Harrow ( Nasdaq: HROW ) on Tuesday said it priced a private offering of $50 million in senior unsecured notes due 2030, bearing interest at 8.625% per year. The notes will be issued under the same indenture as $250 million of 2030 notes previously issued in September 2025 and will mature on September 15, 2030. Harrow said net proceeds will be used for general corporate purposes, including new prod...
Harrow ( Nasdaq: HROW ) on Tuesday said it priced a private offering of $50 million in senior unsecured notes due 2030, bearing interest at 8.625% per year. The notes will be issued under the same indenture as $250 million of 2030 notes previously issued in September 2025 and will mature on September 15, 2030. Harrow said net proceeds will be used for general corporate purposes, including new product launches, development activities, and strategic business opportunities. The offering is expected to close on March 27, 2026. HROW +0.48% after hours to $35.37. Source: Press Release More on Harrow Health Harrow Emerging As Dominant Operator In U.S. Ophthalmic Market Harrow, Inc. 2025 Q4 - Results - Earnings Call Presentation Harrow: The Post-Earnings Drop Exposes The Cost Of Growth (Rating Downgrade) Harrow announces $50M add-on senior notes offering Harrow outlines $350M–$365M 2026 revenue goal as sales force expansion and pipeline advances fuel momentum
Roman Tiraspolsky Blackstone ( BX ), the private equity giant, plans to invest $15B in Japan's property market over a three-year period, according to a media report on Tuesday. The firm is seeking to acquire properties such as hotels, data centers, and logistics facilities as Japanese companies focus on streamlining their assets to improve capital efficiency, Nikkei Asia reported, citing a Blackst...
Roman Tiraspolsky Blackstone ( BX ), the private equity giant, plans to invest $15B in Japan's property market over a three-year period, according to a media report on Tuesday. The firm is seeking to acquire properties such as hotels, data centers, and logistics facilities as Japanese companies focus on streamlining their assets to improve capital efficiency, Nikkei Asia reported, citing a Blackstone Real Estate executive. "Supply and demand fundamentals are as strong in Tokyo and Osaka as anywhere in the world. We see greater rent growth," Nadeem Meghji, global head of Blackstone Real Estate, told Nikkei. The company is also looking at properties in other cities, including Fukuoka in southwestern Japan. The weak yen and tensions between the U.S. and China make the Japanese real estate market more attractive to U.S. and European investors than regions like China, the article explained. The plans will build on Blackstone's ( BX ) presence in Japan. Last year, it acquired Tokyo Garden Terrace Kioicho, a complex on the site of the former Akasaka Prince Hotel in Tokyo, for about 400 billion yen ($2.5B). More on Blackstone Wall Street Lunch: Private Credit Funds Face $10B Investor Exit Wave Avoiding Blackstone And Blackstone Secured Lending Even Before BCRED Redemption Surge Blackstone: An Alternative Asset Compounder Built To Outperform Investors reportedly reject some data center financing over insufficient insurance coverage Private credit funds face massive redemption wave as wealthy investors head for exits - FT
Greggory DiSalvo JPMorgan ( JPM ) CEO Jamie Dimon said the U.S. government could help limit AI-related job losses by creating incentives for businesses to do "the right thing." "If all of a sudden it [AI] creates unemployment, that’s a big problem for society,” Dimon said during a conference on Tuesday, according to CNBC . “But the government could create a system of incentives that business does ...
Greggory DiSalvo JPMorgan ( JPM ) CEO Jamie Dimon said the U.S. government could help limit AI-related job losses by creating incentives for businesses to do "the right thing." "If all of a sudden it [AI] creates unemployment, that’s a big problem for society,” Dimon said during a conference on Tuesday, according to CNBC . “But the government could create a system of incentives that business does the right thing to retrain people, early retirement, moving people… if we have the right system in place, we can accommodate much quicker," he added. Dimon also warned that AI will likely have a much quicker impact on the job market than past technologies. “It’s coming; it’s going to come quickly,” Dimon said. “This one may be quicker … so therefore, can we accommodate the people if they lose their jobs quickly enough? And the answer is, I don’t know that’s going to happen, [but] I always like to be prepared.” More on JPMorgan Chase, SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust, etc. Private Credit: Why It's Not 2008 Soaring Bond Yields, Falling Yen, And Big Wage Gains Leave BOJ In A Dither Dow Jones And U.S. Stock Market Outlook - Wall Street Uncertain Amid U.S.-Iran (Potential) Talks Jamie Dimon says Iran war may bring lasting peace to the region SA analyst warns that markets are at the mercy of the U.S.-Iran conflict
Palantir Technologies (NASDAQ:PLTR) , a data integration and analytics platform provider, closed Tuesday at $154.78, down 3.77%. The stock moved lower during the regular session as tech-sector weakness and valuation concerns outweighed recent government-contract wins. Investors are also watching how durable demand for its AI-driven government work remains. Trading volume reached 54.3 million share...
Palantir Technologies (NASDAQ:PLTR) , a data integration and analytics platform provider, closed Tuesday at $154.78, down 3.77%. The stock moved lower during the regular session as tech-sector weakness and valuation concerns outweighed recent government-contract wins. Investors are also watching how durable demand for its AI-driven government work remains. Trading volume reached 54.3 million shares, coming in nearly 13% above its three-month average of 47.9 million shares. Palantir Technologies IPO'd in 2020 and has grown 1,529% since going public. S&P 500 (SNPINDEX:^GSPC) slipped 0.36% to finish Tuesday at 6,557, while the Nasdaq Composite (NASDAQINDEX:^IXIC) fell 0.84% to close at 21,762. Among leading technology names, industry peers Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) closed at $372.74 (-2.68%) and Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOGL) finished at $290.44 (-3.85%), reflecting broader pressure on high-valuation software stocks. Palantir stock dropped with general tech weakness today, but there were also optimistic signs for the company’s continued strong growth. Valuation has always been a concern with Palantir stock , as it still trades for a future price-to-sales ratio of about 50 despite soaring revenue. Continue reading
No semiconductor company has been as successful as Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) over the past three years or so, but recently, Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ: AMD) has been the better investment. AMD stock is trading up 88% over the last year, as of March 20. Nvidia trails it with a still-impressive return of 46%. After the recent market turmoil, both of these semiconductor stocks are cheaper than they w...
No semiconductor company has been as successful as Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) over the past three years or so, but recently, Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ: AMD) has been the better investment. AMD stock is trading up 88% over the last year, as of March 20. Nvidia trails it with a still-impressive return of 46%. After the recent market turmoil, both of these semiconductor stocks are cheaper than they were at the start of the year. But which one is the better buy? Image source: The Motley Fool. Continue reading
Back in 2022 when Cindy Cohn, the executive director of a US digital rights nonprofit called the Electronic Frontier Foundation, started writing her memoir, Privacy's Defender , she worried that people would think she was an "old fuddy duddy" still sounding alarms about government spying online. As one of EFF's first litigators and then its longtime leader, Cohn witnessed firsthand how government ...
Back in 2022 when Cindy Cohn, the executive director of a US digital rights nonprofit called the Electronic Frontier Foundation, started writing her memoir, Privacy's Defender , she worried that people would think she was an "old fuddy duddy" still sounding alarms about government spying online. As one of EFF's first litigators and then its longtime leader, Cohn witnessed firsthand how government surveillance became one of the earliest concerns for civil rights advocates when the Internet became mainstream in the 1990s. Since then, attention has pivoted away from caring about government's Internet abuses to focusing much more on Big Tech harms, she said. But then Donald Trump's second term started, launching aggressive Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations nationwide that depended on abusing tech to support its goals of mass deportation. Railing against ICE raids, communities have quickly mobilized to defend online privacy, even banding together across political divides to tear down Flock cameras that can aid in arrests. Maybe even more concerning, as the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has increasingly sought to unmask ICE critics on social media—and largely failed —EFF has filed and backed lawsuits fighting to protect Americans' rights to track ICE activity and share information anonymously online. Read full article Comments
monsitj/iStock via Getty Images Equities staged a big rebound to start a new trading week on Monday. Albeit one that saw some profit-taking late in the day. Both the Dow and S&P gained an identical 1.38%, and the NASDAQ rose 1.15%, while the Russell 2000 climbed 2.29%. That was a complete bounce back from Friday's selloff in small caps when the Russell 2000 went into ' official ' correction territ...
monsitj/iStock via Getty Images Equities staged a big rebound to start a new trading week on Monday. Albeit one that saw some profit-taking late in the day. Both the Dow and S&P gained an identical 1.38%, and the NASDAQ rose 1.15%, while the Russell 2000 climbed 2.29%. That was a complete bounce back from Friday's selloff in small caps when the Russell 2000 went into ' official ' correction territory. The administration held off from hitting energy and infrastructure targets in Iran for now, while the POTUS stated he held ' productive talks' with leaders of Iran, which was denied by that counterparty. That pushed oil prices down by more than 9% on the day. This feels more like a relief rally than anything concrete in my view. The endgame to the conflict with Iran remains unarticulated. Until details get meted out, I consider any pronouncements on this front to be not much more than Hopium. With yesterday's rally, the S&P 500 is just under six percent from its recent highs despite huge rises in energy, natural gas, fertilizer, and other key commodity costs. The headline S&P 500 is hiding stress in much of the market. In today's piece I discuss three asset classes and three industries that are already in bear markets to highlight how complacent some investors have become by just monitoring key index levels. Bitcoin - 6-month chart (MarketWatch) Let's start with Bitcoin. The largest cryptocurrency in the world has fallen from just over $125,000 in early October to just over $70,000 currently. A decline of roughly 35%. Other cryptocurrencies like Ethereum have posted larger declines over this time. There are many reasons for these steep declines. Bitcoin had staged a huge rise prior to its recent pullback, rising from under $27,000 in early October to just over $125,000 at its peak two years ago. Investor sentiment has also moved off riskier assets. Worries about higher inflation, additional regulatory scrutiny, and potentially tighter monetary policy in the offing have...
Anthropic’s new auto mode for Claude Code lets AI execute tasks with fewer approvals, reflecting a broader shift toward more autonomous tools that balance speed with safety through built-in safeguards.
Anthropic’s new auto mode for Claude Code lets AI execute tasks with fewer approvals, reflecting a broader shift toward more autonomous tools that balance speed with safety through built-in safeguards.
In early 2023, Christopher Le Mon began investigating an American-owned tech company, which contacts working on human rights issues said was being used by the Egyptian government to censor media and monitor activists’ online activities. At the time, the Biden administration was “trying to stem the abuse of technology to violate human rights,” Le Mon, then deputy assistant secretary in the State De...
In early 2023, Christopher Le Mon began investigating an American-owned tech company, which contacts working on human rights issues said was being used by the Egyptian government to censor media and monitor activists’ online activities. At the time, the Biden administration was “trying to stem the abuse of technology to violate human rights,” Le Mon, then deputy assistant secretary in the State Department’s Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor said, and had put sanctions and trade restrictions on several Israeli spyware companies. This company, Sandvine, was different — the technology it supplied was designed for innocuous purposes, employed by telecommunications companies around the world to manage traffic on their networks. But it could also be used by governments who wanted to restrict access to websites, and keep logs of who was talking to who on the internet. Interviews with more than a dozen people with direct knowledge of Sandvine’s business dealings — who spoke on condition of anonymity in order to discuss sensitive information — in addition to documents obtained by Bloomberg News, provide an inside account of the company's business with Egypt and other authoritarian governments. They show that starting in 2017, after Sandvine was acquired by the private equity company Francisco Partners, it began to sell directly to government ministries and agencies in countries where there was a risk that its tools could be used for censorship and information control. The company’s business with these kinds of clients ultimately led to its near-collapse. Le Mon decided that “Egypt had been abusing Sandvine technology,” he said, and there was an opportunity to “take action rather than just words when it came to human rights policy in the Middle East.” In February 2024, Sandvine was added to the Commerce Department’s Entity List — a list of businesses and individuals that are subject to heavy trade restrictions — cutting it off from its suppliers and clients and almo...
Bain Capital -owned Tanabe Pharma Corp. is on the hunt for licensing deals abroad to bring medicines into Japan, betting that unmet patient demand and easing regulations will fuel growth. A new team of around eight people is sourcing therapies in globally and in Japan, particularly in rare diseases, with two deals in the works for this year, according to Akihisa Harada, Tanabe’s chief executive of...
Bain Capital -owned Tanabe Pharma Corp. is on the hunt for licensing deals abroad to bring medicines into Japan, betting that unmet patient demand and easing regulations will fuel growth. A new team of around eight people is sourcing therapies in globally and in Japan, particularly in rare diseases, with two deals in the works for this year, according to Akihisa Harada, Tanabe’s chief executive officer. “We are really focused on rare diseases, particularly for rare inflammation immunology, as well as oncology and neuroscience,” he said in an interview. Tanabe, a 348-year-old provider of medicines, was bought by Bain last year for about ¥510 billion ($3.2 billion) after parent Mitsubishi Chemical Group Corp. decided to carve out its non-core assets. The dealmaking initiative is part of the American investor’s push to target “untapped opportunities” in Japan as regulators push for the introduction of new therapies. “We are facing lack of a pipeline so in short term, we have to do a lot of licensing,” Harada said. “We set up a US team to actively search for licensing opportunities, not only from the US but also from China and Europe.” That group in the US is being led by a former McKinsey & Co. partner, according to Costa Saroukos , Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. ’s former chief financial officer, joined Tanabe as chairman in September. He and Harada, who previously ran Pfizer Inc.’s Japan unit, have also moved to streamline operations while adopting technology like AI to boost productivity. “We are doubling down on investing in Japan for the Japan market,” Saroukos said. Tanabe had been struggling to grow beyond Radicava, its therapy for treating motor neuron damage and disease progression of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), which made up more than a fifth of the company’s ¥460 billion in revenue during the fiscal year ended March 2025. Tanabe agreed to sell the global rights to Radicava to Shionogi & Co. for $2.5 billion in December, freeing up capital to pursue new m...
THEPALMER/E+ via Getty Images Amid a broader push to embrace automation and employ artificial intelligence to increase logistical efficiencies, C.H. Robinson ( CHRW ) offered voluntary buyouts to a limited number of employees, the company confirmed to FreightWaves. “As part of our ongoing focus on continuous improvement, we regularly evaluate our organizational design to ensure it aligns with our ...
THEPALMER/E+ via Getty Images Amid a broader push to embrace automation and employ artificial intelligence to increase logistical efficiencies, C.H. Robinson ( CHRW ) offered voluntary buyouts to a limited number of employees, the company confirmed to FreightWaves. “As part of our ongoing focus on continuous improvement, we regularly evaluate our organizational design to ensure it aligns with our long-term strategy,” the company said in a statement to FreightWaves. The latest measures to reduce headcount bring the trucking company’s total workforce to 12,085, a decline of 19% year-over-year. Although the trucking industry has been in a four-year freight recession, management says the job cuts were tied to productivity improvements and not based on freight volume forecasts. "In a freight recession, the industry has been trained to reduce headcount and increase headcount when the market improves. But that’s not the Robinson model going forward,” CFO Damon Lee said at the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media & Telecom Conference earlier this month. “So it’s really not even a question of if we add headcount back to these processes when volume returns; the question is, there’s no need to, right?” Lee said on the company’s most recent earnings call. By aggressively deploying its “Lean AI” operating model, C.H. Robinson ( CHRW ) has been able to outpace and outperform the industry in the past several quarters by replacing processes that once required human involvement with automation. “The technology has brought tremendous performance benefits to Robinson,” Lee added. More on C.H. Robinson Worldwide C.H. Robinson Worldwide, Inc. (CHRW) Presents at Morgan Stanley Technology, Media & Telecom Conference 2026 Transcript C.H. Robinson Worldwide, Inc. (CHRW) Presents at 47th Annual Raymond James Institutional Investor Conference Transcript C.H. Robinson: The AI Scare Is An Overreaction (Rating Upgrade) UBS highlights top industrial stocks with strong upside Logistics stocks get spoo...
Shangarey/iStock via Getty Images On paper, the methodology embedded in the Pacer Metaurus US Large Cap Dividend Multiplier 400 ETF ( QDPL ) looks very promising compared to covered call-based strategies. This is because it appears to allow undeterred upside capture in S&P 500 rallies that an option strategy restricts theoretically. QDPL is indeed a strong income play, but its thesis actually work...
Shangarey/iStock via Getty Images On paper, the methodology embedded in the Pacer Metaurus US Large Cap Dividend Multiplier 400 ETF ( QDPL ) looks very promising compared to covered call-based strategies. This is because it appears to allow undeterred upside capture in S&P 500 rallies that an option strategy restricts theoretically. QDPL is indeed a strong income play, but its thesis actually works out in narrow conditions - conditions we have seen in the few years since its inception. But QDPL does not retain its edge as an income plan over covered call plays when it comes to recessions, sharp drawdowns, or even consolidating markets. That makes it less reliable in market conditions I am bracing for in 2026, which indicates anything but a sharp rally. This thesis dives into the mechanics of QDPL and compares its relative utility versus a popular covered call alternative, the NEOS S&P 500 High Income ETF ( SPYI ). It finds QDPL a decent portfolio Hold, for market conditions ahead, but I would continue to rate SPYI as a Buy and position it as overweight within the income portfolio. SPYI has survived a comparison with a methodologically superior covered call play, GPIX, the last time I reviewed it . And it again survives a comparison with another apparently stronger play like QDPL. SPYI could actually be the ETF to own in markets that are unlikely to need upside capture like it has in the past few years of bull market conditions. Even when it comes to that, the perceived gap does not really show up as much as implied. Why I Like SPYI First of all, let us understand why I present SPYI as the representative covered call play in this comparison. This is because SPYI has done really well despite more promising challengers, such as GPIX. The GPIX versus SPYI was the backbone of my most recent SPYI Buy call, so I will start from there and see whether SPYI continues to command the Buy rating within its peer space, especially since the markets have stalled and even corrected ...