Jacques LOIC France recorded a trade deficit of € 1.84B in January of 2026, much lower than estimates of a €4.6B deficit. The exports in France increased to € 5.34B in January from € 5.30B in December of 2025. The imports in France decreased to € 5.53B.1M in January from € 5.73B in December of 2025. More on France EWQ: Falling Real Rates Delayed The Bear Case, But 2026 May Not EWQ: French Stocks Remain Attractively Valued Heading Into 2026 Germany records trade surplus in January, exports at 20-month high European indexes take a dip as volatility spikes, yields surge Seeking Alpha’s Quant Rating on iShares MSCI France ETF

长盈精密（300115）公告，公司正在筹划境外发行股份(H股)并在香港联交所主板上市。此举旨在深入推进国际化战略布局，打造多元化资本运作平台，提升国际品牌形象及全球市场综合竞争力。目前，公司正与相关中介机构就具体工作进行商讨，尚未确定发行细节。本次H股发行上市不会导致控股股东和实际控制人发生变化。相关事项尚需提交公司董事会和股东会审议，并经中国证监会、香港联交所和香港证券及期货事务监察委员会等相关机构的批准、核准或备案。

格隆汇3月10日｜德国DAX30指数涨2.15%，英国富时100指数涨1.47%，法国CAC40指数涨1.91%，欧洲斯托克50指数涨2.33%，西班牙IBEX35指数涨2.48%，意大利富时MIB指数涨2.40%。

周二，美国总统特朗普警告称，若伊朗试图阻断霍尔木兹海峡的石油运输，将遭到“二十倍于此前的打击”。受此影响油价暴跌，美国国债收益率同步走低。 10年期美债收益率下跌近2个基点，至4.117%。30年期美债收益率下跌不足1个基点，至4.734%。2年期美债收益率下跌近3个基点，至3.563%。 1个基点等于0.01%，且收益率与债券价格呈反向变动关系。 美国总统特朗普周一在美国本土的Truth Social平台发文称：“如果伊朗采取任何行动阻断霍尔木兹海峡的石油运输，将遭到美利坚合众国二十倍于此前的打击。” 特朗普早前曾暗示与伊朗的冲突可能很快结束，这一表态曾推动油价暴跌10%，随后跌幅有所收窄。 消息人士透露，七国集团（G7）能源部长定于周二晚些时候召开视频会议，讨论是否释放紧急石油储备，以应对伊朗冲突引发的供应中断问题。 此前，G7各国财长已于周一举行会议，商讨动用战略石油储备事宜，但尚未达成决议。消息人士称，成员国间的讨论“进展积极”，并补充道，任何协同释放储备的行动，大概率将在此次能源部长会议后推进。 国际能源署（IEA）执行董事法提赫・比罗尔在周一晚间发布的声明中表示，应法国邀请，他出席了G7财长会议，就全球经济前景与不断升级的中东冲突展开讨论。 比罗尔称：“我们探讨了所有可行方案，包括向市场投放国际能源署的紧急石油储备。” 国际能源署成员国持有超12亿桶公共应急石油储备，此外还有依据政府义务持有的6亿桶行业储备。 比罗尔还表示，他正与全球各国能源部长保持密切沟通，其中包括沙特、巴西、印度、阿塞拜疆及新加坡的能源部长。 投资者也正静待周三公布的2月通胀数据，以及周五将发布的1月个人消费支出（PCE）指数与JOLTS职位空缺数据。 责任编辑：李肇孚

因应犯罪形势变化，最高检察院正牵头研究制定专门意见，强调要把握好宽与严的辩证关系，宽和严都要依法、审时度势，确保该宽则宽、当严则严、宽严相济 3月10日，最高检察院举行“四大检察”工作白皮书（2025）新闻发布会。图：最高检察院 【财新网】 近年来中国的刑事犯罪形势有所变化。3月10日，最高检察院举行“四大检察”工作白皮书（2025）新闻发布会。《刑事检察工作白皮书（2025）》显示，2025年，全国检察机关受理审查逮捕95万余人、审查起诉175万余人，同比分别下降14.6%、19.3%。其中，轻微犯罪占比八成以上。 据《刑事检察工作白皮书（2025）》，2025年轻微犯罪占比八成以上，从案件处理结果看，相对不起诉、附条件不起诉、判处三年（含）有期徒刑以下刑罚共149.7万人，占全部审结人数的85.2%，其中判处一年（含）有期徒刑以下刑罚74.4万人，社会治安形势总体保持平稳。

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Spirax Group plc press release ( SPXSF ): FY GAAP EPS of 221.20p. Revenue of £1.7B (+1.8% Y/Y). Group revenue up 5% organically. 2026 guidance We anticipate mid-single-digit organic growth in Group revenues, well ahead of IP. While the Middle East represents only 1% of Group revenue, there is potential for some disruption to supply chains reliant upon transport through the region. We currently anticipate this impact to be largely in the first half of the year. Group adjusted operating profit margin is expected to increase further on an organic basis over the currency adjusted 2025 margin of 19.8%, with operating leverage driving growth in adjusted operating profit ahead of the organic growth in revenues. More on Spirax Group plc Seeking Alpha’s Quant Rating on Spirax Group plc Historical earnings data for Spirax Group plc Dividend scorecard for Spirax Group plc Financial information for Spirax Group plc

欧洲主要股指集体高开 2026-03-10 16:01:40 来源： 同花顺7x24快讯 分享 文章提及标的 德国法兰克福DAX指数 -- 伦敦金融时报100指数 -- 法国巴黎CAC40指数 -- 富时100 -- 欧股集体高开，德国dax（GDAXI）指数涨超2%，法国cac40（FCHI）指数涨1.89%，英国富时100指数（FTSE）涨1%。

格隆汇3月10日｜摩根大通策略师在最新报告中指出，该行目前预计美国高评级信用债JULI指数的利差将从目前水平收窄至约85个基点。该行去年11月曾预测利差可能扩大15个基点至110个基点。数据显示，今年1月底相关利差一度收窄至82个基点的历史低点，但2月出现回升，创下2022年9月以来表现最差的一个月。策略师表示，美国经济基本面依然稳健，加上关税政策与大宗商品价格的不确定性，反而可能抑制市场过度乐观的动物本能让投资人更倾向配置较为稳健的信用资产。美国与以色列对伊朗的战事短期内未必对公司债利差造成持续压力，除非能源价格飙升最终迫使美联储再次加息。

美股大型科技股盘前涨跌互现，亚马逊涨0.4%，微软涨0.3%，特斯拉涨0.2%，苹果涨0.1%，Meta、英伟达、谷歌A持平。 免责声明： 风险提示：本文内容仅供参考，不代表同花顺观点。同花顺各类信息服务基于人工智能算法，如有出入请以证监会指定上市公司信息披露平台为准。如有投资者据此操作，风险自担，同花顺对此不承担任何责任。

美股中概股盘前涨跌互现，富途控股、阿里巴巴涨2%，小鹏汽车涨0.1%，携程跌0.3%，蔚来跌0.6%，理想汽车跌1%。 免责声明： 风险提示：本文内容仅供参考，不代表同花顺观点。同花顺各类信息服务基于人工智能算法，如有出入请以证监会指定上市公司信息披露平台为准。如有投资者据此操作，风险自担，同花顺对此不承担任何责任。

Tesla Inc.'s (NASDAQ:TSLA) Vice President of Finance, Sendil Palani, announced his departure from the automaker as yet another senior executive leaves the Elon Musk-led company. Sendil Palani Departs Tesla In a post on the social media platform X on Monday, Palani shared the news with users, hailing the 17 years he spent with the EV giant. He also hailed the "commitment and collaboration" across teams at Tesla. Thanking Musk for his "first principles thinking," Palani shared that when Tesla achieves "abundance" and "money ceases to have meaning," the lessons applied by Musk would be the "most valuable commodity in our economy." He also said that "Tesla's mission" was so "ambitious and complex" that any narrative about the company was "naturally an oversimplification." Elon Musk Hails Sendil Palani Responding to Palani's post, Musk took to the social media platform X and thanked Palani. "Thanks for an epic contribution over many years!" Musk said in the post. High-Profile Exits Tesla's Europe Surge Amid falling sales, Tesla's European performance could come as a boost for the company. The company recorded a 10% surge in February registrations, with markets like France, Spain, Germany and Portugal reporting strong growth for the automaker. According to Benzinga Edge Rankings, Tesla scores well on the Momentum and Quality metrics. Tesla also offers a favorable price trend in the Long term. Price Action: TSLA gained 0.49% to $398.68 at Market close on Monday, and surged 0.23% to $399.61 during overnight trading. Check out more of Benzinga's Future Of Mobility coverage by following this link. Photo courtesy: Shutterstock

江苏省工信厅等九部门印发《江苏省脑机接口（886047）产业创新发展行动方案》，其中提到，加强脑机接口（886047）传感器（885946）、芯片、电池等核心硬件与软件系统的集成适配，推动脑机接口（886047）产品向智能化、轻量化、高速率、低功耗等方向发展。在工业制造领域，研发可穿戴脑状态监测设备、脑控装备与机器人、安全预警系统；在医疗康养领域，研发植入式神经调控设备、微创介入式脑机系统等脑疾病诊疗设备，以及脑卒中、渐冻症等专用康复训练设备；在生活消费（883434）领域，开发睡眠监测干预、注意力训练、脑控智能家居（885478）等消费（883434）级产品。定期遴选一批技术先进、成效显著、可复制推广的典型案例，择优推荐参评国家典型案例。到2030年，认定不少于30个脑机接口（886047）“三首两新”产品。

亚投行成功发行30亿元熊猫债 投资者认购需求创历史新高 2026-03-10 16:00:24 来源： 同花顺7x24快讯 分享 文章提及标的 创历史新高 -- 近日，亚洲基础设施投资银行(亚投行)成功发行30亿元人民币三年期熊猫债。根据最终定价，本期债券票面利率为1.70%。本次发行共有34家投资者参与认购，订单总额达90亿元人民币，订单规模和投资者数量均创历史新高（883911）。鉴于投资者认购踊跃，发行规模由原计划的20亿元人民币增至30亿元人民币。(央视新闻)

Paul Thomas Anderson’s capering clash between a demented repressive regime and ragtag freedom fighters is both cartoonish and deadly serious – and perfectly tuned to its times Viva la revolution and don’t forget your password, your pronouns, your plaid gown and your gun. One Battle After Another, from writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson, is the brawling rebel insider of this year’s Oscar race; a state-of-the-nation Hollywood spectacular that feels as disunited and unstable as the country it depicts. The film hates America and it loves it, too. It’s on the side of the angels even when it’s not quite sure who they are. It lights a candle to curse the darkness, and prays to God it hasn’t picked up a stick of dynamite by mistake. “We have to stay out of politics,” Wim Wenders advised his fellow directors at last month’s Berlin film festival, and yet One Battle After Another is political to its fingertips, hard-wired to the here and now and perfectly anticipating the tenor of Donald Trump’s second term. Leonardo DiCaprio plays Bob, the one-time firebrand turned burnt-out stoner, who belatedly hauls himself off the couch when his daughter Willa (Chase Infiniti) is captured. Freely adapted from Thomas Pynchon’s 1990 novel Vineland, the film updates the book’s jaundiced post-60s hangover for the ICE-age 2020s as the plot careens from the migrant detention camp to the sanctuary city to uncover a Christian Nationalist cell within the US federal government. The self-styled “Christmas Adventurers” are on a heaven-sent mission to make America great again. They say, “If you want to save the planet, you always start with immigration.” Continue reading...

Sudanese scientists who have been promised research posts at leading UK universities have spoken of their “shock” and “sadness” that their hopes have been dashed after Shabana Mahmood’s decision to end study visas for people from their country. More than 200 Sudanese postgraduates and undergraduates fear they will no longer be permitted to take up places at 46 universities, including Oxford, Cambridge and Imperial College London, with some claiming that their lives have been torn apart by the home secretary’s “blunt” intervention. On Wednesday, Mahmood suspended student visas for applicants from Afghanistan, Cameroon, Myanmar and Sudan, saying she was “taking the unprecedented decision to refuse visas for those nationals seeking to exploit our generosity”. “[Asylum] claims by students from Cameroon and Sudan spiked by more than 330%, posing an unsustainable threat to the UK’s asylum system,” a Home Office statement said. Home Office sources said visa applications received from students in the four countries will be processed as usual until 26 March. However, it is “extremely unlikely” that they will also be able to acquire a valid “confirmation of acceptance for studies” before the cutoff. Opponents say the government’s claims of visa exploitation are a distortion, given that just 120 Sudanese students applied for asylum in the year up to September, out of a total of more than 110,000 asylum claims. Wijdan Abdallah Salman Ahmed, a 38-year-old molecular biologist living in Sudan, had been offered a place to study a master’s in regenerative medicine at Queen Mary University of London and was being considered for a Chevening scholarship before Mahmood’s policy change. “When the war began in Sudan, my family and I were displaced to my grandfather’s home in a village near Shendi in River Nile State,” she said. “The situation became even more difficult when attacks by the Rapid Support Forces led to our family losing nearly everything we owned, including my laptop.” Disco...

Crispin Odey, the multimillionaire financier fighting various lawsuits relating to allegations of sexual misconduct, is to launch a case against the financial services regulator over his exile from the City. The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) fined Odey £1.8m and banned him from the financial services industry last year. It found that he had displayed a “lack of integrity” by attempting to frustrate an investigation by his own hedge fund into allegations of sexual harassment, which he denies. Odey had already launched a £79m libel claim against the Financial Times, which first published claims about his behaviour towards junior female staff. The fund, Odey Asset Management, shut down in the wake of the allegations. He is also facing civil personal injury claims by five women, including one who accused him of rape, which he also denies. Those cases are scheduled to be heard together in joint proceedings in June. Odey will begin a separate legal case on Tuesday against the FCA over the disciplinary action it took in response to his alleged obstruction of an internal investigation into his behaviour that was launched in September 2020. According to the regulator’s opening submission, Odey wielded his power as the fund’s majority shareholder to bypass governance structures and protect his own position in breach of City rules. The FCA claims he is not a fit and proper person to run a financial services company, having shown a “reckless disregard” for compliance that caused the company to breach its regulatory obligations. Odey’s case against the FCA has previously led to the disclosure that an internal report into his conduct uncovered at least 46 historical allegations of inappropriate conduct towards female employees. In his opening submission, Odey will say that FCA officials had a “hostile animus” towards him, referring to emails between staff at the regulator, one of which referred to him as presiding over a “culture where it’s okay to be a perv”. He claims the r...

Karim Benzema doesn’t often involve himself in French politics. At the end of January, though, the striker gave a glowing endorsement of Jean-Michel Aulas, the former Lyon president who is leading the city’s mayoral race. “He has everything it takes to do well,” Benzema said in a video played on the news channel LCI as Aulas was being interviewed. “He’s someone who people listen to, he knows where he wants to go and he has a lot of experience,” the former Real Madrid player added. The Lyon-born striker was later joined by Bafétimbi Gomis in showing support for their former boss. “This is not the candidacy of a party, but that of a Lyonnais,” Aulas announced when he launched his campaign in September. The 76-year-old is looking to oust Grégory Doucet, the Green mayor who was elected six years ago and is leading a left-wing coalition. As Sunday’s first round approaches, the challenger has been consistently leading in the polls, on about 40%. A second round will follow a week later if none of the four main candidates get 50% of the vote. Although Aulas claims to be above party politics, a “civil society” candidate in his own words, he has worked to secure the backing of several opposition parties. His team consists of a coalition ranging from the Renaissance party of France’s presdent, Emmanuel Macron, to the right-wing Les Républicains. Aulas spent 36 years at Lyon until 2023, during which the club rose from the second division to win seven consecutive titles, and remains an important figure in French football. He is the vice-president of the French football federation (FFF) and president of the national women’s football league, roles which have led to concerns being raised over potential conflicts of interest. Recently, Aulas was made to row back on a campaign promise to build a stadium in Lyon’s La Duchère neighbourhood for the local fifth-tier club. The FFF’s ethics committee had stepped in to remind him he was to “refrain from making any campaign promises linked t...

If anyone can convince politicians and public of the need to pay for a national care service, it’s Louise Casey. With her involved, I now have hope No government in my lifetime has been dealt a worse hand than Keir Starmer’s. Austerity-broken public services, an empty Treasury, a jittery bond market freaked out by Liz Truss and then stricken by the arrival of Trump 2.0 with his bully-tariffs. Now Britain’s ally is setting the Middle East on fire in a murderous war, exploding oil and gas prices . This needs repeating regularly, lest anyone forgets the obstacles blocking this government’s best intentions for change. One of those good intentions in the Labour manifesto was the creation of a national care service . Louise Casey, respected troubleshooter, was given a commission to review adult social care and solve its impossible dilemmas. She showed her thinking in a blistering speech last week. Polly Toynbee is a Guardian columnist Guardian Newsroom: Can Labour come back from the brink? On Thursday 30 April, ahead of May elections, join Gaby Hinsliff, Zoe Williams, Polly Toynbee and Rafael Behr as they discuss the threat to Labour from the Greens and Reform – and whether Keir Starmer can survive as leader. Book tickets here or at guardian.live Continue reading...

It’s been a troubling season at Tottenham and while there is a slim chance it will end in glory, ignominy is looking more likely How do you solve a problem such as Tottenham Hotspur? They’re the ninth-richest club in the world, who pride themselves on a thrilling style of play – “To dare is to do” – and have been blessed through the years with a pantheon of household names: Blanchflower, Hoddle, Ardíles, Gascoigne, Bale, Kane, Son. Last August they were seconds from beating Paris Saint-Germain to win the Uefa Super Cup, which would have made them – tenuously – the best team in Europe. Seven months later they’ve wilted into a shell-shocked laughing stock careering towards the Championship. They’re the club that launched a thousand memes. In this most Spursy of seasons, hiring Mr Fixit Igor Tudor as interim manager looks like being the biggest misstep yet. The Croatian hard man has taken a squad who needed an arm round the shoulder and stuck them in a vice-like headlock. He has openly suggested there’s only three things wrong with them: they can’t run, they can’t score and they can’t defend. You could count the number of fans who backed his appointment on the fingers of Captain Hook’s bad hand, and if three crushing defeats are anything to go by, his shock treatment is going down like a cup of cold West Ham lasagne. Is there any way out? Continue reading...

Imagine you are the director of football at a crisis-stricken Premier League club in a world where relegation doesn’t exist and the planet’s best teenagers become available for free in a draft every June. In this alternate universe, you are also aware of something else: the 2026 Premier League draft is one for the ages. Barcelona’s Lamine Yamal and Pau Cubarsí are in it. So are Bayern Munich’s Lennart Karl and Real Madrid’s Franco Mastantuono. Sign one of them and the glory days will suddenly beckon again. There is, though, one almighty curveball. Teams that finish in the bottom four of the Premier League have a 14% chance of getting the first pick in the draft. But with every place you climb, your chances of acquiring a top pick and turning everything around actually deteriorate. So what would you do in this scenario? Tell your players to keep fighting and maybe edge up a place or two? Or would you discreetly try to lose for Lamine or collapse for Cubarsí by resting big names and letting sporting gravity take its course? That, in essence, describes the bizarre, yet strangely logical, situation in the NBA with the discourse over how to stop teams “tanking” to get a better draft pick has spewed hundreds of theories, but no elegant solutions. It is not that the NBA isn’t trying. Last month, it fined Utah Jazz $500,000 (£373,000) for not using their best players at the end of one game, while Indiana Pacers were hit with a $100,000 penalty after removing some of their star players. Both teams continue to lose and they are far from the only ones. Indeed, as I write this on Monday afternoon, there is one particularly illuminating stat: since the start of February, the NBA’s worst seven teams have a combined record of 20 wins and 87 defeats and 13 of those victories had come when two of those struggling teams faced each other. Not all those teams are tanking, but the players know it is an issue. The Brooklyn Nets’ Michael Porter Jr said: “I don’t like how teams are deliber...

接连两起游戏跨界联名翻车事件，在游戏行业掀起轩然大波。 先是《尘白禁区》与中国邮政的联名活动爆发争议。联动消息一经公开便遭到声讨，大批网友po出游戏内的大尺度内容质疑这次联名活动的合理性，毕竟《尘白禁区》一直以成人向内容出圈，擦边低俗争议并不是第一次，舆论集中爆发在意料之中。 但后续的发展却让玩家有些始料未及。争议发酵后，此次联名活动被紧急叫停，随即《尘白禁区》官方发布停机维护公告，游戏维护很正常，重点是并未公开恢复时间， 目前游戏服务器仍然处于关闭状态 。 一场联名活动引发的连锁反应，不仅致使《尘白禁区》暂时停服，官方账号更是删除近两年的全部动态，两位制作人的B站账号动态也已经全部清空，回归日期未定，引发了玩家群体的焦虑。 而很快又一场游戏跨界联名活动遭遇临时取消。《恋与深空》官方宣布因遭遇计划外的情况， 原定于中国美术学院内开展的“步步绘心晴”联动合作遗憾终止 ，线下的艺术疗愈活动将更换到其他场地举行。 此次联动为《恋与深空》男主角之一祁煜2026年特别庆生活动，也是玩家们期待已久的一场重大活动，临时取消打了玩家一个措手不及。目前活动已确定更换至杭州市莲美术馆举办，虽然能保证如期举行，但终究是不如原场地有意义。 接连两场联名活动临时取消引发了不小的舆论争议。《尘白禁区》与《恋与深空》的受众群体恰好是两个极端，前者全面拥抱男性向市场，后者则仅限女性用户，两款游戏都因内容尺度问题遭受质疑。 因而在跨界联动双双取消后，双方玩家群体似乎都认定是对方举报导致的，在互联网上展开骂战，舆论场的扩大也让游戏跨界联动再次走进话题中心。 联名活动为何翻车？ 两款游戏都不是第一次进行跨界联动，甚至可以说是跨界联名活动比较丰富的游戏IP。 《尘白禁区》曾成功与格力高、乐事、健力宝等多个品牌进行联动，主要是以“品牌零食+游戏周边”的模式开展活动，一度引发玩家疯狂抢购，联名活动效果非常不错。 而《恋与深空》更是跨界联动的“常客”，庞大的女性玩家群体象征着卓越的消费能力，曾与古茗、伊利优酸乳、肯德基、罗森便利店、名创优品等数十个知名品牌联动，也是以品牌产品和游戏周边捆绑销售的形式促进玩家消费。 除了常规的快消品之外，《恋与深空》也曾受到了不少具备公共服务属性的品牌、机构的青睐，比如淘宝、北京市政交通卡、KEEP、百度地图、国家体育总局体育文化发展中心都曾与《恋与深空》联动，这类联名活动不再局...

Listen to Odd Lots on Apple Podcasts Listen to Odd Lots on Spotify Watch Odd Lots on YouTube Subscribe to the newsletter Oil has obviously spiked massively since the start of the war with Iran. And if you look at various end products, such as jet fuel, the surge is even more extreme. And if the war is prolonged, or if the Strait of Hormuz continues to be functionally blocked, then this could just be the start of an even bigger spike. On this episode, we speak with Rory Johnston, the author of the Commodity Context newsletter. Rory is typically a very level headed guy, and not a doomer at all. And even he is quite alarmed. He says that the persistent closure of the Strait of Hormuz is such big disruption to contemplate that it’s typically used as the worse case scenario in industry thought experiments. He walks us through how oil could go to $200 a barrel or beyond, resulting in higher prices at the pump for American consumers, and perhaps significant shortages in the rest of the world.

watch now VIDEO 3:13 03:13 How Lego keeps beating the broader toy industry Digital Original Lego just put up another banner year — with help from a behind-the-scenes secret weapon. The Danish company on Tuesday reported a 12% jump in revenue to 83.5 billion Danish kroner, or $12.9 billion, for fiscal year 2025. Operating profit rose 18% year over year to 22 billion Danish kroner, or $3.4 billion, the company said. "When we look at the growth area, it's kind of pretty broad-based in the sense that it's not one product or one theme, it's pretty much across the board," Lego CEO Niels Christiansen told CNBC. Lego's consumer sales jumped 16%, outpacing the overall toy market's 7% growth over the same period, the company reported. Lego has steadily outperformed the toy industry since the pandemic, growing its market share and its space on retail shelves. The brickmaker's secret: a combination of trendspotting and a streamlined supply chain. Lego has a hearty licensed product line, featuring sets based on a wide range of popular films, TV shows and video games, as well as a substantial number of in-house brands like its flower arrangements, art pieces and architectural structures. Last year, Lego launched its largest portfolio ever, with more than 860 sets hitting shelves, the company said. Around half of those were new items. In expanding its catalog of products, Lego has also grown its consumer base. Gateways into the brand such as its line of botanicals — plants, flower bouquets and succulents — and its ongoing partnership with Epic Games — which brings Lego to the digital space and elements from the popular video game Fortnite into the physical world — have encouraged newcomers into the brick-building space, Christiansen said. Once there, these customers discover other sets and continue building. And it's not just kids, adult builders are an important piece of Lego's sales. Toy experts told CNBC that Lego was ahead of the curve, embracing adults as a key toy consumer l...

TheaDesign/iStock via Getty Images Market Review US equities rose in the fourth quarter, with signs that market leadership was beginning to broaden. Notably, the months-long artificial intelligence (AI)-driven rally appeared to enter a new phase, with investors becoming increasingly cautious about the sustainability of elevated AI capital expenditure. Many perceived AI winners—mainly companies investing in or enabling AI infrastructure—sold off as the pace of spending on chips and data centers, which has been significantly reliant on debt financing, showed no signs of moderating, leading many to question the returns such investments would ultimately generate. However, AI-linked stocks staged a recovery in the closing weeks of the period; ultimately, four of the top five contributors to the S&P 500's fourth-quarter gain were AI-levered names, which combined accounted for 71% of the index's return. US investors cheered as the Federal Reserve lowered interest rates at three consecutive policy meetings despite disagreements among officials about the path ahead. At its December policy meeting, the central bank hinted that it would likely pause further cuts as it collects more data to assess labor market and inflation conditions. Investors also reacted positively to a delayed release of third-quarter US GDP data showing stronger-than-expected growth driven by resilient consumer spending, powering stocks in the region to new highs toward the end of the period. Against this backdrop, the S&P 500 rose 2.7% in the fourth quarter, boosting its year-to-date gain to 17.9%. (Index performance was measured as a total return and in US dollar terms). What Helped Biopharmaceutical company Merck ( MRK ) (2.7% weighting in the Portfolio) reported strong quarterly results, driven by solid sales in its Keytruda and Capvaxive franchises. We believe there are several emerging late-stage catalysts, with the pipeline recently reshaped by a combination of focused internal R&D and external bus...