Melcor Developments ( MODVF ) declares CAD 0.15/share quarterly dividend , 15.4% increase from prior dividend of CAD 0.13. Furthermore, following an exceptional year, the board has declared a special dividend of $0.35 per share. Payable March 31; for shareholders of record March 20; ex-div March 20. See MODVF Dividend Scorecard, Yield Chart, & Dividend Growth. More on Melcor Developments Dividend ...
Melcor Developments ( MODVF ) declares CAD 0.15/share quarterly dividend , 15.4% increase from prior dividend of CAD 0.13. Furthermore, following an exceptional year, the board has declared a special dividend of $0.35 per share. Payable March 31; for shareholders of record March 20; ex-div March 20. See MODVF Dividend Scorecard, Yield Chart, & Dividend Growth. More on Melcor Developments Dividend scorecard for Melcor Developments Financial information for Melcor Developments
(RTTNews) - Wingstop Inc. (WING), a global franchiser of restaurants, Wednesday announced that it authorized the purchase of additional $300 million of its common stock, effective immediately. The company plans to fund the repurchase with exiting cash and cash flow equivalents along with anticipated cash flow from operations. Under the Company's existing repurchase program, Wingstop has invested n...
(RTTNews) - Wingstop Inc. (WING), a global franchiser of restaurants, Wednesday announced that it authorized the purchase of additional $300 million of its common stock, effective immediately. The company plans to fund the repurchase with exiting cash and cash flow equivalents along with anticipated cash flow from operations. Under the Company's existing repurchase program, Wingstop has invested nearly $700 million since inception in August 2023 and repurchased a total of approximately 2.6 million shares. In 2025 alone, the company repurchased just over 1.2 million shares and has approximately $53.4 million remaining under its current authorization, the restaurant franchiser said in a statement. In pre-market activity, WING shares were trading at $219.40, up 0.93% on the Nasdaq. The views and opinions expressed herein are the views and opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of Nasdaq, Inc.
Rachel Reeves has refused to rule out ditching a planned fuel duty increase in September, as she promised “nothing is off the table” to help consumers with rising energy costs amid the Iran conflict. The chancellor told MPs on the Treasury select committee that options for “targeted support as well as broader measures” were being explored, although cautioned that it remained “too early” to be sure...
Rachel Reeves has refused to rule out ditching a planned fuel duty increase in September, as she promised “nothing is off the table” to help consumers with rising energy costs amid the Iran conflict. The chancellor told MPs on the Treasury select committee that options for “targeted support as well as broader measures” were being explored, although cautioned that it remained “too early” to be sure emergency help was required. Against a backdrop of volatile conditions in energy markets amid the US-Israel war with Iran, Reeves said the government was prioritising the de-escalation of the conflict and pushing for the safe passage of oil and gas exports through the critical strait of Hormuz. She said Britain was also “willing to play its part” to release strategic oil reserves alongside other countries in the 32-member International Energy Agency, in a push to bring down crude prices that have soared. However, she signalled the Treasury was working on contingency plans for an emergency energy support package to help British households bracing for a sharp rise in living costs. “Nothing is off the table at this stage. We are looking at targeted support as well as broader measures but it is just too early to say what is needed.” Asked by Conservative MPs whether she would rule out addressing a planned increase in fuel duty from September – when a 5p cut made after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022 is set to be phased out – she said all options were being kept open. “We always keep all taxes under review. But it is much too early when those changes are not due to come into effect until September to guess where petrol prices will be then,” she said. Separately, Keir Starmer told the Commons on Wednesday: “Fuel duty is frozen. It’s going to remain frozen until September, and we will keep the situation under review in light of what’s happening in Iran.” Reeves and Starmer have come under mounting pressure from opposition MPs, as the Tories, Reform UK and the Liberal Democra...
Google said on Wednesday that it has acquired Israeli cybersecurity firm Wiz for $32 billion in cash, a full year after the companies announced the deal. This marks Google’s biggest acquisition in its history. Wiz, which provides a security platform that helps major cloud environments prevent and respond to cybersecurity threats, will join Google Cloud, but will maintain its brand “and commitment ...
Google said on Wednesday that it has acquired Israeli cybersecurity firm Wiz for $32 billion in cash, a full year after the companies announced the deal. This marks Google’s biggest acquisition in its history. Wiz, which provides a security platform that helps major cloud environments prevent and respond to cybersecurity threats, will join Google Cloud, but will maintain its brand “and commitment to securing customers across all cloud environments,” Google said. “This acquisition is an investment by Google Cloud to improve cloud security and enable organizations to build fast and securely across any cloud or AI platform,” the search giant said in a statement. Google initially approached Wiz in 2024 with an offer to buy the startup for $23 billion, but Wiz walked away from that offer. Its CEO Assaf Rappaport said at the time that he felt the business could grow to be a lot bigger than that. The companies revived talks early in 2025, and Google last March reached an agreement to buy the Israeli company. This story is developing. Check back in for updates.
Google said on Wednesday that it has completed its acquisition of Israeli cybersecurity firm Wiz for $32 billion in cash, a full year after the companies announced the deal. This marks Google’s biggest acquisition in its history. Wiz, which provides a security platform that helps major cloud environments prevent and respond to cybersecurity threats, will join Google Cloud, but will maintain its br...
Google said on Wednesday that it has completed its acquisition of Israeli cybersecurity firm Wiz for $32 billion in cash, a full year after the companies announced the deal. This marks Google’s biggest acquisition in its history. Wiz, which provides a security platform that helps major cloud environments prevent and respond to cybersecurity threats, will join Google Cloud, but will maintain its brand “and commitment to securing customers across all cloud environments,” the search giant said in a statement. Organizations large and small are increasingly working across different cloud services provided by the likes of AWS, Oracle, Microsoft and Google itself, so incorporating Wiz gives Google an easy way to win more enterprise clients by offering a multi-cloud security platform. The deal also gives Google a hefty source of revenue: Wiz recorded annual recurring revenue of more than $1 billion in 2025, a source familiar with the company told TechCrunch. Together, the two companies will work on delivering a “unified security platform” to help organizations deal with threats faster — an essential task as the rise of vibe coding has resulted in an increase in security vulnerabilities among code bases. And the widespread use of AI tools also means prompt injection attacks have become more commonplace. Wiz has leaned into its own use of AI to improve threat detection and investigation at every layer of a cloud’s environment, from code and infrastructure to runtime. “This acquisition is an investment by Google Cloud to improve cloud security and enable organizations to build fast and securely across any cloud or AI platform,” Google’s statement reads. Google initially approached Wiz in 2024 with an offer to buy the startup for $23 billion, but Wiz walked away from that offer. Its CEO Assaf Rappaport said at the time that he felt the business could grow to be a lot bigger than that. The companies revived talks early in 2025, and Google last March reached an agreement to buy t...
Lisa Shalett, CIO at Morgan Stanley Wealth Management, discusses how markets are viewing the Iran war and why it may take quarterly earnings to get investors to properly price the related risks. (Source: Bloomberg)
Lisa Shalett, CIO at Morgan Stanley Wealth Management, discusses how markets are viewing the Iran war and why it may take quarterly earnings to get investors to properly price the related risks. (Source: Bloomberg)
Getty Images Yesterday’s muted index returns masked the tremendous volatility we saw in financial markets from the open to the closing, which continues to be fueled by huge swings in oil prices. The swings in oil today are largely a function of speculators in futures markets trading on the mixed messages coming out of Washington. The President’s announcement that the war would end soon sent WTI cr...
Getty Images Yesterday’s muted index returns masked the tremendous volatility we saw in financial markets from the open to the closing, which continues to be fueled by huge swings in oil prices. The swings in oil today are largely a function of speculators in futures markets trading on the mixed messages coming out of Washington. The President’s announcement that the war would end soon sent WTI crude plunging below $80, but it was followed by a press conference in which Pete Hegseth announced Tuesday would be the “most intense day” of U.S. strikes, leading to a rebound for oil. Furthermore, Iranian officials dismissed the President’s timeline and warned they would continue to disrupt oil supplies until the bombing ended. Finviz Oil prices plunged again late yesterday afternoon into the mid $70s when Energy Secretary Chris Wright erroneously posted a report on social media that an oil tanker had been safely escorted through the Strait of Hormuz. After the post was removed, oil rebounded to the high $80s again. With the S&P 500 trading in a near perfect inverse correlation with oil, it has been one non-stop roller coaster ride for the stock market. Now G7 nations are considering releasing an unprecedented amount of oil from their strategic reserves, while rumors circulate that Iran is laying mines in the narrow waterway. Bloomberg Despite this quagmire, I still think we saw the highs for oil prices at the beginning of this week for no reason other than the Trump administration will go to any length to suppress the price. If that requires falling short of its stated objective of regime change, then so be it. The ramifications of a sustained price increase would completely undermine its domestic economic agenda just months before the midterm elections, but there are other reasons for a rapid de-escalation. As if the economic impact was not enough, costs and ammunition are also major issues. The Pentagon estimates that we spent $5.6 billion on munitions alone during just...
The director’s first play – an 1830s ‘ rambunctious comedy of deception and disguise’ – is planned for early 2027 opening in London Since Quentin Tarantino announced last year that he had written his first play , it has remained as mysterious as the contents of Marsellus Wallace’s briefcase in Pulp Fiction. But on Wednesday it was announced that the play, which Tarantino will also direct in London...
The director’s first play – an 1830s ‘ rambunctious comedy of deception and disguise’ – is planned for early 2027 opening in London Since Quentin Tarantino announced last year that he had written his first play , it has remained as mysterious as the contents of Marsellus Wallace’s briefcase in Pulp Fiction. But on Wednesday it was announced that the play, which Tarantino will also direct in London, is to be a “ rambunctious comedy of deception and disguise” set in 1830s Europe. According to publicity material, The Popinjay Cavalier is inspired by the “swashbuckling epics of stage and screen” and is a “sweeping celebration of theatre and its heightened romance, told with Tarantino’s signature style and unmistakable wit”. Rumours recently circulated that the play would be a “classic British trouser-dropping” farce. The Popinjay Cavalier, presented by Sonia Friedman Productions and Sony Pictures Entertainment, will be developed this year with a planned opening date of early 2027 in a West End theatre yet to be announced. Continue reading...
Nvidia $NVDA will invest $2 billion in Nebius Group, an AI cloud firm, the companies announced Wednesday. Shares of Nebius rose 10% in pre-market trading on the news, while Nvidia stock was mostly flat. The partnership covers AI factory design, inference infrastructure, fleet management, and early access to Nvidia 's next-generation hardware, including the Rubin platform, Vera CPUs, and BlueField ...
Nvidia $NVDA will invest $2 billion in Nebius Group, an AI cloud firm, the companies announced Wednesday. Shares of Nebius rose 10% in pre-market trading on the news, while Nvidia stock was mostly flat. The partnership covers AI factory design, inference infrastructure, fleet management, and early access to Nvidia 's next-generation hardware, including the Rubin platform, Vera CPUs, and BlueField storage systems, the companies said. The goal is to enable Nebius to deploy more than 5 gigawatts of capacity by the end of 2030. "AI is at another inflection point — agentic AI, driving incredible compute demand and accelerating infrastructure buildout," Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said in a statement. Nebius CEO Arkady Volozh said in a statement that the company was "built for AI since day one." Wednesday's deal builds on an earlier relationship between the two companies. Nvidia had invested in Nebius as part of a $700 million funding round the company closed in late 2024, and held approximately $33 million worth of Nebius shares as of December of that year, according to Bloomberg. Nebius was previously the Dutch holding company for Russian internet giant Yandex. It was renamed in 2024 after selling Yandex's Russian business to a group of investors for $5.2 billion, according to Bloomberg. The Nebius deal is the latest in a series of large Nvidia investments in companies that deploy its chips. A week before Wednesday's announcement, Nvidia invested $2 billion each in optical components makers Lumentum and Coherent, according to CNBC. In January, Nvidia made a similar $2 billion investment in CoreWeave, a Nebius competitor, according to Bloomberg. Nvidia also contributed $30 billion to OpenAI's $110 billion funding round last month and has said it plans to invest up to $10 billion in Anthropic, according to CNBC. The pattern of Nvidia financing companies that are also its customers has drawn scrutiny. Critics have described the AI investment ecosystem as increasingly circular,...
"For those who are unable to take HRT for varying reasons, options have historically been limited, and we have heard clearly from patients how difficult that can be," she said.
"For those who are unable to take HRT for varying reasons, options have historically been limited, and we have heard clearly from patients how difficult that can be," she said.
A key gauge of Oracle Corp. ’s credit risk improved the most since Feb. 2 on Wednesday, after the database giant’s quarterly report helped ease investor fears about AI-related capital spending. The cost of protecting the company’s debt against default for five years fell as much as 0.054 percentage point to a one-month low of 1.52 percentage points, according to ICE Data Services. Credit default s...
A key gauge of Oracle Corp. ’s credit risk improved the most since Feb. 2 on Wednesday, after the database giant’s quarterly report helped ease investor fears about AI-related capital spending. The cost of protecting the company’s debt against default for five years fell as much as 0.054 percentage point to a one-month low of 1.52 percentage points, according to ICE Data Services. Credit default swap prices usually falls as investor confidence in a firm’s credit quality improves. Oracle shares jumped some 10% premarket as it reported strong sales and issued an outlook that suggests little letup in demand for AI computing. The firm’s big spending on artificial intelligence has attracted the attention of investors who’ve grown increasingly concerned about an AI bubble. Last quarter’s capital expenditures were about $18.6 billion, well above the $14 billion anticipated by analysts. But Oracle maintained its fiscal-year forecast of $50 billion. Its solid results and upbeat outlook helped calm investors, Bloomberg Intelligence analysts Robert Schiffman and Alex Reid wrote in a note Tuesday. Still, Oracle’s bonds and credit-default swaps “remain well wide of peers as concerns persist,” the added. AI Bubble Fears Are Creating New Derivatives: Credit Weekly Oracle last month raised $25 billion in the US high-grade market and said it planned to raise a further $25 billion in the equity market — helping reassure investors that the company wouldn’t strain its balance sheet too much. The firm isn’t expected to issue more debt this year. Hyperscalers are tapping debt markets at an unprecedented pace to finance artificial intelligence projects, stoking investor concerns that too much supply will put pressure a market that trades at a historically low premium to Treasuries. Amazon.com Inc. was in the market Tuesday with a $37 billion bond sale , a record investment-grade deal not tied to an acquisition. The firm’s capital raising is set to swell to nearly $50 billion with Wednesda...