The Numbers Don't Lie... Yet Again Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Once again, the hard data exposes the success of President Trump’s relentless crackdown on crime, with violent offenses plunging to historic lows across major U.S. cities—proving that backing the blue and securing borders delivers real results where Democrat failures once bred anarchy. This latest triumph builds on momentum where border enforcement and federal interventions are dismantling the criminal networks that thrived under open-border insanity. New figures from Major Cities Chiefs Association, reported by Axios highlight a staggering turnaround: murders dropped 19% in 2025 compared to the previous year, robberies fell 20%, and aggravated assaults declined nearly 10%. AXIOS: Violent crime plummets across major U.S. cities https://t.co/316mo1WYaa pic.twitter.com/73A1yxb0fn — InteractivePolls (@IAPolls2022) February 11, 2026 Stand out cities include Orlando and Tampa, with more than a 50% decline in homicides. Denver, Seattle, Honolulu, and Albuquerque, N.M., also posted impressive homicide drops. These reductions mark the largest single-year drop in homicides on record, pushing the murder rate in the nation’s biggest cities to its lowest level in at least 125 years. President Trump didn’t hesitate to credit his administration’s aggressive strategy. “We surged federal resources into Democrat-run cities, removed criminal illegals from our streets, backed our police and prosecutors, and rejected the Radical Left’s policies that coddled criminals and invited chaos,” he wrote in a statement. Trump added that his approach has reversed the “years of skyrocketing crime and carnage” inherited from the Biden era, restoring safety to levels unseen in over a century. The declines extend beyond murders. Rapes, shooting deaths—now at their fewest since 2015—and even on-duty deaths of law enforcement officers have hit an 80-year low. Traffic fatalities and overdose deaths are also down, underscori...

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Anthropic has completed a deal to raise $30 billion in funding from investors at a $380 billion valuation, including the money raised. Ed Ludlow has more. (Source: Bloomberg)

AI-driven memory and storage price hikes have been the defining feature of the PC industry in 2026, and hobbyists have been hit the hardest—companies like Apple with lots of buying power have been able to limit the price increases for their PCs, phones, and other gadgets so far, but smaller outfits like Valve and Raspberry Pi haven't been so lucky. Framework, the company behind repairable and upgradeable computer designs like the Laptop 13 , Laptop 16 , and Laptop 12 , is also taking a hard hit by price increases. The company stopped selling standalone RAM sticks in November 2025 and has increased prices on one or more of its systems every month since then ; this week's increases are hitting the Framework Desktop and the DIY Editions of its various laptops particularly hard. The price increases are affecting both standalone SODIMM memory modules and the soldered-down LPDDR5X memory used in the Framework Desktop. Patel says that standalone RAM sticks are being priced "as close as we can to the weighted average cost of our purchases from suppliers." In September, buying an 8GB stick of RAM with a Framework Laptop 13 cost $40; it currently costs $130. A 96GB DDR5 kit of two 48GB sticks costs $1,340, up from $480 in September. Read full article Comments

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美国共和党参议员Thom Tillis拒绝了由参议院银行委员会自行对美联储主席杰罗姆·鲍威尔展开调查的提议。该提议旨在取代司法部的调查，并为委员会批准美国总统唐纳德·特朗普提名的下一任美联储主席扫清障碍。 Tillis认为司法部的调查是对美联储独立性的攻击，并誓言在调查得到解决之前将阻止任何美联储主席提名人获得通过。这可能会导致特朗普提名接替鲍威尔的凯文·沃什无法在参议院全院获得确认表决。 “我们必须要有一个独立的美联储，这一点不容含糊，”Tillis说。“他们要么需要推进一项令人信服的调查，让我相信是我错了，要么就了结当前调查，继续向前。”

Derick Hudson/iStock Editorial via Getty Images I have been a Meta Platforms, Inc. ( META ) shareholder for almost a decade. For the best part of my holding period, Meta was debt-free. This is not the case anymore, with Meta ending 2025 with almost $60 billion in long-term debt ( $58.74B ). It is no secret that Meta’s growing debt pile has a lot to do with its ambitious AI plans. This growing debt pile has pushed Meta into a new business phase. As investors, this is uncharted territory for us too, given that Meta always had a debt-free balance sheet . As a long-term shareholder, I wanted to evaluate what this debt pile means for the company and its shareholders. After a closer look at Meta’s capital allocation strategy, planned investments, and its net interest expense, I believe investors have nothing to fear about the company’s debt accumulation. On the contrary, the rising debt pile signifies a strategic capital allocation pivot that could reduce the WACC of investing in Meta. Meta’s Goal Is To Keep Shareholder Distributions Alive Amid Negative FCF Meta is in an aggressive investment phase. The company has guided for CapEx of between $115 billion and $135 billion for 2026, a massive step up from the $72 billion in CapEx Meta reported for 2025. Even in 2025, Meta’s CapEx almost doubled. Exhibit 1: Meta’s capital expenditures Q4 Presentation The bulk of these capital expenditures is directed toward AI infrastructure, including the construction of data centers, expanding cloud computing capacity, and purchasing AI chips. These investments are necessary to support the ambitious growth plans of Meta Superintelligence Labs. Surging CapEx is expected to push Meta into negative FCF this year. That sounds quite bad on paper given that Meta has always been a cash cow. In 2025, Meta reported FCF of $43.6 billion. In my bear case scenario for FCF in 2026, I project negative FCF of around $8 billion. Item 2025 2026 bear-case projection Operating cash flow $115.8 billion $127....

Derick Hudson/iStock Editorial via Getty Images I have been a Meta Platforms, Inc. ( META ) shareholder for almost a decade. For the best part of my holding period, Meta was debt-free. This is not the case anymore, with Meta ending 2025 with almost $60 billion in long-term debt ( $58.74B ). It is no secret that Meta’s growing debt pile has a lot to do with its ambitious AI plans. This growing debt pile has pushed Meta into a new business phase. As investors, this is uncharted territory for us too, given that Meta always had a debt-free balance sheet . As a long-term shareholder, I wanted to evaluate what this debt pile means for the company and its shareholders. After a closer look at Meta’s capital allocation strategy, planned investments, and its net interest expense, I believe investors have nothing to fear about the company’s debt accumulation. On the contrary, the rising debt pile signifies a strategic capital allocation pivot that could reduce the WACC of investing in Meta. Meta’s Goal Is To Keep Shareholder Distributions Alive Amid Negative FCF Meta is in an aggressive investment phase. The company has guided for CapEx of between $115 billion and $135 billion for 2026, a massive step up from the $72 billion in CapEx Meta reported for 2025. Even in 2025, Meta’s CapEx almost doubled. Exhibit 1: Meta’s capital expenditures Q4 Presentation The bulk of these capital expenditures is directed toward AI infrastructure, including the construction of data centers, expanding cloud computing capacity, and purchasing AI chips. These investments are necessary to support the ambitious growth plans of Meta Superintelligence Labs. Surging CapEx is expected to push Meta into negative FCF this year. That sounds quite bad on paper given that Meta has always been a cash cow. In 2025, Meta reported FCF of $43.6 billion. In my bear case scenario for FCF in 2026, I project negative FCF of around $8 billion. Item 2025 2026 bear-case projection Operating cash flow $115.8 billion $127....

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RyanJLane/E+ via Getty Images To be honest, I have absolutely no idea what the market was doing with American Superconductor ( AMSC ) stock over the past eight months: Data by YCharts Investors sent the stock soaring into and out of fiscal first quarter earnings in late July. The report was excellent, certainly, but the company's own chief executive officer, Daniel McGahn, said on the Q1 call that the quarter was " near-perfect ." That was true in terms of execution, but also in the external environment with "an ideal culmination of events" driving 34% gross margins and a rush order pulling revenue into the quarter. Unsurprisingly, FQ2 results were less spectacular, and after ~tripling the stock across the Q1 release, the market halved it after the following quarter — even though those results looked simply normalized, rather than weak. That's been followed by an apparent shrug at Q3 numbers, with recent volatility perhaps driven more by trading in generative artificial intelligence/data center/power names than by a strong reaction to the print. After all that drama, the stock is basically flat over the past year and up about 10% from where I panned it back in early June . Yet there is an argument that net/net, the results so far in fiscal 2025 (which ends March 2026) have been a plus for the long-term investment case in AMSC stock. I'm open to that argument and do see more reason for optimism than I did eight months ago, but a few concerns still keep me from flipping all the way positive. The Numbers for AMSC Stock First The headline numbers for AMSC stock can present a quite skewed picture of growth and profitability. The company has made two material acquisitions of late (NWL in August 2024 and Brazilian company Comtrafo in December 2025), which affect top-line comparisons. Tax benefits, including a huge $113 million gain on the release of a valuation allowance booked in Q3 FY25, skew earnings per share figures, as does relatively high-interest income (which stil...

Shares of industrial laser leader IPG Photonics (NASDAQ: IPGP) rocketed 35.8% on Thursday as of 3:00 p.m. EDT. The rally was all the more impressive given that the broader stock market indexes were down at the time, and by quite a bit. IPG reported fourth quarter 2025 earnings today; needless to say, results impressed Wall Street by surprising to the upside, along with first quarter guidance that also handily beat estimates. Continue reading

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Joe_Potato/iStock Editorial via Getty Images Bigger is not always better. While sometimes synergies and economies of scale are achieved by mergers, the facts are clear: around 80 percent of mergers and acquisitions fail . Oftentimes , when executives get desperate over failing business models or stagnating growth, these individuals turn to large but usually unsuccessful ideas. One well-known consumer company that has seen growth rates stall for nearly a decade is Kimberly-Clark Corporation ( KMB ). This corporation boasts iconic but largely saturated brands such as Kleenex, Huggies, and Scott. Data by YCharts While the S&P 500 has offered investors total returns of 341.1 percent in the last 10 years, Kimberly-Clark has offered investors total returns of just 14.51 percent during this same time period. I last wrote about Kimberly-Clark in January of 2023, and I rated the company a sell. Today, I am downgrading the consumer-based company to a strong sell. Most of Kimberly-Clark's leading brands have reached a point of saturation, and the company's growth rate has stalled. Management has recently approved a merger with Kenvue, another struggling company that has seen growth stall over the last decade. While this merger could create some synergies and reduce costs, neither management team has been able to adequately address the core issues these corporations could face, in my opinion , and this deal doesn't confront the main issue for both companies , which is mature brands that aren't growing and price increases that are no longer effective. Kimberly-Clark's recent fourth-quarter and full-year earnings showed the continued struggles that management of the company has not been able to fully address . The corporation reported fourth-quarter earnings normalized actual of $1.86 and revenue of $4.08 billion. Kimberly-Clark missed on revenue estimates by nearly $11 million and beat lowered earnings estimates of $0 .05 . The company reported that net sales were down 0 .6 perc...

Sadler’s Wells East, London The all-male French troupe Chicos Mambo mix parody and pointework in a fast-paced comic celebration of dance’s high art and sillier side When the curtain goes up here in east London, just across town there’s another opening night: fans gathering to worship the late dance theatre icon Pina Bausch, whose Sweet Mambo is at Sadler’s Wells. Whereas on this stage, six men send up Bausch’s choreography and signature style, skewering its cliches. Not that everyone in the audience will know the reference. If you’re not a regular dance-goer, you may just see a bunch of men in long flowing gowns processing around the stage and flinging their long wigs about. But still entertaining. A lot of Tutu, after all, is just about raising mirth through silly dancing and silly costumes. All-male comedy dance company Chicos Mambo, directed by French choreographer Philippe Lafeuille, have been performing this show for more than a decade, and it seems to be a camp crowd-pleaser. Certainly the costumes are fun: puffy, flamingo-coloured tutu trousers, like a cross between a powder puff and a frilly toilet roll cover; hats that look like vegetables (Why? Why not!). At Sadler’s Wells East, London , until 15 February Continue reading...

Wall Street is bracing for Friday’s consumer price index report, a release that could shape expectations for the Federal Reserve’s next interest-rate decision. With policymakers closely monitoring inflation trends, even modest deviations from forecasts may influence the trajectory of monetary policy in the months ahead. Consensus estimates call for a 0.3% month-over-month increase in January CPI, matching the prior reading. However, activity in prediction markets suggests investors see a meaningful chance of a slightly cooler print. According to Kalshi data, traders are assigning roughly a 45%–47% probability that inflation rises 0.2% in January. Probability distributions show markets heavily skewed toward a positive monthly reading. Kalshi traders currently price a 94% chance that CPI comes in above 0.0% and a 78% likelihood it exceeds 0.1%. Meanwhile, the odds of a stronger 0.3% increase stand near 14%, with only about a 5% probability assigned to a 0.4% or higher print. The spread of expectations underscores a market finely balanced between steady inflation and incremental cooling. A softer-than-expected reading could reinforce confidence that price pressures are stabilizing, while a hotter print may complicate the Fed’s path toward potential rate adjustments later this year. Market Tracking ETFs: ( DIA ), ( DDM ), ( DOG ), ( DXD ), ( SDOW ), ( SPY ), ( VOO ), ( IVV ), ( RSP ), ( SSO ), ( UPRO ), ( SH ), ( SDS ), ( SPXU ), ( QQQ ), ( QQQM ), ( TQQQ ), ( QID ), and ( SQQQ ). Fixed Income ETFs: ( TLT ), ( TLH ), ( IEF ), ( IEI ), ( SHY ), ( SGOV ), ( SCHO ), ( BIL ), ( AGG ), ( BND ), ( VCIT ), ( MUB ), ( MBB ), ( JNK ), ( LQD ), ( HYG ), ( VTIP ), ( TIP ), ( SCHP ), ( STIP ), ( TIPX ), ( SPIP ), ( WIP ), ( GTIP ), ( LQDI ), and ( RINF ). More on markets From growth to value: 2026 market rotation redefines leadership What Will Drive The S&P 500 Over 7,000? Recession odds fade according to prediction markets Cantor Fitzgerald sees bitcoin washout setting the stage f...

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Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) has played a pioneering role in artificial intelligence (AI) technology for more than three years now, which is not surprising as its chips have helped train popular large language models (LLMs) and move those models into production. However, Nvidia has been losing steam of late. The semiconductor stock is up just 3% in the past six months, driven by multiple concerns such as its valuation, the sustainability of high AI data center spending, and circular financing deals. But there's another semiconductor bellwether that has outperformed Nvidia during this period -- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (NYSE: TSM) . Let's see why TSMC stock has jumped over 43% in the past six months and is capable of outperforming Nvidia in 2026 as well. Continue reading

Bitcoin tumbles 22.9% YTD amid ETF outflows and weak sentiment, while NVIDIA rides the AI boom with soaring revenues and a strong growth outlook.

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The gap between ransomware threats and the defenses meant to stop them is getting worse, not better. Ivanti’s 2026 State of Cybersecurity Report found that the preparedness gap widened by an average of 10 points year over year across every threat category the firm tracks. Ransomware hit the widest spread: 63% of security professionals rate it a high or critical threat, but just 30% say they are “very prepared” to defend against it. That’s a 33-point gap, up from 29 points a year ago. CyberArk’s 2025 Identity Security Landscape puts numbers to the problem: 82 machine identities for every human in organizations worldwide. Forty-two percent of those machine identities have privileged or sensitive access. The most authoritative playbook framework has the same blind spot Gartner’s ransomware preparation guidance, the April 2024 research note “How to Prepare for Ransomware Attacks” that enterprise security teams reference when building incident response procedures, specifically calls out the need to reset “impacted user/host credentials” during containment. The accompanying Ransomware Playbook Toolkit walks teams through four phases: containment, analysis, remediation, and recovery. The credential reset step instructs teams to ensure all affected user and device accounts are reset. Service accounts are absent. So are API keys, tokens, and certificates. The most widely used playbook framework in enterprise security stops at human and device credentials. The organizations following it inherit that blind spot without realizing it. The same research note identifies the problem without connecting it to the solution. Gartner warns that “poor identity and access management (IAM) practices” remain a primary starting point for ransomware attacks, and that previously compromised credentials are being used to gain access through initial access brokers and dark web data dumps. In the recovery section, the guidance is explicit: updating or removing compromised credentials is essential...

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi takes her seat before testifing before the House Judiciary Committee in the Rayburn House Office Building on February 11, 2026 in Washington, DC. Win Mcnamee | Getty Images The Department of Justice said Thursday that it "logs all searches" by members of Congress on its data systems holding evidence about sex offender Jeffrey Epstein to guard against the public release of information about his victims. The DOJ's statement came a day after a document contained in a binder used by Attorney General Pam Bondi at a House Judiciary Committee hearing indicated the DOJ had logged information about searches of the so-called Epstein files by Rep. Pramila Jayapal . Jayapal, D-Wash., called the monitoring of her searches in the Epstein files "totally inappropriate," and "outrageous." Several other members of Congress in recent days visited the DOJ to examine the Epstein files, including documents that were not among the more than 3 million files related to the predator that have been publicly released. Read more CNBC politics coverage Epstein files: DOJ says it logs Congress members' searches to 'protect' victim information Epstein files: AG Pam Bondi seemed to have Rep. Jayapal's DOJ database search history at hearing Judge blocks Pete Hegseth's censure of Sen. Mark Kelly over troops video, for now Watch Pam Bondi hearing: AG touts record Dow as Democrats grill her over Trump, Epstein In a statement to CNBC on Thursday, a DOJ spokeswoman said, "DOJ has extended Congress the opportunity to review unredacted documents in the Epstein files." "As a part of that review, DOJ logs all searches made on its systems to protect against the release of victim information," the spokeswoman said. House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., on Wednesday night said he had not seen or heard anything about the DOJ logging Japayal's searches of the Epstein files, "but that would be inappropriate if it happened." This is breaking news. Please refresh for updates.

Sjo/iStock Unreleased via Getty Images Shell ( SHEL ) confirmed Thursday it is reviewing strategic options for Sprng Energy, its India-based renewable power unit acquired in 2022 for $1.55B, but said it is too early to comment on the outcome of the review. The review comes as CEO Wael Sawan seeks to reduce Shell's ( SHEL ) low-carbon portfolio and prioritize liquefied natural gas trading and upstream operations. Sprng's renewables platform has operational capacity of 2,300 MWp and contracted total capacity of 5,026 MWp. Earlier this week, Sawan appeared to downplay the company's commitment to reach net zero emissions by 2050. "We cannot divorce Shell from what the world is doing," the CEO told attendees at the International Energy Week 2026 in London, referring to Shell's ( SHEL ) Energy Scenarios 2026 outlook that said the world could consume 25% more energy in 2050 than it did in 2025. Sawan said governments should take an "energy addition" approach to supporting low-carbon fuels, encouraging the infrastructure investment needed to develop nascent markets without inhibiting fossil fuel growth. Shell ( SHEL ) has targeted pumping at least 1M boe/day more oil and gas by 2030. More on Shell Shell: Positioned To Benefit From A Potential Capital Rotation Into European Energy Shell's Latest Results Disappoint, But External Factors Merit A Rating Upgrade Shell: When The 'European Discount' Becomes An Opportunity

随着为国土安全部拨款的周五晚间截止期限临近且参议院即将休会，参议院多数党领袖约翰·图恩表示，民主党和共和党在相关拨款问题上陷入僵局。 图恩对记者说，如果达成通过国土安全部拨款的协议，参议员们将接到通知返回。 他表示，谈判将在未来几天继续进行，并补充说“所有主要议题”都进行了反复磋商。 责任编辑：王许宁