Dermot O’Leary and Alison Hammond take on a secret s...
Comic Relief: Funny for Money 7pm, BBC One The fundraiser bonanza is back, with hosts including Davina McCall, Nick Mohammed, Katherine Ryan and Catherine Tate – as Nan! Highlights include a world exclusive of Traitors: The Movie: The Sequel and a dizzying Amandaland sketch. Plus, Greg James finishes his 1,000km tandem bike ride challenge, while Dermot O’Leary and Alison Hammond take on a secret special project. Hollie Richardson Gardeners’ World 9pm, BBC Two Are your pelargoniums primed for a standout summer? Never fear, Monty Don is back in his Longmeadow garden to demonstrate a well-sprung spring. And at RHS Garden Rosemoor, Carol Klein grows fruit and veg that taste as good as they look. Ellen E Jones Ted 9pm, Sky One View image in fullscreen Foul-mouthed bear and friend … Ted. Photograph: Peacock Somehow proving that a foul-mouthed teddy bear is less a one-note joke than a franchise that can run for more than a decade, season two of this comedy continues. This double bill sees him audition for a school play, while Blaire learns that she is pregnant. Alexi Duggins Comic Relief Does The Weakest Link 10pm, BBC Two Bank or bants? Why not both? After three hours of enjoyably daft fundraising larks on BBC One, the high-spirited Comic Relief effort continues uninterrupted on BBC Two. Romesh Ranganathan welcomes six comedians to his spotlit sanctum of sarcasm to see who can secure the most dosh for Red Nose Day 2026. Graeme Virtue The Claudia Winkleman Show 10.40pm, BBC One The hit-or-miss first episode is out of the way and Claud is back with more. It’s not exactly an A-list lineup but there’s plenty of fun to be had with Irish comedian Joanne McNally, Bafta-nominated actor Guz Khan and former One Direction star Niall Horan. HR Devil in Disguise: John Wayne Gacy 10.55pm, ITV1 It’s the penultimate episode of this queasy real-crime drama telling the grisly story of American serial killer Gacy, and the trial is under way. However, the police still don’t know exactly how ...
Get MSFU alerts: Sign Up Direxion Daily MSFT Bull 2X Shares Price Performance Shares of Direxion Daily MSFT Bull 2X Shares ( NASDAQ:MSFU Get Free Report ) dropped 1.5% on Thursday . The company traded as low as $25.46 and last traded at $25.70. Approximately 3,460,927 shares traded hands during mid-day trading, an increase of 3% from the average daily volume of 3,372,039 shares. The stock had prev...
Get MSFU alerts: Sign Up Direxion Daily MSFT Bull 2X Shares Price Performance Shares of Direxion Daily MSFT Bull 2X Shares ( NASDAQ:MSFU Get Free Report ) dropped 1.5% on Thursday . The company traded as low as $25.46 and last traded at $25.70. Approximately 3,460,927 shares traded hands during mid-day trading, an increase of 3% from the average daily volume of 3,372,039 shares. The stock had previously closed at $26.08. The business has a 50 day moving average of $30.77 and a 200 day moving average of $41.83. The firm has a market capitalization of $208.68 million, a price-to-earnings ratio of 42.77 and a beta of 1.67. Hedge Funds Weigh In On Direxion Daily MSFT Bull 2X Shares Institutional investors have recently modified their holdings of the stock. Virtu Financial LLC bought a new stake in shares of Direxion Daily MSFT Bull 2X Shares in the 4th quarter valued at about $819,000. Safe Harbor Fiduciary LLC bought a new position in Direxion Daily MSFT Bull 2X Shares during the 4th quarter worth approximately $132,000. StoneX Group Inc. acquired a new position in Direxion Daily MSFT Bull 2X Shares during the fourth quarter valued at approximately $207,000. Group One Trading LLC increased its stake in Direxion Daily MSFT Bull 2X Shares by 14.6% in the fourth quarter. Group One Trading LLC now owns 3,011 shares of the company's stock valued at $125,000 after purchasing an additional 384 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Parallel Advisors LLC increased its stake in Direxion Daily MSFT Bull 2X Shares by 167.4% in the fourth quarter. Parallel Advisors LLC now owns 1,725 shares of the company's stock valued at $72,000 after purchasing an additional 1,080 shares in the last quarter. Direxion Daily MSFT Bull 2X Shares Company Profile The Direxion Daily MSFT Bull 1.5X Shares ETF (MSFU) is an exchange-traded fund that is based on the Microsoft Corporation index. The fund provides 1.5x leveraged exposure, less fees and expenses, to the daily price movement for shares of Micr...
(RTTNews) - Box, Inc. (BOX), an intelligent content cloud company, on Thursday said its board authorized an expansion of its share repurchase program. The company may buyback up to an additional $500 million of its Class A common stock. The expanded authorization runs through September 30, 2027. The move follows continued profitable growth and reflects the company's capital allocation strategy aim...
(RTTNews) - Box, Inc. (BOX), an intelligent content cloud company, on Thursday said its board authorized an expansion of its share repurchase program. The company may buyback up to an additional $500 million of its Class A common stock. The expanded authorization runs through September 30, 2027. The move follows continued profitable growth and reflects the company's capital allocation strategy aimed at enhancing shareholder value. Box Inc. closed the regular trading session on March 19, 2026, at $23.86, and down $0.78 or 3.17%. Later, in overnight trading, the share price rose to $24.11, gaining $0.25 or 1.05%, as of 7:59 PM EDT. The views and opinions expressed herein are the views and opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of Nasdaq, Inc.
Vincent Bolloré ’s surprise proposal to pay out €4.2 billion ($4.8 billion) from the eponymous company sitting at the heart of his tangled empire has spawned a slew of theories about the French billionaire’s endgame. Shares in Bolloré SE gained the most in five years Wednesday after it unveiled the extraordinary dividend but while most agree its a sign of something afoot, there’s no consensus as t...
Vincent Bolloré ’s surprise proposal to pay out €4.2 billion ($4.8 billion) from the eponymous company sitting at the heart of his tangled empire has spawned a slew of theories about the French billionaire’s endgame. Shares in Bolloré SE gained the most in five years Wednesday after it unveiled the extraordinary dividend but while most agree its a sign of something afoot, there’s no consensus as to what that may be. Investors have long watched the company accumulate a cash pile that has now reached €5.6 billion and assumed it was preparing for a transformational acquisition. Instead, Chief Executive Officer Cyrille Bollor é , who is the billionaire’s son, cited high valuations and political instability for the group’s failure to find an attractive target, according to a person who attended his presentation but asked not to be named because the event wasn’t public. Now the dividends, if approved by shareholders, will flow through the complex structure that has long defined the 73-year-old founder’s cascading web of companies. The Bolloré family is expected to pocket a fraction of the cash but a much larger sum could flow back through related firms to end up where it started, in Bolloré SE. And that’s sparking questions about whether that means a deal is still in the offing or if the move is designed to help the family gain more control or increase their own payouts in future. “Clearly Vincent Bolloré can’t find anything he wants to bet the company on,” said Andrew Brown, investment manager at East 72 Dynasty Trust, which focuses on family firms and owns shares in Bolloré entities. In the end, most of the cash will stay in the group, he added. In its statement on the proposed dividend, the group said that Compagnie de l’Odet, which owns 71% of Bolloré SE’s share capital, will receive €3 billion, and plans to pay out “at least two thirds” to its own shareholders. The latest organizational chart shows that these include an entity called Sofibol, which is itself nearly 3...
TLDRs; Nvidia (NVDA) stock dipped slightly after news of a $1 million GPU deal with AWS emerged. The agreement covers 1 million GPUs plus networking and inference chips through 2027. AWS strengthens its AI compute capacity amid global chip shortages and high demand. Mixed chip deployments signal ongoing collaboration and competition between AWS and Nvidia. 💥 Find the Next KnockoutStock! Get live p...
TLDRs; Nvidia (NVDA) stock dipped slightly after news of a $1 million GPU deal with AWS emerged. The agreement covers 1 million GPUs plus networking and inference chips through 2027. AWS strengthens its AI compute capacity amid global chip shortages and high demand. Mixed chip deployments signal ongoing collaboration and competition between AWS and Nvidia. 💥 Find the Next KnockoutStock! Get live prices, charts, and KO Scores from KnockoutStocks.com , the data-driven platform ranking every stock by quality and breakout potential. Nvidia (NVDA) shares saw a modest decline this week after details surfaced of a multi-year deal with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to supply up to one million GPUs and several additional chips through the end of 2027. The agreement, revealed by a company executive to Reuters, also includes advanced networking hardware like Connect X and Spectrum X, as well as six other specialized Nvidia chips designed for AI inference workloads. While financial terms remain undisclosed, the news has already captured attention among investors, reflecting both the size of the commitment and the strategic significance of aligning with a leading cloud provider. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has previously described a potential $1 trillion sales opportunity for its Rubin and Blackwell chip families over the same period, signaling that such partnerships are central to Nvidia’s long-term growth strategy. Multi-Chip Deal Strengthens AWS AI Infrastructure The collaboration goes beyond a simple vendor arrangement. Nvidia and AWS plan to integrate Connect X and Spectrum X into AWS data centers, supporting major AI customers and workloads, according to Ian Buck, Nvidia’s vice president of hyperscale and high-performance computing. AWS will also leverage Nvidia’s NVLink Fusion platform, a high-speed chip-linking technology, to enhance performance for future Trainium4 custom accelerators. NVIDIA Corporation, NVDA This hybrid approach illustrates a dual strategy: AWS gains access t...
In this article BABA Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNT The Alibaba stand at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference at the Shanghai World Expo Exhibition Center in Shanghai, China, on July 5, 2024. Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty Images Alibaba 's workforce shrank by roughly 34% over the course of 2025, as the company offloaded some of its offline retail businesses while doubling do...
In this article BABA Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNT The Alibaba stand at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference at the Shanghai World Expo Exhibition Center in Shanghai, China, on July 5, 2024. Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty Images Alibaba 's workforce shrank by roughly 34% over the course of 2025, as the company offloaded some of its offline retail businesses while doubling down on artificial intelligence. The Chinese e-commerce and technology giant ended December with 128,197 employees, down from 194,320 a year earlier. The disclosure of its latest headcount came in an earnings report released Thursday that showed the firm's profit plunging 67% and its revenue missing expectations for the last three months of last year. The company's shares in Hong Kong were trading down 6% Friday. Stock Chart Icon Stock chart icon The bulk of Alibaba's workforce reduction was revealed in its March 2025 quarter following the sale of Sun Art retail group at the end of 2024. The tech giant also exited its stake in department store chain Intime around the same period. China's second-largest tech company by market cap is amongst a raft of other major tech firms that have reduced headcounts in the past year from Silicon Valley to Hangzhou, China. Alibaba's staff has supported its sprawling network of business units spanning e-commerce, cloud, logistics, and other related services. However, Alibaba has been steadily reducing headcount in recent years, though the latest cuts were much larger than the 11% reduction in December 2024 from the prior year. This comes as Alibaba has sought to offload labor-intensive holdings and restructure its core businesses, with a major focus on artificial intelligence. The tech giant aims to become a full-stack AI company spanning semiconductor manufacturing to computing and AI models. The company this week launched an agentic AI service known as Wukong for businesses, and hiked prices for its cloud and storage services by as much as 3...
Altcoins, or any cryptocurrency other than Bitcoin (BTC 0.38%), are often considered speculative investments. Whereas Bitcoin can be actively mined, valued by its scarcity, and considered a hedge against inflation, many altcoins have fewer visible strengths. Instead, they often trade on headlines, market hype, and a "fear of missing out". That said, investors shouldn't simply gloss over all these ...
Altcoins, or any cryptocurrency other than Bitcoin (BTC 0.38%), are often considered speculative investments. Whereas Bitcoin can be actively mined, valued by its scarcity, and considered a hedge against inflation, many altcoins have fewer visible strengths. Instead, they often trade on headlines, market hype, and a "fear of missing out". That said, investors shouldn't simply gloss over all these altcoins. Some of them can still be valued for their scarcity and utility, attracting more attention from developers and investors as the crypto market heats up again. Two such coins are Solana (SOL 0.89%) and Cardano (ADA +0.06%). While I wouldn't bet the farm on either of these altcoins in this wobbly market, I believe they could turn a modest $100 investment into a lot more money over the next few decades as more catalysts kick in. Solana Solana, like Ethereum (ETH 1.95%), is a proof-of-stake (PoS) blockchain that supports staking (locking up tokens to earn interest-like rewards) and smart contracts, which are used to develop decentralized apps and other crypto assets. However, it accelerates those transactions with its own proof-of-history (PoH) mechanism, which timestamps them before they're validated. Expand CRYPTO : SOL Solana Today's Change ( -0.89 %) $ -0.80 Current Price $ 89.08 Key Data Points Market Cap $51B Day's Range $ 87.28 - $ 90.27 52wk Range $ 70.61 - $ 252.78 Volume 3.5B That upgrade enables Solana's native Layer 1 (L1) blockchain to achieve real-world speeds of 2,000 to 5,000 transactions per second (TPS). Ethereum's L1 blockchain can only achieve real-world speeds of about 15-30 TPS, but it's keeping up with Solana with Layer 2 (L2) "rollups" that bundle together transactions and process them off-chain at much higher speeds. Solana hosted 17,708 active developers at the end of 2025, making it the second-largest blockchain-based developer platform after Ethereum (31,869 developers). Visa (V +0.29%) also uses Solana to settle stablecoin payments, while S...
Dmitry Presnyakov/iStock Editorial via Getty Images I'm still bullish on Geely Automobile Holdings Limited ( GELYF ) (0175.HK). GELYF's earnings grew strongly for the recent fiscal period. I think it will do better than China's overall auto industry in 2026. Its shares are trading at less than half the P/E ratio of its domestic peer. The substantial valuation discount warrants a " Buy" rating. The...
Dmitry Presnyakov/iStock Editorial via Getty Images I'm still bullish on Geely Automobile Holdings Limited ( GELYF ) (0175.HK). GELYF's earnings grew strongly for the recent fiscal period. I think it will do better than China's overall auto industry in 2026. Its shares are trading at less than half the P/E ratio of its domestic peer. The substantial valuation discount warrants a " Buy" rating. The company's major share price drivers and above-consensus FY23 numbers were outlined in my March 26, 2024, initiation piece . Multiple Factors Contributed To Profit Breakout GELYF published a slide deck revealing its latest full-year financials on March 18. The firm's FY2025 normalized bottom line was 35.8% higher at CNY 14.4 billion. I've identified several reasons for the solid showing, which are detailed below. The total number of cars sold rose 39% to 3.03 million in the previous year. It successfully capitalized on the electrification wave, with the 1.69 million "New Energy Vehicle/NEV" volumes representing a 90% jump. It's encouraging for me to see the group pivoting towards high-end models. Sales for the luxury-focused "ZEEKR 9X surpassed 22,000 units from September launch through year-end" as per its presentation disclosures. GELYF indicated at the analyst meeting (source: S&P Capital IQ) that the 9X's 40% gross margin is much better than the companywide figure at the high-teens level. Separately, I'm impressed by the enterprise's ventures outside the hyper-competitive Mainland Chinese region. NEV-related exports surged 240% to 124k in FY25. It described "overseas growth" as "high-value" in an earlier August 2025 meeting . My take is that its foreign operations are likely to be more profitable than the domestic business. GELYF has also demonstrated cost discipline. In 2025, OpEx-to-sales metric declined by 30 bps to 13%. Corporate reorganization efforts have paid off too. SA News highlighted "Geely's broader plan to consolidate and streamline its premium electric veh...