Nvidia očekává hrubou marži ve výši 71–72 % ve fiskálním čtvrtém čtvrtletí; pokles pod 70 % bez jednorázového nákladu by mohl signalizovat oslabení cenové síly.
I think Nvidia (NVDA -0.52%) stock is a buy. Its price-to-earnings ratio is around 15 using analysts' consensus estimate for its next fiscal year (ending January 2028). For a company whose revenue more than doubled year over year last quarter, that price looks fair to me.
But it pays to know beforehand what would change that view. Nvidia is worth about $5.8 trillion, with shares trading around $239 as I write, near their all-time high. Investors paying that much are relying on Nvidia to keep charging buyers a premium for its chips.
There's one number Nvidia reports every quarter that I watch most closely: gross margin, or the share of revenue left after the direct cost of making what it sells. If it drops under 70% in a quarter with no one-time charge to explain it, I'd no longer call the stock a buy.
Why not revenue growth?Revenue growth may look like the better number to watch. But it's a weak early warning for Nvidia right now, because the company has already told investors it should slow.
Nvidia's revenue climbed 106% year over year to $96.2 billion for its fiscal second quarter of 2027 (the three months ending July 26, 2026). Management's fiscal third-quarter guidance of around $108 billion would mean growth easing to about 89%.
And on the earnings call, chief financial officer Colette Kress said the company's preliminary expectation for fiscal 2028 is revenue growth of about 70%. Even after slowing, in other words, growth could still be remarkable.
Revenue can also keep climbing even if Nvidia needs to cut prices, because customers might just buy more chips at lower prices.
Gross margin, though, says more about how much buyers are still willing to pay for Nvidia's tech. If customers ever find options good enough to push prices down, this is arguably where the pressure might show up first.
Nvidia rarely falls below 70%Showing how much pricing power Nvidia has kept through the artificial intelligence (AI) boom, its gross margin has been at least 70% for 12 of its past 13 quarters. This run started with a 70.1% margin for the quarter ending in July 2023. It peaked at 78.4% in the first quarter of fiscal 2025, before sales of Nvidia's newer Blackwell chips started. Since then, it has mostly held between around 72% and 75%.
Just one quarter in this period fell short. In the first quarter of fiscal 2026, Nvidia took a $4.5 billion charge on H20 chips it could no longer ship to China without a license, and gross margin dropped to 60.5%. But that was a charge linked to export rules, not a sign customers were paying less.
A margin below 70% with no charge attached, then, would be the first in over three years. I'd read it as evidence that something about Nvidia's pricing power had changed.
A drop to 72% wouldn't bother meSure, Nvidia's margin is already due to come down. Management forecast a fiscal third-quarter gross margin of 74%, plus or minus half a percentage point, after 75% in fiscal Q2.
Memory prices have risen more than Nvidia expected, Kress said, so gross margin should bottom out at 71% to 72% in the fiscal fourth quarter. She expects it to settle at 72% to 73% in fiscal 2028, when price increases Nvidia has already put in place kick in.
"Tighter memory supply is a symptom of the same demand surge that's driving our own growth," Kress said.
In short, this drop has a known cause and a stated recovery plan. A margin under 70% is a different story. It might mean memory costs kept outpacing Nvidia's price increases, or that customers pushed back against those increases.
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And with the fiscal third quarter's guided revenue of around $108 billion, the gap between a 75% gross margin and a 70% one is about $5.4 billion in gross profit each quarter.
A price-to-earnings ratio of 15 only looks cheap if the expected earnings show up, and gross margin is a big part of what turns Nvidia's revenue into them.
For now, Nvidia's margin is landing around where management said it would. The fiscal fourth-quarter report, probably due early next year, should show if the bottom holds at 71% to 72%.
If the margin falls below 70% without a charge to blame, I'd consider selling the stock. Until then, I think shares are still worth buying at this price.
Take-Two očekává ve fiskálním roce 2027 čisté bookingy ve výši 8–8,2 mld. USD, což ve středu rozpětí představuje meziroční růst o 20 %, podpořený očekávaným vydáním Grand Theft Auto VI.
Shares of Take-Two Interactive (TTWO +1.94%) are down 21% over the past year, as of Oct. 7. That dip could be a timely opportunity to buy ahead of the highly anticipated release of Grand Theft Auto VI in November, but there's also a good reason to wait.
Take-Two posted nearly $1.4 billion in net bookings (an adjusted measure of revenue) for the fiscal first quarter ending in June, down 3% year over year, but above company guidance that called for $1.37 billion at the high end. NBA 2K and the existing Grand Theft Auto catalog, among other titles, were the biggest contributors to bookings in the quarter.
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Management's guidance for the full fiscal 2027 year, which ends in March, calls for another record year, with bookings expected to reach $8 billion to $8.2 billion. That represents 20% year-over-year growth at the midpoint versus fiscal 2026.
During the fiscal Q1 earnings call in August, CEO Strauss Zelnick called preorders for Grand Theft Auto VI "exceptional."
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There are risks. Zelnick noted that preorders can always be canceled. Investors can never know for certain how a new release will translate into sales. There's also the risk that the game fails to meet lofty expectations. The current installment has sold more than 230 million units since 2013, setting a high bar for the new version.
Take-Two stock already prices in strong sales expectations, trading at a forward price-to-earnings multiple of 29. At this valuation, a long-term investor might want to wait until after the game releases on Nov. 19 to see how well it's received before buying shares.
John Ballard has no position in any of the stocks mentioned. The Motley Fool has positions in and recommends Take-Two Interactive Software. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy.
Shares of Palantir Technologies (PLTR +5.17%) closed September around 60% above where they started July, climbing from about $117 to about $187. Much of that came in one day. The stock surged around 29% the day after the company posted its second-quarter results on Aug. 3, a quarter when revenue rose 93% year over year.
That kind of quarter isn't new to longtime shareholders, though. By my count, it was the sixth time the AI software specialist's stock has gained 40% or more in a quarter since it started trading in September 2020.
After the other five, shares kept rising the next quarter four times. But five cases is a small sample, and the path behind each of those quarter-end numbers was far from smooth.
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The first big quarter came just after the stock began trading, when shares climbed around 148% in the fourth quarter of 2020. The next didn't arrive until the second quarter of 2023, with an 81% gain. Then the gains came closer together: 47% in the third quarter of 2024, 103% in the fourth quarter of 2024, and 62% in the second quarter of 2025. The quarter that just finished makes six.
What came next was mainly good news. In the third quarter of 2023, the stock climbed around 4%, and it more than doubled in the fourth quarter of 2024. It added 12% in the first quarter of 2025 and 34% in the third quarter of 2025.
The only exception was the first quarter of 2021, when shares dipped around 1%.
In the middle case, the stock gained about 12% the next quarter. So, the record leans positive, but it doesn't suggest another 60% quarter.
Five cases make a thin recordStill, I wouldn't lean on this pattern much. Even leaving aside the small sample, the cases aren't fully separate from each other. Two of the big quarters sit back to back in 2024, so the 103% fourth quarter is both a big quarter and a follow-up.
The quarter-end numbers also hide plenty of movement. In the first quarter of 2021, the stock closed as much as 66% above where the quarter began in late January, then gave all of it back.
The first quarter of 2025 played out in a similar way. Shares closed as much as 65% higher in mid-February, then ended the quarter up around 12%.
And this recent rally is different in one key way. Palantir's stock dropped around 34% in the first half of 2026, so the third quarter's rise mostly made up lost ground.
Shares closed September only about 3% above where they finished September 2025.
Can revenue growth keep speeding up?The business is arguably a better guide than the stock chart. And there, the trend is strong.
Palantir's revenue growth has accelerated for three straight quarters. It rose from 63% year over year in the third quarter of 2025 to 70% in the fourth quarter, then 85% in the first quarter of 2026. By the second quarter, growth hit 93% and revenue was around $1.9 billion.
Better still, profit grew faster than sales. Second-quarter net income came to about $1.06 billion, over three times what Palantir made a year before.
Management's outlook for the third quarter, though, calls for revenue of around $2.16 billion, or about 83% more than a year ago. That's still an impressive pace. But it would snap the streak of faster growth.
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That said, Palantir has tended to beat its own forecasts. For each of the past three quarters, revenue came in about 6% to 7% above the top of management's range. A similar result this time might put third-quarter growth in the mid-90s -- another acceleration.
Palantir released its third-quarter results on Nov. 3 last year, so the next update's probably a few weeks away. This report might matter more for the stock than any pattern in its past.
After all, investors are paying a high price for that growth. At roughly $193 as of this writing, shares trade at about 165 times earnings. Even if Palantir doubled its profit from here, the stock would still cost over 80 times earnings.
Overall, Palantir's earlier big quarters lean in shareholders' favor, and the business behind this one is growing faster than a year ago. But a pattern based on five quarters doesn't tell investors much about a growth stock priced around 165 times earnings. That price is still too high for me to buy.
After years of being a theoretical, futuristic idea, artificial intelligence (AI) took the world by storm when OpenAI launched ChatGPT in 2022. Since then, companies that drive AI development have become market darlings, and investors are searching for the next major trend. It started with the big players like Nvidia and Broadcom, moved into data center and energy companies like CoreWeave and Bloom Energy, and more recently has centered around memory powerhouses like Sandisk and Micron.
However, there's one fantastic AI giant that is a critical part of the powerhouse, is growing fast, and is highly profitable, but is often left out of the conversation: Taiwan Semiconductor (TSM -1.02%). Taiwan Semi, or TSMC, stock has gained 689% since ChatGPT was launched, and there's plenty of upside.
TSMC's role in AI TSMC is a foundry, and it fabricates the chips according to clients' designs, which means it makes the physical components. It has partnerships with all of the top semiconductor companies, including Nvidia, Broadcom, and Amazon, as well as with other tech giants like Apple. It has a dominant position in semiconductor manufacturing, and it benefits from all of its clients' growth. So instead of deciding to bet on Nvidia or Intel, for example, an investment in TSMC bets on both.
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AI has led to incredible growth overall, and management is expecting it to continue. CEO C.C. Wei noted extremely positive signals from its AI hyperscaler clients and said that management's "conviction in the multi-year AI megatrend remain[s] very high."
Since the company serves so many clients in varied areas, it benefits from all kinds of AI growth. Nvidia is mostly known for its graphics processing units (GPUs), which have the processing power to handle high AI needs, but TSMC makes the central processing units (CPUs) that have put Intel back in the spotlight for the role they play in agentic AI.
In the second quarter, revenue increased 34% year over year, beating guidance. Gross margin improved by 1.5 percentage points to 67.7%, and operating margin improved by 2.2 percentage points to 60.3%.
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Management is anticipating some short-term gross margin pressure from all of its investments, but CFO Wendell Huang noted that "a higher level of capital expenditures is always correlated to higher growth opportunities in following years."
As AI continues to develop, a bet on TSMC is a low-risk and high-opportunity play that should reward investors for years to come.
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Apella Capital LLC boosted its stake in shares of Lam Research Corporation (NASDAQ:LRCX – Free Report) by 41.4% during the 3rd quarter, according to its most recent 13F filing with the SEC. The firm owned 5,575 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock after buying an additional 1,632 shares during the period. Apella Capital LLC’s holdings in Lam Research were worth $1,837,000 at the end of the most recent quarter.
Other institutional investors and hedge funds also recently bought and sold shares of the company. Everhart Financial Group Inc. raised its position in Lam Research by 0.9% in the 3rd quarter. Everhart Financial Group Inc. now owns 11,633 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock worth $3,822,000 after purchasing an additional 105 shares during the period. Avidian Wealth Enterprises LLC grew its stake in shares of Lam Research by 0.3% during the third quarter. Avidian Wealth Enterprises LLC now owns 46,029 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock valued at $15,121,000 after buying an additional 123 shares during the last quarter. Valeo Financial Advisors LLC grew its stake in shares of Lam Research by 8.1% during the third quarter. Valeo Financial Advisors LLC now owns 11,195 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock valued at $3,678,000 after buying an additional 838 shares during the last quarter. Veracity Capital LLC raised its holdings in shares of Lam Research by 1.8% in the third quarter. Veracity Capital LLC now owns 4,296 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock worth $1,411,000 after buying an additional 77 shares during the period. Finally, Burr Financial Services LLC lifted its stake in shares of Lam Research by 27.2% during the 3rd quarter. Burr Financial Services LLC now owns 8,330 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock worth $2,736,000 after acquiring an additional 1,780 shares during the last quarter. 84.61% of the stock is owned by hedge funds and other institutional investors.
Lam Research Stock Performance Shares of NASDAQ:LRCX opened at $318.84 on Friday. The company has a market capitalization of $399.00 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 55.35, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 1.27 and a beta of 1.85. The company has a quick ratio of 1.91, a current ratio of 2.63 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.30. Lam Research Corporation has a 52 week low of $131.02 and a 52 week high of $438.50. The firm has a 50 day moving average of $310.98 and a 200 day moving average of $305.87.
Lam Research (NASDAQ:LRCX – Get Free Report) last issued its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, July 29th. The semiconductor company reported $1.82 earnings per share for the quarter, beating analysts’ consensus estimates of $1.69 by $0.13. Lam Research had a return on equity of 67.60% and a net margin of 31.27%. The company had revenue of $6.72 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $6.66 billion. During the same quarter last year, the company earned $1.33 earnings per share. The firm’s revenue for the quarter was up 30.0% compared to the same quarter last year. Lam Research has set its Q1 2027 guidance at 2.000-2.300 EPS. On average, sell-side analysts predict that Lam Research Corporation will post 9.34 earnings per share for the current fiscal year. Lam Research Increases Dividend The company also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Wednesday, October 14th. Stockholders of record on Wednesday, September 23rd will be issued a $0.33 dividend. The ex-dividend date is Wednesday, September 23rd. This represents a $1.32 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 0.4%. This is an increase from Lam Research’s previous quarterly dividend of $0.26. Lam Research’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is 22.92%.
Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades Several brokerages have commented on LRCX. Evercore reaffirmed an “outperform” rating and issued a $355.00 price objective on shares of Lam Research in a research report on Monday, July 20th. Needham & Company LLC restated a “buy” rating and issued a $390.00 price target on shares of Lam Research in a report on Thursday, July 30th. Jefferies Financial Group set a $335.00 price objective on shares of Lam Research and gave the company a “buy” rating in a report on Thursday, July 30th. Susquehanna restated a “positive” rating and issued a $475.00 target price (up from $385.00) on shares of Lam Research in a research note on Tuesday, June 30th. Finally, Weiss Ratings downgraded shares of Lam Research from a “buy (b)” rating to a “buy (b-)” rating in a research note on Friday, September 4th. One analyst has rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, twenty-six have issued a Buy rating and five have issued a Hold rating to the company. Based on data from MarketBeat, the company currently has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus target price of $364.59.
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More Lam Research News Here are the key news stories impacting Lam Research this week:
Positive Sentiment: Lam Research secured new etch-tool business with a major DRAM producer, which selected the company’s Akara system and Aether dry-resist technology for advanced memory production lines. The wins strengthen Lam’s position in DDR5, LPDDR5 and high-bandwidth memory manufacturing and could support future equipment spending as next-generation memory capacity expands. Lam Research DRAM Wins Put Its Fair Value Narrative Back In Focus Positive Sentiment: Long-term investment coverage remains favorable, pointing to Lam Research’s strong historical returns, high return on equity and exposure to artificial-intelligence-related semiconductor demand. The company’s equipment is essential to chip production, providing a structural growth opportunity if leading-edge and memory investment continues. Lam Research Historical Returns Neutral Sentiment: Lam Research remains a heavily watched stock, and Zacks coverage continues to present it as a potential long-term holding. However, these articles offer limited new company-specific information or near-term earnings changes. Why Lam Research Is a Top Stock for the Long-Term Negative Sentiment: The stock recently fell more sharply than the broader market, suggesting profit-taking or weakness across semiconductor shares. Lam’s elevated valuation—about 55 times earnings based on the supplied market data—also leaves the stock vulnerable to multiple compression when sentiment cools. Lam Research Suffers a Larger Drop Than the General Market Insider Transactions at Lam Research In other news, insider Ava Harter sold 5,000 shares of Lam Research stock in a transaction that occurred on Monday, August 31st. The shares were sold at an average price of $302.46, for a total value of $1,512,300.00. Following the transaction, the insider owned 42,462 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $12,843,056.52. The trade was a 10.53% decrease in their position. The sale was disclosed in a filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is accessible through this link. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan. Also, Director Bethany Mayer sold 9,557 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Wednesday, September 9th. The stock was sold at an average price of $314.74, for a total transaction of $3,007,970.18. Following the transaction, the director owned 20,995 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $6,607,966.30. This trade represents a 31.28% decrease in their position. Additional details regarding this sale are available in the official SEC disclosure. Insiders have sold a total of 32,839 shares of company stock valued at $10,644,740 in the last 90 days. Insiders own 0.31% of the company’s stock.
Lam Research Profile (Free Report)
Lam Research Corporation is a semiconductor equipment company that designs, manufactures, and services systems used in the fabrication of integrated circuits and other electronic devices. Its equipment supports key steps in the wafer manufacturing process, helping semiconductor producers create increasingly small and complex features on silicon wafers.
The company’s portfolio includes systems for etch, deposition, wafer cleaning, surface preparation, and related manufacturing processes.
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What happened EOG Resources, Inc. (NYSE: EOG) said October 8, 2026, that third-quarter 2026 current tax expense guidance moved higher. The company now expects $835 million to $935 million, up from $545 million to $645 million in guidance issued with second-quarter 2026 results on August 4, 2026. EOG said higher crude oil prices in the third quarter and higher expected prices for full-year 2026 drove the change because of the ongoing conflict in the Middle East.
The company also said it received $40 million in net cash from settlements of commodity derivative contracts during the quarter. No cash came from the Brent Linked Gas Sales Contract because deliveries are expected to start in January 2027. U.S. NYMEX West Texas Intermediate crude averaged $85.68 per barrel for the quarter ended September 30, 2026.
Henry Hub natural gas averaged $2.95 per million British thermal units. EOG said its actual realizations for crude oil and natural gas differ from NYMEX prices because of delivery location, quality and revenue adjustments. For NGLs, actual realizations depend on extracted components including ethane, propane, butane and natural gasoline. EOG said it is not updating or confirming any other third-quarter 2026 or full-year 2026 ranges. Key numbers Metric Latest Change Source Third-quarter 2026 current tax expense guidance $835 million to $935 million from $545 million to $645 million, + $290 million SEC 8-K Net cash from settlements of commodity derivative contracts $40 million SEC 8-K U.S. NYMEX West Texas Intermediate crude average $85.68 per barrel SEC 8-K Henry Hub natural gas average $2.95 per million British thermal units SEC 8-K Read more: EOG Resources (EOG) stock analysis and investment case
Why it matters The higher tax guide means more cash goes to current taxes in the quarter. That matters for a producer that relies on cash generation and capital discipline. OptimistFi's calculation shows the updated range is $290 million higher at both ends than the prior guidance. That makes tax expense and derivative cash the main moving parts in this filing.
The $40 million in net cash from derivative settlements is the filing's other quantified cash item. The Brent Linked Gas Sales Contract has not started delivering yet. The filing also shows that EOG links the tax increase to realized crude prices, which can change cash taxes quickly.
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What's next Deliveries under the Brent Linked Gas Sales Contract are expected to start in January 2027. That is the next dated step investors can watch against this quarter's cash and tax update. If deliveries begin on schedule, the contract will add another reported cash source to compare with the $40 million from derivative settlements.
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Společnost Black Stone Minerals ve čtvrtletí vykázala zisk na akcii 0,47 USD oproti odhadu 0,23 USD a tržby ve výši 148,97 milionu USD oproti očekávaným 108,28 milionu USD.
Black Stone Minerals, L.P. (NYSE:BSM – Get Free Report) shares crossed above its 50-day moving average during trading on Friday. The stock has a 50-day moving average of $14.68 and traded as high as $14.89. Black Stone Minerals shares last traded at $14.7950, with a volume of 215,509 shares.
Analysts Set New Price Targets Several equities research analysts have weighed in on the company. Zacks Research upgraded Black Stone Minerals from a “strong sell” rating to a “hold” rating in a report on Friday, July 31st. Weiss Ratings upgraded Black Stone Minerals from a “hold (c-)” rating to a “hold (c)” rating in a report on Thursday, August 20th. Five investment analysts have rated the stock with a Hold rating. Based on data from MarketBeat, the company currently has a consensus rating of “Hold” and an average target price of $15.00.
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Black Stone Minerals Trading Up 0.3% The company has a market capitalization of $3.15 billion, a PE ratio of 12.23 and a beta of 0.15. The company’s fifty day moving average is $14.68 and its 200-day moving average is $14.30. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.24, a current ratio of 3.76 and a quick ratio of 3.76. Black Stone Minerals (NYSE:BSM – Get Free Report) last issued its quarterly earnings data on Monday, August 3rd. The oil and gas producer reported $0.47 EPS for the quarter, topping analysts’ consensus estimates of $0.23 by $0.24. The company had revenue of $148.97 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $108.28 million. Black Stone Minerals had a net margin of 61.72% and a return on equity of 41.48%. On average, analysts anticipate that Black Stone Minerals, L.P. will post 0.95 EPS for the current fiscal year.
Black Stone Minerals Increases Dividend The company also recently disclosed a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Thursday, August 13th. Stockholders of record on Thursday, August 6th were given a $0.32 dividend. This represents a $1.28 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 8.7%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend was Thursday, August 6th. This is an increase from Black Stone Minerals’s previous quarterly dividend of $0.30. Black Stone Minerals’s payout ratio is presently 105.79%.
Insider Activity at Black Stone Minerals In related news, Director James Whitehead sold 2,127,105 shares of the stock in a transaction that occurred on Thursday, August 6th. The shares were sold at an average price of $13.21, for a total transaction of $28,099,057.05. The transaction was disclosed in a legal filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is accessible through this hyperlink. 17.70% of the stock is currently owned by company insiders.
Hedge Funds Weigh In On Black Stone Minerals Institutional investors and hedge funds have recently bought and sold shares of the company. Saber Capital Managment LLC purchased a new stake in shares of Black Stone Minerals during the 4th quarter valued at $8,389,000. Corient Private Wealth LLC grew its stake in Black Stone Minerals by 140.2% during the 4th quarter. Corient Private Wealth LLC now owns 207,367 shares of the oil and gas producer’s stock worth $2,756,000 after buying an additional 121,043 shares during the last quarter. Rare Wolf Capital LLC purchased a new position in Black Stone Minerals during the 4th quarter worth $968,000. Doliver Advisors LP increased its position in Black Stone Minerals by 30.4% during the 2nd quarter. Doliver Advisors LP now owns 59,827 shares of the oil and gas producer’s stock valued at $836,000 after buying an additional 13,950 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Quantinno Capital Management LP increased its position in Black Stone Minerals by 3.0% during the 1st quarter. Quantinno Capital Management LP now owns 42,516 shares of the oil and gas producer’s stock valued at $643,000 after buying an additional 1,228 shares in the last quarter. 14.49% of the stock is owned by hedge funds and other institutional investors.
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Black Stone Minerals, L.P. (NYSE: BSM) is a Houston-based publicly traded limited partnership that owns and manages mineral, royalty, overriding royalty and working interests in oil and natural gas properties across the United States. Unlike exploration and production companies, Black Stone generally does not operate wells; instead, it leases its mineral interests to oil and gas producers and receives royalty payments from production.
The company’s asset base is concentrated in several major onshore U.S.
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Diamondback Energy ve třetím čtvrtletí roku 2026 očekává ztrátu 97 milionů USD z hotovostního vypořádání derivátových kontraktů, přestože průměrná cena nezajištěné ropy dosáhla 87,30 USD za barel.
What happened Diamondback Energy, Inc. (NASDAQ: FANG) said third-quarter 2026 derivatives are expected to show a $97 million cash-settlement loss. Unhedged oil averaged $87.30 a barrel.
The company also reported hedged oil at $85.89 a barrel, natural gas at $0.90 per Mcf, and NGLs at $20.02 a barrel. Natural gas liquids were $20.02 a barrel in both the unhedged and hedged tables.
Diamondback said net non-cash derivative losses are expected to be $85 million. Basic and diluted weighted average shares outstanding were 279,959 thousand each. The report was filed October 8, 2026 and covers the quarter ended September 30, 2026. Key numbers Metric Latest Change Source Unhedged oil price $87.30 per barrel SEC 8-K Hedged oil price $85.89 per barrel SEC 8-K Natural gas price $1.12 per Mcf SEC 8-K Net loss on cash settlements for derivative instruments $97 million SEC 8-K Net non-cash loss on derivative instruments $85 million SEC 8-K Read more: Diamondback Energy (FANG) stock analysis and investment case
Why it matters OptimistFi's case is that Diamondback works if its concentrated Permian acreage remains a low-cost cash machine and 2025's earnings compression proves cyclical rather than evidence that the inventory economics have deteriorated. This filing is mixed for that view because it shows strong realized prices, but it also adds a $97 million cash-settlement loss and an $85 million non-cash loss on derivatives.
OptimistFi's comparison shows unhedged oil averaged $1.41 a barrel more than hedged oil in the quarter. That points to a modest hedge drag on that benchmark.
The filing still shows high absolute realized prices for oil, natural gas and NGLs, so the expected derivative losses could prove temporary. The release is a pricing and hedging snapshot, so investors can use it as a near-term read on how the quarter landed.
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What's next Diamondback's next quarterly report is the next dated test in the filing's timeline. If the next update shows narrower derivative losses and similar realized prices, that would support the view that the drag is temporary.
If realized prices weaken or derivative losses widen, the quarter would look less like an isolated hedge issue. Until then, this filing mainly sets a baseline for comparing the next report with the quarter ended September 30, 2026. Investors can compare the next report against the October 8 figures for oil, gas, NGLs, and derivative losses. That will show whether this quarter's hedge drag was a one-off or a pattern.
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Decentralizovaný derivátový protokol Hyperliquid dosáhl kumulativních příjmů přes 1,4 mld. USD a na zpětné odkupy HYPE na otevřeném trhu použil více než 1,26 mld. USD.
Hyperliquid, a decentralized derivatives protocol, has surpassed $1.4 billion in cumulative revenue, with more than $1.26 billion directed towards open-market buybacks of its native asset, HYPE, according to a recent report by @WuBlockchain. This substantial financial maneuver highlights Hyperliquid’s robust revenue generation capabilities and its commitment to supporting the market price of HYPE through buybacks. The protocol’s financial figures point to a strong linkage between fee generation and HYPE demand, facilitated by the buyback mechanism. Markets appear to interpret this financial performance as supportive of potential price increases for HYPE, reflecting positive sentiment around Hyperliquid’s financial health.
Key Takeaways Hyperliquid’s cumulative revenue has exceeded $1.4 billion, suggesting significant financial health and market activity. Over $1.26 billion of this revenue has been used for HYPE buybacks, indicating strong support for the asset in the open market. Market pricing suggests participants view this development as consistent with scenarios where Hyperliquid’s price could increase. What to Watch The market for Hyperliquid reaching $100 by December 31, 2026, currently priced at 55.5% YES, may indicate growing confidence in the asset’s future value. Key indicators to watch include any announcements of partnerships or technological advancements, which could further bolster market sentiment. Conversely, negative developments such as security breaches or regulatory challenges could influence market perceptions and pricing. Monitoring these factors will be crucial in assessing the likelihood of Hyperliquid hitting its price targets.
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Spoluzakladatel darknetového tržiště Empire Market Raheim Hamilton dostal trest 40 let vězení a bylo mu zabaveno přibližně 1 230 bitcoinů a 24,4 etheru.
Raheim Hamilton, the Virginia man who co-created and operated the dark web marketplace Empire Market, was sentenced to 40 years in federal prison and fined $5 million, the U.S. Department of Justice announced on October 7. As part of his guilty plea, Hamilton agreed to forfeit approximately 1,230 Bitcoin and 24.4 Ether, along with three properties in Virginia.
Hamilton, 30, of Suffolk, ran Empire Market from 2018 to 2020 alongside co-creator Thomas Pavey. The marketplace handled more than four million transactions worth over $430 million and generated nearly $375 million in net drug sales, according to the DOJ’s sentencing announcement.
A Crypto-Only Marketplace Built for Concealment Empire Market let buyers and sellers trade controlled substances, stolen account credentials, stolen personally identifying information, counterfeit currency, and computer-hacking tools. Court records cited roughly 13,314 grams of fentanyl, 446,683 grams of cocaine, 71,992 grams of methamphetamine, and 103,396 grams of heroin sold through the platform.
Every transaction on the site had to be settled in cryptocurrency. Hamilton and Pavey also encouraged users to run funds through tumbling and mixing services and to encrypt their communications, while letting vendors be rated on how well they concealed the drugs they shipped.
The Sentence and the Forfeiture U.S. District Judge Steven C. Seeger imposed the sentence on Monday, October 5, in Chicago. Hamilton had pleaded guilty earlier this year to a drug conspiracy charge. Pavey, 41, of Ormond Beach, Florida, pleaded guilty last year and agreed to forfeit roughly 1,584 Bitcoin, two boxes of 25-ounce gold bars, three automobiles, and two Florida properties; he is scheduled to be sentenced later this month.
The case follows a run of high-profile crypto-linked sentencings, including the 78-month term handed to the so-called “Crypto Godfather” Adam Iza and the industry ban imposed on Celsius founder Alex Mashinsky.
What the Forfeiture Signals The combined forfeiture of more than 2,800 Bitcoin between Hamilton and Pavey underscores how asset seizure now sits at the center of dark web prosecutions. The announcement was attributed to U.S. Attorney Andrew S. Boutros, the FBI, the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, and Homeland Security Investigations.
The case also highlights tumbling and mixing services as a recurring enforcement target, as investigators trace crypto-denominated drug proceeds across blockchains. The scale of any further seizures remains to be seen as Pavey’s sentencing approaches.
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BlackRock’s Bitcoin ETF clients added $22.38 million worth of Bitcoin, extending the fund’s pattern of steady, if uneven, demand.
Farside Investors data shows the iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) recorded a net inflow of $22.4 million on October 9, 2026.
What happened at IBIT A net inflow is simple arithmetic. It is the money investors put into the fund minus the money they pulled out.
BlackRock does not keep that Bitcoin in its own vault. Custody of IBIT’s holdings sits with Coinbase Prime, the institutional arm of the US exchange.
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The October 9 inflow came during a choppy stretch for the fund. On October 7, IBIT saw a $207.7 million outflow, a far larger move in the opposite direction.
Earlier in October, the fund pulled in $195.6 million within the first week of the month.
Bitcoin’s price has recently hovered in a range between $78,700 and $85,000.
The biggest fund in the room IBIT is BlackRock’s flagship US spot Bitcoin ETF. A spot ETF holds the actual asset rather than futures contracts, so every share is backed by real Bitcoin.
The fund is the largest US spot Bitcoin ETF by assets under management, and leads the category in cumulative flows. Total inflows since launch have exceeded $65 billion.
Broader US spot Bitcoin ETF flows were mixed in early October 2026. IBIT often led inflows on positive days, while the category as a whole saw periods of net outflows.
In July 2026, BlackRock cut the minimum threshold for in-kind Bitcoin-to-IBIT conversions from $25 million to $1 million. An in-kind conversion lets an investor hand over Bitcoin directly in exchange for ETF shares, instead of selling coins for cash first. The program has processed over $5 billion in such swaps.
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Bitcoin [BTC] recently faced a sharp rally. However, it’s now showing signs of a potential cooling period. This has happened because investors have started booking substantial profits, despite the price struggling to break past the resistance level.
According to Santiment, Bitcoin recorded roughly $1.03 billion in realized profits in a single day recently. This marked the second-highest profit-taking event of 2026, just below the year’s peak of $1.04 billion.
Source: Santiment However, while profit-taking is a normal part of market cycles, large-scale selling can increase short-term selling pressure and make it harder for Bitcoin to sustain its upward momentum.
This, because the price of Bitcoin is also facing selling pressure. At the time of writing, it was trading at $82,406.58 after falling by 4.5% in a week.
At the same time, the RSI was also in the healthy range, suggesting that bulls may be outpacing bears. Meanwhile, the parallely running Bollinger Bands suggested that BTC entered a steady state with the price moving in a structured channel.
Source: Trading View Can buyers save Bitcoin from falling into sellers’ hands? Needless to say, Bitcoin did face rejection around the $86,500-resistance level. This happened because of significant sell orders that prevented the price from moving higher.
Following this rejection, the world’s largest cryptocurrency moved south toward areas with significant buy orders. In fact, the largest concentration of these bids was reportedly hovering around $81,000.
Source: Glassnode So, given the case in point, if buyers absorb the available selling pressure, this zone could help stabilize the price and act as short-term support. However, if selling intensifies or buyers withdraw their orders, support is not guaranteed to hold.
Still, one thing is clear – Existing holders and investors who accumulated BTC earlier have played a significant role in supporting the rally.
Source: Glassnode However, the reported decline in fresh capital flowing through ETFs, stablecoins, and corporate treasuries may be evidence that new demand may be weakening.
Existing holders can sustain an advance for some time, but stronger inflows from new investors would provide additional buying power and make the rally more sustainable.
Is Bitcoin in a flux? Maybe, especially in the aftermath of BTC ETFs seeing outflows worth $409.71 million in October so far. This implied that maybe everything is not rosy yet.
Source: SoSo Value As it stands, Bitcoin is facing a critical test between profit-taking and fresh demand. The $81,000-zone could provide support, while resistance near $86,500 – $87,000 remains a hurdle.
Final Summary Bitcoin faced rejection around the $86,500-resistance level, where substantial sell orders prevented the price from moving higher. BTC ETFs have recorded outflows worth $409.71 million in October so far.
Realizovaná anualizovaná volatilita bitcoinu v roce 2026 klesla na 40–47 %, zatímco volatilita náhlých cenových skoků vzrostla o 71 % ve srovnání s prvním rokem fungování spotových ETF na bitcoin.
Bitcoin has never looked calmer on paper. Its annualized realized volatility has settled into a range of 40% to 47% in 2026, a sharp drop from historical averages above 80%.
The catch is that the calm average hides something stranger underneath. According to CoinDesk, extreme price swings are now happening more often than they did in 2018, one of the most chaotic years in the asset’s history.
The numbers behind the calm Realized volatility measures how much an asset’s price actually moved over a given period. Bitcoin’s version of that figure now sits between 40% and 47% on an annualized basis, compared to earlier market cycles that routinely produced volatility readings above 80%.
Implied volatility has followed the same downward path. That figure comes from options prices and reflects how much movement traders expect going forward. Both the backward-looking and forward-looking gauges have been trending lower heading into 2026.
Then there is the less comfortable statistic. Volatility tied to sudden price jumps has climbed by 71% compared to the first year of spot Bitcoin ETF trading. Those jumps are the tail events, the moves far outside a normal day’s range, and they are now landing more frequently than they did in 2018.
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A drawdown that broke the old pattern Bitcoin hit an all-time high around $126,200 in October 2025. From there, it slid to lows near $58,000 by mid-2026, a drawdown of approximately 53-54%.
Previous cycles saw the asset shed 70-82% after hitting a peak. As of early October 2026, Bitcoin was trading at roughly $85,000, leaving it about 32% below the prior year’s peak.
The staircase market The pattern now emerging has been described as staircase-style price action. Bitcoin climbs gradually, step by step, then drops abruptly when a correction hits.
That shape explains how average volatility and extreme swings can both move in opposite directions at once. Most days are quiet, which drags the average down. The sharp corrections, when they arrive, are concentrated and sudden, which pushes the tail-event count up.
The shift traces back to the post-2024 ETF era. Spot Bitcoin ETFs opened the door for institutional capital to flow into the asset through familiar brokerage accounts. Institutional participation has helped limit cascading liquidations, where leveraged positions get forcibly closed, triggering more selling and further forced closures. Fewer of those dominoes means shorter corrections and shallower overall drawdowns.
What this means for traders and investors For long-term investors, shallower drawdowns of around 53% compared to historical drops of 70-82% make Bitcoin easier to size into a diversified portfolio without one bad year sinking the whole strategy.
For active traders, low average volatility can encourage taking on more leverage, since daily swings feel manageable. When a tail event arrives, those positions are exactly the ones that get wiped out. The 71% rise in jump volatility since the first ETF year suggests that risk has grown, not shrunk.
If implied volatility keeps falling while sudden jumps keep rising, it could mean the market is underpricing the chance of a sharp move. Traders who sell options to collect premium in quiet conditions would be most exposed to that gap.
Buyers waiting for a classic 80% crash to load up may find this cycle does not deliver one. The drop from roughly $126,200 to near $58,000 shows the asset can still cut its value in half within months, but Bitcoin is spending more time behaving like a mature macro asset while its sharpest moments are arriving more often than in 2018.
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XRP Ledger opravil chybu z roku 2015, která mohla umožnit vytváření XRP z ničeho navzdory pevnému limitu 100 miliard XRP. RippleX nenašel žádné důkazy o jejím zneužití.
XRP Ledger patched decade-old bug that could create billions of dollars in XRP from nothing. (Unsplash)Summary
A flaw dating to 2015 could have allowed attackers to create and spend new XRP, violating the cryptocurrency’s fixed supply of 100 billion tokens.The vulnerability exploited a counting error in the XRP Ledger’s built-in exchange, allowing hundreds of accounts to receive large amounts of XRP while the buyer paid almost nothing.RippleX said it found no evidence of exploitation on public networks and fixed the flaw in the xrpld 3.4.1 software release on Sept. 25.A flaw in the XRP Ledger’s payment system could have let an attacker create large amounts of new XRP without paying for it, breaking the token’s fixed-supply rule, according to a security report published Friday.
The bug, believed to date to 2015, was found by researcher Cayden Liao and Veria AI and internally reported on Sept. 22. Engineers at RippleX, Ripple’s developer arm, reproduced the attack on a standalone server and confirmed the newly created XRP could be spent in a later transaction.
RippleX said it found no evidence the flaw was exploited on any public network.
All 100 billion XRP were created when the ledger launched in 2012, and its software is built so no more can ever be added. But the security vulnerability could have allowed an attacker to create XRP from nothing and sell it on exchanges, undercutting a supply cap that institutions using the network rely on.
The attack worked through the ledger’s built-in exchange, where accounts post offers to swap one token for another.
An attacker could have, theoretically, open hundreds of accounts, have each one offer a tiny amount of a token in exchange for an unusually large amount of XRP, then send a single payment that bought every offer at once.
The total XRP owed would be too large for the software to count correctly, so the attacker’s selling accounts would be paid in full while the buying account was charged almost nothing — leaving the attacker with XRP that hadn’t existed before.
How one payment could have printed XRP from nothing. (Shaurya Malwa/CoinDesk)The XRP Ledger runs a check after every transaction to make sure no new XRP has appeared, but that would have relied on the miscounted total and missed it. A separate limit on how much XRP a single account can receive wouldn’t have triggered either, because the attack spread the XRP across hundreds of accounts.
The researchers’ method needed only a few hundred XRP to open those accounts, most of which could be recovered, plus transaction fees.
Developers shipped the fix in xrpld 3.4.1, the ledger’s server software, on Sept. 25 without disclosing what it repaired.
The incident joins a run of long-hidden crypto security flaws surfaced with AI help since July, including the Coldcard wallet bug behind the theft of at least 1,367 BTC and the vulnerabilities that forced Core Lightning to tell bitcoin node operators to disconnect.
Read More: XRP Ledger adds new controls for banks, stablecoins and tokenized funds
An Ethereum address holding 12,746 ETH has moved for the first time in roughly 10.2 years, according to blockchain tracker Whale Alert.
What happened on-chain Whale Alert flagged the activation of the address, which held 12,746 ETH before stirring. The wallet had sat untouched for about 10.2 years.
Where those coins went, or what the owner intends, has not been publicly reported. The address has activated, and that is the confirmed part of the story.
Analytics firms watching these wallets have described a familiar routine. Long-dormant holders often start with a small test transfer, then follow up with larger movements once they confirm everything works.
A pattern of early wallets returning This address is not the first ancient Ethereum wallet to resurface. Over 2025 and 2026, several others have reappeared, with notable examples moving 10,000 ETH, 2,000 ETH and 40,000 ETH.
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Many of these wallets are linked to early Ethereum holders, particularly participants in the project’s initial coin offering, or ICO. An ICO is a token sale where a project raises money by selling its coins directly to the public before or around launch.
The economics of those early purchases are striking. Original acquisition costs for some of these wallets ran as low as $3,100 for significant ETH holdings, which translates into enormous returns against current valuations.
Several firms track this activity closely. Whale Alert, Lookonchain, Arkham Intelligence and the block explorer Etherscan have all surfaced on-chain movements from these older wallets.
Selling, staking or just checking in When dormant wallets come back, outcomes have varied. Some holders have sent coins to exchanges, which usually signals a possible sale.
Others have directed their ETH toward staking instead. Staking means locking up ETH to help secure the Ethereum network, earning rewards in return.
The research shows some activations have leaned toward staking rather than selling. That points to at least some early holders choosing yield over cashing out.
What this means for the market The immediate market impact of these reactivations has been limited. Individual activations have typically been absorbed without major price swings in ETH.
For traders, the practical takeaway is to watch what happens after the first transfer. Given the documented habit of small test transactions preceding larger ones, the follow-up moves from this address will reveal far more than the initial wake-up.
Destination is the tell. Coins heading to exchange deposit addresses suggest selling pressure, while coins moving into staking contracts suggest a holder settling in for the long haul.
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A Year of Shrinking VolumeDogecoin's trading activity has lost considerable ground over the past 12 months. According to data tracked by Artemis Analytics, $DOGE was regularly posting daily exchange volumes of between $1 billion and $2 billion in November 2025. Fast-forward to October 2026, and that figure has roughly halved, with typical daily volumes now running between $500 million and $1 billion.
The trend has been consistent and hard to dismiss. before partially recovering to the current range.
There was one notable outlier.
What Is Driving the Slide?The volume drop is not happening in isolation. Fewer active users on-chain naturally translates into softer exchange turnover.
That shift in sentiment has weighed on $DOGE alongside the raw volume numbers.
Despite the decline, Dogecoin has not been written off entirely. Whether this current lull follows the same pattern remains to be seen.
Data: Artemis Analytics
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Artemis Analytics | Crypto Adventure: Dogecoin Trading Volume Falls 64% As 2026 Liquidity Fades | Bitunix: Is Dogecoin Dead? DOGE Price and 2026 Outlook
United prostřednictvím DISH přidala kanál TBS, takže cestující na více než 200 letadlech vybavených Starlinkem mohou živě sledovat téměř všechna utkání play-off MLB.
United flyers can catch nearly every MLB postseason game – including the ALCS, NLCS and World Series – live onboard more than 900 flights per day with Starlink-enabled seatback screens
Since the live streaming service launched last month, passengers have watched more than 170,000 hours of live television including professional and college football games, reality show competitions and awards shows
In September more than 5.4 million people - about a third of United's customers - had Starlink on their flight and they're loving the experience: satisfaction scores are more than 40 points higher on Starlink-equipped planes than those with other Wi-Fi service
, /PRNewswire/ -- Baseball fans can now catch nearly every playoff game live onboard select United flights with Starlink-enabled seatback screens. The airline just added TBS to its onboard streaming lineup from DISH, which also includes live shows from ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, FS1, ESPN, ESPN2, NFL Network and TNF on Prime Video. It's now available on more than 200 planes – about 900 flights per day – and since the feature launched onboard last month, passengers have watched more than 170,000 hours of live television.
United and DISH add Playoff Baseball to the Live Streaming Lineup on Airplanes with Starlink-Equipped Seatback Screens Starlink is the fastest, most reliable Wi-Fi in the sky and United is installing it at a rapid rate – in September, more than 5.4 million people - about a third of United's customers - had Starlink on their flight and they're loving the experience: satisfaction scores are more than 40 points higher on Starlink-equipped planes than those with other Wi-Fi service.
Starlink is free for MileagePlus® members in every class of service, and the airline expects to complete installations in 2027.
"The speed and reliability of Starlink's inflight Wi-Fi is unmatched, which means sports fans can book United flights with confidence knowing they won't miss a play on flights with Starlink-enabled seatback screens," said Andrew Nocella, United's Chief Commercial Officer. "Quality inflight Wi-Fi is more important than ever to travelers, and because Starlink gives people the same – or better – connectivity in the sky than they can get at home, it's a reason to choose United."
United is also offering a flexible and straightforward status match offer for Delta and American Airlines loyalty program members so they can experience Starlink for themselves. To qualify, customers must meet the spend requirement on United flights that are both purchased and flown within the 90-day period. Qualifying customers enjoy United Premier® status benefits through January 31, 2028. More details can be found at United.com/switchtobetterwifi.
Live streaming service from DISH is just the latest example of how United is using Starlink to redefine the inflight entertainment experience. In August, United partnered with ESPN to host a first-of-its kind live Fantasy Football Draft from 30,000 feet where ESPN analyst Tyler Fulghum made his picks live from the sky during the two-hour broadcast. And earlier this summer, United customers could stream the biggest soccer tournament in the world onboard Starlink-powered domestic flights.
Starlink is just one way United is investing nose to tail in its customer experience. The airline continues to install seatback screens across its fleet – up to 1,000 aircraft are expected to have seatback screens before the end of 2027 – and is rolling out new airplanes with 27-inch, 4K OLED seatback screens, the largest among U.S. carriers. Passengers can now access more than 2,500 hours of premium entertainment content onboard including Apple TV, HBO Max, A24 and Spotify.
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THORSday Community Podcast #241 ft. CBarraford, KentonC137 & patriotsounds | October 8, 2026 | Watch the full episode on YouTube
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TL;DRChad Barraford used the show to respond to the recent Unchained interview, arguing that discussions of THORChain governance need to distinguish between a minority that can halt activity and the supermajority required to authorize it.Rev-Share is now live with SwapKit. The first credited $25,000 $USDC-to-$BTC trade arrived during the show, beginning a trial intended to win incremental routing without subsidising existing flow.v3.21 has been cut and is in stagenet testing. Monero-related churn edge cases could mean some $XMR work moves to v3.21.1, rather than delaying every other part of the release.Chad described a narrowly scoped AI workflow for tests and performance work. Two draft pull requests tested the THORNode code at roughly 3x faster, while replaying real blocks to check that state does not change.The active set reached 111 nodes during the episode. The team also highlighted RAVN native $BTC delivery, and continued protocol-owned liquidity accumulation.The episode was a dense status check, but its through-line was the difference between what THORChain is testing, what is live, and what still needs proof. Chad opened with a debrief of the Unchained interview, then the conversation turned to a live Rev-Share pilot, the remaining work before $XMR can join the protocol, and a more experimental use of AI in development.
That distinction matters. A new incentive programme is not yet evidence that it will create durable volume. A stagenet release is not a mainnet launch. And AI-assisted code work is not autonomous protocol control. The hosts were clear about those boundaries even as they made the case for moving faster.
1. Chad's Unchained Debrief Focused on Consensus ThresholdsChad used the opening of the episode to respond to questions raised in the recent Unchained interview about THORChain's governance, censorship resistance, and the security implications of its node set. His central argument was that the discussion needs to separate two different thresholds: a minority of 1/3 + 1 can stop activity, while a 2/3 + 1 supermajority is required to authorize protocol action.
That distinction is not a claim that a halt is painless. The hosts described it as a protective power that can freeze the system when something is wrong, not a tool for redirecting funds. Chad argued that an operator acting against its bond providers would face economic consequences, because providers can unbond and move to another operator. Kenton added that many operators manage bonds for multiple providers, rather than controlling all bonded $RUNE themselves.
"Every blockchain in the world can change anything they want with consensus." (Chad)The group compared this tradeoff with proof-of-work and proof-of-stake systems more broadly. Their point was not that every chain has the same implementation, but that no consensus system removes the need to consider who can halt, who can coordinate, and what economic incentives restrain them.
The conversation also returned to the question of selective censorship. Chad argued that freezing a pool based on a percentage of suspicious volume creates no clear rule for when to reopen it, while the hosts said cross-chain infrastructure needs limited safety controls for events such as external-chain failures. These are the team's positions, not settled answers to every governance question, but they explain the reasoning they took into the interview.
https://raynalytics.net/dashboards/rev-share2. Rev-Share Is Live, With New Flow as the TestThe concrete product update was Rev-Share. During the show, the hosts said the first eligible $25,000 $USDC-to-$BTC trade had arrived through SwapKit, after the programme was enabled on both sides. The purpose is not simply to rebate an existing integrator. It is to use a share of fees to improve selected quotes and make THORChain more likely to win routing it would otherwise miss.
Chad pointed listeners to Raynalytics's SwapKit Revenue Share dashboard, where the credit ledger, routed volume, wallet mix, and liquidity fees can be monitored as the pilot develops. The episode's framing was deliberately empirical: give the data time, then decide whether the arrangement is creating profitable incremental volume.
"If it doesn't work for both of us, we ain't doing it at all." (Chad)The hosts also discussed Rev-Share as a possible business-development tool for future wallet and interface integrations. Rather than paying a flat Treasury grant before a partner sends volume, a limited fee share could reward a wallet only as it brings traffic. Kenton used large-wallet integration incentives as an example, while stressing that any allocation remains subject to node governance.
The economics are simple in principle but unproven in practice: a programme can share a large portion of fees from a new route and still improve protocol income if the alternative was no routed volume at all. What matters now is whether the pilot produces that new flow, not whether the mechanism sounds attractive on paper.
3. v3.21 Is Testing, While $XMR Churn Work ContinuesChad said v3.21 has been cut and is being tested on stagenet. The release includes work to re-enable memoless transactions with a dynamic registration cost: as a coin's available memo space fills, registering another entry becomes progressively more expensive. The intent is to make spam costly without relying on a fixed price that can become ineffective.
The main uncertainty is $XMR. The team has encountered churn edge cases in its Monero integration, and Chad said some patches may need to move to v3.21.1 if they cannot be reviewed, merged, and tested in time for v3.21. That is a release-management decision, not an abandonment of the integration. The discussion repeatedly kept $XMR in a pre-mainnet, work-in-progress state.
"We might not be able to get all the Monero patches in for v3.21." (Chad)This follows the liquidity-first approach outlined in the previous podcast recap. A technical release alone would not make a useful $XMR market. Chad said CakeWallet is expected to support THORChain at launch, based on an earlier team conversation, while other wallet support remains an active integration question.
For a transparent release view, the hosts highlighted devops.thorchain.org, which tracks work items and release activity. It is the better source for status than treating a podcast target as a fixed delivery date.
4. AI Is Being Scoped to Tests and Verified Performance WorkChad's most forward-looking update was not an AI agent writing new protocol features unchecked. He described a narrower effort to use AI for two areas where output can be measured: expanding test coverage and finding performance improvements that preserve existing behaviour.
The testing side would add unit, integration, regression, and fuzz tests. The performance side asks an AI system to make a function run faster without changing what the protocol does. Chad said two draft pull requests, produced over a few days, had tested THORNode at roughly 3x faster when combined.
"We can verify its correctness." (Chad)The verification method is the important constraint. The process replays thousands of real mainnet blocks locally and compares each resulting app hash, effectively checking that the protocol state is identical even if execution is faster. Chad said the pull requests still require human approval. He also noted that faster execution does not automatically change the roughly six-second block interval, though it could reduce resource requirements and make erratic block times less likely.
He referred to the broader idea as recursive improvement, not literal recursive self-improvement. Whether this work eventually lives inside Huginn or a separate tool is still undecided. For now, the proposal is an assistive development loop with deterministic checks, not a transfer of governance or deployment authority to an AI system.
5. The Network Added Nodes, Routing and Protocol-Owned LiquidityThe show also captured several live ecosystem updates. After a churn, the active set had grown to 111 nodes. The hosts said it was at least close to the largest active set they had seen, and noted that some operators had waited in standby through months when the protocol could not churn normally.
On routing, RAVN had gone live with native $BTC delivery from Ethereum, Base, BNB Chain, and Avalanche through THORChain. The point is not wrapped Bitcoin exposure. The announced route delivers native $BTC at the destination, extending the set of interfaces that can access THORChain liquidity.
The group also discussed protocol-owned liquidity. They said a deposit of roughly 1 million $RUNE was imminent, which would put protocol-owned liquidity at about 1% per pool. According to the speakers, those positions had already earned about $100,000 in fees. The next question is how the system behaves as new pools, including a future $XMR pool, gain depth and volume.
"We still only need 5% of the market." (Kenton)Those updates do not erase the open questions from earlier in the episode. Rev-Share still needs volume data. $XMR still needs completed churn work and liquidity. But the snapshot was of a protocol adding capacity and connections while it tests the economic and technical assumptions behind them.
What to WatchWhether the SwapKit Rev-Share dashboard shows sustained incremental routed volume, fee generation, and new-wallet activity after the pilot's initial trades.Whether the remaining Monero churn edge cases can be resolved in v3.21, or move cleanly into v3.21.1 without changing the integration's careful launch posture.Whether the new memoless pricing model deters registration spam without creating material friction for ordinary users.Whether AI-assisted testing and performance work continues to pass app-hash replay checks before human review and merge.Whether the active-set growth, RAVN routing, and protocol-owned liquidity provide the deeper distribution and market capacity the team expects.More THORChain data, check out raynalytics.net
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USD/JPY čeká na údaje o inflaci v USA; středeční index spotřebitelských cen (CPI) může změnit očekávání ohledně sazeb Fedu a prolomit úzké obchodní pásmo mezi 156,40 a 159,00.
US CPI and PPI headline a packed inflation calendar
Markets price three-plus Fed hikes despite recent disinflation
Short-term correlations suggest risk appetite is driving USD/JPY
Narrowing trading range leaves USD/JPY awaiting a catalyst
US inflation data dominates the week ahead for USD/JPY, with Wednesday's CPI and Thursday's PPI reports likely to influence Treasury yields and broader risk appetite.
With markets pricing more than three Fed rate hikes by the middle of next year, the onus remains on inflation to stay relatively elevated and sticky to justify those expectations.
However, the recent deterioration in USD/JPY's traditionally strong relationship with US Treasury yields suggests the reaction in riskier assets may be just as important as movements in yields themselves, complicating the outlook for the pair.
US inflation takes centre stage
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Outside Wednesday's CPI report, Thursday shapes up as another big session for US economic data, with PPI and retail sales released alongside each other. Following strong increases across retail sales measures in August, another solid outcome would reinforce the view that consumer demand remains firm enough to support further Fed tightening.
Friday's import prices will also be worth monitoring for signs of inflation pressures, particularly given elevated energy costs.
There's plenty of Fed speak throughout the week, although remarks after the inflation reports are likely to carry more weight. Governor Christopher Waller will discuss artificial intelligence at the Bloomberg New Economy Forum in New Delhi on Tuesday, while Fed Chair Kevin Warsh will participate in a fireside chat with IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva in Bangkok on Thursday.
While Warsh may face questions about the policy outlook following CPI, he's shown little inclination to provide explicit forward guidance, and that's unlikely to change when discussing the global economy at a forum outside the United States.
In Japan, the calendar is as quiet as a church mouse. Remarks from BOJ board member Junko Koeda provide an opportunity to influence market pricing, which, like the Fed, favours a December move over October. Unless she delivers something truly unexpected, her appearance may come and go with little fanfare.
Core CPI cools, PPI remains hot
Heading into the September CPI report, the brutal truth is that inflation has remained above the Fed's 2% target for more than five years.
While there have been encouraging signs of near-term disinflation, with core CPI running at an annualised pace of just 1.97% over the past three months, the six-month annualised rate of 2.57% and year-on-year rate of 2.45% show that price pressures remain elevated.
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For September, headline CPI is expected to rise 0.6%, with core inflation forecast to increase by just 0.2%, down from 0.3% in August.
Core PPI inflation has been running considerably hotter than core CPI, with the three-month annualised rate at 3.36%, the six-month rate at 3.73% and the annual rate at 4.62%.
However, historical analysis dating back to 2010 suggests that while producer inflation has traditionally provided some indication of where consumer inflation may be heading, that relationship has weakened considerably since 2023. More recent predictive testing also suggests PPI has generally made short-term CPI forecasts less accurate, rather than improving them.
While PCE remains the Fed's preferred inflation measure, historically it's been CPI that's generated the larger market reaction in Treasury yields and USD/JPY. That makes Wednesday's report the main event risk, with Thursday's PPI likely to play a secondary role, even though components feed directly into the core PCE deflator.
Three hikes priced, plenty at stake
As covered extensively beforehand, there's been an abrupt shift in the Fed interest rate outlook over the past six months, with markets moving from pricing several cuts to more than 80 basis points of tightening by the end of next year.
While there's little expectation of a follow up hike in October following September's increase, markets favour a further 25 basis point move before year-end, followed by at least two, perhaps three, more by the end of 2027.
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Given how little tightening is priced for October, it would likely take a core CPI reading well north of 0.3% to get markets seriously considering a hike. Otherwise, recent Fed commentary suggests October is being positioned as a placeholder, with December the more likely live meeting when fresh forecasts and dot plot will be issued.
Alternatively, an undershoot in core CPI could pull the rug from underneath hawkish pricing, especially given the softness in payrolls a fortnight ago, potentially dragging Treasury yields lower, particularly at the front end and belly of the curve.
Risk appetite may matter more than yields
While the inflation reports will be influential for Fed pricing, particularly at the front end of the Treasury curve, the more important factor for USD/JPY this week may be how riskier assets digest those releases.
That's because the traditionally strong, positive relationship between USD/JPY, US Treasury yields and US–Japan yield spreads has been inconsistent recently. Over the past five sessions, USD/JPY has shown a correlation of -0.93 with VIX futures and +0.79 with S&P 500 futures, compared with just +0.47 for US two-year Treasury yields and +0.48 for equivalent yield spreads.
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Over the past fortnight, correlations with US two-year yields and equivalent yield spreads have turned negative at -0.43 and -0.39, respectively, possibly reflecting the influence of quarter-end capital flows.
However, the strong relationships with VIX and S&P 500 futures are largely absent over longer windows, putting a big asterisk next to the recent readings. Five sessions is nowhere near long enough to declare a regime change, especially given the historical influence of interest rate differentials and carry trades.
While risk appetite has played a greater role recently, I suspect rate differentials will reassert themselves as a more influential driver of USD/JPY, particularly if this week's inflation reports trigger a meaningful shift in the Fed rate outlook.
USD/JPY playing pong between moving averages
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For all the discussion about USD/JPY's changing relationships with yields and risk appetite, the pair has barely moved in October, trading in a range of roughly 150 pips. It feels like the market is waiting for a catalyst.
The broader range between 156.40 and 159.00 has been narrowing, with dips towards 157.50 bought last week, while offers continue to cap moves above 158.45.
As the daily chart inset shows, the latter sits just below the 200-day moving average at 158.54, while the 50-day moving average at 157.70 helps explain the dip buying. For now, USD/JPY is effectively playing pong between these moving averages.
Momentum indicators are providing no strong tell when it comes to directional bias. RSI (14) is marginally above the neutral 50 level but flatlining, while MACD has just crossed above its signal line in positive territory, although there's little velocity behind the move. Both are effectively meandering.
On the upside, 158.45 and the 200-day moving average at 158.54 are the initial levels to watch, followed by 159.00 and 159.50, where horizontal resistance converges with the 100-day moving average. The latter has acted as both support and resistance previously, strengthening its significance.
On the downside, 157.50 is the first level to watch following last week's dip buying, followed by 157.00 and 156.40, which has acted as both support and resistance recently. Below that, a more substantial support zone runs from 155.50 down to 155.00.
The threat of intervention remains a consideration on any sustained push higher. At the same time, the US economy continues to look a better bet than most, deterring prolonged dollar weakness.
For now, it's a stalemate. Perhaps this week's inflation reports will finally shake things up.
EQT v první polovině roku 2026 vytvořila volný peněžní tok ve výši 2,16 mld. USD, snížila čistý dluh o 2,15 mld. USD a při nižších kapitálových výdajích zvýšila výhled těžby.
SummaryEQT Corporation is rated 'Buy' with a $66/share target, reflecting 25% upside from $52.94, based on normalized free cash flow and conservative yield assumptions.EQT generated $2.16B FCF in H1 2026, reduced net debt by $2.15B, and raised production guidance while lowering capex guidance, demonstrating robust operational execution.Strategic power generation and LNG contracts diversify EQT's demand channels, reducing reliance on volatile in-basin pricing and supporting the investment thesis.Valuation does not require a natural gas price boom; disciplined capital allocation, deleveraging, and strong cash generation underpin the bullish outlook despite commodity risk. SlavkoSereda/iStock via Getty Images
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Spotové ETF na AVAX zaznamenaly 8. října nejvyšší jednodenní čistý příliv od dubna ve výši 2,52 milionu USD. Dohromady drží 1,26 % obíhající nabídky AVAX.
AVAX Spot ETFs Post Strongest Inflow Day Since AprilSpot Avalanche ($AVAX) ETFs recorded their largest single-day net inflow since April on October 8, pulling in $2.52 million. The move marks a notable shift in momentum for a product suite that had spent much of the summer and early autumn struggling to attract meaningful capital.
Three regulated spot AVAX products are currently available to U.S. investors: VanEck's VAVX, listed on Nasdaq; Grayscale's GAVA; and Bitwise's BAVA, which launched on the New York Stock Exchange in April 2026.
ETFs Now Hold 1.26% of Circulating AVAX SupplyCollectively, the three spot products hold 1.26% of AVAX's current circulating supply, according to SoSoValue data. That share of supply locked inside regulated wrappers is modest in absolute terms but carries supply-side implications, particularly given that a portion of those holdings is actively staked.
Staked tokens are temporarily removed from liquid supply, which could act as a mild tailwind for price if demand continues to build.
The October 8 inflow figure stands out because it arrives after an extended period of subdued activity. The jump to $2.52 million just one week later therefore represents a meaningful acceleration, even if it is still far below the flows seen in Bitcoin-focused products.
Whether the October 8 print marks the start of a sustained trend or a one-day spike will depend on broader market conditions and continued institutional interest in AVAX as an asset. Avalanche's underlying network continues to expand. Strong on-chain fundamentals combined with renewed ETF demand could set the stage for a more constructive October for $AVAX.
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SoSoValue: US AVAX Spot ETF Dashboard
CoinLaw: Avalanche (AVAX) Statistics 2026
The Defiant: VanEck Launches First U.S.-Listed Avalanche ETF
Solana’s token holders are getting paid again. According to analytics from Blockworks, daily token holder net income on the network has stayed above $400,000 for two straight weeks.
That streak follows three weeks of decline.
What the number actually measures Blockworks starts with a metric called Real Economic Value, or REV. It captures what users pay to use the network, including transaction fees and tips.
From there, Blockworks subtracts operator payments, meaning the costs tied to validators and the operators who run the network’s infrastructure. The formula is simple: Token Holder Net Income = REV minus Operator Payments.
What’s left is the return flowing to SOL holders, both those who stake their tokens and those who don’t.
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The quarterly picture is messier Zoom out, and the story gets less tidy. Blockworks’ quarterly figures show just how much Solana’s holder economics can swing.
During strong stretches of network activity in 2025, quarterly token holder income landed somewhere between $50 million and $100 million.
Q2 2026 looked very different. Token holder income for that quarter came in at approximately -$3.5 million, according to Blockworks data.
Why Blockworks’ framing matters Blockworks has built dashboards that track Solana’s financials in this income-statement style, covering both daily earnings and quarterly results. The approach treats a blockchain less like a tech project and more like a business with revenue, costs, and margins.
What this means for SOL holders Two weeks above $400,000 a day suggests user activity has picked back up, and that the network is generating more value than it spends on operators.
For stakers in particular, this is the metric that connects network usage to their returns.
Still, quarterly results remain well below the $50 million to $100 million range Solana posted during its stronger 2025 periods. And the Q2 2026 loss is a fresh reminder that this number can turn negative when conditions sour.
There are two levers worth watching. The first is demand: whether transaction fees and tips keep climbing as users return. The second is cost: whether operator payments to validators and infrastructure providers stay in check, or grow faster than revenue.
Solana has positioned itself as a high-throughput, low-fee chain. Low fees attract users, but they also mean the network needs a lot of activity to generate meaningful revenue for holders. The swings in Blockworks’ data reflect that trade-off in real time.
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Velryba web3vc vybrala z Venus 1,793 milionu UNI v hodnotě 13,18 milionu USD a převedla je na burzu Binance. Případný prodej by znamenal odhadovanou ztrátu 3,17 milionu USD.
According to EmberCN’s monitoring, a whale address on Polymarket with the username "web3vc" withdrew 1.793 million UNI tokens from lending platform Venus around 20 minutes ago, worth approximately $13.18 million, and subsequently transferred the tokens to Binance. The UNI tokens were withdrawn from Binance to the BSC chain at an average price of around $9.12 last year before being deposited into Venus. At current valuations, if the whale chooses to sell, it would face an estimated loss of roughly $3.17 million. The transfer to the exchange may be in preparation for a potential sale, though it remains unconfirmed whether the whale has actually sold the tokens.
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Slush Wallet integrovala Halliday, takže peněženku na síti Sui lze financovat z 25 blockchainů, platební kartou, bankovním převodem či přes Apple Pay a přijímat v ní SUI nebo USDC.
Getting money into a new blockchain has usually felt like a scavenger hunt. You need an exchange account, the right token, a bridge, and a little faith.
Slush Wallet, the official Sui wallet built by Mysten Labs, wants to skip most of that. On October 6, 2026, it announced an integration with Halliday that lets users fund their wallets from 25 different blockchain networks or with ordinary payment methods like credit cards, bank transfers, and Apple Pay.
The headline change is the removal of the first deposit requirement. For newcomers, that first deposit has long been where interest goes to die.
What the Halliday integration actually does The core feature is simple to describe. A user holding tokens on another chain can send them toward Slush and land with SUI or USDC directly in their wallet.
Behind the scenes, the integration handles bridging and swapping automatically. Bridging means moving value from one blockchain to another. Swapping means trading one token for a different one.
The supported network count stands at 25 chains. That covers the cross-chain side of the problem.
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The fiat side matters just as much. Users can pay with credit cards, bank transfers, or Apple Pay, which removes the need to open an exchange account just to buy a first batch of tokens.
The result, per the announcement, is that cross-chain funding no longer requires exchanges or manual bridging.
Choosing between SUI and USDC on arrival also gives users a practical option. SUI is the network’s native asset, used for fees and staking. USDC is a dollar-pegged stablecoin, useful for people who want to hold value without price swings while they figure out what to do next.
How Slush got here Slush has not always been called Slush. It was rebranded from Sui Wallet and absorbed features from Stashed in April 2025.
Since then, Mysten Labs has positioned it as a full-service front door to Sui. The wallet already offers in-app swaps, staking, and seedless onboarding through zkLogin.
Seedless onboarding deserves a quick explanation. Most crypto wallets ask users to write down a seed phrase, a list of words that acts as the master key to their funds. Lose it, and the money is gone. zkLogin is designed to let people set up a wallet without managing that phrase themselves.
Slush runs as a browser extension and as mobile apps on both iOS and Android. So the new deposit flow lands across every surface where users already interact with the wallet.
Why the first deposit matters so much Onboarding friction is one of crypto’s most stubborn problems. A person might hear about a Sui app, download a wallet, and then hit a wall the moment they need tokens to do anything.
The Halliday integration targets exactly that moment. If a user can tap Apple Pay and end up holding USDC on Sui, the gap between curiosity and actual usage shrinks dramatically.
For existing crypto holders, the cross-chain support addresses a different pain. Someone with assets sitting on another network no longer has to route through a centralized exchange or a standalone bridge to try out Sui. The wallet does the routing.
What this means for Sui and its users The risks are worth keeping in view. Automating bridging and swapping concentrates trust in the integration doing its job correctly. Users who once saw every step now see only the start and the end, which is convenient right up until something goes wrong in the middle.
Fiat on-ramps also typically come with their own fees and verification steps, and users should check the costs presented before confirming a purchase.
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Nvidia ve druhém čtvrtletí fiskálního roku 2027 dosáhla v segmentu datových center tržeb 89,0 mld. USD, zatímco fyzická AI zatím tvoří jen malou část jejího byznysu.
Physical AI is the name Nvidia (NVDA -0.52%) uses for artificial intelligence (AI) that works in the real world instead of onscreen. Picture the software that lets a warehouse robot lift a box, or a car steer itself through traffic. A chatbot just has to write an answer, but physical AI has to see what's around it and then choose what to do.
Rivals want in. Advanced Micro Devices (AMD -2.03%) said on Sept. 28 that it had agreed to buy World Labs, a start-up that makes AI models of 3D spaces and tools for training robots, in an all-stock deal worth around $8.2 billion.
But for Nvidia, physical AI is still a small business in a huge firm. Its automotive revenue was around $2.35 billion over the 12 months through late January 2026 (Nvidia's fiscal 2026), or about 1% of its total revenue of $215.9 billion. Even Nvidia's broader physical AI number, around $6 billion in fiscal 2026, is below 3% of sales.
That doesn't worry me. Actually, I think that's one reason Nvidia is the simplest way for investors to own this trend.
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Nvidia already sells to robot and car makersA physical AI system needs a few things. Its AI model has to be trained, which takes racks of powerful data center chips. It helps to practice in a simulated world before it touches a real one. And it needs a computer on board to make decisions in real time.
Nvidia sells into all three. For the on-board part, it has Jetson Thor, a computer made to go in robots, and its DRIVE Hyperion platform for self-driving cars. For training and simulation, it offers open AI models named Cosmos, plus the data center chips that run them.
"Amazon will also adopt our full physical AI stack, Omniverse, Cosmos, Isaac and Jetson to power its fleet of warehouse robots," Colette Kress, Nvidia's chief financial officer, said on the company's fiscal second-quarter 2027 earnings call in August.
What's more, the training part might matter most today. Kress also noted that Nvidia's sales of AI systems to auto industry customers for their own facilities hit around $8 billion in the past 12 months.
So, this spending shows up in Nvidia's data center sales, not its car business.
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Small, for nowNvidia's automotive revenue (the computers and software it sells automakers for self-driving and other in-car AI) climbed 39% in fiscal 2026. Still, growth slowed sharply as the year passed.
In the fiscal second quarter, automotive revenue was up 69% year over year. But that slid to 32% in the third quarter and just 6% in the fourth, when sales hit $604 million. In short, the in-car business settled at about $600 million a quarter in the last half of the year.
Nvidia no longer reports automotive separately, either. Since the start of fiscal 2027, it's been rolled into a broader category called Edge Computing, along with products like PCs, game consoles, workstations, and robots.
Edge Computing revenue in the second quarter of Nvidia's fiscal 2027 (the three months ending July 26, 2026) was $7.2 billion, up 27% year over year. Management credited the rise to strong sales of workstations and didn't mention robots or cars. Data center revenue, in contrast, was $89.0 billion.
For now, physical AI hardly moves Nvidia's numbers.
What about AMD?AMD's deal shows how seriously rivals take this market. AMD said World Labs should help it design future hardware around how AI workloads are changing, and it expects the deal to close by the end of 2026.
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But for investors, the two stocks are valued very differently. AMD's share price is about 41 times its expected 2027 earnings per share, using analysts' consensus estimate. For Nvidia, at around $237 a share as I write this, the number is about 15 times expected earnings per share for fiscal 2028, which ends in January 2028.
At that price, I think Nvidia investors are paying mostly for a data center business that pulled in $89.0 billion last quarter alone. Its physical AI work arguably comes along at little added cost.
Granted, robots and self-driving cars might take years longer to pay off than the excitement suggests. And a slowdown in data center spending could hurt Nvidia much more than anything in its car business. After all, data centers brought in more than 90% of its revenue last quarter.
In the end, for investors who want a stake in physical AI without betting on which robot maker wins, I think Nvidia is the simplest answer. I'd buy the stock today mostly for its data center business. Robots and self-driving cars might add to it later, but I'm not banking on them yet.
Akcie společnosti Moderna v pátek vzrostly o více než 14 % po zprávě o iniciativě NIH zaměřené na urychlení výzkumu léčby rakoviny. Moderna patří mezi lídry ve vývoji vakcín proti rakovině.
Shares of Moderna (MRNA +14.21%) jumped more than 14% on Friday, following reports of a major new cancer research initiative.
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A new counteroffensive against cancerThe National Institutes of Health (NIH) plans to begin a campaign to fast-track cancer treatment research in December, according to a report by The New York Times. The program hopes to replicate the success of efforts to develop Covid-19 vaccines during the early stages of the pandemic.
The public-private partnership would bring together researchers and other resources from a range of healthcare companies and nonprofits to accelerate scientific discoveries. Initial research is expected to focus on pancreatic, liver, and colorectal cancer, as well as pediatric tumors.
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Moderna is a leader in cancer vaccine researchThe initiative comes at a time when advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and mRNA technology are making it possible for doctors to design treatments tailored to each patient's immune system.
On Aug. 19, Moderna and Merck (MRK +2.26%) announced that their co-developed investigational mRNA-based therapy, intismeran, when administered in combination with Merck's Keytruda, increased the time before cancer returned or spread in patients with high-risk melanoma.
These and other encouraging clinical trial results are prompting healthcare leaders to devote more resources to cancer research. That could help to accelerate Moderna's development timelines, potentially enabling the biotech to deliver new therapies to patients -- and profits to shareholders -- faster than previously expected.
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Kahn Swick & Foti zahájila vyšetřování vedení CVS kvůli možnému porušení povinností vůči akcionářům. CVS dříve snížila výhled zředěného zisku na akcii (EPS) na 6,53 až 6,75 USD.
, /PRNewswire/ -- Former Attorney General of Louisiana, Charles C. Foti, Jr., Esq., a partner at the law firm of Kahn Swick & Foti, LLC ("KSF"), announces that KSF has commenced an investigation into CVS Health Corporation ("CVS" or the "Company") (NYSE: CVS).
On August 2, 2023, the Company announced its financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2023, disclosing that it was revising its diluted earnings-per-share ("EPS") guidance range to $6.53 to $6.75 from $6.90 to $7.12 and that operating income "decreased $1.4 billion, or 30.7%, in the three months ended June 30, 2023 compared to the prior year primarily due to declines in the Health Care Benefits segment[.]"
Thereafter, the Company and certain of its executives were sued in a securities class action lawsuit, charging them with failing to disclose material information during the Class Period in violation of federal securities laws, which remains ongoing.
KSF's investigation is focusing on whether CVS' officers and/or directors breached their fiduciary duties to its shareholders or otherwise violated state or federal laws.
If you have information that would assist KSF in its investigation, or have been a long-term holder of CVS shares and would like to discuss your legal rights, you may, without obligation or cost to you, call toll-free at 1-833-538-3606 or email KSF Managing Partner Lewis Kahn ([email protected]), or visit https://www.ksfcounsel.com/cases/nyse-cvs/ to learn more.
About Kahn Swick & Foti, LLC
KSF, whose partners include former Louisiana Attorney General Charles C. Foti, Jr., is one of the nation's premier boutique securities litigation law firms. This past year, KSF was ranked by SCAS among the top 10 firms nationally based upon total settlement value. KSF serves a variety of clients, including public and private institutional investors, and retail investors - in seeking recoveries for investment losses emanating from corporate fraud or malfeasance by publicly traded companies. KSF has offices in New York, Delaware, California, Louisiana, Chicago, and a representative office in Luxembourg.
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Griffon ve svých nadcházejících výsledcích očekává EPS ve výši 1,60 USD, což představuje meziroční nárůst o 3,9 %, zatímco tržby by měly klesnout o 27,37 % na 480,94 milionu USD.
In the latest close session, Griffon (GFF - Free Report) was down 1.69% at $90.59. This change lagged the S&P 500's daily gain of 0.6%. Elsewhere, the Dow gained 0.83%, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq added 0.64%.
Heading into today, shares of the garage door and building products maker had lost 3.31% over the past month, outpacing the Conglomerates sector's loss of 3.47% and lagging the S&P 500's gain of 1.34%.
The upcoming earnings release of Griffon will be of great interest to investors. The company's upcoming EPS is projected at $1.6, signifying a 3.90% increase compared to the same quarter of the previous year. In the meantime, our current consensus estimate forecasts the revenue to be $480.94 million, indicating a 27.37% decline compared to the corresponding quarter of the prior year.
In terms of the entire fiscal year, the Zacks Consensus Estimates predict earnings of $5.41 per share and a revenue of $1.84 billion, indicating changes of -4.25% and -27.05%, respectively, from the former year.
Investors should also take note of any recent adjustments to analyst estimates for Griffon. These revisions help to show the ever-changing nature of near-term business trends. Hence, positive alterations in estimates signify analyst optimism regarding the business and profitability.
Research indicates that these estimate revisions are directly correlated with near-term share price momentum. To take advantage of this, we've established the Zacks Rank, an exclusive model that considers these estimated changes and delivers an operational rating system.
The Zacks Rank system, running from #1 (Strong Buy) to #5 (Strong Sell), holds an admirable track record of superior performance, independently audited, with #1 stocks contributing an average annual return of +25% since 1988. Over the last 30 days, the Zacks Consensus EPS estimate has remained unchanged. At present, Griffon boasts a Zacks Rank of #1 (Strong Buy).
Digging into valuation, Griffon currently has a Forward P/E ratio of 14.62. This expresses a premium compared to the average Forward P/E of 12.56 of its industry.
The Diversified Operations industry is part of the Conglomerates sector. Currently, this industry holds a Zacks Industry Rank of 41, positioning it in the top 17% of all 250+ industries.
The Zacks Industry Rank gauges the strength of our industry groups by measuring the average Zacks Rank of the individual stocks within the groups. Our research shows that the top 50% rated industries outperform the bottom half by a factor of 2 to 1.
You can find more information on all of these metrics, and much more, on Zacks.com.
Votes received to date have been strongly in supportMeeting has been adjourned to October 29, 2026 Shareholders with questions or who require assistance voting should contact BIPC’s proxy solicitation agent, Laurel Hill Advisory Group, by calling 1-877-452-7184 (toll-free within North America) or 1-416-304-0211 (outside of North America), texting “INFO” to either number, or by emailing [email protected]
BROOKFIELD, NEWS, Oct. 09, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Brookfield Infrastructure Corporation (“BIPC”) (TSX, NYSE: BIPC) today announced a new date for the special meeting of shareholders of BIPC (the “Shareholders’ Meeting” or the “Meeting”) in respect of the proposed corporate structure simplification (the “Simplification”). While votes received to date demonstrate support for the Simplification, the new date will allow additional time for shareholders to submit their votes.
The Shareholders’ Meeting will now be held virtually on October 29, 2026 at 10:00 a.m. EDT. The record date for determining shareholders eligible to vote at the Meeting will remain as August 21, 2026.
As a result of the new date for the Meeting, the updated deadline for registered shareholders to cast their votes by proxy is 5:00 p.m. EDT on October 27, 2026. Shareholders who have already submitted a proxy do not need to vote again.
The special meeting of unitholders of Brookfield Infrastructure Partners L.P. (“BIP”) (NYSE: BIP; TSX: BIP.UN) will continue to be held virtually on October 14, 2026, at 9:00 a.m. EDT.
The Board of Directors of each of BIP and BIPC, based in part on the unanimous recommendations of their respective special committees (consisting entirely of independent directors) and the fairness opinions received from Scotiabank, unanimously determined that the Simplification is in the best interests of BIP and BIPC, respectively, and have unanimously resolved to approve the Simplification and recommend that BIP unitholders and BIPC shareholders vote in favor of the Simplification. Glass Lewis has recommended that both BIP unitholders and BIPC shareholders vote FOR the Simplification, while ISS has recommended that BIP unitholders vote FOR the Simplification.
Benefits of a Simplified Structure
The Simplification will combine BIP and BIPC into a single publicly traded corporation, Brookfield Infrastructure Partners Inc. (“BIP Inc.”), creating a simpler corporate structure designed to deliver long-term value for all securityholders.
Brookfield Infrastructure expects the Simplification to be tax-deferred for Canadian and U.S. investors and completed without any meaningful cost to the business, while providing securityholders with the following benefits, among others:
Improved consolidated trading liquidity through a single listed security;Increased demand from current indices and potential additional index inclusion;Stronger alignment with long-term capital allocation trends toward indexable and ETF-eligible corporate securities;Simplified investor analysis, screening, and benchmarking through a single listed reporting entity;Broader access to a larger pool of investors who prefer corporate structures;Enhanced governance framework and voting rights for public securityholders; andFor BIP unitholders, elimination of onerous partnership tax reporting forms and preferential dividend tax rates for many Canadian and U.S. taxable investors.
Additional information is also available on our website at https://bip.brookfield.com under “Proposed Simplification”.
If the necessary securityholder approvals are obtained, the final hearing to obtain the final order from the Supreme Court of British Columbia approving the Simplification is expected to be held on or about November 3, 2026. Subject to the receipt of the final order and required regulatory approvals, it is anticipated that the Simplification will be completed in the fourth quarter of 2026.
Questions or Require Voting Assistance?
The Company has retained Laurel Hill Advisory Group as its proxy solicitation agent. If you have any questions about the Meeting or require assistance voting please contact Laurel Hill Advisory Group:
Toll Free: 1-877-452-7184 (toll free in North America)
International: 1-416-304-0211
Text: text "INFO" to either number above
Email: [email protected]
The Company may also use the services of Broadridge Investor Communications to assist eligible beneficial shareholders with voting their shares with written confirmation or over the telephone with Laurel Hill. Simply contact Laurel Hill Advisory to vote your shares today.
For additional information on the Simplification please see the joint management information circular filed with the applicable Canadian securities regulators and with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, which is available on SEDAR+ at https://sedarplus.ca and on EDGAR at https://sec.gov. Securityholders are urged to read the circular carefully.
Please note that BIP has applied for and received exemptive relief from the Ontario Securities Commission in order to not require further approval by the holders of class A shares of BIP Inc. (“BIP Inc. Class A Shares”) for any future distributions of BIP Inc. Class A Shares or securities that are, directly or indirectly, convertible into, or exercisable or exchangeable for, BIP Inc. Class A Shares under a prospectus, conditional upon obtaining the required securityholder approvals described in the joint management information circular. Accordingly, (i) in respect of BIP, a vote in favor of the Simplification by BIP unitholders will constitute voting in favor of BIP Inc.’s ability to conduct future issuances of BIP Inc. Class A Shares or securities that are, directly or indirectly, convertible into, or exercisable or exchangeable for, BIP Inc. Class A Shares pursuant to a prospectus, and (ii) in respect of BIPC, a vote in favor of the Simplification by BIPC shareholders will, in the event that the Simplification is approved by BIPC shareholders, constitute voting in favor of BIP Inc.’s ability to conduct future issuances of BIP Inc. Class A Shares or securities that are, directly or indirectly, convertible into, or exercisable or exchangeable for, BIP Inc. Class A Shares pursuant to a prospectus, in each case, without requiring further approval by holders of BIP Inc. Class A Shares in accordance with National Instrument 41-101 – General Prospectus Requirements.
About Brookfield Infrastructure
Brookfield Infrastructure is a leading global infrastructure company that owns and operates high-quality, long-life assets in the utilities, transport, midstream and data sectors across the Americas, Asia Pacific and Europe. We are focused on assets that have contracted and regulated revenues that generate predictable and stable cash flows. Investors can access its portfolio either through Brookfield Infrastructure Partners L.P. (NYSE: BIP; TSX: BIP.UN), a Bermuda-based limited partnership, or Brookfield Infrastructure Corporation (NYSE, TSX: BIPC), a Canadian corporation. Further information is available at https://bip.brookfield.com.
Brookfield Infrastructure is the flagship listed infrastructure company of Brookfield Asset Management, a global alternative asset manager, headquartered in New York with over $1 trillion of assets under management. For more information, go to https://brookfield.com.
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Email: [email protected] This news release does not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy any securities and shall not constitute an offer, solicitation or sale in any state or jurisdiction in which such an offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful.
This news release contains forward-looking statements and information within the meaning of Canadian provincial securities laws and “forward looking statements” within the meaning of Section 27A of the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended, Section 21E of the U.S. Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, “safe harbor” provisions of the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and in any applicable Canadian securities regulations.
Forward-looking statements may include estimates, plans, expectations, opinions, forecasts, projections, guidance or other statements that are not statements of fact. Forward-looking statements in this news release include statements regarding the exploration of changes to Brookfield Infrastructure’s corporate structure, whether any transaction may be pursued and the possibility, timing, structure, benefits, and conditions to any potential transaction. There can be no assurance that the securityholders will approve a transaction to create a single corporate security or, if approved, that the transaction will be completed.
The foregoing list of important factors that may affect future results is not exhaustive. Except as required by law, Brookfield Infrastructure does not undertake any obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements or information, whether written or oral, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
Veteran construction company Quanta Services (PWR +3.01%) was building incremental wealth in investor portfolios on the last trading day of the week. It was tagged as a stock that typically rises in the wake of major storms, and investors were eager to capitalize on that phenomenon. They enthusiastically bought into the company's shares, and they closed Friday 3% higher.
Port after a stormIn a research note published that morning, a team of Citigroup (C +1.22%) analysts issued something of a weather-crisis update on stocks in their coverage universe. This was based on predictions that Hurricane Isaias would soon make landfall on the Gulf Coast.
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The bank's pundits identified four construction stocks that have outperformed the S&P 500 index by an average of roughly 2% in the 10 days after major storms. Quanta was one, as were MasTec (MTZ -1.85%), Aecom (ACM -0.30%), and Fluor (FLR -0.65%). This, naturally, is due to heightened investor interest in businesses that could potentially be tapped for reconstruction work to repair damage from such weather anomalies.
The analysts cited plenty of historical precedent for such bullishness. For example, Quanta booked around $265 million from such work following Hurricane Harvey's devastation in Louisiana and Texas in 2017.
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I'd say Quanta particularly fits this bill, as it has become a go-to for artificial intelligence (AI) data center build-outs thanks to its work in power grid updates. This is a key reason its project backlog has ballooned to over $50 billion.
Citigroup is an advertising partner of Motley Fool Money. Eric Volkman has no position in any of the stocks mentioned. The Motley Fool has positions in and recommends Aecom and Quanta Services. The Motley Fool recommends MasTec. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy.
Společnost Trane Technologies má 29. října 2026 zveřejnit hospodářské výsledky; analytici očekávají meziroční růst EPS o 22,16 % na 4,74 USD a růst tržeb o 11,53 % na 6,4 miliardy USD.
Trane Technologies (TT - Free Report) ended the recent trading session at $476.98, demonstrating a +1.5% change from the preceding day's closing price. This move outpaced the S&P 500's daily gain of 0.6%. At the same time, the Dow added 0.83%, and the tech-heavy Nasdaq gained 0.64%.
The manufacturer's stock has climbed by 6.85% in the past month, exceeding the Business Services sector's loss of 2.9% and the S&P 500's gain of 1.34%.
Market participants will be closely following the financial results of Trane Technologies in its upcoming release. The company plans to announce its earnings on October 29, 2026. The company is expected to report EPS of $4.74, up 22.16% from the prior-year quarter. Meanwhile, the latest consensus estimate predicts the revenue to be $6.4 billion, indicating a 11.53% increase compared to the same quarter of the previous year.
For the full year, the Zacks Consensus Estimates project earnings of $15.3 per share and a revenue of $23.66 billion, demonstrating changes of +17.15% and +10.97%, respectively, from the preceding year.
Investors should also note any recent changes to analyst estimates for Trane Technologies. Recent revisions tend to reflect the latest near-term business trends. As a result, upbeat changes in estimates indicate analysts' favorable outlook on the business health and profitability.
Our research demonstrates that these adjustments in estimates directly associate with imminent stock price performance. Investors can capitalize on this by using the Zacks Rank. This model considers these estimate changes and provides a simple, actionable rating system.
The Zacks Rank system, ranging from #1 (Strong Buy) to #5 (Strong Sell), possesses a remarkable history of outdoing, externally audited, with #1 stocks returning an average annual gain of +25% since 1988. Within the past 30 days, our consensus EPS projection has moved 0.02% lower. Trane Technologies presently features a Zacks Rank of #3 (Hold).
In terms of valuation, Trane Technologies is currently trading at a Forward P/E ratio of 30.71. This signifies a premium in comparison to the average Forward P/E of 15.81 for its industry.
Meanwhile, TT's PEG ratio is currently 2.19. Comparable to the widely accepted P/E ratio, the PEG ratio also accounts for the company's projected earnings growth. The Technology Services industry currently had an average PEG ratio of 1.24 as of yesterday's close.
The Technology Services industry is part of the Business Services sector. Currently, this industry holds a Zacks Industry Rank of 172, positioning it in the bottom 31% of all 250+ industries.
The Zacks Industry Rank assesses the vigor of our specific industry groups by computing the average Zacks Rank of the individual stocks incorporated in the groups. Our research shows that the top 50% rated industries outperform the bottom half by a factor of 2 to 1.
Ensure to harness Zacks.com to stay updated with all these stock-shifting metrics, among others, in the next trading sessions.
Akcie Owens Corning v poslední obchodní seanci klesly o 2,59 % na 114,16 USD; za poslední měsíc ztratily 8,07 %. Očekává se čtvrtletní EPS ve výši 2,93 USD a tržby ve výši 2,63 miliardy USD.
Owens Corning (OC - Free Report) ended the recent trading session at $114.16, demonstrating a -2.59% change from the preceding day's closing price. This move lagged the S&P 500's daily gain of 0.6%. Elsewhere, the Dow gained 0.83%, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq added 0.64%.
The construction materials company's shares have seen a decrease of 8.07% over the last month, not keeping up with the Construction sector's loss of 3.85% and the S&P 500's gain of 1.34%.
The investment community will be paying close attention to the earnings performance of Owens Corning in its upcoming release. The company is expected to report EPS of $2.93, down 20.16% from the prior-year quarter. Our most recent consensus estimate is calling for quarterly revenue of $2.63 billion, down 2.14% from the year-ago period.
For the full year, the Zacks Consensus Estimates are projecting earnings of $9.89 per share and revenue of $10.03 billion, which would represent changes of -17.93% and -0.69%, respectively, from the prior year.
It is also important to note the recent changes to analyst estimates for Owens Corning. Recent revisions tend to reflect the latest near-term business trends. With this in mind, we can consider positive estimate revisions a sign of optimism about the business outlook.
Based on our research, we believe these estimate revisions are directly related to near-term stock moves. To exploit this, we've formed the Zacks Rank, a quantitative model that includes these estimate changes and presents a viable rating system.
Ranging from #1 (Strong Buy) to #5 (Strong Sell), the Zacks Rank system has a proven, outside-audited track record of outperformance, with #1 stocks returning an average of +25% annually since 1988. The Zacks Consensus EPS estimate has moved 0.58% lower within the past month. Owens Corning is holding a Zacks Rank of #3 (Hold) right now.
In terms of valuation, Owens Corning is presently being traded at a Forward P/E ratio of 11.85. This indicates a discount in contrast to its industry's Forward P/E of 15.37.
It's also important to note that OC currently trades at a PEG ratio of 1.89. The PEG ratio is akin to the commonly utilized P/E ratio, but this measure also incorporates the company's anticipated earnings growth rate. OC's industry had an average PEG ratio of 1.38 as of yesterday's close.
The Building Products - Miscellaneous industry is part of the Construction sector. This group has a Zacks Industry Rank of 220, putting it in the bottom 11% of all 250+ industries.
The Zacks Industry Rank assesses the vigor of our specific industry groups by computing the average Zacks Rank of the individual stocks incorporated in the groups. Our research shows that the top 50% rated industries outperform the bottom half by a factor of 2 to 1.
Ensure to harness Zacks.com to stay updated with all these stock-shifting metrics, among others, in the next trading sessions.
Hudson Pacific Properties odkoupí dluhopisy splatné v letech 2027 a 2028 v celkové hodnotě 200 milionů USD, ačkoli nabídky k odkupu dosáhly 537,853 milionu USD.
LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Hudson Pacific Properties, Inc. (NYSE: HPP) (“Hudson Pacific”) today announced the tender results of the previously announced tender offer (the “Tender Offer”) by its operating partnership, Hudson Pacific Properties, L.P. (the “Company”), to purchase for cash up to a combined aggregate principal amount of $200,000,000 (the “Aggregate Maximum Tender Offer Amount”) of the Company’s outstanding 3.950% Senior Notes due 2027 (the “2027 Notes”) and 5.950% Senior Notes due 2028 (the “2028 Notes” and together with the 2027 Notes, the “Notes” and each a “Series” of Notes) as shown in the table below, subject to the Allocation Procedures, including the Proration Factor (each as defined in the Offer to Purchase referred to below). The Company offered to purchase $100,000,000 aggregate principal amount of each Series of Notes (the “Target Allocation”).
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Aggregate
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Outstanding
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Allocation
Principal
Amount
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Date
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Amount
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the
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Date
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Factor(1)
Tender Offer
Consideration(2)
44409M AA4
3.950% Senior Notes due 2027
$400,000,000
$100,000,000
$285,155,000
$100,000,000
35.1%
$980.00
44409M AD8
5.950% Senior Notes due 2028
$350,000,000
$100,000,000
$252,698,000
$100,000,000
39.9%
$991.25
The terms and conditions of the Tender Offer are described in an Offer to Purchase dated October 5, 2026 (the “Offer to Purchase”). The Tender Offer is subject to the satisfaction of certain conditions as set forth in the Offer to Purchase. Capitalized terms used in this press release and not defined herein have the meanings given to them in the Offer to Purchase. As used herein, all Notes that have been validly tendered and not validly withdrawn at or prior to the Expiration Date are referred to as having been “validly tendered” as of the Expiration Date.
The Tender Offer expired at 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on October 9, 2026 (the “Expiration Date”). As set forth in the table above and as reported by the Tender Agent, the total principal amount of the 2027 Notes validly tendered as of the Expiration Date was $285,155,000, thereby making the 2027 Notes an Oversubscribed Series. The total principal amount of the 2028 Notes validly tendered as of the Expiration Date was $252,698,000, thereby making the 2028 Notes an Oversubscribed Series. The aggregate principal amount of the Notes validly tendered as of the Expiration Date was $537,853,000. As a result, based on the terms and conditions of the Tender Offer, given that both Series were Oversubscribed, and the aggregate principal amount of Notes validly tendered as of the Expiration Date exceeded the Aggregate Maximum Tender Offer Amount, as set forth in the table above, the Company will accept for purchase $100,000,000 aggregate principal amount of the 2027 Notes that were validly tendered as of the Expiration Date and $100,000,000 aggregate principal amount of the 2028 Notes that were validly tendered as of the Expiration Date. The 2027 Notes validly tendered will be subject to a Proration Factor of approximately 35.1%, and the 2028 Notes validly tendered will be subject to a Proration Factor of approximately 39.9%, each calculated as described in the Offer to Purchase.
The 2027 Notes accepted for purchase will receive a Tender Offer Consideration of $980.00 per $1,000 principal amount of 2027 Notes accepted for purchase, and the 2028 Notes accepted for purchase will receive a Tender Offer Consideration of $991.25 per $1,000 principal amount of 2028 Notes accepted for purchase, in each case as set forth in the table above. The Tender Offer Consideration, plus accrued and unpaid interest for Notes that were validly tendered as of the Expiration Date, will be paid by the Company on or around October 14, 2026, the second business day after the Expiration Date (the “Settlement Date”). The Company intends to fund the Tender Offer Consideration plus accrued and unpaid interest for the Notes tendered in the Tender Offer with $95.0 million of cash on hand and $105.0 million of borrowings under the Company’s unsecured revolving credit facility. Current cash on hand includes approximately $21.2 million of net proceeds from the Company’s recent sale of 2001 Gateway in San Jose, California, approximately $59.5 million of net proceeds from the recent sale of 875 & 899 Howard in San Francisco, California, and approximately $14.0 million of net proceeds from recent sale of assets associated with the winddown of certain Quixote operations. Subsequent to the Tender Offer settlement, Hudson Pacific intends to repay a portion of its outstanding borrowings under the unsecured revolving credit facility with net proceeds from the anticipated sale of Skyport Plaza in San Jose, California, though there can be no assurance as to when or if the sale of Skyport Plaza will be completed.
Any Notes tendered but not accepted for purchase in the Tender Offer will be promptly credited to the account of the registered holder of such Notes with The Depository Trust Company and otherwise returned in accordance with the terms of the Offer to Purchase.
A copy of the Offer to Purchase is available at https://www.gbsc-usa.com/hpp/ or may be obtained from Global Bondholder Services Corporation, the Information Agent and Tender Agent for the Tender Offer, at (855) 654-2014 (toll free) or (212) 430-3774 or by email to [email protected]. In connection with the Tender Offer, the Company has retained Wells Fargo Securities, LLC as the exclusive Dealer Manager. Questions regarding the Tender Offer should be directed to Wells Fargo Securities, LLC by calling collect at (704) 410-4759 or toll free at (866) 309-6316 or by email to [email protected].
This press release is neither an offer to purchase nor a solicitation of an offer to sell the Notes. Further, nothing contained herein shall constitute a notice of redemption of the Notes or any other securities. The Tender Offer is being made only by the Offer to Purchase and the information in this press release is qualified by reference to the Offer to Purchase. None of Hudson Pacific, its board of directors, the Company or their affiliates, the Dealer Manager, the Information Agent and Tender Agent or the trustees with respect to the Notes is making any recommendation as to whether Holders should tender any Notes in response to the Tender Offer, and neither the Company nor any such other person has authorized any person to make any such recommendation. Holders must make their own decision as to whether to tender any of their Notes, and, if so, the principal amount of Notes to tender.
About Hudson Pacific Properties
Hudson Pacific Properties, Inc. (NYSE: HPP) owns, operates, develops and redevelops top-tier office real estate across high-barrier-to-entry West Coast gateway markets, including the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, Seattle and Vancouver. The Company also owns a studio platform unique among publicly traded REITs, comprising one of the largest independent studio operations in Los Angeles, along with an additional studio in New York. Hudson Pacific's in-service portfolio of 45 properties includes approximately 12.6 million square feet of office space and approximately 1.7 million square feet of studio space, leased to investment-grade and blue-chip tenants in technology and media, balanced by legal, government, retail and financial and business services users. The Company has been named GRESB's Global Sector Leader for U.S. office five years running and was one of the first REITs to achieve carbon neutrality across its operations, which it has maintained since 2020.
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Brookfield Renewable Partners odložila hlasování o zjednodušení své struktury na 29. října 2026; návrh dosud podpořilo více než 99,7 % odevzdaných hlasů.
Votes received to date have been overwhelmingly in supportMeeting has been adjourned to October 29, 2026 to meet approval requirementUnitholders with questions or who require assistance voting should contact BEP’s proxy solicitation agent, Laurel Hill Advisory Group, by calling 1-877-452-7184 (toll-free within North America) or 1-416-304-0211 (outside of North America), texting “INFO” to either number, or by emailing [email protected].
BROOKFIELD, NEWS, Oct. 09, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Brookfield Renewable Partners (“BEP”) (TSX: BEP.UN, NYSE: BEP) today announced a new date for the special meeting of unitholders of BEP (the “Unitholders’ Meeting” or the “Meeting”) in respect of the proposed corporate structure simplification (the “Simplification”). Votes received to date demonstrate overwhelming support for the Simplification, with over 99.7% of votes cast in favor. The new date will provide additional time for unitholders to participate and help achieve the required voting threshold to proceed with the Simplification, which we believe is in the best interests of all securityholders.
Approval from at least two-thirds (66⅔%) of outstanding BEP units as of the close of business on the record date is required to proceed with the Simplification.
The Unitholders’ Meeting will now be held virtually on October 29, 2026 at 11:00 a.m. EDT. The record date for determining unitholders eligible to vote at the Meeting will remain as August 21, 2026.
As a result of the new date for the Meeting, the updated deadline for registered unitholders to cast their votes by proxy is 5:00 p.m. EDT on October 27, 2026. Unitholders who have already submitted a proxy do not need to vote again.
The special meeting of shareholders of Brookfield Renewable Corporation (“BEPC”) (NYSE/TSX: BEPC) will continue to be held virtually on October 14, 2026, at 12:00 p.m. EDT.
The Board of Directors of each of BEP and BEPC, based in part on the unanimous recommendations of their respective nominating and governance committees (consisting entirely of independent directors) and the fairness opinions received from Scotiabank, unanimously determined that the Simplification is in the best interests of BEP and BEPC, respectively, and have unanimously resolved to approve the Simplification and recommend that BEP unitholders and BEPC shareholders vote in favor of the Simplification. Glass Lewis has recommended that both BEP unitholders and BEPC shareholders vote FOR the Simplification, while ISS has recommended that BEP unitholders vote FOR the Simplification.
Benefits of a Simplified Structure
The Simplification will combine BEP and BEPC into a single publicly traded corporation, Brookfield Renewable Partners Inc. (“BEP Inc.”), creating a simpler corporate structure designed to deliver long-term value for all securityholders.
Brookfield Renewable expects the Simplification to be tax-deferred for Canadian and U.S. investors and completed without any meaningful cost to the business, while providing securityholders with the following benefits, among others:
Improved consolidated trading liquidity through a single listed security;Increased demand from current indices and potential additional index inclusion;Stronger alignment with long-term capital allocation trends toward indexable and ETF-eligible corporate securities;Simplified investor analysis, screening, and benchmarking through a single listed reporting entity;Broader access to a larger pool of investors who prefer corporate structures;Enhanced governance framework and voting rights for public securityholders; andFor BEP unitholders, elimination of onerous partnership tax reporting forms and preferential dividend tax rates for many Canadian and U.S. taxable investors.
Additional information is also available on our website at https://bep.brookfield.com under “Proposed Simplification”.
If the necessary securityholder approvals are obtained, the final hearing to obtain the final order from the Supreme Court of British Columbia approving the Simplification is expected to be held on or about November 3, 2026. Subject to the receipt of the final order and required regulatory approvals, it is anticipated that the Simplification will be completed in the fourth quarter of 2026.
Questions or Require Voting Assistance?
The Company has retained Laurel Hill Advisory Group as its proxy solicitation agent. If you have any questions about the Meeting or require assistance voting, please contact Laurel Hill Advisory Group:
Toll Free: 1-877-452-7184 (toll free in North America)
International: 1-416-304-0211
Text: "INFO" to either number above
Email: [email protected].
The Company may also use the services of Broadridge Investor Communications to assist eligible beneficial shareholders with voting their shares with written confirmation or over the telephone with Laurel Hill. Simply contact Laurel Hill Advisory Group to vote your shares today.
For additional information on the Simplification, please see the joint management information circular filed with the applicable Canadian securities regulators and with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, which is available on SEDAR+ at https://sedarplus.ca and on EDGAR at https://sec.gov. Securityholders are urged to read the circular carefully.
Please note that BEP has applied for and received exemptive relief from the Ontario Securities Commission in order to not require further approval by the holders of class A shares of BEP Inc. (“BEP Inc. Class A Shares”) for any future distributions of BEP Inc. Class A Shares or securities that are, directly or indirectly, convertible into, or exercisable or exchangeable for, BEP Inc. Class A Shares under a prospectus, conditional upon obtaining the required securityholder approvals described in the joint management information circular. Accordingly, (i) in respect of BEP, a vote in favor of the Simplification by BEP unitholders will constitute voting in favor of BEP Inc.’s ability to conduct future issuances of BEP Inc. Class A Shares or securities that are, directly or indirectly, convertible into, or exercisable or exchangeable for, BEP Inc. Class A Shares pursuant to a prospectus, and (ii) in respect of BEPC, a vote in favor of the Simplification by BEPC shareholders will, in the event that the Simplification is approved by BEPC shareholders, constitute voting in favor of BEP Inc.’s ability to conduct future issuances of BEP Inc. Class A Shares or securities that are, directly or indirectly, convertible into, or exercisable or exchangeable for, BEP Inc. Class A Shares pursuant to a prospectus, in each case, without requiring further approval by holders of BEP Inc. Class A Shares in accordance with National Instrument 41-101 – General Prospectus Requirements.
About Brookfield Renewable
Brookfield Renewable operates one of the world’s largest publicly traded platforms for renewable power and sustainable solutions. Our renewable power portfolio consists of hydroelectric, wind, utility-scale solar, distributed solar and storage facilities and our sustainable solutions assets include our investment in a leading global nuclear services business and a portfolio of investments in carbon capture and storage capacity, agricultural renewable natural gas, materials recycling and eFuels manufacturing capacity, among others.
Investors can access the portfolio either through Brookfield Renewable Partners L.P. (NYSE: BEP; TSX: BEP.UN), a Bermuda-based limited partnership, or Brookfield Renewable Corporation (NYSE, TSX: BEPC), a Canadian corporation. Further information is available at https://bep.brookfield.com.
Brookfield Renewable is the flagship listed energy company of Brookfield Asset Management, a global alternative asset manager headquartered in New York with over $1 trillion of assets under management. For more information, go to https://brookfield.com.
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This news release does not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy any securities and shall not constitute an offer, solicitation or sale in any state or jurisdiction in which such an offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful.
This news release contains forward-looking statements and information within the meaning of Canadian provincial securities laws and “forward looking statements” within the meaning of Section 27A of the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended, Section 21E of the U.S. Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, “safe harbor” provisions of the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and in any applicable Canadian securities regulations.
Forward-looking statements may include estimates, plans, expectations, opinions, forecasts, projections, guidance or other statements that are not statements of fact. Forward-looking statements in this news release include statements regarding the Simplification, including the timing of the Unitholders’ Meeting, the receipt of the required securityholder, court and regulatory approvals, and the expected timing, tax treatment and benefits of the Simplification. There can be no assurance that the securityholders will approve the Simplification or, if approved, that the Simplification will be completed or its anticipated benefits realized.
The foregoing list of important factors that may affect future results is not exhaustive. Except as required by law, Brookfield Renewable does not undertake any obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements or information, whether written or oral, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
Amazon v listopadu nahradí šéfa Alexy Daniela Rausche Aidanem Marcussem, dosavadním viceprezidentem Fire TV. Změna přichází po uvedení tabletů s AI asistentem Alexa+.
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SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 9 (Reuters) - Amazon (AMZN.O), opens new tab on Friday confirmed it was shuffling leadership in its Alexa division, a day after the company announced its first tablet computers featuring the voice assistant.
Daniel Rausch, a 17-year Amazon veteran who has served as vice president of Alexa and Echo for over three years, is stepping away from the unit next month, Amazon said in response to a Reuters inquiry.
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Rausch, who has served as the face of Alexa at events and global launches, will return in another capacity in the devices and services division in 2027.
In his place, Amazon will install Aidan Marcuss, currently the vice president of Fire TV, advertising and the Amazon appstore. Marcuss joined Amazon from Microsoft (MSFT.O), opens new tab in early 2025. He oversaw the release of a new Fire TV stick last month, which has garnered mixed reviews.
Kevin Keith, a product and marketing vice president, will keep that role but also take on Marcuss' responsibilities for the time being, Amazon said. The company declined to provide additional detail about the changes.
Alexa has been a consistent money-loser for Amazon since its release in 2014.
Amazon spent several years developing a new version of the voice assistant offering generative AI that can respond to longer prompts. The service is featured in the new Alexa Tablets announced on Thursday that Amazon has priced as a high-end product compared with prior Fire tablets that were inexpensive.
Alexa+, as the latest version is known, is included in the $139-per-year Prime membership or for $20 monthly as a standalone service.
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Akcie Deere během poslední obchodní seance klesly o 4,57 % na 622,78 USD. Společnost má zveřejnit hospodářské výsledky 25. listopadu 2026; očekává se zisk na akcii (EPS) ve výši 4,08 USD a tržby 10,3 miliardy USD.
Deere (DE - Free Report) ended the recent trading session at $622.78, demonstrating a -4.57% change from the preceding day's closing price. This change lagged the S&P 500's daily gain of 0.6%. Meanwhile, the Dow gained 0.83%, and the Nasdaq, a tech-heavy index, added 0.64%.
Prior to today's trading, shares of the agricultural equipment manufacturer had lost 3.74% lagged the Industrial Products sector's loss of 2.62% and the S&P 500's gain of 1.34%.
The upcoming earnings release of Deere will be of great interest to investors. The company's earnings report is expected on November 25, 2026. It is anticipated that the company will report an EPS of $4.08, marking a 3.82% rise compared to the same quarter of the previous year. Alongside, our most recent consensus estimate is anticipating revenue of $10.3 billion, indicating a 2.59% downward movement from the same quarter last year.
Looking at the full year, the Zacks Consensus Estimates suggest analysts are expecting earnings of $18.12 per share and revenue of $41.35 billion. These totals would mark changes of -2.05% and +6.25%, respectively, from last year.
It's also important for investors to be aware of any recent modifications to analyst estimates for Deere. These revisions help to show the ever-changing nature of near-term business trends. Hence, positive alterations in estimates signify analyst optimism regarding the business and profitability.
Based on our research, we believe these estimate revisions are directly related to near-term stock moves. To benefit from this, we have developed the Zacks Rank, a proprietary model which takes these estimate changes into account and provides an actionable rating system.
The Zacks Rank system, which varies between #1 (Strong Buy) and #5 (Strong Sell), carries an impressive track record of exceeding expectations, confirmed by external audits, with stocks at #1 delivering an average annual return of +25% since 1988. Over the past month, the Zacks Consensus EPS estimate remained stagnant. Deere currently has a Zacks Rank of #3 (Hold).
Digging into valuation, Deere currently has a Forward P/E ratio of 36.01. For comparison, its industry has an average Forward P/E of 19.9, which means Deere is trading at a premium to the group.
We can additionally observe that DE currently boasts a PEG ratio of 2.39. The PEG ratio is similar to the widely-used P/E ratio, but this metric also takes the company's expected earnings growth rate into account. As the market closed yesterday, the Manufacturing - Farm Equipment industry was having an average PEG ratio of 1.
The Manufacturing - Farm Equipment industry is part of the Industrial Products sector. Currently, this industry holds a Zacks Industry Rank of 43, positioning it in the top 18% of all 250+ industries.
The strength of our individual industry groups is measured by the Zacks Industry Rank, which is calculated based on the average Zacks Rank of the individual stocks within these groups. Our research shows that the top 50% rated industries outperform the bottom half by a factor of 2 to 1.
Keep in mind to rely on Zacks.com to watch all these stock-impacting metrics, and more, in the succeeding trading sessions.
Akcie společnosti Gilead Sciences uzavřely na 151,17 USD, což představuje denní růst o 2,77 %. Společnost má ve výsledcích vykázat zisk na akcii (EPS) ve výši 2,14 USD a tržby ve výši 7,81 miliardy USD.
Gilead Sciences (GILD - Free Report) closed at $151.17 in the latest trading session, marking a +2.77% move from the prior day. The stock outperformed the S&P 500, which registered a daily gain of 0.6%. Elsewhere, the Dow gained 0.83%, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq added 0.64%.
The stock of HIV and hepatitis C drugmaker has risen by 1.58% in the past month, leading the Medical sector's loss of 1.97% and the S&P 500's gain of 1.34%.
Analysts and investors alike will be keeping a close eye on the performance of Gilead Sciences in its upcoming earnings disclosure. It is anticipated that the company will report an EPS of $2.14, marking a 13.36% fall compared to the same quarter of the previous year. Meanwhile, the latest consensus estimate predicts the revenue to be $7.81 billion, indicating a 0.51% increase compared to the same quarter of the previous year.
For the annual period, the Zacks Consensus Estimates anticipate earnings of -$0.48 per share and a revenue of $30.76 billion, signifying shifts of -105.89% and +4.47%, respectively, from the last year.
Investors might also notice recent changes to analyst estimates for Gilead Sciences. These recent revisions tend to reflect the evolving nature of short-term business trends. Hence, positive alterations in estimates signify analyst optimism regarding the business and profitability.
Research indicates that these estimate revisions are directly correlated with near-term share price momentum. Investors can capitalize on this by using the Zacks Rank. This model considers these estimate changes and provides a simple, actionable rating system.
The Zacks Rank system, running from #1 (Strong Buy) to #5 (Strong Sell), holds an admirable track record of superior performance, independently audited, with #1 stocks contributing an average annual return of +25% since 1988. Over the past month, the Zacks Consensus EPS estimate has moved 0.57% higher. Gilead Sciences is currently sporting a Zacks Rank of #3 (Hold).
The Medical - Biomedical and Genetics industry is part of the Medical sector. This group has a Zacks Industry Rank of 177, putting it in the bottom 29% of all 250+ industries.
The Zacks Industry Rank assesses the strength of our separate industry groups by calculating the average Zacks Rank of the individual stocks contained within the groups. Our research shows that the top 50% rated industries outperform the bottom half by a factor of 2 to 1.
You can find more information on all of these metrics, and much more, on Zacks.com.
, /PRNewswire/ -- The Board of Directors of The AES Corporation (NYSE: AES) declared a quarterly common stock dividend of $0.17595 per share payable on November 13, 2026 to shareholders of record at the close of business on October 30, 2026.
Additional information regarding dividends paid by AES, including tax treatment, can be found on www.aes.com by selecting "Investors" then "Stock Information" and then "Dividend History."
About AES
The AES Corporation (NYSE: AES) is a Fortune 500 global energy company accelerating the future of energy. Together with our many stakeholders, we're improving lives by delivering the greener, smarter energy solutions the world needs. Our diverse workforce is committed to continuous innovation and operational excellence, while partnering with our customers on their strategic energy transitions and continuing to meet their energy needs today. For more information, visit www.aes.com.
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This news release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Securities Act of 1933 and of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Such forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, those related to future earnings, growth and financial and operating performance. Forward-looking statements are not intended to be a guarantee of future results but instead constitute AES' current expectations based on reasonable assumptions. Estimates and projections regarding, among other things, the expected date of closing of the transaction and the potential benefits thereof, its business and industry, management's beliefs and certain assumptions made by AES, all of which are subject to change. Forecasted financial information is based on certain material assumptions. These assumptions include, but are not limited to, our expectations regarding accurate projections of future interest rates, commodity price and foreign currency pricing, continued normal levels of operating performance and electricity volume at our distribution companies and operational performance at our generation businesses consistent with historical levels, as well as the execution of PPAs, conversion of our backlog and growth investments at normalized investment levels, and rates of return consistent with prior experience.
Actual results could differ materially from those projected in our forward-looking statements due to risks, uncertainties and other factors. Important factors that could affect actual results are discussed in AES' filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC"), including, but not limited to, the risks discussed under Item 1A: "Risk Factors" and Item 7: "Management's Discussion & Analysis" in AES' 2025 Annual Report on Form 10-K and in subsequent reports filed with the SEC. Readers are encouraged to read AES' filings to learn more about the risk factors associated with AES' business. AES undertakes no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except where required by law.
Any Stockholder who desires a copy of the Company's 2025 Annual Report on Form 10-K filed March 2, 2026 with the SEC may obtain a copy (excluding the exhibits thereto) without charge by addressing a request to the Office of the Corporate Secretary, The AES Corporation, 4300 Wilson Boulevard, Arlington, Virginia 22203. Exhibits also may be requested, but a charge equal to the reproduction cost thereof will be made. A copy of the Annual Report on Form 10-K may be obtained by visiting the Company's website at www.aes.com.
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Kentucky American Water dokončila akvizici vodárenského a kanalizačního systému společnosti Black Mountain Utility District v okrese Harlan County za 1,4 milionu USD a během pěti let plánuje investovat 20,9 milionu USD.
Acquisition Adds Over 4,300 Water Connections; $21 Million in Planned Infrastructure Investments
, /PRNewswire/ -- Kentucky American Water today completed the acquisition of the Black Mountain Utility District water system and wastewater service in Harlan County for $1.4 million. The newly acquired system serves over 4,300 water customer connections and six wastewater customer connections. The water service acquisition was approved by the Kentucky Public Service Commission (PSC) on July 10, 2026, and the wastewater service acquisition was approved on September 21, 2026, both reflecting Kentucky American Water's ongoing commitment to strengthening water infrastructure and enhancing service in communities across the state. Additionally, Kentucky American Water is welcoming to its operations 10 employees who have proudly provided water service to these customers prior to the acquisition.
"Reliable water service is something we often take for granted. It's the one thing in life we depend on the most in our daily lives that we likely pay the least for," said Harlan County Judge Executive Dan Mosley. "Black Mountain Utility District customers have experienced far too many issues in recent years. Kentucky American Water acquiring this system and their commitment to invest more than $20 million into system infrastructure upgrades over the next few years will have a positive long-term impact on customers. I appreciate Kentucky American Water for making this investment in Harlan County and I look forward to seeing the system improve under their watch."
Kentucky American Water is committed to investing more than $20.9 million in improvements for the water system over the next five years. Planned improvements include replacing water meters within the first year, implementing safety and security enhancements, pump station improvements as well as control and security enhancements that monitor the water system.
Recently, Kentucky American Water worked closely with Black Mountain Utility District and local emergency management officials to support response and recovery efforts following devastating flooding in Harlan County. Company employees and contractors provided operational and technical assistance to help assess water system impacts and facilitate water service restoration for approximately 200 homes.
"Kentucky American Water is committed to delivering safe, clean, reliable and affordable water service to our new customers in Harlan County, just as we do for over half a million people across the Commonwealth," said Rob Burton, president of Kentucky American Water. "We'll continue to strengthen this region's water infrastructure to improve quality and reliability of service for customers through ongoing investment and we look forward to being an active and impactful community partner."
High-quality customer service is a priority for Kentucky American Water. New customers will receive additional information in the mail from Kentucky American Water in the coming weeks to help facilitate a smooth transition, and the information is also available now on a new, dedicated webpage on the company's website at kentuckyamwater.com under Customer Service and Billing, then select For New Customers.
Customers will be able to take advantage of the company's customer service benefits, including its online account management portal, MyWater, multiple options for bill payment, as well as the company's customer assistance H2O Help to Others program for qualifying customers needing help paying their water bill.
About American Water
American Water (NYSE: AWK) is the largest regulated water and wastewater utility company in the United States. With a history dating back to 1886 and celebrating 140 years in 2026, We Keep Life Flowing® by providing safe, clean, reliable and affordable drinking water and wastewater services to approximately 14 million people with regulated operations in 14 states and on 19 military installations. American Water's approximately 7,000 talented professionals leverage their significant expertise and the company's national size and scale to achieve excellent outcomes for the benefit of customers, employees, investors and other stakeholders.
For more information, visit amwater.com and join American Water on LinkedIn, Facebook, X and Instagram.
About Kentucky American Water
Kentucky American Water, a subsidiary of American Water with approximately 150 dedicated employees, provides safe, clean, reliable and affordable water and wastewater services to approximately 550,000 people.
For more information, visit Kentucky American Water's website and join Kentucky American Water on Facebook, X and Instagram.
Systém Stwo pro generování důkazů ve Starknetu snížil špičkovou spotřebu paměti z 13,9 GiB na 2,1 GiB, což umožňuje generovat důkazy o transakcích přímo na smartphonech.
Generating a zero-knowledge proof has long been a job for serious hardware. Now a phone can do it.
Open research on Stwo, the prover powering Starknet, has reduced its peak memory use from 13.9 GiB to 2.1 GiB. That reduction is what allows a smartphone to generate proofs for Starknet transactions.
From workstation territory to your pocket A prover is software that produces a cryptographic proof. Think of the proof as a compact mathematical receipt showing that a batch of computation was done correctly.
Anyone can check that receipt quickly without redoing the work. STARK proofs, the type Starknet relies on, are one way to build those receipts.
Peak memory is the most RAM the prover needs at any single moment during that job. The research narrowed that doorway requirement dramatically. A job that once demanded 13.9 GiB at its worst moment now tops out at 2.1 GiB.
Community contributors had already flagged memory peaks above 13 GiB in earlier builds, before the latest round of optimizations arrived.
Separate benchmarks put Stwo’s typical memory footprint somewhere between roughly 10 GiB and 20+ GiB, scaling with the size of the workload. Against that backdrop, a 2.1 GiB peak for transaction proofs looks less like a trim and more like a full renovation.
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The phone claim is not purely theoretical. Millions of local ZK proofs have been generated across thousands of smartphone models.
“Local” is the key word. The proof is created on the device itself, rather than handed off to a remote server to crunch.
How Stwo got here Starknet is a Layer 2 network built on top of Ethereum, designed to make transactions more efficient and accessible. Proofs are central to how it works, which makes the prover one of its most important pieces of infrastructure.
Stwo went live on Starknet mainnet on November 3, 2025. It replaced the earlier Stone prover and now handles proving for all Starknet blocks.
Starkware made the move as part of a roadmap that emphasizes client-side and decentralized proving at lower cost.
Client-side proving means the user’s own device generates the proof. Decentralized proving spreads that work across many participants instead of concentrating it with a handful of specialized operators.
The effort also leaned on open, community-driven research. That collaborative approach produced substantial optimizations, rather than leaving every improvement to a single internal team.
Stwo is not the only item on Starkware’s list. The company is also advancing recursive proving techniques, which significantly shrink proof sizes, and is working to integrate post-quantum signatures.
Recursive proving is roughly the cryptographic version of nesting dolls: proofs that verify other proofs, compressing a lot of work into a smaller final package. Post-quantum signatures aim to keep accounts secure even if future quantum computers become capable of breaking today’s cryptography.
What this means for Starknet and its users The most direct implication is for privacy. When a phone can generate its own proof, sensitive transaction data does not need to leave the device to be processed elsewhere.
That is why the upgrade is expected to boost the performance of decentralized applications, particularly those built around privacy and security.
The 2.1 GiB figure applies to transaction proofs, while broader benchmarks show Stwo’s memory needs climbing past 20 GiB for larger workloads. In other words, phones handling their own transactions is a different job from proving entire blocks. The heavy lifting for the network as a whole still scales with workload size.
If developers begin shipping wallets and dApps that generate proofs on-device by default, the memory breakthrough becomes a product feature rather than a research result.
For a field where “runs on a phone” has often meant “runs a demo on a phone,” millions of proofs across thousands of handset models is a notably sturdier claim.
Disclosure: This article was edited by Estefano Gomez. For more information on how we create and review content, see our Editorial Policy.
Company Pays Dividend for 201st Consecutive Quarter
MIAMI--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Board of Directors of Ryder System, Inc. (NYSE: R) declared a regular quarterly cash dividend of $1.01 per share of common stock to be paid on December 18, 2026 to shareholders of record on November 23, 2026.
This is Ryder’s 201st consecutive quarterly cash dividend – marking 50 years of uninterrupted dividend payments.
About Ryder System, Inc.
Ryder System, Inc. (NYSE: R) is a nearly $13 billion leading provider of outsourced logistics and transportation services throughout the United States, Canada, and Mexico. Ryder offers supply chain, dedicated transportation, and fleet management solutions that integrate every step of the supply chain port‑to‑door, including cross-border logistics, fleet and transportation management, warehousing and distribution, and final delivery to customers’ doorsteps. Ryder’s broad portfolio of services encompasses managed transportation, freight brokerage, dedicated contract carriage with professional drivers, full‑service fleet leasing and maintenance, commercial truck rental, automation and robotics, digital technologies, contract manufacturing and packaging, omnichannel retail fulfillment including e-commerce and last-mile delivery, and used vehicle sales. Serving more than 20 industries, Ryder manages approximately 240,000 commercial vehicles, operates nearly 800 maintenance locations, and runs approximately 320 warehouses totaling more than 100 million square feet. Ryder is consistently recognized for technology‑driven innovation and industry‑leading practices in safety, health, security, talent acquisition, and environmental management, and was most recently named to Fortune’s “America’s Most Innovative Companies” list. www.ryder.com
Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements: Certain statements and information included in this news release are “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the Federal Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements are based on our current plans and expectations and are subject to risks, uncertainties and assumptions. Accordingly, these forward-looking statements should be evaluated with consideration given to the many risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results and events to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements including those risks set forth in our periodic filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. New risks emerge from time to time. It is not possible for management to predict all such risk factors or to assess the impact of such risks on our business. Accordingly, we undertake no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise.
, /PRNewswire/ -- Evolent Health, Inc. (NYSE: EVH), a company focused on achieving better health outcomes for people with complex conditions, today announced it will release its third quarter 2026 financial results on Thursday, November 5, 2026, before market open, with a conference call to follow at 8:30 a.m. ET.
Shareholders and interested participants may listen to a live broadcast of the conference call found on Evolent's investor relations website, https://ir.evolent.com.
Analysts interested in asking questions during the live call should dial 855.940.9467, or 412.317.6034 for international callers, and reference the "Evolent call" 15 minutes prior to the call.
An audio playback of the conference call will be available on Evolent's investor relations website for 90 days after the call.
About Evolent
Evolent specializes in better health outcomes for people with complex conditions through proven solutions that make health care simpler and more affordable. Evolent serves a national base of leading payers and providers and is consistently recognized as a top place to work in health care nationally. Learn more about how Evolent is changing the way health care is delivered by visiting https://ir.evolent.com.
OpenETF spustil na síti Hyperliquid testnet tokenizovaných fondů, v němž investoři drží podíly kompatibilní se standardem ERC-20 ve vlastních peněženkách. Systém používá pouze testovací aktiva bez hodnoty.
At 04:23 UTC on October 6, OpenETF introduced a testnet system that turns Hyperliquid portfolios into funds with wallet-held share tokens. The current deployment uses test assets with no value, and the documentation says real funds have no place in it.
The product gives each fund a name, symbol, public terms and an ERC-20-compatible share token. A manager trades the portfolio on Hyperliquid while investors hold the shares in their own wallets. The first release accepts subscriptions in $USDC at net asset value, with a minimum subscription of 100 $USDC unless the manager sets a higher floor.
How the fund spans Hyperliquid Each fund is a vault that operates across HyperCore and HyperEVM. The vault contract on HyperEVM issues shares, prices subscriptions and redemptions, and pays holders. The same vault acts as the trading account on HyperCore, where it holds and trades the portfolio. The contract reads HyperCore directly, so the docs say a subscription or redemption uses on-chain portfolio data in the same transaction.
That structure separates ownership from trading authority. Investors keep the share tokens. The manager directs trading but never receives the vault’s trading key and has no withdrawal path through the contract or OpenETF’s execution service. This does not remove manager risk. A manager, or an attacker who gains trading authority, can still damage the fund through losing or abusive trades.
OpenETF also sits in the execution path. Its shared service checks every order against the fund’s rules before signing it. Trading therefore depends on that service. The same dependency currently applies when the system prices new redemptions and raises the cash needed to pay them. The planned Mandate layer, which would enforce each manager’s published trading limits on every order, is still marked as coming soon.
Managers can create a fund without approval or a creation fee. A manager must buy at least 100 $USDC of the same shares sold to investors and select a commitment ratio of at least 5%. The manager cannot reduce their holding below that ratio. Eligible portfolios can use Hyperliquid’s main exchange perpetuals, eligible spot markets and admitted HIP-3 markets. The docs state that there is no exposure cap for an individual supported market.
Subscriptions, fees and exits Investors subscribe and redeem in $USDC at net asset value. Redemptions can be requested at any time without a lock-up, minimum size or manager approval. Shares transfer between wallets with their redemption rights. Every subscription, redemption and daily accounting point leaves a receipt that users can recompute, while each fund has a Passport containing sourced facts about its terms and history.
A redemption can still take time. OpenETF’s service may need to unwind positions and raise cash on HyperCore before moving it to HyperEVM for payment. Trading losses or market conditions can also reduce the amount ultimately paid.
For a holder, the absence of manager approval removes one discretionary exit gate, but it does not make redemption automatic or immediate. The execution service still prices the request and turns portfolio positions into cash. A transferable share also carries the redemption right to its new wallet, so custody of the token determines who can present that claim. Users therefore need to assess both the manager’s strategy and the platform dependencies before treating the share like an immediately redeemable balance.
The testnet applies an exit adjustment fee to each priced redemption portion except the final shares leaving a fund. The fee starts at 0.1%, adds 0.05% for each unit of notional leverage, and is capped at 1%. It stays in the fund for remaining holders rather than going to the manager or OpenETF.
Managers choose a performance fee from 0% to 50% of pooled profit, with a 20% default, and a management fee from 0% to 2% a year, with a 0% default. Both rates freeze when the fund issues shares. That makes the terms visible before a subscription, but it does not protect an investor from leverage, thin markets or a poor strategy.
The fee design separates compensation for the manager from the cost assigned to an exiting holder. Performance fees settle yearly against pooled profit, while management fees accrue as an annual rate. The exit adjustment is different: it stays inside the fund and rises with notional leverage until it reaches the 1% cap. A prospective holder can inspect those fixed manager rates before subscribing, then compare them with the portfolio’s market exposure and the extra cost that leverage can add at redemption.
What changes from Hyperliquid vaults OpenETF presents the product as a different wrapper around managed Hyperliquid strategies. In its comparison, a legacy Hyperliquid user vault records an internal $USDC balance, charges a 10,000 $USDC creation fee and imposes a one-day lock after a deposit. OpenETF instead gives the investor a transferable share token, charges no creation fee and has no redemption lock-up. The manager starts with 100 $USDC of their own capital.
The share token opens another route for integrations because wallets and applications can read it as a standard token. Collateral use and deeper integrations remain roadmap items rather than current functions. The roadmap also lists allowlisted subscriptions, AI-assisted fund creation, HIP-4 outcome markets, HyperEVM DeFi positions and funds holding other OpenETF funds.
The main user trade-off is visible in the control model. A manager cannot simply withdraw the portfolio, yet investors rely on OpenETF’s execution service, Hyperliquid and $USDC. They also bear the strategy’s trading losses and may wait while positions are unwound for a redemption. The docs describe the deployment as testnet only and do not give a dated mainnet launch. The next unresolved milestone is when OpenETF will open the system to assets with value and whether the Mandate controls will be live before that happens.
Seth for Privacy varuje, že smíchání bitcoinů bez KYC s prostředky podléhajícími KYC v jedné transakci může okamžitě propojit dříve anonymní prostředky s identitou uživatele.
Just one transaction can compromise years of discreet Bitcoin activity, Cake Wallet’s chief operating officer has warned.
Speaking on the Bitcoin Rails podcast this week, activist Seth for Privacy talked about different ways of protecting one’s privacy when using Bitcoin and said that focusing on privacy was a must for the West.
Bitcoin privacy is a hot topic again ever since the developers of private coin mixer Samourai Wallet went on trial last year and were subsequently imprisoned.
But just this week, the U.S. Department of Treasury scrapped two long-stalled crypto surveillance proposals, handing a major win to privacy advocates and the digital asset industry.
“If you ever spend your no-KYC coins with one of your KYC coins — which if you just let the wallet do its thing, it could do because it doesn’t know the difference — you immediately connect all of the non-KYC Bitcoin that you spend in that with your identity,” Seth said, referring to UTXO management, also called “coin control” by some wallets.
Bitcoin wallets don’t hold a single balance but a collection of separate unspent transaction outputs — UTXOs — each one a discrete “coin” from a specific past transaction.
When you send a payment larger than any one UTXO, the wallet picks several and combines them as inputs to the same transaction — an easy mistake to make, Seth highlighted.
Seth added that unlike in the global South, where people have experienced more oppressive states, citizens in the West will need to “feel pain” in order to realize how important privacy is.
Still, he added that attitudes were changing and people were getting more serious about protecting their privacy.
“It has been shifting, in the last five or six years a lot of people — even in the West — are starting to think [privacy] really matters, we really need to think about this seriously now,” he said.
Cake Wallet is a privacy-oriented, self-custody, open-source wallet. The wallet earlier this year integrated Bitcoin’s Lightning Network into its platform.
Using the second layer solution is not only faster and cheaper, it also offers more privacy than Bitcoin’s main chain.
While Cake Wallet supports other cryptocurrencies, including privacy coin Monero, Seth for Privacy added that he’d love it if the digital coin didn’t exist.
“If Bitcoin’s privacy got good enough that you could use it and have at least almost as good privacy as Monero without massive hoops to jump through, and Monero ceased to exist, that’s fine,” he said.
“I would much rather the thing that more people use has better privacy than a more niche tool that has perfect privacy, and that’s something that less people are using because it’s less well known.”
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Mathew is a reporter who's covered the space since 2019, reporting on everything from Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele's Bitcoin bet to crypto exchange FTX's bankruptcy.
Finanční výbor francouzského Národního shromáždění podpořil návrh rozpočtu na rok 2027, který by zdanil výměnu Bitcoinu za stablecoiny i bez převodu do fiat měn.
The French National Assembly Finance Committee has voted in favor of taxing Bitcoin-to-stablecoin swaps as part of the proposed 2027 budget. This amendment, yet to become law, would treat these swaps as taxable events, even if the conversion does not involve a direct cash-out to euros or other fiat currencies. The proposal marks a shift from the current system, which typically defers taxation on crypto-to-crypto exchanges until conversion into fiat currency. The move is seen as an effort to regulate the growing cryptocurrency market within France.
Market participants appear to interpret this development as introducing regulatory uncertainty, which is likely to have an impact on Bitcoin’s price outlook. Current pricing in prediction markets suggests a decrease in the perceived likelihood of Bitcoin reaching $200,000 by the end of 2026. The odds reflect a cautious stance among market participants, who are weighing the potential implications of this regulatory change on the broader cryptocurrency market.
Key Takeaways The French finance panel’s vote suggests potential regulatory changes, adding uncertainty to the crypto market. Pricing in prediction markets indicates a decrease in the likelihood of Bitcoin reaching $200,000 by year-end 2026. The proposed tax introduces a shift from previous deferral practices, potentially affecting investor sentiment. What to Watch Market observers will be monitoring the next steps in the French legislative process, as further parliamentary approval is required for the amendment to become law. Any developments that solidify or modify this proposal could influence market perceptions and pricing. Additionally, reactions from major market players and potential adjustments in international markets could further affect Bitcoin price predictions.
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U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has said the American authorities will soon seize $1 billion in crypto from Iran.
Speaking on Newsmax’s NPolicy Summit in Washington, D.C. on Thursday, Bessent added that economic sanctions on the Middle Eastern country were working.
Iran has been using bitcoin — and other cryptocurrencies — to skirt around U.S. sanctions. The U.S. in April started targeting crypto wallets linked to the Iranian regime, Bessent said at the time.
“What we have done has never been seen before,” Bessent said Thursday on Iranian sanctions.
“We’re probably going to seize $1 billion of crypto this week,” he continued. “We know where it is. We are isolating them. We did have a maximum pressure campaign, now we have an absolute isolation campaign and it’s working.”
Bessent didn’t reveal what cryptocurrencies the U.S. will seize or how.
It would be very hard — if not impossible — for the U.S. to freeze Iran’s bitcoin unless it keeps it on a centralized exchange.
Bitcoin, being censorship resistant, cannot be frozen. But many other cryptocurrencies, including Tether’s USDT, can. Bessent previously said the feds had seized Iran’s crypto in the form of the popular stablecoin.
Iran started a bitcoin-backed insurance service for its counties shipping companies earlier this year.
The Financial Times last month reported that the Middle Eastern country was using bitcoin to settle cross-border transactions through Iranian crypto exchanges after the central bank advised its countrymen to do anything necessary to help the economy.
U.S. President Donald Trump revived his “maximum pressure” campaign weeks after returning to office. A national security memorandum signed in February 2025 put the Treasury on a sustained campaign against Iran’s shadow banking, money laundering and sanctions-evasion networks.
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Mathew is a reporter who's covered the space since 2019, reporting on everything from Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele's Bitcoin bet to crypto exchange FTX's bankruptcy.
Bitcoinová životní pojišťovna Meanwhile získala 37,5 milionu USD v investičním kole vedeném Bain Capital Crypto; celkové financování tak překročilo 180 milionů USD.
Meanwhile, the first life insurer licensed to operate entirely in Bitcoin, has raised $37.5 million in new funding led by Bain Capital Crypto, according to the company’s announcement. The Bermuda-based insurer, which counts Sam Altman among its backers, said the round takes its total funding past $180 million as demand for Bitcoin-denominated life insurance grows among wealthy families outside the United States.
The round was led by Bain Capital Crypto, with participation from existing investors Haun Ventures, Framework Ventures, Pantera Capital, Apollo, Northwestern Mutual Future Ventures and Morgan Creek Digital. It follows a surge in international demand for the firm’s policies, particularly across Asia, Europe and the Middle East amid broader macro instability.
What the New Capital Backs Meanwhile plans to direct the funding toward its BTC Life 1-Pay policy, a single-premium whole life product built for high-net-worth clients outside the US that launched in early 2026. It is the company’s second product line after BTC 10-Pay, which is designed for US taxpayers. Since launch, Meanwhile has signed 15 brokers serving wealthy families, including in the insurance hubs of Singapore, Hong Kong, the UAE and Switzerland, with partners such as Lioner and Apeiron Group.
How Bitcoin Life Insurance Works A client pays one premium in Bitcoin and receives a guaranteed death benefit in Bitcoin for life. The policy’s value grows in Bitcoin, and after the first year the owner can borrow up to 90% of it with no repayment schedule and no margin calls. Policies can be owned by individuals, trusts or companies, making them a fit for estate planning as institutional adoption of Bitcoin broadens.
Meanwhile’s balance sheet, reserves and audited financial statements are all denominated in Bitcoin, and all policyholder Bitcoin is held with regulated institutional custodians. “Wealthy families around the world already hold Bitcoin. What they haven’t had is a regulated way to pass it on,” said Zac Townsend, co-founder and chief executive of Meanwhile.
What Happens Next The company said net long-term underwriting income has already passed last year’s total and is on track to more than double in 2026. Meanwhile Insurance Bitcoin (Bermuda) Limited holds the first Class IILT license granted by the Bermuda Monetary Authority, received in July 2024 after two years in the regulator’s sandbox. “Meanwhile owns every layer of a regulated life insurer and builds it like an AI-enabled startup,” said Stefan Cohen, a partner at Bain Capital Crypto. The raise also lands as institutional capital keeps flowing into Bitcoin products, from spot Bitcoin ETF inflows to new tokenized offerings.
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Oficiální účet Litecoinu obvinil fórum r/CryptoCurrency z cíleného mazání pozitivních příspěvků a blokování podporovatelů. Moderátoři na obvinění nereagovali a Litecoin zatím nezveřejnil důkazy.
Litecoin Calls Out Reddit's r/CryptoCurrency Over Alleged Targeted CensorshipThe official @Litecoin account on X has gone public with a sharp accusation against @Reddit's flagship r/CryptoCurrency forum, alleging a coordinated effort to suppress positive content about the cryptocurrency. The statement has drawn attention from the broader crypto community and raised questions about moderation practices on one of the internet's most influential crypto discussion boards.
"There's a concerted effort on r/CryptoCurrency to ban anything positive about Litecoin. Litecoin supporters simply posting general news should not be banned and/or suspended. This needs to stop," Litecoin wrote on X.
Forum members have corroborated the claim, noting selective post deletions and account suspensions tied specifically to positive $LTC coverage. According to Crypto Times, the accusation appears to have been partly triggered after at least one user reported being banned following a post about a Litecoin partnership announcement. The subreddit's moderators have not publicly responded to the allegations.
Why It Matters for a Mature Proof-of-Work NetworkThe controversy is notable given Litecoin's standing as one of the oldest and most established cryptocurrencies in the market. Launched in October 2011 by Charlie Lee, a former Google engineer, Litecoin was designed as a faster, more accessible alternative to Bitcoin, using a Scrypt-based proof-of-work algorithm with a block time of roughly 2.5 minutes and a capped supply of 84 million coins, according to Fidelity's learning center.
Often described as the silver to Bitcoin's gold, Litecoin has maintained a long track record of network uptime and broad exchange support. Suppression of organic discussion about the project on a major public forum, if substantiated, could affect how new and prospective users discover and evaluate the asset.
As of now, no evidence in the form of ban notices or removed post logs has been published by Litecoin to support the claim, and r/CryptoCurrency's moderation team has yet to comment. The situation remains unresolved.
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Crypto Times: Litecoin Accuses Reddit's r/CryptoCurrency of Banning Positive LTC Posts
Fidelity Learning Center: What Is Litecoin?
SEC a CFTC mají mezi koncem roku 2026 a rokem 2027 dokončit společná pravidla pro klasifikaci tokenů a úschovu kryptoměnových aktiv; plné zavedení se očekává na začátku roku 2027.
Cryptocurrency researcher SMQKE has released a detailed regulatory timeline for the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) concerning official rulemaking for digital assets. The schedule indicates that joint rulemaking will take place between late 2026 and 2027, with full implementation targeted for early 2027. This development signals an important countdown for exchanges and XRP holders as regulatory deadlines approach.
The regulatory timeline and phased implementationAccording to SMQKE’s overview, the legislative process starts with a Senate Committee Markup initially projected for March 2026, followed by a full Senate vote expected in April or May 2026. If approved, the bill would proceed to the President’s desk, with a potential signing in June 2026.
A presidential signature would initiate a Provisional Registration period. During this stage, crypto exchanges can register with the CFTC to avoid enforcement actions, positioning themselves for compliance before the regulations take full effect. Two main dates stand out on the timeline: the start of the Joint Rulemaking Period, projected for late 2026 through 2027, and the conclusion with full implementation in early 2027. At that point, a grace period of 18 months will end, requiring complete compliance from all platforms operating in the US digital asset market.
“Late 2026 to early 2027 marks a critical phase, with the SEC and CFTC finalizing joint rules on token classification and custody. The grace period concludes with full implementation, requiring all platforms to achieve full regulatory compliance.”
EventProjected DateMain ImpactSenate VoteApril–May 2026Bill advances to PresidentPresidential SigningJune 2026Exchanges begin Provisional RegistrationJoint Rulemaking PeriodLate 2026–2027Regulatory rules finalizedFull ImplementationEarly 2027Mandatory compliance for all platformsLegislative setbacks and agency actionSMQKE’s timeline assumed the smooth passage of the CLARITY Act, a significant piece of legislation aimed at clarifying regulations for digital assets. However, the bill failed a Senate cloture vote on September 15, falling short by 11 votes, with every present Democrat voting against it.
Despite the setback, regulatory authorities continued moving forward using their existing legal powers. SEC Chair Paul Atkins announced that the agency would proceed within its statutory bounds. The CFTC issued a similar statement.
Following the failed vote, the SEC introduced the Innovation Exemption on September 17, establishing a conditional five-year framework allowing tokenized stock trading under specific criteria. On the same day, the CFTC extended a no-action position for passive software providers engaged with digital assets. The SEC also issued a proposal regarding crypto custody for investment advisers at the start of October.
This policy approach emphasizes regulatory guidance and exemptions in the absence of clear statutory changes, with the agencies gradually building a framework for compliance across the sector.
Mini dictionary: SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission) and CFTC (Commodity Futures Trading Commission) are the two primary US federal agencies responsible for regulating securities and derivatives markets, respectively. Their joint rulemaking is a process where both regulators create harmonized rules for the oversight of digital assets such as cryptocurrencies.
XRP’s role in the upcoming regulatory waveXRP stands among sixteen digital assets classified as commodities following a joint SEC and CFTC interpretation finalized in March 2026. The regulatory framework emerging during the upcoming rulemaking window will directly affect how exchanges and institutional participants handle XRP, especially in terms of custody and classification requirements.
With the failure of the CLARITY Act, more responsibility now rests with regulatory agencies rather than lawmakers. The late 2026 to early 2027 period has become the focal point as agencies advance their rules using existing statutory authority.
Regulatory agencies continue to shape the digital asset landscape by issuing exemptions, proposals, and interpretations in the absence of new legislation, underscoring the importance of the upcoming joint rulemaking period for assets such as XRP.
XRP za sedm dní klesl o 7,6 % na zhruba 1,39 USD a propadl se pod 50denní klouzavý průměr na úrovni 1,4336 USD. Průlom pod 1,32 USD by obrátil pozornost k úrovni 1,2805 USD.
XRP price has slipped below its 50-day moving average near $1.43, leaving its rebound toward $1.39 facing resistance as Evernorth prepares for its delayed Nasdaq debut.
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XRP price traded near $1.39 after falling 7.6% over seven days, according to CoinGecko. The daily chart places the 50-day moving average at $1.4336 and the 200-day at $1.2805. CoinGlass shows overhead liquidation concentrations around $1.43–$1.44 and $1.53–$1.54. Evernorth expects XRPN trading to begin Oct. 12, subject to closing conditions and Nasdaq requirements. CoinGecko recorded XRP at about $1.39 on Oct. 9, with a seven-day trading range of $1.32–$1.53. The token remained down 7.6% over that period despite a 4.5% recovery over 24 hours, while its market capitalization stood near $87.6 billion.
The Binance XRP/USDT weekly chart on TradingView showed a separate calendar-week decline of 8.56%, with price retreating from an opening level of $1.5205 to $1.3905. Its weekly high reached $1.5310, while the low stood at $1.3189.
XRP falls below $1.43 as daily momentum turns negative TradingView’s daily chart places XRP at $1.3903, below the 50-day moving average of $1.4336. The gap leaves the token roughly 3% beneath that average following its retreat from the late-September trading area around $1.50–$1.60.
XRP price daily chart — Oct. 9 | Source: TradingView The daily chart shows the 50-day average rising above the 200-day average in late September. However, the latest sell-off has taken price back below the shorter average while leaving it above the longer one, which stands at $1.2805.
Based on those chart levels, a recovery first needs to regain approximately $1.43 before the recent $1.50–$1.53 trading area comes back into reach. Failure to recover that average would leave the bounce beneath the first major daily trend reference.
The daily Bull Bear Power indicator also reads negative at minus 0.1331. Its recent red bars accompany the drop below the 50-day average, giving the rebound a weaker momentum backdrop than the August surge shown on the same chart.
On the downside, the weekly low near $1.32 is the closest clear price reference from the latest sell-off. A renewed break beneath that low would put the daily 200-day average around $1.28 in focus, approximately 8% below the current price.
Weekly resistance keeps $1.56 above the rebound TradingView’s weekly Murrey Math indicator places a major support-and-resistance pivot at $1.5625. XRP remains below that level after its recent attempt to extend the recovery from the August lows.
XRP price weekly chart — Oct. 9 | Source: TradingView The same indicator marks the bottom of its trading range at $1.1719. That level sits below both the latest weekly low and the daily 200-day average, making it a more distant downside reference if the current recovery loses further ground.
The weekly Average Directional Index reads 27.46 and has declined from earlier readings above 30. The indicator measures trend strength rather than direction; the bearish direction comes from the falling price structure visible on the weekly chart.
A chart-based upside scenario would require XRP to recover $1.43, then clear the recent weekly high near $1.53 and the $1.5625 pivot. That sequence would bring the late-September highs around $1.60–$1.65 back into view.
Until those levels are reclaimed, the weekly chart shows XRP trading beneath the area where its latest recovery stalled. A move above $1.56 would weaken that bearish setup, while a break below $1.32 would strengthen the downside case.
Liquidation bands cluster above XRP’s current price CoinGlass’s one-week liquidation heatmap shows XRP falling from above $1.50 to approximately $1.32 before recovering toward $1.39. The sharpest downward move appears late on Oct. 8, followed by a rebound that remained below $1.41.
XRP liquidation heatmap | Source: CoinGlass Near the right edge of the heatmap, overhead liquidation bands appear around $1.43–$1.44, with additional concentrations near $1.46–$1.48. The brightest persistent cluster sits higher, around $1.53–$1.54.
The lower portion shows concentrations near $1.36–$1.37 and around $1.35. Those bands place leveraged positions close to the rebound’s recent trading range, while the $1.53–$1.54 cluster overlaps the weekly high area.
Taken together, the daily chart and heatmap identify $1.43 as the first nearby recovery hurdle. The higher liquidation concentration becomes relevant to the bullish scenario only after XRP moves through the intervening price levels.
Oct. 12 listing remains a scheduled XRP catalyst Evernorth attributed its postponed Nasdaq debut to an administrative delay, moving expected XRPN trading from Oct. 8 to Oct. 12. According to the company’s update, the business combination was expected to close Oct. 9, subject to customary conditions.
crypto.news reported that Evernorth expected to hold approximately 473 million XRP at closing. The proposed Nasdaq listing would give U.S. stock-market investors access to shares in an XRP-focused treasury company.
Separately, the XRP Ledger’s official release notice described version 3.4.1 as an emergency security update and scheduled the associated amendment for Oct. 9, conditional on continued validator support. The notice warned that outdated servers would lose synchronization after activation and said publication of the security-sensitive source code would follow later.
Ripple also announced on Oct. 6 that Ripple Prime would provide brokerage, clearing and financing services to Brevan Howard funds. The announcement put the investment manager’s assets at about $35 billion.
Against those developments, XRP’s immediate chart-based test remains the $1.43 average. Reclaiming it would improve the route toward $1.53–$1.56; losing $1.32 would instead expose the $1.28 longer-term average.
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