Live cattle futures saw higher trade into the close, with contracts up 45 cents to 90 cents. Open interest hinted at new buying, up 2,790 contracts on Thursday. Cash trade has been quiet so far this week. The Thursday Fed Cattle Exchange auction showed no sales on the 1,394 head...
Live cattle futures saw higher trade into the close, with contracts up 45 cents to 90 cents. Open interest hinted at new buying, up 2,790 contracts on Thursday. Cash trade has been quiet so far this week. The Thursday Fed Cattle Exchange auction showed no sales on the 1,394 head...
Russia’s central bank sold gold from its reserves in January, taking advantage of prices that had climbed to record highs. The country’s bullion holdings fell by 300,000 ounces to 74.5 million ounces, according to data published Friday by the Bank of Russia. The sale marked the first decrease in gold reserves since October. Gold prices hit a record in January, averaging roughly $4,700 per ounce. T...
Russia’s central bank sold gold from its reserves in January, taking advantage of prices that had climbed to record highs. The country’s bullion holdings fell by 300,000 ounces to 74.5 million ounces, according to data published Friday by the Bank of Russia. The sale marked the first decrease in gold reserves since October. Gold prices hit a record in January, averaging roughly $4,700 per ounce. That suggests the sale could have brought in about $1.4 billion for the budget if transacted at market prices. The Bank of Russia began drawing on its bullion last year as part of so-called mirror operations linked to the Finance Ministry’s sales of National Wellbeing Fund assets. In the first two months of 2025, the ministry spent 419 billion rubles ($5.5 billion) from the fund, selling gold and foreign currency to offset the drop in oil and gas revenue amid an expanding budget deficit. Despite the sale, the value of Russia’s gold reserves rose 23% in January to $402.7 billion, buoyed by the rally in prices. Since the Kremlin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the increasing value of gold has delivered a windfall comparable in size to Russia’s foreign-currency assets frozen in Europe. Read More: Russia Gains $216 Billion in Gold Rally, Replacing Lost Assets
Pekic/E+ via Getty Images Shares of Figma, Inc. ( FIG ) stock increased 7% after the company reported better-than-expected earnings for the fourth fiscal quarter amid strong net retention trends and investments in AI products paying off for the collaboration and design platform. While the enterprise reported strong results for Q4 '25 overall, I believe that the valuation here is just not attractiv...
Pekic/E+ via Getty Images Shares of Figma, Inc. ( FIG ) stock increased 7% after the company reported better-than-expected earnings for the fourth fiscal quarter amid strong net retention trends and investments in AI products paying off for the collaboration and design platform. While the enterprise reported strong results for Q4 '25 overall, I believe that the valuation here is just not attractive for investors, despite shares falling into a severe downturn after the company's IPO on July 31, 2025. I see an unfavorable risk profile for investors and believe FIG shares are trading significantly above fair value here. As a result, I am confirming my Sell rating for Figma and don't recommend investors take a position here just yet. Data by YCharts Previous rating In my last work on the software tech firm, I highlighted strong net retention trends in the core business as well as accelerating top-line momentum, driven by AI products, as positive aspects of a bull case. However, I rated Figma a Sell due to valuation and insider sales concerns: Insider Sales Are A Risk . Shares have revalued approximately 24% since then, but more downside may loom given the platform's weak guidance for its non-GAAP operating income margin in FY 2026. Following the Q4 '25 report, I maintain an overall cautious stance on the AI-powered design platform given the extreme valuation of Figma's shares as well as short term margin risks that make a major revaluation to the upside unlikely, in my opinion. Decent double-beat for Q4, but margin development and high valuation are concerns In the fourth fiscal quarter, Figma beat top and bottom line estimates amid strong momentum of AI product uptake, especially "Figma Make": the platform reported normalized earnings of $0.08 per-share, outmatching the consensus by $0.02 per-share. The top line came in at $303.8M, beating the estimate of $10.6M. Seeking Alpha Figma's revenue trend continued to accelerate in the last quarter, with the design and collab...
This article first appeared on GuruFocus. OpenAI executives are signaling measured confidence on chip supply even as artificial intelligence demand continues to strain the broader semiconductor ecosystem. In an interview with Bloomberg Television, Chief Global Affairs Officer Chris Lehane said the company has visibility into what we are going to need regarding chips, suggesting planning assumption...
This article first appeared on GuruFocus. OpenAI executives are signaling measured confidence on chip supply even as artificial intelligence demand continues to strain the broader semiconductor ecosystem. In an interview with Bloomberg Television, Chief Global Affairs Officer Chris Lehane said the company has visibility into what we are going to need regarding chips, suggesting planning assumptions are grounded in forward demand forecasts rather than reactive procurement.
(RTTNews) - Partly reflecting the longest government shutdown in U.S. history, the Commerce Department released a report on Friday showing U.S. economic growth slowed by much more than anticipated in the fourth quarter of 2025.
(RTTNews) - Partly reflecting the longest government shutdown in U.S. history, the Commerce Department released a report on Friday showing U.S. economic growth slowed by much more than anticipated in the fourth quarter of 2025.
Tootsie Roll Industries ( TR ) declares $0.09/share quarterly dividend, in line with previous. Forward yield 0.87% Payable March 27; for shareholders of record March 5; ex-div March 5. See TR Dividend Scorecard, Yield Chart, & Dividend Growth. More on Tootsie Roll Industries Tootsie Roll Industries: Growth Isn't Enough To Justify Optimism Seeking Alpha’s Quant Rating on Tootsie Roll Industries Div...
Tootsie Roll Industries ( TR ) declares $0.09/share quarterly dividend, in line with previous. Forward yield 0.87% Payable March 27; for shareholders of record March 5; ex-div March 5. See TR Dividend Scorecard, Yield Chart, & Dividend Growth. More on Tootsie Roll Industries Tootsie Roll Industries: Growth Isn't Enough To Justify Optimism Seeking Alpha’s Quant Rating on Tootsie Roll Industries Dividend scorecard for Tootsie Roll Industries Financial information for Tootsie Roll Industries
From never arguing to knowing exactly what the other thinks, the signs your relationship is in trouble aren’t always obvious. Experts reveal what to watch for – and how to get the spark back You would think this is a sign of perfect harmony. Not so if you have stopped arguing completely . “Stopping disagreeing isn’t a sign of peace, it points to emotional withdrawal,” explains Simone Bose, a relat...
From never arguing to knowing exactly what the other thinks, the signs your relationship is in trouble aren’t always obvious. Experts reveal what to watch for – and how to get the spark back You would think this is a sign of perfect harmony. Not so if you have stopped arguing completely . “Stopping disagreeing isn’t a sign of peace, it points to emotional withdrawal,” explains Simone Bose, a relationship therapist at Relate. It happens, says Bose, because couples are “likely protecting themselves from feeling disappointed or from conflict itself, but are becoming emotionally numb”. Clinical psychologist and Couples Therapy star Dr Orna Guralnik agrees, noting that “some people don’t argue because they’ve come to a state of acceptance of who each other are, but some don’t argue because they’ve given up. It’s a cold, detached form of not arguing – a resignation.” For Oona Metz, a social worker, psychotherapist and the author of Unhitched: The Essential Divorce Guide for Women, “Couples who stop arguing even when they have major disagreements are on a collision course towards either an unhappy marriage or a divorce.” This is because “unresolved issues get swept under the rug and eventually come out in some other way”. Continue reading...
As US President Donald Trump prepares for a possible visit to China in April, analysts say that one issue is likely to “cast a shadow” over his looming negotiations with Beijing: America’s need to maintain access to supplies of gallium and other strategic resources. With China’s suspension of a ban on exports of gallium and several other metals to the US set to expire in November, the Trump admini...
As US President Donald Trump prepares for a possible visit to China in April, analysts say that one issue is likely to “cast a shadow” over his looming negotiations with Beijing: America’s need to maintain access to supplies of gallium and other strategic resources. With China’s suspension of a ban on exports of gallium and several other metals to the US set to expire in November, the Trump administration’s immediate goal in any trade talks would be to avoid escalating tensions over critical...
To get Industrial Strength delivered directly to your inbox, sign up here . Data centers still have a water problem, even if the hulking warehouses of servers aren’t in and of themselves the primary cause of it. One reason why data centers require so much power is that they must be kept cool at all times to operate reliably — much like a laptop or a phone shuts down temporarily when it’s been left...
To get Industrial Strength delivered directly to your inbox, sign up here . Data centers still have a water problem, even if the hulking warehouses of servers aren’t in and of themselves the primary cause of it. One reason why data centers require so much power is that they must be kept cool at all times to operate reliably — much like a laptop or a phone shuts down temporarily when it’s been left out in the blazing sun — and water is the backbone of the cooling technology for much of the existing US infrastructure. While most of the pushback over data center development has thus far focused on energy consumption , the water impact is starting to draw more attention, particularly in Arizona and other water-stressed areas. Read More: Pritzker to Halt Data Center Tax Perks as Power Bills Soar Some say the concerns are overblown. Data centers do use a lot of water. But when water use is analyzed relative to revenue, the demand isn’t outsized compared with other industries, including pharmaceutical manufacturing and oil and gas, according to a January report published by water technology company Xylem Inc. and Global Water Intelligence, a market research firm. Data centers are also getting more efficient at how they use water, with operators increasingly pivoting away from a reliance on evaporative cooling systems — which are akin to how your body cools itself down with sweat — to closed-loop ones that recirculate coolant rather than continually going back to the well. Direct-to-chip cooling is the next frontier , allowing operators to more efficiently target coolant where it’s needed instead of cooling a server by lowering the temperature in the whole room. Microsoft Corp., for example, estimates moving to a direct-to-chip liquid cooling system would save each data center more than 125,000 cubic meters of water each year. “The perception that gets passed around is that every data center everywhere is a huge consumer of water, and that’s just not accurate,” said Mark Lo...
Love me some laptops. | Photo: Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge What up, Verge-heads! Wait. "Vergesters?" "Verge-igans?" Nope, that ain't it… GREETINGS, DEAREST VERGE SUBSCRIBERS! Antonio here. 👋🻠I'm your friendly neighborhood laptop reviewer, and I'm hosting an exclusive subscriber "AMA" today at 11AM PT / 2PM ET. I review laptops ranging from MacBooks and Chromebooks to weird-but-aweso...
Love me some laptops. | Photo: Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge What up, Verge-heads! Wait. "Vergesters?" "Verge-igans?" Nope, that ain't it… GREETINGS, DEAREST VERGE SUBSCRIBERS! Antonio here. 👋🻠I'm your friendly neighborhood laptop reviewer, and I'm hosting an exclusive subscriber "AMA" today at 11AM PT / 2PM ET. I review laptops ranging from MacBooks and Chromebooks to weird-but-awesome tablets and a $6,000 gaming laptop . So I have a fairly wide range of experience with some of the best computers you can own: what their screens look like, how nice they are to type on, if their trackpads suck or not, and, of course, how many ugly stickers you'll be removing if you buy one yourself. My job has … Read the full story at The Verge.