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Welcome to Next Africa, a daily newsletter on where the continent stands now — and where it’s headed. Sign up here to have it delivered to your email. In today’s edition, we look at how Zimbabwe has shaken up the lithium market. The Iran war is driving up the risk premium on African debt A World Bank-backed electrification drive is gathering pace And finally, a historic South African wine farm is up for grabs Zimbabwe’s Curve Ball Zimbabwe is keeping Chinese lithium miners guessing about how long it intends to block their exports . The southern African nation surprised the companies – and refineries in China – when it suspended lithium concentrate shipments late last month. The firms thought they had until the start of next year to prepare for the ban on the key new-energy mineral. The decision jolted battery supply chains because Zimbabwe has shot up the rankings of lithium producers in recent years – accounting for almost 10% of global mined output in 2025, according to the US Geological Survey. That boom was only possible because Chengxin Lithium, Zhejiang Huayou Cobalt, Sinomine Resource and Sichuan Yahua Industrial spent several billion dollars buying and developing mines. The prohibition is part of an Africa-wide push for more domestic processing of minerals. China’s CMOC is the biggest loser from the Democratic Republic of Congo’s move to curb cobalt shipments. The firms operating in Zimbabwe could be forgiven for being confused (and angered) by recent events, given they’re already constructing plants that will produce a higher value lithium-sulfate product. It’s a risky strategy for a country that’s faced repeated economic crises and desperately needs investment. Some experts suspect the government will soon relent and allow operators to resume concentrate shipments to ensure revenue keeps flowing while the new facilities are built. Zimbabwe has, though, accused some producers (it didn’t name them) of under-declaring volumes of metal leaving the country. Tha...

Steven Wang is looking to redefine investing for the next generation, one copy trade at a time. Wang, an entrepreneur and the Founder of dub, the first regulated copy-trading platform, sat down with Yahoo Finance Executive Editor Brian Sozzi on Opening Bid Unfiltered to discuss his entrepreneurial journey, which began in elementary school, his decision to drop out of Harvard, and how he gained backing from several big names including former Meta top exec Sheryl Sandberg and Airbnb Founder Brian Chesky.

格隆汇3月5日｜沙特阿拉伯正将数百万桶原油转运到其红海沿岸的港口，在伊朗战争阻断霍尔木兹海峡航运要道、并让该地区储油设施迅速被填满的情况下，帮助这个全球最大石油出口国维持对全球市场的供应。油轮追踪数据显示，本月已有五艘超级油轮在西部延布港装载完毕，该港出口量已达2月份平均水平的三倍。沙特阿拉伯通常从波斯湾的拉斯塔努拉港运输绝大部分石油，虽然该港装运未中断，但战争意味着货物无法如常离开该地区抵达全球市场。这场冲突已使霍尔木兹海峡实质上对商业航运关闭，阻断了大量石油、燃料和天然气供应。若局势持续，该能源富集地区的产量将面临威胁。摩根大通指出，沙特阿拉伯拥有庞大的储油能力，使其比其他海湾产油国能在更长时间内承受封锁冲击，而将原油转运至西部延布港的选择则为其提供了更大的缓冲空间。

China has earmarked a 7 per cent increase in defence spending this year, keeping the growth rate largely stable even as the White House aims to ramp up expenditure for the military In a budget released on Thursday at the start of the annual session of the National People’s Congress (NPC), Beijing said it would allocate 1.91 trillion yuan (US$277 billion) for defence. The 7 per cent is a shade down from the 7.2 per cent rise last year but still above the 4.5 to 5 per cent GDP growth target set for this year. Advertisement Song Zhongping, a military analyst and former People’s Liberation Army (PLA) instructor, said the increase reflected China’s “moderate growth in defence spending”. Song said the PLA required more investment for training and equipment, particularly to maintain new systems. Advertisement However, in peacetime, China must allocate greater financial resources to education, science and technology, and public welfare, he said. “Therefore, defence expenditure must remain modest.”

Founders Fund is leading an $80 million investment in Nominal Inc. , a startup aiming to modernize factories and make manufacturing more efficient. The deal values the startup at $1 billion, making Nominal a unicorn, and is an extension of the company’s Series B funding round last summer, led by Sequoia Capital. Investors including Sequoia, Lux Capital and General Catalyst also participated. Nominal makes software that helps hardware companies in the defense, space, energy and automotive industries streamline their manufacturing processes. The software is used to test designs and monitor progress, by both government agencies and private companies. “Software and hardware are becoming more integrated,” said Chief Executive Officer Cameron McCord . “Everything is autonomous and robotic.” The startup wasn’t looking to raise more cash until Founders Fund approached McCord and his team with an attractive offer, he said. Founders Fund, a venture capital firm backed by billionaire Peter Thiel, is known for investing in companies building complex hardware, like SpaceX, Anduril Industries Inc. and Varda Space. Trae Stephens , a partner at the firm and co-founder of Anduril, approached Nominal after seeing how many of his portfolio companies were relying on its products. “Founders rarely agree on tooling, so when multiple portfolio companies and our entire engineering team at Anduril independently told us Nominal had become essential infrastructure, the decision was obvious,” Stephens said in a statement. Since its founding in 2022, Nominal has built a customer base that includes the public and private sectors. That includes the US Air Force test pilot school, and companies like Anduril, Regent Craft Inc. and Hermeus Corp. Sequoia’s Alfred Lin, a partner and co-steward at the firm, said Nominal’s tools are making the industrial sector “AI-ready.” “Physical AI doesn’t work without clean, structured hardware data, and that’s exactly what Nominal provides,” Lin said in an email. ...

Harris’s 2024 campaign lacked authenticity and conviction. We can’t afford to repeat the mistakes of the past I’ve got some good news and some bad news for you today. The bad news is, well, everything. As you may have noticed, the world is on fire. The good news, however, is that a savior may be at hand. Kamala Harris, a politician who has never won a presidential primary and lost the popular vote to Donald Trump in 2024, hasn’t ruled out running for president again. Harris has kept a fairly low profile since November 2024, focusing most of her energy on promoting 107 Days, her account of her truncated presidential run, and appearing as the guest of honour at the 2025 Australian Real Estate Conference. But she has also made it clear that she still has an eye on the White House: in an interview with the BBC last October, Harris said she was “not done” with politics and strongly suggested she might run for president again. Harris echoed these sentiments in a conversation with the podcaster Sharon McMahon last week . “I might,” she said when asked if she will run again. Arwa Mahdawi is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...

10. Queer (2024) View image in fullscreen Orc-like … Manville in Queer. Photograph: Yannis Drakoulidis Among the bold choices in Luca Guadagnino’s feverish film of William S Burroughs’ novel are the late 20th-century pop and alternative soundtrack (Nirvana, Prince, New Order) for a 1950s story, and the casting of an unrecognisable, orc-like Manville in a trumped-up cameo as the shaman Dr Cotter, who was male in the original book. 9. Mrs Harris Goes to Paris (2022) In a vision of the French capital that makes Amélie look like La Haine, Manville plays a 1950s cockney cleaner and war widow, who resolves to blow a windfall on a couture frock. The movie is mush but there’s pleasure to be had from seeing Manville square off against a cartoonishly snooty Isabelle Huppert, and bring gor-blimey cheek and pluck to the stuffed corsets at Dior. It all plays like the sunny, below-stairs flipside of Phantom Thread. 8. Sparkle (2007) View image in fullscreen Manville and Bob Hoskins in Sparkle. Photograph: Everett Collection Inc/Alamy This unjustly forgotten romcom features a plum role for Manville, as the pub singer who rides the coattails of her restless son (Shaun Evans) when he moves from Liverpool to London. She specialises in cover versions that seem to comment on the plot: particularly Everybody’s Got to Learn Sometime and Do You Really Want to Hurt Me. These, along with Manville’s endearing scenes with the not-so-secret admirer played by an adorably low-key Bob Hoskins, give the film an extra shot of charm. 7. Cold Storage (2026) Within the first 10 minutes of this horror comedy, scripted by David Koepp (who wrote the 1993 Jurassic Park screenplay), Manville is wearing a hazmat suit and wrestling a colleague infected by a killer fungus. Not at all the sort of thing Mike Leigh ever asks her to do, and more’s the pity. Reunited with Liam Neeson, her screen husband from Ordinary Love, she plays a bio-terror expert who isn’t too distracted by extraterrestrial horrors to neglec...

Experts say that the Trump administration has failed to take obvious steps to contain the spread of measles, which is continuing to accelerate in the United States as the number of cases has climbed past 1,000. The administration has revealed a relaxed attitude toward the highly contagious virus both in terms of messaging and funding allocation, experts said. “One of the leaders at [the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)] referred to this dramatic and tragic increase in the cases of measles, and, in some states, deaths, as just the ‘cost of doing business’,” noted Alonzo Plough, who has worked in multiple senior public health positions and is currently chief of science at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Plough was referencing a quote from Dr Ralph Abraham, who served as CDC principal deputy director beginning in December 2025, and who resigned in late February. To Plough, hearing that from CDC leadership suggests “that they do not believe that this is a significant issue to track”. Andrew G Nixon, a spokesperson for the Department of Health and Human Services, said it’s “entirely inaccurate” to suggest that the CDC had deprioritized measles. “The CDC’s focus remains on measles prevention and treatment education and targeted public health interventions to protect communities and provide clear, accurate information to all Americans,” Nixon said. Florida’s former surgeon general and a current professor at Brown University’s school of public health, Dr Scott Rivkees, said that current messaging on public health is causing “tremendous confusion to the public”, with “individuals in senior positions who are advocating for things that the medical community will take issue with”, like “alternatives” to the measles vaccine, which is known to be safe and effective. But while Rivkees says messaging has been confusing on the national level, he added that the local health department in Spartanburg county, South Carolina, which is experiencing the most severe US ...

Across home kitchens and professional restaurants, women have long carried the stories and skills that define ​t​he world of food. Their impact deserves more recognition • Sign up here for our weekly food newsletter, Feast On 8 March each year, the calendar lights up: dinners celebrating women, panel talks, articles and online events amplifying female voices. The mood on International Women’s Day is joyful, the conversations energised and it feels as if the world is finally paying attention. But then 9 March arrives. Do the celebrations stop? Do we tuck away the banners with the last of the desserts? When the events conclude, are women no longer worth celebrating? The sad truth is that many International Women’s Day events can feel like lip service. Less so in the food world – or at least in our corner of it. For generations, cooking has been predominantly a women’s realm, and the knowledge and wisdom that sustained humanity has been passed through the female line. So the culinary world is one of the few in the professional sphere where women have an edge. Continue reading...

Burlington Stores (BURL) came out with quarterly earnings of $2.96 per share, beating the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $2.72 per share. This compares to earnings of $2.53 per share a year ago. These figures are adjusted for non-recurring items. This quarterly report represents an earnings surprise of 8.82%. A quarter ago, it was expected that this discount retailer would post earnings of $0.52 per share when it actually produced earnings of $0.43, delivering a surprise of -17.31%. Over the last four quarters, the company has surpassed consensus EPS estimates two times. Burlington Stores , which belongs to the Zacks Retail - Discount Stores industry, posted revenues of $2.74 billion for the quarter ended January 2023, surpassing the Zacks Consensus Estimate by 5.53%. This compares to year-ago revenues of $2.61 billion. The company has topped consensus revenue estimates just once over the last four quarters. The sustainability of the stock's immediate price movement based on the recently-released numbers and future earnings expectations will mostly depend on management's commentary on the earnings call. Burlington Stores shares have added about 7.1% since the beginning of the year versus the S&P 500's gain of 2.9%. What's Next for Burlington Stores? While Burlington Stores has outperformed the market so far this year, the question that comes to investors' minds is: what's next for the stock? There are no easy answers to this key question, but one reliable measure that can help investors address this is the company's earnings outlook. Not only does this include current consensus earnings expectations for the coming quarter(s), but also how these expectations have changed lately. Empirical research shows a strong correlation between near-term stock movements and trends in earnings estimate revisions. Investors can track such revisions by themselves or rely on a tried-and-tested rating tool like the Zacks Rank, which has an impressive track record of harnessing the power ...

The US federal agency in charge of helping small businesses has cut off an essential line of funding for immigrant entrepreneurs for the first time in the agency’s history. Legal residents, or green card holders, are now ineligible for loans backed by the Small Business Administration (SBA). The change was first announced in February and comes as the agency carries out an “America First” agenda under SBA administrator Kelly Loeffler, a billionaire and staunch Donald Trump loyalist who was appointed last February. The decision has left some small business owners reeling. “I’m really shocked,” says restaurateur and chef Aneesa Waheed of Tara Kitchen, with five locations across New York and New Jersey that serve Moroccan cuisine. A naturalized citizen, Waheed was crowned the SBA’s New York state small business person of the year in 2024. “I’ve been in the SBA world for a long time … You think of the SBA as a source of support and strength for small businesses. So you never really think of it in terms of ‘Are you a Democrat? Are you a Republican? Are you an independent?’” View image in fullscreen Aneesa Waheed of Tara Kitchen. Photograph: Photo courtesy of Aneesa Waheed The SBA was created in 1953 to help small businesses, primarily through its small business loan program. The agency typically doesn’t provide individual business owners with loans directly but underwrites portions of loans issued by banks, credit unions and other institutions. The SBA classifies businesses with 500 or fewer employees as a small business and loans can range from $50,000 to $5m. In fiscal year 2025, the agency gave out over $44bn in thousands of loans to small businesses. Many SBA loans are used for “main street” enterprises – retail shops, restaurants, cafes or franchises – as well as “business-to-business” services in sectors like manufacturing to transportation. While support for small businesses is typically a bipartisan issue, the SBA under Loeffler has embraced Trump’s economic agend...

U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore,) speaks during a press conference addressing a new policy that demands recipients of foreign military aid to follow international humanitarian law at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S., February 9, 2024. Nathan Howard | Reuters Payouts to unnamed bettors after the ouster of former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and the U.S. attack on Iran put prediction markets in the spotlight . Now, lawmakers are trying to block elected officials from getting rich off them. A previously unreported bill led by Sens. Jeff Merkley , D-Ore., and Amy Klobuchar , D-Minn., being introduced on Thursday would ban the president, vice president and members of Congress from trading event contracts — which allow users to wager on the outcome of specific events. It would also limit prediction market activity for senior executive branch officials and impose fines starting at $10,000 for violators. "Members receive all sorts of tips and advice," Merkley said in an interview. "The actual demonstration of insider trading is too difficult to be sufficient to address the problem. The problem becomes both real corruption … and the appearance of corruption and conflict of interest." The new legislation is unlikely to become law in the Republican-controlled Congress, but it may become a regulatory building block for the nascent industry. Prediction markets like Polymarket and Kalshi are surging in popularity and allow users to place bets on the outcome of a wide-range of events, Some are trivial, like basketball games and Oscars best picture winners . Others are weightier, like who will win specific political races and whether or not the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates . The platforms have come under scrutiny from lawmakers and regulators in recent months, particularly after wagers were placed on Polymarket on the fate of Iranian leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei , who was killed in the U.S. attacks on Iran last weekend. A New York Times analysis of Polymarket a...

England now produces light, fruity reds that are much less heady than their Mediterranean counterparts When did you last buy a bottle of English red wine? Chances are, you never have. Though increasingly available on the high street – Ocado and Waitrose Cellar both stock a couple – reds grown in Blighty have struggled to shift a reputation for being overpriced: the vast majority still cost £15-25 a bottle, which is well outside what most people might consider “everyday drinking”. According to WineGB , the national trade organisation for British winemakers, red probably accounts for less than 5% of all English wine. The cost issue, however, transcends red wine alone; winemaking in England might be one of our fastest-growing agricultural sectors, but it still operates on a relatively small scale, which naturally bumps up that price tag. Our cooler climate isn’t associated with reds, either, particularly those big, juicy numbers available so affordably from hotter countries. So, yes, you could be forgiven for thinking English reds are expensive novelties. Continue reading...

Brilliant Earth Group, Inc. (BRLT) came out with a quarterly loss of $0.06 per share versus the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $0.02. This compares to earnings of $0.04 per share a year ago. These figures are adjusted for non-recurring items. This quarterly report represents an earnings surprise of -366.67%. A quarter ago, it was expected that this company would post earnings of $0.02 per share when it actually produced earnings of $0.02, delivering no surprise. Over the last four quarters, the company has surpassed consensus EPS estimates two times. Brilliant Earth Group, which belongs to the Zacks Retail - Jewelry industry, posted revenues of $124.4 million for the quarter ended December 2025, missing the Zacks Consensus Estimate by 1.01%. This compares to year-ago revenues of $119.5 million. The company has topped consensus revenue estimates two times over the last four quarters. The sustainability of the stock's immediate price movement based on the recently-released numbers and future earnings expectations will mostly depend on management's commentary on the earnings call. Brilliant Earth Group shares have lost about 5.7% since the beginning of the year versus the S&P 500's gain of 0.4%. What's Next for Brilliant Earth Group? While Brilliant Earth Group has underperformed the market so far this year, the question that comes to investors' minds is: what's next for the stock? There are no easy answers to this key question, but one reliable measure that can help investors address this is the company's earnings outlook. Not only does this include current consensus earnings expectations for the coming quarter(s), but also how these expectations have changed lately. Empirical research shows a strong correlation between near-term stock movements and trends in earnings estimate revisions. Investors can track such revisions by themselves or rely on a tried-and-tested rating tool like the Zacks Rank, which has an impressive track record of harnessing the power of earnings e...

Getty Images Meta Platforms, Inc.’s ( META ) share price has rallied notably since my previous bullish call until late January, when the stock suffered a post-earnings selloff due to the panic related to aggressively increasing AI-related CAPEX. Thus, META currently trades almost at exactly the same price as it did in mid-December. As a Meta investor, I am also quite concerned about the company’s plans to aggressively ramp up investments in data centers. The company’s Q4 earnings were stellar, but I think that with a significant increase in capital investments, Meta’s historically strong ROIC is at risk. The management sees potential to improve value for digital advertising clients by adding new AI-powered features for improved targeting, but the competition in generative AI models has become so intense, and Meta doesn’t look like the most powerful one in this domain. Meta's digital advertising business is already quite mature, and it is difficult to expect skyrocketing profitability from the legacy segment because of its scale and likely increasing competition for marketing budgets with LLMs. All in all, I am not buying more META shares and believe that it is a hold at the moment. Recent developments Meta released its latest quarterly earnings on January 28th, delivering another dual beat against consensus estimates. Revenue growth was solid during the quarter with a 23.8% YoY increase, while the adjusted EPS expanded from $8.02 to $8.88. It was a quality EPS expansion, as it was underpinned by almost a 10% increase in EBITDA , which reflects improved operating efficiency. While Q4 performance was extremely strong with big positive surprises in terms of both revenue and EPS, there is an elephant in the room, which is the management’s initiative to significantly increase capital investments in FY2026. Meta’s annual CAPEX already reached almost $70 billion in FY2025, which is almost a five-fold increase compared to FY2020. And even this huge annual CAPEX of $70 billi...

Just_Super/E+ via Getty Images Update on the lithium market The lithium market in general has been on a tear for the past 12 months. Growing EV production, especially from China, combined with lithium industrial battery storage, has helped move lithium prices back into a positive direction. The prices of lithium overall remain well off their highs, but as we can see, there is an up-and-to-the-right blip on the radar starting in 2025: Trading Economics While there's not a ton of positive news coming out of the EV industry in general, there seems to be some preemptive lithium hoarding going on. Robots and autonomous taxis are on the horizon. Data centers will need energy management systems that should incorporate industrial batteries. Drones are a new tool of modern warfare. The trend is slow, but the trajectory seems evident. I most recently covered Lithium Americas Corp. ( LAC ) back in 2023. This was when the company spun off the Argentina division [the only one generating revenue], and made LAC a pure play on Thacker Pass. Lithium Americas Investor Relations Anyone investing in Lithium Americas needs to understand that this is a bet on a new clay-based lithium being feasible and coming to market in the purity needed to produce batteries. The site lies on the border between the US states of Nevada and Oregon in a remote area adjacent to ancient volcanoes [typically rich areas for lithium deposits]. Year-to-date and 1-year performance Data by YCharts First off, let's take a look at how Lithium America's total return stacks up against other lithium majors, namely Albemarle ( ALB ) and Sociedad Quimica y Minera ( SQM ). Both of the lithium majors are in production and have significant revenues. Lithium Americas has been able to keep up the total return pace solely as a pre-production asset play. Data by YCharts Post the start of the US/Israel and Iran war, lithium stocks sold off with other sectors. All still remain positive year-to-date. Pre-revenue after a Lithium A...

Rivian is planning one of the fastest launches of a new all-electric car in the U.S. with its forthcoming R2 SUV, according to company statements and a TechCrunch analysis of historical sales data. If Rivian is successful, it would prove a strong start for a product that founder and CEO RJ Scaringe has said is “maybe the most important thing we’ve launched to date.” It can’t afford not to. Rivian’s future — and chances at profitability — hinges on the success of the R2. If it struggles to ramp production and sales of the R2, shareholders could flee. At the very least, it would raise questions about the company’s strategy of burning through billions now to prepare for mass-market scale. Rivian told investors last month that it expects to sell between 20,000 and 25,000 R2s this year, with the first SUVs likely to head to customers in June once production begins. Even if Rivian hits the low end of that target, its sales rate will outpace every other comparable electric at or under $60,000 other than the Tesla Model Y. The Model Y, launched in March 2020, took only around four months to surpass 20,000 vehicles sold. Rivian is aiming to do it in about six months, or roughly the same amount of time it took the Honda Prologue to reach that sales milestone when it debuted in 2024. The next-quickest EV to hit 20,000 in sales in the U.S. was the Chevy Equinox EV, which did it in around eight months after it hit the market in 2024. Ford’s Mustang Mach-E took a similar amount of time after launching in 2021, while Korean EVs like the Hyundai Ioniq 5 and Kia EV6 took around 10 and 11 months, respectively. Cars that had rough rollouts, like Tesla’s Model 3 (the origin of Elon Musk’s famous “production hell”) or the Chevy Blazer EV (which suffered through a major stop-sale and recall) took as long or longer. Techcrunch event Disrupt 2026: The tech ecosystem, all in one room Your next round. Your next hire. Your next breakout opportunity. Find it at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, where 1...

Lio’s co-founders know firsthand that procurement — the process enterprises use to purchase services from vendors — is often a bottleneck. Vladimir Keil, the company’s co-founder and CEO, had experienced this problem as an employee inside a large company and then again while building his first startup. “When we were selling enterprise software, we had to go through procurement ourselves and saw how manual and fragmented the process still is,” he told TechCrunch. Kiel and his team have built an automated platform of AI agents — software that can complete tasks on behalf of humans — to help fix some of those fragmented processes. On Thursday, Lio announced a $30 million Series A in a round led by Andreessen Horowitz. SV Angels, Harry Stebbings, and YC also partook in the round (Lio was part of the Spring’23 batch). The company has raised $33 million in funding to date. Keil said the fresh capital will be used to expand the company throughout the U.S. and increase the capabilities of Lio’s AI agents, which aim to complete the entire procurement process for enterprise customers. Procurement is at the heart of enterprise spending, where companies look to buy everything from raw materials to professional services. Each purchase order requires focus and commitment: One usually has to open some type of Enterprise Resource Planning, or ERP, software, check contract management systems, search the supplier database, run compliance checks, cross-reference budgets, dig through emails, and so on. “Even with modern eProcurement software, most of the real work is still done manually,” Keil told TechCrunch. Companies are left to build large internal teams or outsource this work, resulting in a slow, expensive process. Keil had an idea — if the procurement process is largely unstructured data and repetitive workflows, then surely this is the type of task an AI agent is well-equipped to handle. He teamed up with friends Lukas Heinzman and Till Wagner and in 2023, the trio launched Lio...

SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., March 05, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Aligos Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: ALGS, “Aligos”), a clinical stage biotechnology company focused on improving patient outcomes through best-in-class therapies for liver and viral diseases, today reported recent business progress and financial results for the fourth quarter and full year 2025. “Our team has made tremendous progress recently in the global Phase 2 B-SUPREME study of pevifoscorvir sodium,” stated Lawrence Blatt, Ph.D., M.B.A., Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer of Aligos Therapeutics. “With the completion of the planned enrollment in the HBeAg- cohort, we are continuing to enroll participants in the HBeAg+ cohort and look forward to the interim analyses in the first and second half of 2026. Additionally, the Phase 2 B-SUPREME study may demonstrate that pevifoscorvir sodium affects the three pillars of HBV disease pathogenesis: replication, integration, and maintenance of the viral reservoir. We are also excited to announce the advancement, in partnership with Xiamen Amoytop Biotech Co., Ltd. (“Amoytop”), of ALG-170675, a dual mechanism antisense oligonucleotide (ASO) into IND-enabling studies. Lastly, adding James Hassard as Executive Vice President, Chief Commercial Officer has allowed us to begin laying the groundwork for the future of our best-in-class programs.” Recent Business Progress Pipeline Updates Pevifoscorvir sodium: Potential first-/best-in-class small molecule CAM-E for chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection The Phase 2 B-SUPREME study (NCT06963710) of pevifoscorvir sodium in subjects with chronic HBV infection completed the planned enrollment of 60 HBeAg- participants in January 2026. HBeAg+ participants continue to enroll in the study. The first protocol defined interim analysis includes approximately 60% (or 36) HBeAg- participants that complete 12 weeks of the treatment period, with this enrollment threshold reached in Q4 2025. A second protocol defined ...

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, March 05, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Entrée Resources Ltd. (TSX:ETG; OTCQB:ERLFF – the “Company” or “Entrée”) has today filed its annual operational and financial results for the year ended December 31, 2025. All numbers are in U.S. dollars unless otherwise noted. Q4 2025 HIGHLIGHTS State Interest in Area of Licences During the third quarter 2025, the Parliament of Mongolia approved Resolution No. 62 to establish a Temporary Oversight Committee to conduct a special investigation related to the protection of Mongolia’s interests and the enhancement of benefits derived from the exploitation of the Oyu Tolgoi strategic group of deposits (the “ Oyu Tolgoi Strategic Deposit ”). Company representatives attended a December 8, 2025, public hearing in Ulaanbaatar to answer questions related to the Shivee Tolgoi and Javkhlant mining licences (the “ Licences ”) on behalf of the Company. ”). Company representatives attended a December 8, 2025, public hearing in Ulaanbaatar to answer questions related to the Shivee Tolgoi and Javkhlant mining licences (the “ ”) on behalf of the Company. Following the public hearing, on December 26, 2025, the Parliament of Mongolia approved Resolution No. 120 directing the Government of Mongolia to implement certain measures with regard to the exploitation of the Oyu Tolgoi Strategic Deposit, to provide quarterly progress reports to the Economic Standing Committee of Parliament, and to present the results during the Autumn Session of Parliament in 2026. See “Outlook and Strategy” below. The Company received official notice on September 18, 2025 of the formation of a renewed working group (the “Government Working Group”) led by the Minister of Industry and Mineral Resources. The Government Working Group was established to negotiate the State’s interest in the area of the Licences. On October 17, 2025, the Company responded to a request from the Minister of Industry and Mineral Resources to advise the Government Working G...

Maroussi, Greece, March 5, 2026 – Pyxis Tankers Inc. (Nasdaq Cap Mkts: PXS), (the “Company”, “we”, “our”, “us” or “Pyxis Tankers”), an international diversified shipping company, today announced unaudited results for the three months and year ended December 31, 2025. For the three months ended December 31, 2025, our revenues, net, were $10.5 million. For the same period, our time charter equivalent (“TCE”) revenues were $10.2 million, an increase of $2.2 million, or 28.2%, over the comparable period in 2024. Our net income attributable to common shareholders for the fourth quarter ended December 31, 2025 was $2.0 million, compared to net loss of $2.4 million for the same period in 2024. For the fourth quarter of 2025, the net income per common share was $0.20 basic and diluted compared to a net loss per common share of $0.23 basic and diluted for the same period of 2024. Our adjusted EBITDA for the three months ended December 31, 2025 was $5.2 million, an increase of $1.9 million over the comparable period in 2024. Please see “Non-GAAP Measures and Definitions” below. On December 17, 2025, we closed the refinancings of the existing secured loans with Alpha Bank S.A. for the Eleventhone Corp. (the “Pyxis Lamda”) and the Seventhone Corp. (the “Pyxis Theta”) in the amounts of $18.6 million and $14.75 million, respectively. Each amended loan agreement has a 5-year maturity with quarterly principal repayments of $0.375 million and $0.450 million, respectively, with the final installment accompanied by balloon payments of $11.1 million for the Pyxis Lamda and $5.75 million for the Pyxis Theta, each due in December 2030. Both existing loans were refinanced at a reduced interest rate of term secured overnight financing rate (“SOFR”) plus a margin of 1.90%. After repayment of existing principal, the Alpha Bank refinancings generated incremental net proceeds of $9.9 million, which we expect to deploy for fleet expansion. Our Chairman & CEO, Valentios Valentis, commented: “Sol...

Forward contract cover locked in for 99% of 2026 and 81% of 2027. Earnings, cashflow, forward visibility, and return of capital to shareholders materially increased y-o-y maximizing strategic optionality. Annualized dividend increased to $2.50 per Class A Common Share. ATHENS, Greece, March 05, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Global Ship Lease, Inc. (NYSE: GSL) (the “Company”, “Global Ship Lease” or “GSL”), an owner of containerships, announced today its unaudited results for the three months and year ended December 31, 2025. Full Year and Fourth Quarter Highlights and Other Recent Developments - 4Q 2025 operating revenue of $190.9 million. Full year operating revenue of $766.5 million, up 7.8% on 2024. - 4Q 2025 net income available to common shareholders of $100.2 million, or $2.79 Earnings per Share (“EPS”). Full year 2025 net income available to common shareholders of $406.9 million, or $11.40 EPS, up 18.3% on 2024. - 4Q 2025 normalized net income (a non-U.S. GAAP financial measure, described below)3 of $83.2 million, or $2.32 normalized EPS³. Full year 2025 normalized net income of $366.4 million, or $10.26 normalized EPS, up 3.9% on 2024. - 4Q 2025 Adjusted EBITDA (a non-U.S. GAAP financial measure, described below)3 of $124.7 million. Full year 2025 Adjusted EBITDA of $521.4 million; up 5.4% on 2024. - Added $1.26 billion of contracted revenues during 2025 and the first two months of 2026, bringing total contracted revenues as of December 31, 2025, as adjusted to include all charters agreed through February 28, 2026, to $2.24 billion, over a weighted average remaining duration of 2.7 years. - On February 11, 2026, declared a dividend of $0.625 per Class A common share for the fourth quarter of 2025, to be paid on or about March 6, 2026 to common shareholders of record as of February 24, 2026. Paid a dividend of $0.625 per Class A common share for the third quarter of 2025 on December 4, 2025. - On December 1, 2025, announced the purchase of three 8,600 TEU Korean bu...

GÖPPINGEN, Germany, March 5, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- TeamViewer today announced enhancements to the integration between TeamViewer Tensor and Microsoft Intune. By preserving full operational context and eliminating the need to switch tools, the integration enables IT teams to resolve issues more efficiently. New functionalities include automated device synchronization across the two platforms, unattended remote access for Windows, macOS, and Android, as well as extended TeamViewer remote connectivity for Intune-enrolled devices that do not have the Company Portal app installed. TeamViewer Logo (PRNewsfoto/TeamViewer) Through automatic synchronization of device data between Microsoft Intune and TeamViewer Tensor, the integration provides accurate, near real-time visibility across platforms. This eliminates duplicate configuration efforts, reduces administrative overhead, and supports seamless management of distributed IT environments at scale. With support for Windows Local Administrator Password Solution (LAPS), TeamViewer enables secure, on-demand retrieval of privileged credentials, allowing IT teams to resolve issues efficiently while maintaining strong access controls within a single platform. It builds on Microsoft Entra ID and Intune security policies to enable conditional access enforcement, centralized auditability, and compliance-ready remote sessions within existing enterprise governance frameworks. "IT teams are under constant pressure to do more with less," said Alfredo Patron, Executive Vice President, Global Partner Ecosystem and Channels at TeamViewer. "Our new integration between TeamViewer Tensor and Microsoft Intune removes friction from everyday IT management, enhances enterprise-grade security, and enables faster, more efficient remote support at scale. It allows IT teams to focus on strategic priorities while keeping employees productive." The integration is available in private preview for selected enterprise customers and partners, with general a...

The Trump administration’s overhaul of the US visa system for highly skilled immigrants is about to get its first major test. The annual lottery for H-1Bs, the most popular visa for white-collar professionals looking to build a career in the US, gets underway with new rules this month. For the first time, successful sponsors for immigrants arriving from another country will need to pay a $100,000 fee. And the system will now favor more experienced and higher paid workers, rules likely to disadvantage IT consulting firms that won an outsize share of the visas in recent years. It’s the biggest revamp in decades, and employers, lawyers and staffing firms are studying how to get the best chance at winning one of the 85,000 coveted slots that will be awarded at the end of March. Last year, about one-third of petitioners were successful. “This is going to be a bit of a sea change,” said Peter Bendor-Samuel , the executive chairman of global research firm Everest Group, which works with companies that routinely use the H-1B program. He added that staffing firms are likely to balk at the $100,000 fee for workers from overseas, so that should free up slots for employers in tech and finance better able to absorb the cost. Outsourcing and placement firms have recently been among the biggest users of the H-1B program. Those companies, including Tata Consultancy Services Ltd., Infosys Ltd. and Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp., developed a lucrative niche recruiting programmers and other technology professionals from abroad and placing them with US clients in industries including finance and healthcare. But staffing firms have come under scrutiny in Washington, where labor advocates and some Democratic and Republican lawmakers argue that they put downward pressure on wages or reduce opportunities for American workers. The companies say they comply with US rules and use the visas to fill specialized roles. Read More: Thousands of H-1B Visas Are Going to Middlemen Gaming the Sy...

Inflation is a bigger concern than economic growth as the European Central Bank assesses the implications of the war in Iran, according to Governing Council member Joachim Nagel . The extent to which the 21-nation bloc will be hurt by higher energy prices and trade disruption will depend on how long the war continues, the Bundesbank president told Bloomberg Television on Thursday. Drawing conclusions at this point is difficult as the situation remains “very volatile.” “At the moment, I would say, there’s more impact coming on the inflation front” compared with “what I see on the economy side,” Nagel said, adding that “we have to wait” to pass judgment. The escalating situation in the Middle East has fanned inflation concerns globally, while it also risks weighing on economic activity. Chief Economist Philip Lane said this week that ECB officials, who meet again in two weeks, “will be closely monitoring developments.” So far, most argue that there’s no need to rush changes to borrowing costs, with inflation currently close to the 2% target . Policymakers tend to look through energy price spikes as long as inflation expectations remain anchored. Some, though, have signaled that action may be required if price growth is pushed higher. Traders already started to bet on ECB interest-rate hikes as early as this year. Nagel argued that the ECB will follow the same playbook it used after Russia invaded Ukraine, when inflation spiraled above 10%. “Our commitment is firm,” he said. “We will really be concentrated on our mandate to achieve price stability.” Nagel told reporters earlier in the day that the ECB is monitoring the impact of surging energy costs due to the Iran war extremely carefully and will consult projections to decide whether action is needed. His fellow rate-setters have steered clear of discussing action too soon. ECB Vice president Luis de Guindos on Thursday only hinted at such steps in the future, saying simply that a lengthy spell of fighting in the Midd...

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Getty Images Meta Platforms, Inc.’s ( META ) share price has rallied notably since my previous bullish call until late January, when the stock suffered a post-earnings selloff due to the panic related to aggressively increasing AI-related CAPEX. Thus, META currently trades almost at exactly the same price as it did in mid-December. As a Meta investor, I am also quite concerned about the company’s plans to aggressively ramp up investments in data centers. The company’s Q4 earnings were stellar, but I think that with a significant increase in capital investments, Meta’s historically strong ROIC is at risk. The management sees potential to improve value for digital advertising clients by adding new AI-powered features for improved targeting, but the competition in generative AI models has become so intense, and Meta doesn’t look like the most powerful one in this domain. Meta's digital advertising business is already quite mature, and it is difficult to expect skyrocketing profitability from the legacy segment because of its scale and likely increasing competition for marketing budgets with LLMs. All in all, I am not buying more META shares and believe that it is a hold at the moment. Recent developments Meta released its latest quarterly earnings on January 28th, delivering another dual beat against consensus estimates. Revenue growth was solid during the quarter with a 23.8% YoY increase, while the adjusted EPS expanded from $8.02 to $8.88. It was a quality EPS expansion, as it was underpinned by almost a 10% increase in EBITDA , which reflects improved operating efficiency. While Q4 performance was extremely strong with big positive surprises in terms of both revenue and EPS, there is an elephant in the room, which is the management’s initiative to significantly increase capital investments in FY2026. Meta’s annual CAPEX already reached almost $70 billion in FY2025, which is almost a five-fold increase compared to FY2020. And even this huge annual CAPEX of $70 billi...

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