Facial recognition has been a requested feature for smart glasses, but the risks are high. Whenever I write about Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses, I already know the comments I'm going to get. Cool hardware, but hard pass on anything Meta makes; will wait for someone else to come along. It's hard to imagine that sentiment changing anytime soon after The New York Times reported that Meta mulled launching facial recognition software "during a dynamic political environment" precisely because privacy advocates would be distracted. Smart glasses evangelists often tell me this fear is somewhat overblown. After all, the phone in your pocket also has a camera. The government already uses facial recognition tech, and CCTV feeds are everywher … Read the full story at The Verge.

TEL AVIV, Feb. 20, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Nasus Pharma Ltd. (NYSE: NSRX) ("Nasus Pharma" or the "Company"), a clinical-stage pharmaceutical company focused on the development of innovative intranasal products, today announced that Company management will participate in upcoming investor conferences in February and March.

Michael Ver Sprill/iStock via Getty Images Introduction Like the live oak tree, deep roots and wide branches help a company survive. Angel Oak Mortgage REIT, Inc. ( AOMR ) has built a wide platform to help it survive when the yield curve is not favorable to mREITs. AOMR has only Notes available for investors wanting Angel Oak exposure outside its common stock. Those Notes are: Angel Oak Mortgage REIT, Inc. 9.50% Senior Notes due 07/30/2029​ ( AOMN ). Angel Oak Mortgage REIT, Inc. 9.75% Senior Notes due 6/1/2030 ( AOMD ). Since my last review , the FOMC has cut the FFR by a total of 50 basis points [bps], with maybe only 50bps more this year. If these cuts start affecting longer rates, both Notes should do well. econforecasting: FFR Forecast After bottoming, the FFR is not forecast to be as high as today until 2030. Like last time, my preference would be to own AOMD (higher coupon, more call protection), but I am leaving my rating at Hold as I think better options exist, with one listed. Angel Oak Mortgage REIT reviewed Data by YCharts Seeking Alpha describes this mREIT as: Angel Oak Mortgage REIT, Inc., a real estate finance company, focuses on acquiring and investing in first lien non- qualified mortgage loans and other mortgage-related assets in the United States mortgage market. It offers investment securities; residential mortgage loans; and commercial mortgage loans. The company qualifies as a real estate investment trust for federal income tax purposes. It generally would not be subject to federal corporate income taxes if it distributes at least 90% of its taxable income to its stockholders. Angel Oak Mortgage REIT, Inc. was incorporated in 2018 and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. Here is how Angel Oak describes themselves: Angel Oak Mortgage REIT, Inc is a real estate finance company focused on acquiring and investing in first lien non-QM loans and other mortgage-related assets in the U.S. mortgage markets. The company’s objective is to generate attrac...

Joe Hendrickson/iStock Editorial via Getty Images Co-authored by Kody's Dividends For the longest time, investing in the stock market was an extremely onerous task. Price changes would be published in daily newspapers, meaning that you are looking at old news and not hearing about day-to-day changes. To buy or sell something, you'd often have to call or visit a brokerage's office and place a trade with a representative, which would come along with a hefty fee for them doing that trade for you. This encouraged investors to have a long-term buying and holding mindset and to really feel a level of ownership of the company that they were buying into because it was difficult to get in and difficult to get out. Technology has revolutionized how we interact with the stock market, and because of that, it has forced brokerages to revolutionize how they interact with their consumers. We live in an era of zero-commission trades. It is as simple as opening up an app on your phone or going to a website and logging in to see the price changes of a company and place a buy or sell order in a matter of moments and have that order filled almost instantaneously. This has also created a greater opportunity for brokerages to attract individuals who wouldn't have been willing to go through all of the hoops and the headaches to be able to buy and sell. Brokerages have had to adapt. Many of them have adapted to the best of their abilities, all in an effort to attract dollars from would-be investors. Today, I want to look at one specific brokerage that I find highly attractive in the current environment. Let's dive in! Betting On A Brokerage Charles Schwab Our Company page As of December 31st, 2025, The Charles Schwab Corporation ( SCHW ) had nearly $12 trillion of total client assets spread across nearly 40 million brokerage accounts and almost $1.5 trillion in proprietary mutual funds and ETFs. Beyond the mind-boggling numbers that communicate its scale, the story for SCHW lies in its ope...

Michael Vi/iStock Editorial via Getty Images For some, Palantir Technologies Inc. ( PLTR ) was the one that got away; for some it was the one that generated tremendous returns, and for the rest the valuation made people’s heads spin. PLTR broke out above $200 heading into the end of the year and started to get caught up in the software selloff heading into their Q4 print. PLTR delivered a blockbuster Q3 report and couldn’t break out to new all-time highs, and I had discussed how important it would be for PLTR to rebound past $200 if they crushed Q4 earnings . PLTR didn’t disappoint, as they delivered one of the best quarters I have ever seen from a business perspective across all the companies I follow. When you have a company generating more than $1 billion in revenue a quarter that is accelerating growth and delivering 70% YoY growth in Q4 and then guiding for at least 73.78% growth in Q1 2026 YoY, it’s hard to be bearish on the business. PLTR continues to defy the bears from a business perspective as the deal book, revenue growth, and free cash flow (FCF) continue to scale. I have remained neutral on the stock - not the business - because of the valuation. While shares of PLTR are expensive on a fundamental basis, they look much cheaper than they did in 2025 and have a pathway to looking inexpensive in the future. The combination of high margins, revenue growth, and a falling share price is making PLTR interesting again, and PLTR is back on my watchlist as I wait for a certain level to start adding again. Seeking Alpha Following Up On My Previous Article About Palantir I am not a trader, and I write my articles from a long-term investing perspective. In the fall of 2024, I turned neutral on PLTR as the valuation got too expensive for me to add to my position and the share price kept going higher. Since I look at investments with at least a 3-5 year time horizon, I downgraded my outlook to neutral from bullish because I had no interest in exiting my position and b...

Michael Vi/iStock Editorial via Getty Images For some, Palantir Technologies Inc. ( PLTR ) was the one that got away; for some it was the one that generated tremendous returns, and for the rest the valuation made people’s heads spin. PLTR broke out above $200 heading into the end of the year and started to get caught up in the software selloff heading into their Q4 print. PLTR delivered a blockbuster Q3 report and couldn’t break out to new all-time highs, and I had discussed how important it would be for PLTR to rebound past $200 if they crushed Q4 earnings . PLTR didn’t disappoint, as they delivered one of the best quarters I have ever seen from a business perspective across all the companies I follow. When you have a company generating more than $1 billion in revenue a quarter that is accelerating growth and delivering 70% YoY growth in Q4 and then guiding for at least 73.78% growth in Q1 2026 YoY, it’s hard to be bearish on the business. PLTR continues to defy the bears from a business perspective as the deal book, revenue growth, and free cash flow (FCF) continue to scale. I have remained neutral on the stock - not the business - because of the valuation. While shares of PLTR are expensive on a fundamental basis, they look much cheaper than they did in 2025 and have a pathway to looking inexpensive in the future. The combination of high margins, revenue growth, and a falling share price is making PLTR interesting again, and PLTR is back on my watchlist as I wait for a certain level to start adding again. Seeking Alpha Following Up On My Previous Article About Palantir I am not a trader, and I write my articles from a long-term investing perspective. In the fall of 2024, I turned neutral on PLTR as the valuation got too expensive for me to add to my position and the share price kept going higher. Since I look at investments with at least a 3-5 year time horizon, I downgraded my outlook to neutral from bullish because I had no interest in exiting my position and b...

Getting extra money from Social Security probably sounds great -- until you learn that it was an error and the government intends to collect. You could lose up to 50% of your future checks until you've paid back the excess, unless you can pay it back in a lump sum right away. But there's another option. You can request to keep the extra money, and the Social Security Administration (SSA) may let you if you meet certain criteria. Image source: Getty Images. Continue reading

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undefined undefined More than $175 billion in U.S. tariff collections are at risk of having to be refunded if the U.S. Supreme Court rules against President Donald Trump's broad emergency tariffs, Penn-Wharton Budget Model economists said on Friday, according to a Reuters report. Their estimate, produced at a request from Reuters , was derived from a ground-up forecasting model that uses tariff rates by product and country for specific duties imposed by Trump, including those under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), said Lysle Boller, senior economist for Penn-Wharton Budget Model (PWBM), a non-partisan fiscal research group at the University of Pennsylvania. The U.S. Supreme Court could rule on the legality of the IEEPA-based tariffs as early as Friday. If they are struck down, importers are expected to scramble for refunds from the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency on import duties paid over the past year, the report said. Trump has touted the revenue generated by all of his tariffs, estimated by the Congressional Budget Office at about $300 billion annually over the next decade, but the estimates show that a substantial amount may need to be refunded if the court rules against Trump. Refunds of $175 billion would exceed the combined fiscal 2025 outlays from the Department of Transportation at $127.6 billion and the Department of Justice at $44.9 billion, the report noted. More on markets, Brace For Major Moves Ahead: The SCOTUS Ruling On Tariffs Is Imminent Most investors expect the Supreme Court to block Trump tariffs in 2026, Goldman Sachs says What I Expect To See When The Supreme Court Wraps Up The Tariff Debate

A group of largely authoritarian world leaders and a few observers joined Donald Trump in Washington for the inaugural meeting of the newly established Board of Peace . Guardian Europe reporter Jakub Krupa looks at who attended the organisation's first meeting and what it means for the future world order. The body was created to implement the US president's vision for Gaza’s future after the territory was destroyed by Israel , but Trump has widened its scope, calling it 'the most consequential international body in history' Troops for Gaza and money top agenda as Trump’s Board of Peace meets Authoritarians, strongmen and dictators: who is on Trump’s Board of Peace? Continue reading...

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Morgan Stanley believes that investors are undervaluing the growth potential for GE Aerospace . The bank launched coverage of the aerospace and defense stock with an overweight rating and $425 price target, implying an upside of 32%. Analyst Kristine Liwag applauded GE Aerospace's durable services growth, strong pricing power and pristine balance sheet. GE 1Y mountain GE 1Y chart "GE Aerospace is a best in class Aerospace and Defense franchise with a deep competitive moat in a long cycle industry defined by high barriers to entry. These traits and the mission critical nature of aircraft engines translate into durable above trend growth and meaningful long term pricing power," she wrote. "In our view, the company is a structural winner positioned to benefit from ongoing upward revisions to earnings and free cash flow." Liwag added that current consensus underestimates GE Aerospace's long-term free cash flow and earnings power, with further upside possible from multiple expansion and earnings revision. She wrote that forecasts exceed consensus by between 8% to 14% from 2027 to 2030, with services growth and aftermarket strength as major drivers, and expects the "positive market enthusiasm" for the stock to persist going forward. The analyst added that despite these growth drivers, shares of GE Aerospace still appear undervalued. "Upside remains via continued estimate revisions, with cumulative 2028–2030 FCF ~12.5% above consensus on mix, pricing, and services momentum," she said. "Shares trade at ~30% discount to top peers on 2028 P/FCF, based upon our estimates, leaving room for valuation upside alongside higher earnings expectations." Shares of GE Aerospace have surged 60% over the past 12 months and have popped 9% this year.

Sernova Biotherapeutics ( SVA:CA ) ( OTC: SEOVF ) said on Friday it plans to amend certain outstanding warrants, subject to approval from the TSX. The company will extend the expiry date to March 3, 2027 for 19,977,050 common share purchase warrants originally issued in September 2024 at an exercise price of $0.30 and set to expire on March 3, 2026, which excludes warrants held by insiders. Sernova will also amend 5,466,250 investor warrants and 105,000 finder warrants issued in October and November 2025 by reducing the exercise price to $0.25 from $0.40 and adding a provision allowing the company to accelerate expiry if the five-day volume-weighted average trading price exceeds $0.50. No insider-held warrants will be amended. The changes are set to take effect on March 6, 2026. SEOVF closed -0.67% at $0.1033. Source: Press Release More on Sernova Biotherapeutics Inc Seeking Alpha’s Quant Rating on Sernova Biotherapeutics Inc Historical earnings data for Sernova Biotherapeutics Inc Financial information for Sernova Biotherapeutics Inc

A Turkish court has formally arrested Alican Uludag, a correspondent for the Turkish service of Germany’s state-funded broadcaster Deutsche Welle , on a charge of insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan . Uludag, 40, was detained by security forces in Ankara late on Thursday and later transferred to Istanbul to give a statement, DW said on its website. An Istanbul court subsequently ordered his arrest pending trial. The state-run Anadolu Agency, citing the prosecutor’s office, reported that the charge relates to social media posts. DW quoted Uludag’s lawyer, Gokhan Teksen, as saying that the messages under investigation were posted about a year ago. “The criminal code is being converted to a stick to restrict freedoms,” Teksen said. DW director-general Barbara Massing said in a statement that Uludag is “a well-known investigative journalist” who reports on corruption and is “well-connected and has access to important sources.” Under Turkish law , insulting the president is punishable by up to four years in prison. The sentence may be increased if the offense is deemed to have been committed publicly.

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The co-founder of Fermat Capital Management says the market for catastrophe bonds is drawing in new issuers at a rate that’s unlike anything he’s seen before. John Seo , managing director and co-founder of Connecticut-based Fermat — a hedge fund manager specialized in cat bonds — says he’s aware of 16 new issuers coming to market in 2025. That’s as much as eight times the historical average for first-time issuers, Seo said. He expects cat bond sales of about $24 billion this year, testing last year’s record. The rise in first-time sellers has been “pretty breathtaking,” he said in an interview. And it looks like “the issuance surge we’re seeing is far from over.” A key driver is the rise in inflation, which Seo says has added about 50% to the cost of rebuilding property over the past half decade. It’s a development that’s led insurers and reinsurers to transfer as much risk as they can to capital markets, handing alternative investment managers like Fermat an ever larger role in providing a financial backstop when natural disasters strike. Fermat told Bloomberg that its returns in 2025, net of fees, broadly matched the 11% increase in the Swiss Re Cat Bond Index last year. Investors make money if a predefined catastrophe doesn’t occur, and lose money if it does. In recent years, bondholders have generally come out on top. Gains on catastrophe bonds have matched those of the MSCI World Index of global stocks over the past half decade, and trounced returns on US corporate bonds . The bonds have also been making inroads into more mainstream financial markets thanks to a combination of inflation, urbanization and climate change. Asset managers specialized in the products now offer them to retail clients, while last year also saw the first ever exchange-traded funds built entirely on cat bonds, a development of which Seo says he’s skeptical. Cat bond ETFs “are perhaps subject to too much in frictional costs to run efficiently,” he said. Meanwhile, Seo says endowments, fa...

Western Union ( WU ) declares $0.235/share quarterly dividend , in line with previous. Forward yield 9.96% Payable March 31; for shareholders of record March 17; ex-div March 17. See WU Dividend Scorecard, Yield Chart, & Dividend Growth. More on Western Union Western Union: Material Risk From Immigration Measures Outweighed By 5x Earnings Multiple Western Union's 10% Dividend Is Now Reinforced By A Clever Crypto Strategy Western Union: Even At 10% Yield, I Can't Give It A Buy Rating Western Union reports mixed Q4 results; introduces FY26 outlook Western Union Q4 2025 Earnings Preview

格隆汇2月20日｜美国总统特朗普：民主党引发的政府停摆导致美国GDP至少下降了两个百分点。这就是为什么他们现在又要以小规模的方式故技重施。不要再让政府停摆了！还要降低利率。鲍威尔是最糟糕的。

(RTTNews) - While reporting financial results for the fourth quarter on Thursday, PPL Corp. (PPL) said it expects earnings for the full-year 2026 in a range of $1.90 to $1.98 per share.

shaunl More than $175B of tariff revenue that the U.S. has collected is in jeopardy if the U.S. Supreme Court rules against President Donald Trump's tariffs, according to a media report on Friday. The court could rule as soon as Friday on whether the administration is allowed to tariff goods coming in from other countries using the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA). Penn-Wharton Budget Model (PWBM) economists calculated the estimate using a forecasting model that applies tariff rates by product and country for specific duties imposed by the administration at the request of Reuters. The PWBM is a non-partisan fiscal research group at the University of Pennsylvania. If the IEEPA-based tariffs are found illegal, importers are expected to clamor for refunds from the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency. That amount of refunds would top the total fiscal 2025 spending from the Department of Transportation ($127.6B) and the Department of Justice ($44.9B), Reuters said . Trump has boasted about the revenue generated by all of his tariffs, estimated by the Congressional Budget Office at about $300B annually over the next 10 years, but the PWBM estimates indicate that a large chunk is at risk if the court rules against the IEEPA tariffs. However, the Supreme Court may rule that Trump can't use IEEEPA for imposing tariffs but may allow the government to keep the duties already collected. Furthermore, administration officials have said the government will use other laws to justify the tariffs if the court rules against the ones imposed under IEEPA. Dear readers: We recognize that politics often intersects with the financial news of the day, so we invite you to click here to join the separate political discussion. More on Tariffs Most investors expect the Supreme Court to block Trump tariffs in 2026, Goldman Sachs says Trump says tariffs prompt Novartis to expand U.S. manufacturing What I Expect To See When The Supreme Court Wraps Up The Tariff Debate

Park Hotels & Resorts ( PK ) declares $0.25/share quarterly dividend , in line with previous. Forward yield 8.76% Payable April 15; for shareholders of record March 31; ex-div March 31. See PK Dividend Scorecard, Yield Chart, & Dividend Growth. More on Park Hotels & Resorts Park Hotels & Resorts FFO of $0.51 beats by $0.05, revenue of $629M beats by $6.7M Park Hotels sells five non-core hotels for $198 Million Seeking Alpha’s Quant Rating on Park Hotels & Resorts Historical earnings data for Park Hotels & Resorts Dividend scorecard for Park Hotels & Resorts