Beijing’s defence minister called for shaping a stable environment for China to serve its broader political and diplomatic agenda, conveying the government’s strategic caution amid global uncertainties, analysts said. Dong Jun gave his comments on Friday during a group discussion involving military and armed police lawmakers at the country’s annual legislative gathering in Beijing. According to me...
Beijing’s defence minister called for shaping a stable environment for China to serve its broader political and diplomatic agenda, conveying the government’s strategic caution amid global uncertainties, analysts said. Dong Jun gave his comments on Friday during a group discussion involving military and armed police lawmakers at the country’s annual legislative gathering in Beijing. According to meeting minutes made available to the media, Dong on four occasions in his fewer than 400-word remarks said the military’s tasks were to “stabilise” the situation, mentioning stability more often than building military capabilities and maintaining combat readiness. Advertisement “Efforts should be made to shape a secure and stable internal and external environment and safeguard the period of strategic opportunity,” said Dong, who also serves as a PLA deputy to the National People’s Congress (NPC) The military “should stabilise the situation and shape the momentum … serve the broader political and diplomatic agenda, conduct resolute and effective struggle, stabilise and manage the situation effectively, and firmly grasp the strategic initiative”, he added. Military delegates arrive for a plenary session of the National People’s Congress held at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Monday. Photo: AP “Period of strategic opportunity” is a political slogan referring to a historical window when external conditions are favourable for national development and the accumulation of power. In 2002, former Chinese leader Jiang Zemin declared that China could enjoy about two decades of strategic opportunity.
Trump is wielding imperial powers created by a decades-long master plan. The only way to stop his war is to cut off the money Donald Trump has now ordered military attacks on more countries than any prior president. These assaults do not merely betray his campaign promises . Launched without congressional authorization, Trump’s bombings and incursions also betray the constitution – an inherently a...
Trump is wielding imperial powers created by a decades-long master plan. The only way to stop his war is to cut off the money Donald Trump has now ordered military attacks on more countries than any prior president. These assaults do not merely betray his campaign promises . Launched without congressional authorization, Trump’s bombings and incursions also betray the constitution – an inherently anti-monarch document that exclusively vests warmaking powers in the legislative branch in order to prevent such grave decisions from being made by any one person determined to become a king. Trump clearly perceives himself in such royal terms – he’s said as much . But as we show in the new season of our investigative podcast series Master Plan: The Kingmakers , Trump did not create the kingly authority he is now employing. He is exercising powers concentrated in the executive branch by previous presidents and courts. And if history is any guide, the only weapon that can stop a mad king is Congress’s power of the purse – a power that Democrats once effectively wielded, but today seem hesitant to brandish, even amid a wildly unpopular Iran incursion that some fear is a precursor to the second world war. Continue reading...
Fifty years after Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne founded the company in Jobs’ parents’ garage in Los Altos, California, Apple has become a behemoth, and billions of us use its products every day. From the first successful home computers with colour screens, to the iPod, to the smartphone that set the template for the modern mobile era, the company has repeatedly reset consumer expectat...
Fifty years after Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne founded the company in Jobs’ parents’ garage in Los Altos, California, Apple has become a behemoth, and billions of us use its products every day. From the first successful home computers with colour screens, to the iPod, to the smartphone that set the template for the modern mobile era, the company has repeatedly reset consumer expectations. The Guardian’s journalism is independent. We will earn a commission if you buy something through an affiliate link. Learn more. As a result, the firm occupies a central position in the tech world, initiating trends and popularising products. Here are five of its most influential products from the past half-century – alongside some unusually big misses. The hits Apple II (1977) View image in fullscreen Photograph: Science & Society Picture Library/Getty Images The Apple II put the small, scrappy upstart company on the map. It was Apple’s first mass-market personal computer, designed by Wozniak as a complete, ready-to-use machine rather than a bare circuit board for hobbyists – which had been the home-computing norm up to that point. The Apple II combined the electronics, keyboard and power supply in a single case, and could plug straight into a monitor screen, making computing feel far less intimidating. The ethos behind it was simplicity, says Apple analyst Horace Dediu. “When Steve Jobs looked at this in the 70s, it was like: ‘Well, how do we bring tech to the masses?’ The answer was: ‘Make it easy to use.’” The Apple II offered colour graphics, Basic (Beginner’s All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) in read-only memory and expansion slots, which encouraged a flourishing ecosystem of third-party hardware and software, from games to the VisiCalc spreadsheet that made it a serious business tool. Aggressive education discounts helped to put it into US classrooms, making it the first computer many students used. Its success transformed Apple from a small startup into on...
Women’s rights activists in Chile are bracing as the most conservative president since the Pinochet dictatorship prepares to take office on Wednesday. José Antonio Kast, a 60-year-old ultra Catholic whose father was a member of the Nazi party, has consistently blocked progressive bids for women’s rights and equality across his three-decade career in politics. As a congressman, Kast voted against d...
Women’s rights activists in Chile are bracing as the most conservative president since the Pinochet dictatorship prepares to take office on Wednesday. José Antonio Kast, a 60-year-old ultra Catholic whose father was a member of the Nazi party, has consistently blocked progressive bids for women’s rights and equality across his three-decade career in politics. As a congressman, Kast voted against divorce when Chile became one of the last countries of the world to legalise it in 2004 and vehemently opposed the legalisation of abortion under limited exceptions when it was passed in 2017. He has since pushed to revert to a total ban on abortion and require parental consent for the morning-after pill. Chile allowed abortion for medical reasons from the 1930s until Gen Augusto Pinochet issued a total ban in 1989 as one of his final decrees. An unapologetic supporter of Pinochet, Kast upholds much of the regime’s antiquated values on society and patriarchal family order. View image in fullscreen Kast has said his stance regarding abortion has not changed. Photograph: Pablo Sanhueza/Reuters Such regressive views stand in contrast to feminist and gay rights movements across Latin America since the 2010s, including the “green wave” that successfully pushed for free abortion rights in Argentina, Colombia and some Mexican states. Kast’s appointment of 30-year-old evangelical Judith Marín as women and gender equality minister further underscores his hardline stance. Marín, an anti-abortion activist, disrupted a senate session on abortion decriminalisation in 2017, shouting “return to the lord” while being forcibly ejected by police. Andrea Álvarez Carimoney, assistant professor in public health at the University of Chile, said: “It’s very provocative, because this person – whose opinions were once considered marginal – is now going to be the one who holds power.” View image in fullscreen Kast greeting Judith Márin as he named her women and gender equality minister in January. Ph...
No one wants a soulless sermon – that defeats the purpose – and Pope Leo XIV has taken steps to ensure that Roman Catholic priests don’t deliver one. Artificial intelligence, the new pontiff said in a recent meeting with clergy, “will never be able to share faith”, which is what giving a homily is all about. Resist the temptation and write your own words, he urged. But that point of view is increa...
No one wants a soulless sermon – that defeats the purpose – and Pope Leo XIV has taken steps to ensure that Roman Catholic priests don’t deliver one. Artificial intelligence, the new pontiff said in a recent meeting with clergy, “will never be able to share faith”, which is what giving a homily is all about. Resist the temptation and write your own words, he urged. But that point of view is increasingly on the margins. Not every workplace is a pulpit, and AI is an unstoppable force in almost every field. That doesn’t mean there’s general agreement on how to use it and what the guidelines and guard rails should be. As battles over AI rage in places as far-flung as Hollywood and the Pentagon, there plenty of high emotion, but nothing like consensus. In perhaps the most high-stakes battle, AI company Anthropic is fencing with the Pentagon about key restrictions on AI use by the military. Huge contract with the defense department are at stake, as is national security, and there is competitive pressure from another major company, OpenAI. Hollywood writers’ unions are trying to hold back the tide that threatens their members’ livelihoods. And in my own field, journalism, AI is a hot topic. A few weeks ago, Cleveland Plain Dealer editor Chris Quinn took US journalism schools to task for, as he sees it, not sufficiently preparing students to enter an industry where AI is becoming part of the normal workflow. In his shop, he says, AI is increasingly used to draft stories from reporters’ notes, thus freeing reporters to do crucial shoe-leather work. The stories are then reviewed by an editor before publication. The fracas in Cleveland began when a candidate for a reporting fellowship withdrew her application after learning that she’d be expected, in some instances, to file her notes to an AI reporting tool rather than write stories herself. That wasn’t what she had in mind when she decided to become a journalist, so she backed out. “Artificial intelligence is not bad for news...
A special election for the successor to Marjorie Taylor Greene’s congressional district in Georgia on Tuesday will be a test of Donald Trump’s sway, and may provide a rare opportunity for Democrats in a deep-red pocket of the southern state. Republican former prosecutor Clay Fuller is likely to come out of Tuesday’s jungle primary, in which the top two candidates go to a runoff regardless of party...
A special election for the successor to Marjorie Taylor Greene’s congressional district in Georgia on Tuesday will be a test of Donald Trump’s sway, and may provide a rare opportunity for Democrats in a deep-red pocket of the southern state. Republican former prosecutor Clay Fuller is likely to come out of Tuesday’s jungle primary, in which the top two candidates go to a runoff regardless of party, alongside retired army general Shawn Harris, a Democrat. The two would face a run-off election on 7 April. Fuller has Trump’s endorsement and had raised more than $1m leading into voting Tuesday, but Harris, who faced Greene two years ago, has raised more than four times as much. Even though four Republican candidates dropped out before the election, the Republican field is fractured between more than a dozen candidates, including former state senator Colton Moore, a combative agitator to the right of most Republican legislators in Georgia. Greene, also a firebrand on the right, broke hard against Trump last year, beginning by questioning his first strike on Iran in June, then by sounding alarms during budget talks that the end of healthcare subsidies would wreck her constituent’s finances. The administration’s resistance on the Epstein files was the last straw; Trump and Greene turned on each other, leading to Greene’s resignation in January to avoid a contentious, divisive primary challenge. Fuller, a lieutenant colonel in the air national guard, is also a former Trump White House fellow and – by current Republican standards – a mainline conservative and Trump loyalist, which paved the way for Trump’s endorsement. Harris, a soldier turned cattle rancher, won about 135,000 votes in a losing effort in 2024, a record in Georgia’s 14th district. The Cook Political Report still rates the district as R+19, but Democrats have been over performing in Republican districts since Trump’s election. In an interview in December, Harris told the Guardian that the field for Greene’s su...
Whoop Inc., the maker of popular screenless fitness bands, is expanding its features for women with a new blood test that offers a more comprehensive view of their health. The update builds on Whoop’s existing Advanced Labs Baseline Panel blood test, which looks at least 65 biomarkers related to the heart, metabolic and other areas. Now users can add on a test with 11 female-specific blood biomark...
Whoop Inc., the maker of popular screenless fitness bands, is expanding its features for women with a new blood test that offers a more comprehensive view of their health. The update builds on Whoop’s existing Advanced Labs Baseline Panel blood test, which looks at least 65 biomarkers related to the heart, metabolic and other areas. Now users can add on a test with 11 female-specific blood biomarkers, including those related to cycle regulation and hormonal transitions. The additional biomarkers, which will be available for purchase for $299 via the Whoop app, also examine thyroid function, nutrient sufficiency, bone–metabolic resilience and perimenopause. Whoop users can schedule a Quest Diagnostics lab visit through the Whoop app and the results include an action plan powered by artificial intelligence. Unlike many blood tests, the new panel isn’t eligible for insurance coverage. Whoop uses the data to inform a user’s metrics collected from a Whoop device, assisting with calculating areas like recovery, strain, sleep and stress. Read More: Whoop Is Considering Going Public in the Next Two Years, CEO Says Last year, Whoop Chief Executive Officer Will Ahmed said the blood-testing effort marked a major step toward turning the company’s offerings into “a health operating system.” The company views women's health as a significant growth area, building on prior efforts like period, ovulation and cycle symptom tracking. Women represent a rising number of Whoop members, with 150% year-over-year growth, according to the company. Women also interact with its AI-powered coaching tool about 30% more than male members do for personalized feedback related to training and overall health, the company added. The Boston-based company is also rolling out a “Hormonal Symptom Insights and Predictions” that can provide more information about a wearer’s menstrual cycles, such as trends in their periods and date windows. The news comes one week after Whoop announced broader plans to grow t...
Over two decades in a little-known, freezing city in northern China, a Swedish man has built a career and witnessed the booming development of the country’s carmaking industry. Gustav Holmgren, 44, whose Chinese name is Ge Siwen, is the legal representative and site manager of ATM (Hulun Buir) Proving Ground Service, which provides cold-weather vehicle testing for carmakers. He is, perhaps, the on...
Over two decades in a little-known, freezing city in northern China, a Swedish man has built a career and witnessed the booming development of the country’s carmaking industry. Gustav Holmgren, 44, whose Chinese name is Ge Siwen, is the legal representative and site manager of ATM (Hulun Buir) Proving Ground Service, which provides cold-weather vehicle testing for carmakers. He is, perhaps, the only foreigner in the city. Advertisement His company is located in Yakeshi, a small city with a population of 300,000 and administered by the prefecture-level city of Hulun Buir in Inner Mongolia. Gustav Holmgren has settled in nicely to the sub-zero temperatures in Inner Mongolia. Photo: Douyin Holmgren first came to China in 2006, after graduating from university.
In this article STLA 7203.T-JP Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNT 2026 Jeep Cherokee. Courtesy: Stellantis DETROIT — Jeep maker Stellantis is leaning on technologies from automotive suppliers for its newest hybrid SUVs as the market for more fuel-efficient vehicles is expected to continue growing, CNBC has learned. The trans-Atlantic automaker's first-ever Jeep hybrid SUV for North Am...
In this article STLA 7203.T-JP Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNT 2026 Jeep Cherokee. Courtesy: Stellantis DETROIT — Jeep maker Stellantis is leaning on technologies from automotive suppliers for its newest hybrid SUVs as the market for more fuel-efficient vehicles is expected to continue growing, CNBC has learned. The trans-Atlantic automaker's first-ever Jeep hybrid SUV for North America, its recently launched Cherokee , features a system from a Toyota-backed company called Blue Nexus, while its upcoming extended-range electric vehicles, or EREVs, are utilizing major technologies from Bosch, the world's largest automotive supplier. It's not uncommon for automakers to use components from suppliers, but it's less common for key systems or technologies, especially ones pioneered by a competitor like Toyota. But Stellantis' push is a prime example of broader market shifts away from all-electric vehicles and a way carmakers can more quickly get hybrid vehicles — which have been increasingly in demand even before oil prices spiked — to market, potentially at a lower capital cost. Many automakers have already lost billions of dollars due to massive spending on EVs, including developing and producing many of the technologies themselves. The Jeep Cherokee, which is using Blue Nexus' two-motor electric continuously variable hybrid transmission, and the upcoming Jeep Grand Wagoneer EREV are major launches for the automaker this year, especially as it attempts to regain market share in the U.S. Stellantis also plans to use the EREV system on its Ram pickup trucks. "Electrification trends are pretty flat. Hybrid trends are absolutely growing," Richard Cox, Jeep senior vice president of brand operations, told CNBC during a recent media event for the 2026 Cherokee. "So I think it was a big move in the right direction." Officials with Stellantis and the auto suppliers declined to comment on the tie-ups, but sources with each of the companies who weren't permitted to ...
Kevin Mandia testifies during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on Capitol Hill on February 23, 2021 in Washington, DC. Drew Angerer | Getty Images Four years ago Kevin Mandia agreed to sell his cybersecurity company Mandiant to Google for $5.4 billion . Now he's back in the game, with Google's help. On Tuesday, Mandia's new startup, Armadin, said it raised nearly $190 million, in a funding ...
Kevin Mandia testifies during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on Capitol Hill on February 23, 2021 in Washington, DC. Drew Angerer | Getty Images Four years ago Kevin Mandia agreed to sell his cybersecurity company Mandiant to Google for $5.4 billion . Now he's back in the game, with Google's help. On Tuesday, Mandia's new startup, Armadin, said it raised nearly $190 million, in a funding round led by Accel. Google Ventures is participating, along with firms including Kleiner Perkins, Menlo Ventures and Ballistic Ventures, which Mandia co-founded. Mandia told CNBC in an interview that the emergence of artificial intelligence, particularly agentic AI, is having a dramatic impact on cybersecurity. Armadin creates and manages autonomous AI agents that consistently scan for threats. "I wasn't going to sit on the sidelines watching another shift change in cybersecurity without leveraging 30 years in the industry to do something," Mandia said. Across the tech world, companies are offering more AI-enabled tools and acquiring cyber capabilities in a scramble to supercharge their defenses as attacks rise in sophistication, speed, and intensity. Mandia co-founded Armadin in September and, in the past six months, the company has hired over 60 employees and started working with Fortune 100 companies. Mandia said Armadin is using agentic tools to complete tasks that previously took days in a matter of minutes. He said the company's name came to him in the middle of the night, while reflecting on the 1588 Spanish Armada. "Somehow my brain remembered eighth-grade history," he said. WATCH: The world of cyber threats is being professionalized VIDEO 9:29 09:29 The world of cyber threats is being professionalized, they want to make money, says Cloudflare CEO Choose CNBC as your preferred source on Google and never miss a moment from the most trusted name in business news.
adventtr/iStock via Getty Images Texas Instruments ( TXN ) hardly requires an introduction, the firm being a long-term key player in the semiconductor industry. The company surprised the market somewhat as it recently announced a $7.5 billion deal to acquire Silicon Laboratories ( SLAB ) , adding intelligent wireless technology to its lineup of solutions. In this deal, the company continues to str...
adventtr/iStock via Getty Images Texas Instruments ( TXN ) hardly requires an introduction, the firm being a long-term key player in the semiconductor industry. The company surprised the market somewhat as it recently announced a $7.5 billion deal to acquire Silicon Laboratories ( SLAB ) , adding intelligent wireless technology to its lineup of solutions. In this deal, the company continues to stress that it operates with the mindset of running the business as an owner. M&A is not really in the playbook for Texas here, as the company has been really internally focused on the past. Moreover, the company has been running a very aggressive dividend payout ratio. I am erring on the side of caution here. Adding Silicon Labs Early in February, Texas Instruments announced an all-cash deal of $231 per share to acquire Silicon Labs in a transaction designed to add intelligent wireless technology to create wider wireless connectivity solutions. The company thinks that together, the business can do more for its customers, with the added technology complementing Texas' internally owned technology and manufacturing capabilities. The company sees both real and diversified advantages from the deal, including expanded leadership in wireless connectivity solutions and leveraging its own low-cost manufacturing solutions. These are seen as very substantial, seen running at $450 million each year in year three post-close! That, however, will take some time, with the expected closing only seen in the first half of 2027. Of course, this comes at an expense, as a $7.5 billion deal values the business close to 10 times reported revenues of $785 million each year. In light of this revenue base, the cost synergy assumptions are very generous, to put it mildly. Despite the multiple premiums paid, the company expects accretion to adjusted earnings in year one, although this is based on adjusted earnings. That requires some synergies from the get-go, as Silicon reported a GAAP operating loss of...
Fitness wearable maker Whoop is launching a new panel focused on women’s health through its Whoop Labs blood testing service. The company is also adding a new feature to its app that surfaces information about hormonal changes during menstrual cycles. The startup said the panel includes 11 blood biomarkers that can give insights into aspects such as cycle regulation and hormonal transitions: Anti-...
Fitness wearable maker Whoop is launching a new panel focused on women’s health through its Whoop Labs blood testing service. The company is also adding a new feature to its app that surfaces information about hormonal changes during menstrual cycles. The startup said the panel includes 11 blood biomarkers that can give insights into aspects such as cycle regulation and hormonal transitions: Anti-Müllerian Hormone (AMH), Progesterone, Prolactin, and Thyroid Peroxidase Antibodies (TPOAb), Free T4, Free T3, Leptin, Vitamin B12 (Cobalamin), Folate, Magnesium, and Phosphate (as Phosphorus). The company claims measuring these biomarkers will help users understand more about perimenopause, thyroid function, nutrient sufficiency, and bone metabolic resilience, when paired with data on activity, sleep, and recovery. Image Credits: Whoop The test will be available to users for purchase from next month. When Whoop launched its blood testing service in September 2025, it had over 350,000 people on the waitlist. Meanwhile, the Whoop apps’ new Hormonal Symptom Insights and Predictions feature creates a model of hormonal changes over menstrual cycles based on previous data. It uses this model to predict possible date windows for the next period, give insights into cycle lengths, period length and irregularities, and detail individual symptom patterns. The company said it can tie insights from this feature into lab results to sort biomarker results into ‘optimal,’ ‘sufficient,’ or ‘out of range’ categories. Image Credits: Whoop Whoop also released a new menstrual cycle white paper to give insights into the company’s modeling behind these new features. 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 10,000+ founders, investors, and tech leaders gather for three days of 250+ tactical sessions, powerful introductions, and market-defining innovation. Register n...
GLP-1s have transformed weight loss and diabetes. Is addiction next? toggle caption Maria Fabrizio for NPR There's new evidence that GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic can reduce the risk of addiction. A study of more than 600,000 veterans found that those who started taking a GLP-1 drug for diabetes were about 15% to 20% less likely to misuse substances ranging from alcohol to opioids. The study, which app...
GLP-1s have transformed weight loss and diabetes. Is addiction next? toggle caption Maria Fabrizio for NPR There's new evidence that GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic can reduce the risk of addiction. A study of more than 600,000 veterans found that those who started taking a GLP-1 drug for diabetes were about 15% to 20% less likely to misuse substances ranging from alcohol to opioids. The study, which appears in The BMJ, a medical journal, also found that GLP-1 drugs helped people with a history of substance use disorder. They were less likely to experience an overdose, drug-related hospitalization, drug-related death or suicide attempt. "The surprise was that it was working across various substances," says Dr. Ziyad Al-Aly, an author of the study and a clinical epidemiologist at WashU Medicine in St. Louis. That suggests a common "biologic signal" affected by GLP-1 drugs is involved in all addictive disorders, says Al-Aly, who also holds a position at VA St. Louis Health Care System. Sponsor Message The results suggest that GLP-1 drugs could offer a new option for the 48.4 million Americans with a substance use disorder. But researchers caution that the study, though large, was not the sort of controlled clinical trial needed to confirm that GLP-1 drugs offer a safe and effective way to treat addiction. Results from several of those studies are expected in the coming year. "We have a lot of hope that these medications may be helpful," says Dr. Lorenzo Leggio, an addiction researcher at the National Institutes of Health, who was not involved in the study. "There's every reason to be incredibly enthusiastic," says Dr. Klara Klein, an endocrinologist at the UNC School of Medicine in Chapel Hill. "But these are not medicines that have been tested in people who don't have overweight and obesity, or Type 2 diabetes." Unexpected benefit The results come after smaller studies and research on animals suggested that GLP-1 drugs could reduce the cravings for specific substances, incl...
– FY25 Total Revenue Grew 21% Y/Y to $403.1 Million; FY25 U.S. Net Product Revenue Grew 38% Y/Y to $159.6 Million – – Q4 2025 U.S. Net Product Revenue Grew ~38% Y/Y to $43.7 Million; Q4 2025 Total Revenue Grew 144% Y/Y to $168.4 Million – – Q4 Retail Prescription Equivalents Grew 34% Y/Y and 11.3% Q/Q – – Agreement to Acquire Corstasis Therapeutics to Accelerate Growth and Expand Cardiovascular Fr...
– FY25 Total Revenue Grew 21% Y/Y to $403.1 Million; FY25 U.S. Net Product Revenue Grew 38% Y/Y to $159.6 Million – – Q4 2025 U.S. Net Product Revenue Grew ~38% Y/Y to $43.7 Million; Q4 2025 Total Revenue Grew 144% Y/Y to $168.4 Million – – Q4 Retail Prescription Equivalents Grew 34% Y/Y and 11.3% Q/Q – – Agreement to Acquire Corstasis Therapeutics to Accelerate Growth and Expand Cardiovascular Franchise with Enbumyst™ (bumetanide nasal spray) – – Conference Call and Webcast Today at 8:00 a.m. ET – ANN ARBOR, Mich., March 10, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Esperion (NASDAQ: ESPR) today reported financial results for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2025, and highlighted continued commercial momentum for its bempedoic acid franchise, strong full-year revenue growth, and progress advancing its long-term strategic vision. “2025 was a defining year for Esperion. We delivered strong growth in our U.S. cardiovascular franchise, broadened access and adoption among statin intolerant or statin-resistant patients and strengthened the durability of our business with important intellectual property and market access advances,” said Sheldon Koenig, Chief Executive Officer of Esperion. “Importantly, we used this momentum to chart our next chapter with Vision 2040 - a bold plan to build a multiproduct, innovation driven company with continued leadership in cardiometabolic disease and targeted expansion into rare hepatic and renal conditions. Our recently announced agreement to acquire Corstasis Therapeutics represents a compelling and strategically aligned opportunity that accelerates Esperion’s momentum and advances our long-term Vision 2040.” “Looking ahead, we’re investing against clear catalysts: deeper U.S. market penetration supported by robust payer coverage, advancement of our oral triple combination program designed to rival products on the market or in development and continued geographic expansion with our global partners. We are entering 2026 with confiden...
Sentiment among US small-business owners declined for a second month in February on less optimism about the outlook for sales and the economy. The National Federation of Independent Business optimism index slipped 0.5 percentage point to 98.8, according to figures released Tuesday. The survey was conducted throughout February and reflected sentiment before the Iran War pushed up energy prices. Fou...
Sentiment among US small-business owners declined for a second month in February on less optimism about the outlook for sales and the economy. The National Federation of Independent Business optimism index slipped 0.5 percentage point to 98.8, according to figures released Tuesday. The survey was conducted throughout February and reflected sentiment before the Iran War pushed up energy prices. Four of the 10 components that make up the gauge decreased, while three increased. Three were unchanged. The net share of owners who said they expect inflation-adjusted sales to improve fell 8 percentage points to 8%, after reaching a one-year high in January. Meanwhile, the net percentage of businesses reporting positive profit trends rose 7 points to the highest since December 2021. The net share of owners who expect business conditions to improve declined 3 points to a three-month low and hiring plans continued to ease. The net share of firms expecting to increase employment fell to the lowest since May, highlighting a fragile US jobs market. The survey also showed inflationary pressures continued to gradually ease prior to a spike in gasoline prices due to energy disruptions in the Middle East. The net share of owners who raised average selling prices declined for a third straight month, to 24%.
One year into President Donald Trump ’s immigration crackdown, there’s little evidence that closed borders are boosting employment for US-born workers. Net migration into the US may have been negative in 2025 for the first time in at least 50 years, according to estimates from researchers at the center-right American Enterprise Institute and center-left Brookings Institution. That squeeze coincide...
One year into President Donald Trump ’s immigration crackdown, there’s little evidence that closed borders are boosting employment for US-born workers. Net migration into the US may have been negative in 2025 for the first time in at least 50 years, according to estimates from researchers at the center-right American Enterprise Institute and center-left Brookings Institution. That squeeze coincided with a rise in joblessness among the native-born, even as some businesses say it’s becoming more challenging to fill positions. Economists say the disconnect reflects a structural mismatch: In many labor-intensive roles that rely heavily on immigrants, employers can’t easily replace them with American workers. That undercuts a central tenet of Trump’s agenda and, if it persists, could also restrain economic growth over time. “Look at what we’re seeing: The US-born unemployment rate has been going up. The US-born labor force participation rate has dropped,” said Mark Regets , a senior fellow at the National Foundation for American Policy, a non-partisan research organization that focuses on trade and immigration. “So if we’ve had a big withdrawal of immigrants from the labor force, we don’t see any sign of the US-born workers getting more employment because of that.” Government data have been inadequate for measuring immigration swings in real time. But some firms in industries employing large shares of immigrants — including construction, leisure and hospitality and food production — say it’s taking longer to find workers, with few native-born job seekers turning out despite mounting job losses in white-collar occupations. Jane Carroll, who makes and sells frozen meals in New York’s Hudson Valley region, started seeing fewer applicants after a wave of immigration enforcement actions in the area last summer. Carroll, who was featured on the TV show “Shark Tank” last year, maintains a small payroll of five people including herself, but will sometimes need twice as many work...
The oil price spike caused by the war in the Middle East has sparked unrest in Bangladesh and exasperation at petrol pumps around Asia, where many economies are heavily dependent on fossil fuel imports. Even as governments move to limit the impact on fuel prices, queues have formed at petrol stations in countries including Vietnam, Pakistan and the Philippines, although the situation remains stabl...
The oil price spike caused by the war in the Middle East has sparked unrest in Bangladesh and exasperation at petrol pumps around Asia, where many economies are heavily dependent on fossil fuel imports. Even as governments move to limit the impact on fuel prices, queues have formed at petrol stations in countries including Vietnam, Pakistan and the Philippines, although the situation remains stable elsewhere. In Bangladesh – which imports 95 per cent of its oil and gas needs – the military has been deployed at major oil depots, as police patrol in and around petrol stations. Advertisement “We haven’t received supply from the depot, but the bike riders weren’t convinced and vandalised the station,” said petrol station worker Ashrafuzzaman Dulal, describing violence on Sunday. On Tuesday his station Shahjahan Traders, one of the oldest in the capital Dhaka, had hung a banner apologising because its stock had run out. 02:22 Trump says US objectives in Iran ‘way ahead of schedule’ and attacks may end ‘soon’ Trump says US objectives in Iran ‘way ahead of schedule’ and attacks may end ‘soon’ The South Asian nation of 170 million people has started fuel rationing, sent students home and scrapped celebratory light displays over the energy crunch.
There was supposed to be a massive tailwind for the PC market this year. Windows 10 reached end-of-life in late 2025, meaning that somewhere around 1 billion PCs worldwide stopped receiving security updates. This is less of an issue in the consumer PC market, but it's a big deal in the business PC market. PC OEMs like HP (HPQ 2.65%) were set up for success in 2026, but the AI boom has complicated ...
There was supposed to be a massive tailwind for the PC market this year. Windows 10 reached end-of-life in late 2025, meaning that somewhere around 1 billion PCs worldwide stopped receiving security updates. This is less of an issue in the consumer PC market, but it's a big deal in the business PC market. PC OEMs like HP (HPQ 2.65%) were set up for success in 2026, but the AI boom has complicated the situation. Enormous demand for DRAM and NAND chips from the AI infrastructure build-out, coupled with memory chip manufacturers shifting production to server products, has left the PC market with scraps. Memory chip prices have surged, pushing up the bill of materials and forcing price increases. Gartner expects PC prices to surge by 17% this year, prompting consumers and businesses to hold onto their current PCs for longer. Budget PCs as a category could essentially disappear, leaving a large swath of consumers in a bind. Gartner expects PC shipments to tumble by 10.4% in 2026. HP is an obvious loser in this scenario, but there's a surprising winner as well: Apple (AAPL +0.94%). HP will get hit hard How fast are memory prices rising? HP disclosed in February that memory and storage are expected to account for roughly 35% of its PC bill of materials this year. That's up from 15% to 18% in the previous quarter. There's not a ton HP can do to mitigate rising memory prices. Long-term supply agreements could help, but they'll leave HP on the hook if memory prices reverse. Shipping PCs with less memory and storage content is an option to keep prices down. HP could also accept lower profit margins to protect its market share. Expand NYSE : HPQ HP Today's Change ( -2.65 %) $ -0.52 Current Price $ 18.95 Key Data Points Market Cap $17B Day's Range $ 18.50 - $ 19.15 52wk Range $ 17.56 - $ 29.89 Volume 80 Avg Vol 18M Gross Margin 19.91 % Dividend Yield 6.17 % Personal Systems revenue rose 11% year over year for HP in the first quarter of fiscal 2026, but operating margin declined ...
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Key Points Soaring memory chip prices are expected to severely hurt PC demand this year. HP is a big loser in this scenario, with few levers to pull as input costs escalate. Apple is going on the offensive with a budget MacBook. 10 stocks we like better than Apple › There was supposed to be a massive tailwind for the PC market this year. Windows 10 reached end-of-life in late 2025, meaning that somewhere around 1 billion PCs worldwide stopped receiving security updates. This is less of an issue in the consumer PC market, but it's a big deal in the business PC market. PC OEMs like HP (NYSE: HPQ) were set up for success in 2026, but the AI boom has complicated the situation. Enormous demand for DRAM and NAND chips from the AI infrastructure build-out, coupled with memory chip manufacturers shifting production to server products, has left the PC market with scraps. Memory chip prices have surged, pushing up the bill of materials and forcing price increases. Will AI create the world's first trillionaire? Our team just released a report on the one little-known company, called an "Indispensable Monopoly" providing the critical technology Nvidia and Intel both need. Continue » Gartner expects PC prices to surge by 17% this year, prompting consumers and businesses to hold onto their current PCs for longer. Budget PCs as a category could essentially disappear, leaving a large swath of consumers in a bind. Gartner expects PC shipments to tumble by 10.4% in 2026. HP is an obvious loser in this scenario, but there's a surprising winner as well: Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL). HP will get hit hard How fast are memory prices rising? HP disclosed in February that memory and storage are expected to account for roughly 35% of its PC bill of materials this year. That's up from 15% to 18% in the previous quarter. There's not a ton HP can do to mitigate rising memory prices. Long-term supply agreements could help, but they'll leave HP on the hook if memory prices reverse. Shipping PCs with less ...