Společnost Integra snížila po červencových záplavách v Cincinnati výhled tržeb pro rok 2026; její akcie 2. října klesly o 21,2 %. Právní firma prověřuje možné porušení zákonů o cenných papírech.
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Bragar Eagel & Squire, P.C., a nationally recognized stockholder rights law firm, is investigating potential claims against Integra LifeSciences Holdings Corporation (“Integra” or the “Company”) (NASDAQ: IART) on behalf of Integra stockholders. Our investigation concerns whether Integra has violated the federal securities laws and/or engaged in other unlawful business practices.
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On October 2, 2026, Integra released its third quarter 2026 financial results, revealing a quarterly revenue of $410 million to $412 million, below consensus estimates of $416.3 million. Additionally, the Company lowered its full-year 2026 revenue guidance to $1.634 billion to $1.654 billion from $1.654 billion to $1.695 billion. The Company attributed its revenue results and guidance cut to “the July flooding event at our Cincinnati facility,” which “caused damage to portions of the facility, equipment, inventory and other assets and resulted in operational disruption to the site.” Integra stated that the “flooding related supply disruption negatively impacted third quarter revenue by approximately $7 million and is expected to negatively impact fourth quarter revenue by approximately $15 million to $20 million.” Additionally, the Company does not expect the Cincinnati facility to “return to full manufacturing operations” until second quarter 2027. During the Company’s second quarter 2026 earnings call, however, Integra CFO Lea Daniels Knight had stated the Company did “not expect the event to have a material impact on our revenue or EPS guidance for 2026.” Following the October 2, 2026 disclosure, the price of Integra shares declined by $3.41 per share, or approximately 21.2%, from $16.09 per share on October 1, 2026 to close at $12.68 on October 2, 2026.
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Pomerantz prověřuje J.B. Hunt kvůli možnému podvodu s cennými papíry poté, co firma varovala před mezikvartálním poklesem zisku ve 3. čtvrtletí o 5 až 10 %.
NEW YORK, Oct. 06, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Pomerantz LLP is investigating claims on behalf of investors J.B. Hunt Transport Services, Inc. (“J.B. Hunt” or the “Company”) (NASDAQ: JBHT). Such investors are advised to contact Danielle Peyton at [email protected] or 646-581-9980, ext. 7980.
The investigation concerns whether J.B. Hunt and certain of its officers and/or directors have engaged in securities fraud or other unlawful business practices.
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On September 16, 2026, J.B. Hunt warned investors that it expected earnings to fall 5% to 10% sequentially for the third quarter of 2026. Management attributed the sudden margin squeeze to escalating diesel fuel prices alongside an unexpected $25 million surge in incremental driver expenses.
On this news, J.B. Hunt’s stock price fell $36.52 per share, or 13.3%, to close at $236.73 per share on September 16, 2026.
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NZD/USD po poklesu z téměř 0,6000 pod 0,5600 od poloviny srpna vytvořil býčí obratový signál. Trh zároveň snížil očekávání říjnového zvýšení sazeb Fedu z více než 17 bazických bodů na 5 bazických bodů.
Bullish engulfing candle warns of potential NZD/USD reversal
USD-rates relationship shows tentative signs of re-engagement
October Fed tightening pricing has fallen sharply
RBNZ swaps still imply an aggressive tightening cycle
A softer US payrolls report last Friday and less aggressive hawkish language from key Fed officials has seen expectations for an October rate hike from the FOMC pared back sharply.
However, entering early October, the US dollar showed little interest in the partial unwind of the historic surge in front-end yields seen through September, suggesting its previously strong relationship with rates had temporarily broken down.
But there are now tentative signs that relationship may be starting to re-engage, and with markets still pricing an aggressive RBNZ tightening cycle over the coming year, the combination has helped trigger a reversal pattern in NZD/USD that warns the bearish move from mid-August may have run its course.
NZD/USD turning point may be approaching
Source: TradingView
NZD/USD has undergone a pronounced bearish move since the highs set in mid-August, sliding from just shy of 0.6000 to below 0.5600 as downside pressure intensified.
After such a sizeable move that has taken the pair beneath its key medium and long term moving averages, the price action over the past few sessions suggests a turning point may be approaching.
The pair initially bounced from 0.5581, the swing low set in November last year, before Tuesday produced a clear bullish engulfing candle. Coming after such an extended bearish move, the pattern warns that directional risk may be starting to skew higher.
The latest daily candle has the price trading above the downtrend running from the August highs, further bolstering the case for near-term upside.
That view is backed by the oscillators. RSI (14) has established higher lows and is pushing out of oversold territory, while MACD is curling towards the signal line and appears close to a bullish crossover, albeit in negative territory, suggesting peak downside momentum may already have passed.
Overhead, 0.5639 has been respected on several occasions going back to late last year, making it the immediate focal point. A break above would bring 0.5696, a breakdown level from mid-September, into play, followed by 0.5750, which has acted as both support and resistance over recent months.
Below, 0.5581 remains the immediate point of interest. A break beneath would point to the potential for a deeper unwind towards the Liberation Day low of 0.5486 from April 2025 and the COVID low at 0.5470.
Dollar-rates breakdown may have been temporary
Suggesting the potential turning point may not be Kiwi-specific, similar reversal patterns have emerged across a range of G10 currencies against the US dollar so far this week.
As shown in the graphic below, DXY had maintained a strong positive relationship with front-end US yields for several months, particularly over the 20-session window.
That relationship collapsed abruptly around the quarter turn. The five-session correlation between daily changes in DXY and the US 2-year yield fell from +0.83 on September 28 to -0.93 by October 5, while the 20-session measure also dropped sharply towards zero.
Source: LSEG
The abruptness and timing of the breakdown of this long-standing relationship suggests it may have been driven by window dressing and capital flows around the turn of the month, rather than a fundamental change in the dollar's relationship with front-end rates.
It's not concrete at this point, but there are tentative signs the relationship may be starting to re-engage. The five-session correlation has recovered to -0.66, while the 20-session measure has edged back to +0.17.
Neither is strong enough to suggest the relationship has reconnected, but combined with the reversal patterns across the G10 FX complex, it raises the possibility the broader dollar may also be approaching a turning point.
Fed pricing turns less hawkish
After an historic surge in September, a partial reversal has also taken place in US 2-year yields, coinciding with a sharp pullback in hawkish pricing for the Fed's October meeting.
At one point in late September, more than 17 basis points of tightening was priced for that meeting. Less aggressive hawkish language from New York Fed President John Williams and Vice Chair Philip Jefferson, helped by the softer payrolls print last Friday, has seen that fall to just five basis points.
Cumulative tightening over the next year has also come off the boil, falling from more than 94 basis points of hikes priced through the Fed funds futures curve in late September to just above 80 basis points at the time of writing.
Source: TradingView
FOMC minutes could test the reversal
In an otherwise quiet data week, the key risk for the US dollar today is the release of the September FOMC minutes.
Put bluntly, the tone is likely to be hawkish. The meeting delivered a unanimous 25 basis point hike, the Fed’s first in three years, alongside stronger growth forecasts, lower projected unemployment and an upward revision to the core PCE inflation outlook compared with June.
The dot plot also showed most officials expected at least one further hike this year, with some signalling moves in both October and December. That goes some way to explaining why markets continue to fully price another 25 basis point increase by December, even as expectations for an October move have been pared back sharply.
Given how hawkish the meeting was, the bar for the minutes to surprise in that direction looks high. But if there’s even a sprinkling of doubt over that outlook, it could add to the pullback in front-end yields and exacerbate the reversal already underway in the US dollar.
Kiwi still has domestic tailwinds
While the potential turning point for the dollar looks largely US-specific, that’s not to say there aren’t prevailing tailwinds also helping underpin the Kiwi.
The latest NZIER Quarterly Survey of Business Opinion, released on Tuesday, showed a significant improvement in sentiment, with a net 40% of firms expecting the economic outlook to improve, up from 14% previously. Investment and hiring intentions also strengthened, while there were signs spare capacity may be starting to dissipate, especially in the labour market.
Of course, that does not mean the Kiwi economy is suddenly roaring back to life. Hard data remains inconsistent and soft, fitting with a recovery still in its infancy.
But with inflation the RBNZ’s sole mandate, and persistently elevated energy prices combining with a softer New Zealand dollar to fuel imported inflation, swaps markets continue to price an aggressive outlook from the bank. A rate hike in October is deemed marginally more likely than not at around 60%, while a move by the December meeting after the general election is fully priced, with roughly a one-in-three chance of two hikes by then.
By the August meeting next year, more than four full 25 basis point hikes are priced, which would leave the overnight cash rate at 3.75% or higher, levels the RBNZ currently considers restrictive.
Pomerantz LLP prověřuje D-Wave Quantum kvůli možnému podvodu s cennými papíry poté, co tržby za druhé čtvrtletí dosáhly 3,08 milionu USD a zaostaly za očekáváním analytiků.
NEW YORK, Oct. 06, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Pomerantz LLP is investigating claims on behalf of investors of D-Wave Quantum Inc. (“D-Wave” or the “Company”) (NASDAQ: QBTS). Such investors are advised to contact Danielle Peyton at [email protected] or 646-581-9980, ext. 7980.
The investigation concerns whether D-Wave and certain of its officers and/or directors have engaged in securities fraud or other unlawful business practices.
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On August 6, 2026, D-Wave reported its financial results for the second quarter of 2026. Among other items, D-Wave issues revenue of only $3.08 million, compared to $3.1 million for the same period in the prior year, and missing analyst expectations in the range of $4.03 million to $4.08 million.
On this news, D-Wave’s stock price fell $1.99 per share, or 9.28%, to close at $19.41 per share on August 6, 2026.
Then, on August 25, 2026, D-Wave issued a press release “announc[ing] that John Markovich is retiring and thus resigning from his position as Chief Financial Officer effective September 2, 2026.”
On this news, D-Wave’s stock price fell $1.84 per share, or 9.51%, to close at $17.51 per share on August 26, 2026.
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SAN DIEGO, Oct. 06, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Encore Capital Group, Inc. (Nasdaq:ECPG), an international specialty finance company, announced today that it will release its financial results for the third quarter 2026 on Wednesday, November 4, 2026, after the market closes. The Company will also host a conference call and slide presentation the same day at 2:00 p.m. Pacific / 5:00 p.m. Eastern time with Ashish Masih, President and Chief Executive Officer, Tomas Hernanz, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, and Bruce Thomas, Vice President, Global Investor Relations, presenting and discussing the reported results.
Members of the public are invited to access the live webcast via the Internet by logging in on the Investor Relations page of Encore's website at www.encorecapital.com. To access the live conference call by telephone, please pre-register using this link. Registrants will receive confirmation with dial-in details.
For those who cannot listen to the live broadcast, a replay of the webcast will be available on the Company's website shortly after the call concludes.
About Encore Capital Group, Inc.
Encore Capital Group is an international specialty finance company that provides debt recovery solutions and other related services for consumers across a broad range of financial assets. Through its subsidiaries around the globe, Encore purchases portfolios of consumer receivables from major banks, credit unions, and utility providers.
Encore partners with individuals as they repay their debt obligations, helping them on the road to financial recovery and ultimately improving their economic well-being. Encore is the first and only company of its kind to operate with a Consumer Bill of Rights that provides industry-leading commitments to consumers. Headquartered in San Diego, Encore is a publicly traded NASDAQ Global Select company (ticker symbol: ECPG) and a component stock of the Russell 2000, the S&P Small Cap 600 and the Wilshire 4500. More information about the company can be found at www.encorecapital.com.
CoreWeave stock climbed to $91.90 on Tuesday, tracking gains across other neocloud companies such as IREN and Nebius. The shares are now up more than 50% from their lowest level this year. Still, despite this strong rally, the company faces substantial risks ahead.
The ongoing CRWV stock rebound is happening as companies in the artificial intelligence (AI) industry soar. Nvidia, the biggest company in the world, jumped and is now approaching the $6 trillion market capitalization level. AMD jumped by 3.6%, while Dell and Broadcom are up.
CoreWeave is a big player in the AI space, where it offers computing solutions to the biggest AI companies in the world, like Anthropic, OpenAI, and Microsoft.
It has become the biggest player in the neocloud industry, with its revenue backlog rising to over $104 billion. Its biggest deals include a $35 billion partnership with Meta, $22 billion one with OpenAI, and a $6 billion one with Jane Street.
The most recent financial results showed that CoreWeave’s business continued soaring, with its quarterly revenue rising by 112% to $2.6 billion. This revenue is expected to grow in the foreseeable future. Yahoo Finance data shows that analysts estimate that its annual revenue will hit $12.87 billion this year, up by 150% from a year earlier. It is then expected to more than double to $26.7 billion next year.
Despite the optimism, CoreWeave faces some major risks, which explains why the stock is still in a bear market. One of the risks is that its capital expenditure continues rising. It plans to spend between $35 billion and $39 billion this year. It has already spent over $29.2 billion in the last five quarters.
Capital expenditure will likely continue growing as the cost of key equipment like servers, GPUs, CPUs, and storage. This, in turn, will push the company to raise more money through debt and equity over time.
Additionally, there are concerns about depreciation, which is significant. In the last earnings report, the company said that its depreciation and amortization jumped to over $1.3 billion, up from $560 million in the same period last year. Its D&A figure accounted for over 52% of its total revenue.
CoreWeave’s challenge is that it will need to keep spending on GPUs as new models come online. Michael Burry believes that these GPUs have a 2- to 3-year useful life stretch, while CoreWeave assumes over 5. This view explains why its bond yields are rising. Those with maturities of 2032 are yielding 11.3%. Just recently, it raised $1.1 billion through a junk bond offering.
CoreWeave stock is also facing the challenge of rising competition. Nscale, a British company, has seen its backlog jump to over $104 billion, while Lambda is raising $4 billion at a $14.5 billion valuation. Most Bitcoin mining companies like Riot Platforms and MARA Holdings, have all diversified into the AI data center industry.
CRWV stock chart | Source: TradingView
The daily chart shows that CoreWeave stock has moved sideways in the past few days. A closer look, however, shows that it has formed a head-and-shoulders pattern whose neckline is at $66.55. H&S is one of the riskiest patterns in technical analysis.
The stock has continued to consolidate along the 50-day and 100-day Exponential Moving Averages (EMA). The most likely scenario is where the stock remains under pressure and retests the support level of $66.55. A break below that level will point to more downside.
NEW YORK, Oct. 06, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Pomerantz LLP is investigating claims on behalf of investors of The Boeing Company (“Boeing” or the “Company”) (NASDAQ: BA). Such investors are advised to contact Danielle Peyton at [email protected] or 646-581-9980, ext. 7980.
The investigation concerns whether Boeing and certain of its officers and/or directors have engaged in securities fraud or other unlawful business practices.
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On September 28, 2026, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration said that it would delay certifying Boeing’s 737 MAX 10 aircraft pending resolution of a newly disclosed software issue that could prevent pilots from accessing automated flight guidance during a specific landing scenario.
On this news, Boeing’s stock price fell $13.68 per share, or 6.91%, to close at $184.39 per share on September 28, 2026.
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Lawyers for Disney accused the Trump administration of “blatant violations of the US constitution” and censorship on Tuesday in the first court hearing over the Federal Communications Commission’s early review of the media giant’s eight local television station licenses.
District judge Loren AliKhan seemed unswayed by government arguments that the order to force Disney’s ABC to apply years early to renew local television station licenses was tied to an investigation into parent company Disney’s hiring practices.
ABC, Disney and its station group filed suit against the FCC in August, seeking to block the US media regulator from taking any further steps to punish or pressure the network in connection to the order.
In its lawsuit, ABC argued that the FCC’s actions – taken at the behest of the Donald Trump-appointed chair, Brendan Carr – were actually intended to chill the network’s speech, which the president and Carr have argued is tilted against the administration.
In legal filings and during Tuesday’s hearing, the network cited past threats by the president and the FCC chairman that jeopardized the licenses of television networks, including ABC on several occasions, for editorial purposes.
“These are blatant violations of the US constitution,” the prominent trial lawyer Beth Wilkinson, arguing on behalf of ABC, told the judge during the approximately two-hour hearing.
She said ABC faced a “chilling effect” that has affected – and will continue to impact – its editorial decision-making, as the network steers clear of political bookings and any other programming decisions that could spark further ire from the Trump administration and Carr. “That chilling effect has been happening and will happen every day,” she said, causing “irreparable harm” to the network and its ability to broadcast independent news for the benefit of the American people.
ABC has said it has stopped booking politicians on the daytime talkshow The View and chose to air a July speech by Trump on its streaming platform so as not to antagonize the president. “Our editorial decisions are being affected right now,” Wilkinson said, noting the significance of decisions about how to cover next month’s pivotal midterm elections. “We are watching everything we do … We have already altered our conduct because of the fear of retaliation.”
She also noted that ABC recently chose to air a Jimmy Kimmel-conducted interview with Texas US Senate candidate James Talarico on YouTube, rather than television, “because the FCC has no control over YouTube”.
Dimitar P Georgiev, representing the FCC defendants, argued that “there is no reason to believe the early renewal order has prompted changes to the plaintiffs’ editorial decisions”. He also argued that the US district court for the District of Columbia was not the proper jurisdiction for the case, saying that ABC could instead appeal any adverse decision to the US court of appeals for the District of Columbia.
ABC is seeking a decision from the judge to enjoin the FCC from taking any further actions against the network’s licenses. “We are asking to stop pure retaliation, putting us in a process that we should never have to be in,” Wilkinson said.
In what Wilkinson called a “fatal admission”, Georgiev said the license renewal process “is not about the licenses”, but is instead a “tool” to expedite the commission’s review of ABC for potential violations of federal equal opportunities regulations. The lawyer also said the FCC could choose to end the license review process early if ABC is able to satisfy its document requests.
Considering that the FCC opened its employment practice investigation into Disney last year, with requests for documents ongoing since then, the judge asked: “Why is it only in the summer that you determined that their responses were woefully inadequate?”
She also questioned why the commission required the company to submit renewal applications for all eight of its stations simultaneously.
And she noted past comments by Carr about the network’s licenses, including a remark in July, when he had said ABC’s decision not to carry the president’s speech that month on its linear channel could factor into the license investigation.
“It strikes me with all the comments that this was merely over a discovery dispute, what made this so different that you needed to call for an early license renewal?” Judge AliKhan asked lawyers for the FCC, whom she asked for a list of some of the other enforcement actions the commission could have taken short of calling up the network’s licenses early.
And she noted that there was “some daylight” in the FCC’s arguments, considering that the diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) inquiry was handled by the commission’s enforcement bureau, while the license order was made by the media bureau.
The judge ended the hearing without issuing an order, saying she would take the matter “under advisement”.
TORONTO, Oct. 06, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Kinross Gold Corporation (TSX: K; NYSE: KGC) (the “Company”) will release its financial statements and operating results for the third quarter of 2026 on Wednesday, October 28, 2026, after market close. On Thursday, October 29, 2026, at 8:00 a.m. EDT Kinross will hold a conference call and audio webcast to discuss the results, followed by a question-and-answer session. The call-in numbers are as follows:
Canada & US toll-free – (888) 596-4144; Conference ID: 9425112
Outside of Canada & US – +1 (646) 968-2525; Conference ID: 9425112
Replay (available up to 14 days after the call):
Canada & US toll-free – +1 (800) 770-2030; Conference ID: 9425112 #
Outside of Canada & US – +1 (609) 800-9909; Conference ID: 9425112 #
You may also access the conference call on a listen-only basis via webcast at our website www.kinross.com. The audio webcast will be archived on www.kinross.com.
About Kinross Gold Corporation
Kinross is a Canadian-based global senior gold mining company with operations and projects in the United States, Brazil, Mauritania, Chile and Canada. Our focus is on delivering value based on the core principles of responsible mining, operational excellence, disciplined growth, and balance sheet strength. Kinross maintains listings on the Toronto Stock Exchange (symbol: K) and the New York Stock Exchange (symbol: KGC).
NextEra Energy navrhuje urovnání akcionářských derivativních žalob: pojišťovny D&O mají společnosti uhradit 15,5 milionu USD a firma nejméně na čtyři roky zavede reformy řízení společnosti.
, /PRNewswire/ -- NextEra Energy, Inc. (NYSE: NEE) has released the following notice:
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 15TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT
IN AND FOR PALM BEACH COUNTY, FLORIDA
DONEL DAVIDSON and KEITH CHIN,
Derivatively on Behalf of NEXTERA
ENERGY, INC.,
Plaintiffs,
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ERIC E. SILAGY, JAMES L. ROBO,
SHERRY S. BARAT, JAMES L.
CAMAREN, KENNETH B. DUNN, KIRK S.
HACHIGIAN, NAREN K. GURSAHANEY,
AMY B. LANE, DARRYL L. WILSON,
DAVID L. PORGES, RUDY E. SCHUPP,
JOHN L. SKOLDS, and LYNN M. UTTER,
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Case No. 50-2023-CA-012434-XXXX-MB
SUMMARY NOTICE OF PENDENCY
AND PROPOSED SETTLEMENT OF DERIVATIVE ACTIONS
TO: ALL RECORD HOLDERS AND BENEFICIAL OWNERS OF THE COMMON STOCK OF NEXTERA ENERGY, INC. ("NEE" OR THE "COMPANY") AS OF JUNE 11, 2026 (THE "RECORD DATE").
THIS NOTICE RELATES TO THE PENDENCY AND PROPOSED SETTLEMENT OF SHAREHOLDER DERIVATIVE LITIGATION. PLEASE READ THIS NOTICE CAREFULLY AND IN ITS ENTIRETY. IF YOU ARE A NEE SHAREHOLDER, THIS NOTICE CONTAINS IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT YOUR RIGHTS.
THIS IS NOT A "CLASS ACTION." THUS, THERE IS NO COMMON FUND UPON WHICH YOU CAN MAKE A CLAIM FOR MONETARY PAYMENT. IF YOU DO NOT OBJECT TO THE TERMS OF THE PROPOSED SETTLEMENT OR THE AMOUNT OF ATTORNEYS' FEES AND EXPENSES DESCRIBED IN THIS NOTICE, YOU ARE NOT OBLIGATED TO TAKE ANY ACTION.
PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the above-captioned shareholder derivative action, as well as several related Derivative Matters, are being settled on the terms set forth in a Stipulation and Agreement of Settlement (the "Stipulation" or "Settlement").1
Under the terms of the Stipulation, as part of the proposed Settlement: (i) the Individual Defendants shall have their D&O insurance carriers pay the amount of $15.5 million to NEE; and (ii) NEE shall adopt, implement, or maintain the Governance Reforms set forth in Exhibit A to the Stipulation for a period of no less than four (4) years.
The Company acknowledges and agrees that Settling Shareholders' respective demands, litigation, and settlement efforts in the Derivative Matters are the cause of the Settlement, and that the Settlement is fair, reasonable, and in the best interests of the Company and its shareholders.
In light of the substantial benefits produced for NEE by the Settling Shareholders and Settling Shareholders' Counsel, NEE has agreed, subject to approval of the Court, Settling Shareholders' Counsel shall receive an all-in fee and expense award in the total amount of $5.75 million (the "Fee and Expense Amount"). Settling Shareholders may seek a service award not to exceed $5,000 for each such Settling Shareholder as part of the Fee and Expense Amount. If approved by the Court, each such service award shall be paid solely out of the Fee and Expense Amount.
On December 14, 2026, at 3:00 p.m., a hearing (the "Settlement Hearing") will be held at the Circuit Court of the 15th Judicial Circuit in and for Palm Beach County, Florida, Judge Daniel T. K. Hurley Courthouse, 205 N. Dixie Hwy., West Palm Beach, Florida 33401, before the Honorable Carolyn Bell to determine whether the terms of the proposed Settlement, including the separately negotiated attorneys' fees and expenses for Settling Shareholders' Counsel and the service awards for Settling Shareholders, should be approved as fair, reasonable, and adequate. The Settlement Hearing will be in person only, and no remote appearances will be permitted.
Any Current NEE Shareholder that objects to the Settlement shall have a right to appear and to be heard at the Settlement Hearing, provided that he, she, or it was a shareholder of record or beneficial owner as of June 11, 2026. Any Current NEE Shareholder who satisfies this requirement may enter an appearance through counsel of such Current NEE Shareholder's own choosing and at such Current NEE Shareholder's own expense, or may appear on their own. However, no shareholder of NEE shall be heard at the Settlement Hearing unless, no later than November 30, 2026, such Current NEE Shareholder has filed with the Court and counsel for the parties, a written notice of objection containing the following information: (i) your name, legal address, and telephone number; (ii) the case name and number (Davidson, et al., v. Silagy, et al., Case No. 50-2023-CA-012434-XXXX-MB); (iii) proof of being a NEE shareholder as of the Record Date, June 11, 2026; (iv) the date(s) you acquired your NEE shares; (v) a statement of each objection being made; (vi) notice of whether you intend to appear at the Settlement Hearing. You are not required to appear; and (vii) copies of any papers you intend to submit, along with the names of any witness(es) you intend to call to testify at the Settlement Hearing and the subject(s) of their testimony.
If you wish to object to the proposed Settlement, you must file the written objection described above with the Court on or before November 30, 2026. All written objections and supporting papers must be filed with the Clerk of the Court, Circuit Court of the 15th Judicial Circuit in and for Palm Beach County, Judge Daniel T. K. Hurley Courthouse, 205 N. Dixie Hwy., West Palm Beach, Florida, 33401 and served upon each of the following Settling Parties' counsel:
Counsel for Plaintiffs in the Davidson Action:
Stephen J. Oddo, Esq.
Robbins LLP
5060 Shoreham Place, Suite 300
San Diego, CA 92122
Counsel for Defendants:
Daniel J. Kramer
Audra J. Soloway
Joshua J. Hill
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
1285 Avenue of The Americas
New York, NY 10019
Matthew D. Stachel
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
1313 N. Market Street, Suite 806
Wilmington, DE 19801
Only shareholders who have filed and delivered valid and timely written notices of objection will be entitled to be heard at the Settlement Hearing unless the Court orders otherwise. Any NEE shareholder who does not make his, her, or its objection in the manner provided herein shall be deemed to have waived such objection and shall be forever foreclosed from making any objection to the fairness, reasonableness, or adequacy of the Settlement as incorporated in the Stipulation, and/or to the separately negotiated attorneys' fees and expenses to Settling Shareholders' Counsel, and/or to the service awards for the Settling Shareholders, unless otherwise ordered by the Court, but shall otherwise be bound by the Judgment to be entered and the releases to be given.
If you have any questions about matters in this Notice, you may contact counsel for plaintiffs in the Davidson Action: Robbins LLP, Stephen J. Oddo, telephone: (619) 525-3990.
PLEASE DO NOT CONTACT THE COURT REGARDING THIS NOTICE.
DATED: Oct. 6, 2026
BY ORDER OF THE COURT
CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 15TH JUDICIAL
CIRCUIT IN AND FOR PALM BEACH
COUNTY, FLORIDA
NextEra Energy, Inc.
NextEra Energy, Inc. (NYSE: NEE) is the largest electric power and energy infrastructure company in North America and is a leading provider of electricity to American homes and businesses. Headquartered in Juno Beach, Florida, NextEra Energy is a Fortune 200 company that owns Florida Power & Light Company, America's largest electric utility, which provides reliable electricity to approximately 12 million people across Florida. NextEra Energy also owns the largest energy infrastructure development company in the U.S., NextEra Energy Resources, LLC. NextEra Energy and its affiliated entities are meeting America's growing energy needs with a diverse mix of energy sources, including natural gas, nuclear, renewable energy and battery storage. For more information about NextEra Energy companies, visit these websites: www.NextEraEnergy.com, www.FPL.com, www.NextEraEnergyResources.com.
1 This notice should be read in conjunction with, and is qualified in its entirety by reference to, the text of the Stipulation, which has been filed with the Circuit Court of the 15th Judicial Circuit in and for Palm Beach County, Florida. A link to the Stipulation may be found on the website at https://robbinsllp.com/category/settlements/. All capitalized terms herein have the same meanings as set forth in the Stipulation.
Digital Realty dokončila emisi dluhopisů ve švýcarských francích v objemu 510 milionů CHF se splatností v letech 2029, 2032 a 2036. Výnos z emise použije k financování nebo refinancování projektů v rámci svého Green Bond Framework.
AUSTIN, Texas, Oct. 06, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Digital Realty (NYSE: DLR), a leading global provider of carrier- and cloud-neutral data center, colocation and interconnection solutions, announced today that Digital Constellation B.V., an indirect wholly-owned finance subsidiary of the company’s operating partnership, Digital Realty Trust, L.P., has closed an offering of CHF225 million of 1.6803% Swiss bonds due 2029 (the “2029 Swiss bonds”), CHF185 million of 2.0600% Swiss bonds due 2032 (the “2032 Swiss bonds”) and CHF100 million of 2.4150% Swiss bonds due 2036 (the “2036 Swiss bonds” and together with the 2029 Swiss bonds and the 2032 Swiss bonds, the “Swiss bonds”).
The Swiss bonds will be senior unsecured obligations of Digital Constellation B.V. and will be fully and unconditionally guaranteed by the company, the operating partnership and Digital Intrepid Holding B.V., an indirect wholly-owned holding and finance subsidiary of the operating partnership. Interest on the 2029 Swiss bonds will be payable annually in arrears at a rate of 1.6803% per annum from and including October 6, 2026, and the 2029 Swiss bonds will mature on October 8, 2029. Interest on the 2032 Swiss bonds will be payable annually in arrears at a rate of 2.0600% per annum from and including October 6, 2026, and the 2032 Swiss bonds will mature on October 6, 2032. Interest on the 2036 Swiss bonds will be payable annually in arrears at a rate of 2.4150% per annum from and including October 6, 2026, and the 2036 Swiss bonds will mature on October 6, 2036.
The company intends to use the net proceeds from the offering of the Swiss bonds to allocate an amount equal to the net proceeds from the offering of the Swiss bonds to finance or refinance, in part or in full, new and/or existing projects consistent with Digital Realty’s Green Bond Framework, including the development and redevelopment of such projects. Pending the allocation of the net proceeds of the Swiss bonds to such projects, all or a portion of an amount equal to the net proceeds from the Swiss bonds may be used to temporarily repay borrowings outstanding under the operating partnership’s global revolving credit facilities, acquire additional properties or businesses, fund development opportunities, invest in interest-bearing accounts and short-term, interest-bearing securities which are consistent with the company’s intention to qualify as a REIT for U.S. federal income tax purposes, and to provide for working capital and other general corporate purposes, including potentially for the repayment of other debt, or the redemption, repurchase, repayment or retirement of outstanding equity or debt securities, or a combination of the foregoing.
The Swiss bonds are being sold only outside the United States in reliance on Regulation S under the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended. The Swiss bonds have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act and may not be offered or sold in the United States or to United States persons (within the meaning of Regulation S under the Securities Act) absent registration or an applicable exemption from registration requirements. This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy the Swiss bonds, nor shall there be any offer, solicitation or sale of the Swiss bonds in any jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful.
Safe Harbor Statement
This press release contains forward-looking statements which are based on current expectations, forecasts and assumptions that involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual outcomes and results to differ materially. For a list and description of such risks and uncertainties, see the company’s reports and other filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, including the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2025 and the Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarters ended March 31, 2026 and June 30, 2026. The company disclaims any intention or obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
Regulation S Statement
This communication is not an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy securities of Digital Realty Trust, Inc. or its subsidiaries. The securities have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act, or with any securities regulatory authority of any state or other jurisdiction of the United States. Consequently, the securities may not be offered, sold, resold, transferred, delivered or distributed, directly or indirectly, into or within the United States except pursuant to an exemption from, or in a transaction not subject to, the registration requirements of the Securities Act and in compliance with any applicable securities laws of any state or other jurisdiction of the United States. Any offering of the securities will be conducted pursuant to Regulation S under the Securities Act.
Notice to European Economic Area Retail Investors
The Swiss bonds are not intended to be offered, sold or otherwise made available to and, with effect from such date, should not be offered, sold or otherwise made available to any retail investor in the European Economic Area (the “EEA”). For these purposes, a retail investor means a person who is one (or more) of: (i) a retail client as defined in point (11) of Article 4(1) of Directive 2014/65/EU (as amended, “MiFID II”); or (ii) a customer within the meaning of Directive 2016/97/EU (as amended, the “IMD”), where that customer would not qualify as a professional client as defined in point (10) of Article 4(1) of MiFID II. No key information document required by Regulation (EU) No 1286/2014 (as amended, the “PRIIPs Regulation”) for offering or selling any in scope instrument or otherwise making such instruments available to retail investors in the EEA has been prepared. Offering or selling the Swiss bonds or otherwise making them available to any retail investor in the EEA may be unlawful under the PRIIPs Regulation. This communication has been prepared on the basis that any offers or sales of Swiss bonds in any Member State of the EEA will be made pursuant to an exemption under Regulation (EU) 2017/1129 (as amended or superseded, the “Prospectus Regulation”) from the requirement to publish a prospectus for offers or sales of Swiss bonds. This communication is not a prospectus for the purposes of the Prospectus Regulation.
Notice to UK Retail Investors
This announcement is for distribution only to, and is directed at, persons who (i) have professional experience in matters relating to investments falling within Article 19(5) of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Financial Promotion) Order 2005 (as amended, the “Financial Promotion Order”), (ii) are persons falling within Article 49(2)(a) to (d) (“high net worth companies, unincorporated associations, etc.”) of the Financial Promotion Order, (iii) are outside the United Kingdom, or (iv) are persons to whom an invitation or inducement to engage in investment activity (within the meaning of section 21 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000) in connection with the issue or sale of any securities may otherwise lawfully be communicated or caused to be communicated (all such persons together being referred to as “relevant persons”). This announcement is directed only at relevant persons and must not be acted on or relied on by persons who are not relevant persons. Any investment or investment activity to which this announcement relates is available only to relevant persons and will be engaged in only with relevant persons.
The Swiss bonds are not intended to be offered, sold, distributed or otherwise made available to and should not be offered, sold, distributed or otherwise made available to any retail investor in the United Kingdom. For these purposes, a “retail investor” means a person who is either one (or both) of the following): (i) not a professional client, as defined in point (8) of Article 2(1) of Regulation (EU) No 600/2014 as it forms part of domestic law by virtue of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018; or (ii) not a qualified investor as defined in paragraph 15 of Schedule 1 to the Public Offers and Admissions to Trading Regulations 2024”. Consequently, no disclosure document required by the Financial Conduct Authority Product Disclosure Sourcebook for offering, selling or distributing the Swiss bonds or otherwise making them available to retail investors in the U.K. has been prepared and therefore offering, selling or distributing the Swiss bonds or otherwise making them available to any retail investor in the U.K. may be unlawful under DISC and the Consumer Composite Investments (Designated Activities) Regulation 2024.
Investor Relations
Jordan Sadler / Jim Huseby
Digital Realty
+1 (737) 281- 0101 [email protected]
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Společnost ScottsMiracle-Gro jmenovala Prathimu Hegde seniorní viceprezidentkou a ředitelkou informačních technologií (CIO). Povede modernizaci IT, integraci umělé inteligence a zavedení systému SAP S/4HANA v rámci strategie SMG 2.0.
MARYSVILLE, Ohio, Oct. 06, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company (NYSE: SMG), home to North America’s leading consumer lawn and garden brands, today announced the naming of Prathima Hegde to senior vice president and chief information officer.
In this new role, Hegde will lead enterprise IT with a focus on driving technology modernization, operational excellence, AI integration and digital capabilities to advance the SMG multi-year growth strategy and the evolution into a consumer lifestyle company. She also will support the implementation of SAP S/4HANA. Hegde reports to President and CEO Nate Baxter as a key member of the leadership team.
"The modernization of our enterprise systems will enhance our ability to exceed consumer expectations, complementing our high-performing products with seamless digital experiences and expert guidance to serve as the trusted partner for bringing their living spaces to life," Baxter said. "Our technology upgrades will also directly power each of our SMG 2.0 building blocks by enabling product innovation, omnichannel and retail expansion, category growth and operational efficiencies.
“Prathima’s experience is directly relevant to where we are headed. She brings exceptional expertise in leading complex digital transformations and aligning technology with business outcomes. She will play a vital role in modernizing our technology core, enhancing productivity through automation and AI, and further strengthening ScottsMiracle-Gro for sustainable growth.”
Hegde has more than two decades of enterprise technology leadership across consumer packaged goods, manufacturing, healthcare and education. Most recently, as CIO of Del Monte Foods, she spearheaded enterprise IT strategy, cloud modernization, data analytics and AI initiatives. Previously, as head of corporate applications at Tropicana Brands Group, she led the technology spinoff from PepsiCo, building modern digital platforms. She has also served in senior IT roles at Adtalem Global Education and Abbott Laboratories. Hegde holds an MBA in strategy and finance from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a Bachelor of Science in microbiology from Osmania University.
SMG 2.0 Growth Strategy
The Company previously announced its multi-year SMG 2.0 strategy for sustainable growth and long-term shareholder value. Its building blocks include:
Portfolio optimization and innovation to drive premium growth.Omnichannel and retail expansion to engage broader consumer groups.Category and market expansion to grow the Company’s addressable market.Technology-driven operational excellence with a focus on expanding margins via targeted AI, automation and supply chain efficiencies. About ScottsMiracle-Gro
With approximately $3.3 billion in sales, the Company is the leading marketer of branded consumer lawn and garden products in North America. The Company’s brands are among the most recognized in the industry. The Company’s Scotts®, Miracle-Gro®, Ortho® and Tomcat® brands are market-leading in their categories. For additional information, visit us at www.scottsmiraclegro.com
For investor inquiries:
Brad Chelton
Vice President
Treasury, Tax and Investor Relations [email protected]
(937) 309-2503
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Sysco dokončilo emisi dluhopisů v objemu 14,65 mld. USD a 1,0 mld. EUR; čistý výnos z emise použije k úhradě části peněžitého protiplnění za probíhající akvizici Jetro Restaurant Depot a všech souvisejících poplatků, nákladů a výdajů.
HOUSTON, Oct. 06, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Sysco Corporation (NYSE:SYY) (“Sysco” or the “Company”) today announced that Sysco and Sysco Holdings Corporation, a Delaware corporation and wholly-owned subsidiary of Sysco (“Sysco Holdings” and, together with Sysco, the “Issuers”), have closed public offerings (collectively, the “Offerings”) of $14.65 billion in aggregate principal amount of notes and €1.0 billion in aggregate principal amount of notes consisting of the following securities:
$1.75 billion in aggregate principal amount of 5.450% Senior Notes due 2029;$2.0 billion in aggregate principal amount of 5.600% Senior Notes due 2031;$1.5 billion in aggregate principal amount of 5.800% Senior Notes due 2033;$2.0 billion in aggregate principal amount of 5.950% Senior Notes due 2036;$1.0 billion in aggregate principal amount of 6.400% Senior Notes due 2046;$1.75 billion in aggregate principal amount of 6.500% Senior Notes due 2056;$750 million in aggregate principal amount of 6.600% Senior Notes due 2066 (collectively, the “Senior Notes”);$1.5 billion in aggregate principal amount of 7.100% Series A Junior Subordinated Notes due 2056;$1.0 billion in aggregate principal amount of 7.250% Series B Junior Subordinated Notes due 2056;$1.4 billion in aggregate principal amount of 7.350% Series C Junior Subordinated Notes due 2056 (collectively, the “USD Junior Subordinated Notes”); and€1.0 billion in aggregate principal amount of 6.000% Junior Subordinated Notes due 2056 (the “Euro Junior Subordinated Notes” and, together with the Senior Notes and the USD Junior Subordinated Notes, the “Notes”). The Issuers estimate that they will receive approximately $10.64 billion from the offering of the Senior Notes, approximately $3.8 billion from the offering of the USD Junior Subordinated Notes and approximately €0.99 billion from the offering of the Euro Junior Subordinated Notes, in each case after deducting underwriting discounts and estimated offering expenses payable by them. The Issuers intend to use the net proceeds from the Offerings to pay a portion of the cash consideration for the pending acquisition of Jetro Restaurant Depot, and all other fees, costs and expenses related thereto or, if the acquisition is not consummated, to pay for the special mandatory redemption of the Notes (other than the 5.950% Senior Notes due 2036) pursuant to their terms.
The Offerings were made by means of applicable prospectus supplements under the Issuers’ shelf registration statement on Form S-3ASR, as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”).
Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC, TD Securities (USA) LLC, BofA Securities, Inc., J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, BNP Paribas Securities Corp., PNC Capital Markets LLC, Truist Securities, Inc. and U.S. Bancorp Investments, Inc. acted as joint book-running managers for the offerings of the Senior Notes and the USD Junior Subordinated Notes. Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC, TD Global Finance unlimited company, Merrill Lynch International, J.P. Morgan Securities plc, Wells Fargo Securities International Limited, PNC Capital Markets LLC and U.S. Bancorp Investments, Inc. acted as joint book-running managers for the offering of the Euro Junior Subordinated Notes.
This press release does not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy the Notes, nor does it constitute an offer, solicitation or sale of any securities in any jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale is unlawful. The Offerings were made in the U.S. only by means of prospectus supplements relating to the Offerings and the accompanying prospectus.
Copies of the final prospectus supplements for the Offerings and the accompanying prospectus may be obtained free of charge by visiting EDGAR on the SEC website at www.sec.gov. Alternatively, copies of the final prospectus supplements for the Senior Notes and USD Junior Subordinated Notes may be obtained by calling Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC toll free at 1-866-471-2526, TD Securities (USA) LLC toll free at 1-855-495-9846, BofA Securities, Inc. toll free at 1-800-294-1322, J.P. Morgan Securities LLC collect at 212-834-4533 or Wells Fargo Securities, LLC toll free at 1-800-645-3751 (option #5); copies of the final prospectus supplement for the Euro Junior Subordinated Notes may be obtained by calling Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC toll free at 1-866-471-2526, TD Global Finance unlimited company at +44 20 7628-2262, J.P. Morgan Securities plc (for non-U.S. investors) at +44-20 7134-2468, Merrill Lynch International, toll-free at 1-800-294-1322 or J.P. Morgan Securities LLC (for U.S. investors) at +1-212 834-4533.
About Sysco
Sysco is the global leader in selling, marketing and distributing food and related products to customers who prepare meals away from home. This includes restaurants, healthcare and educational facilities, lodging establishments, entertainment venues, and more. Sysco operates 333 distribution centers, in 10 countries, with 75,000 colleagues serving approximately 670,000 customer locations. The company generated sales of more than $84 billion in fiscal year 2026 that ended June 27, 2026.
As the world’s largest food-away-from-home distributor, Sysco offers customized supply chain solutions, bespoke specialty product offerings, and culinary support to drive customers to innovate and optimize their operations. We act as a trusted business partner to our customers, helping them grow through our industry-leading portfolio that includes fresh produce, premium proteins, specialty products, sustainably focused items, equipment and supplies, and innovative culinary solutions.
SYY-INVESTORS
Forward-Looking Statements
Statements made in this press release include statements that are forward-looking or that express management’s beliefs, expectations or hopes and are forward-looking statements under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements include, among other things, statements regarding the terms, timing and completion of the Offerings and our anticipated use of the proceeds thereof, statements about our future financial performance and results, business strategy, plans, goals and objectives, and other statements that are not historical facts, including expectations regarding our future growth, including growth in sales and earnings per share, expectations regarding cost savings associated with AI, as well as statements about the expected timing and completion of the proposed transaction with Jetro Restaurant Depot and the anticipated benefits of such proposed transaction.
Such forward-looking statements reflect the views of management at the time such statements are made and are subject to a number of risks, uncertainties, estimates, and assumptions, including those outside of Sysco’s control. Risks and uncertainties include without limitation: the impact of geopolitical, economic and market conditions and developments, including changes in global trade policies and tariffs and foreign conflicts; risks related to our business initiatives; periods of significant or prolonged inflation or deflation and their impact on our product costs, volume, foot traffic, and profitability generally; risks related to our efforts to implement our transformation initiatives and meet our other long-term strategic objectives; risks of interruption of supplies and increase in product costs; risks related to changes in consumer eating habits; and impact of natural disasters or adverse weather conditions, public health crises, adverse publicity or lack of confidence in our products, and product liability claims as well as risks and uncertainties associated with our proposed transaction with Jetro Restaurant Depot, including but not limited to, the occurrence of any event, change or other circumstances that could give rise to the right of either or both parties to terminate the merger agreement; the risk that regulatory approvals may not be obtained or other closing conditions may not be satisfied in a timely manner or at all, as well as the risk that regulatory approvals are obtained subject to conditions that are not anticipated; the risk of other delays in closing the transaction; the possibility that any of the anticipated benefits and projected synergies of the transaction will not be realized or will not be realized within the expected time period; and the risk that the proposed transaction and its announcement could have an adverse effect on the market price of the common stock of Sysco. Should one or more of these risks or uncertainties materialize, or underlying assumptions prove incorrect, actual results may vary materially from those indicated in our forward-looking statements. Therefore, you should not place undue reliance on any of the forward-looking statements contained herein. For more information on these risks and other concerning factors that could cause actual results to differ from those expressed or forecasted, see our Annual Reports on Form 10-K, Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, and other filings with the SEC. We do not undertake to update our forward-looking statements, except as required by applicable law.
For more information contact: Kevin KimCassandra Mauel Investor ContactMedia Contact [email protected]@sysco.com T 281-584-1219T 281-584-1390
QIAGEN uvedl na trh IPA Investigator a QIAGEN Discovery Platform, nástroje využívající AI pro rychlejší analýzu biologických a genomických dat a automatizaci objevování léčiv.
VENLO, Netherlands & GERMANTOWN, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--QIAGEN N.V. (NYSE: QGEN; Frankfurt Prime Standard: QIA) today announced new artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities to help researchers analyze complex biological and genomic data faster while keeping the scientific evidence behind the results visible.
The expansion includes IPA Investigator, a new AI research companion for QIAGEN Ingenuity Pathway Analysis (IPA), and the new QIAGEN Discovery Platform, which extends these capabilities into automated drug discovery workflows.
The new offerings build on more than 25 years of biomedical knowledge from QIAGEN Digital Insights (QDI), whose bioinformatics solutions are used by around 150,000 users. The global market for AI in bioinformatics is projected to more than double from about $12 billion in 2026 to more than $25 billion by 2031, according to Mordor Intelligence.
As researchers increasingly use AI to analyze growing volumes of biological and genomic data, speed alone is not enough. QIAGEN combines AI with expert-reviewed biological, genomic and clinical information so scientists can examine the evidence behind the results.
“AI can deliver an answer in seconds, but in science, speed without evidence can create false confidence,” said Dominic John, Vice President and Head of QIAGEN Digital Insights. “Our approach is to combine the speed of AI with expert-curated biomedical knowledge and traceable scientific evidence so researchers can examine the evidence behind the results and evaluate them for themselves.”
IPA Investigator allows scientists to ask questions about their data in natural language. It can identify relevant biological relationships, recommend analyses and carry them out within IPA. Researchers can then connect their own experimental data with existing biological knowledge to better understand disease, identify potential drug targets and decide what to investigate next.
At the University of Bergen in Norway, researchers tested IPA Investigator using complex datasets that deliberately introduced misleading sample comparisons.
“We deliberately introduced misleading comparisons to see how IPA Investigator would respond. It identified the problem, cautioned us against overinterpreting the results and suggested a better experimental design,” said Dr. Simona Chera, Professor at the University of Bergen.
QIAGEN is also introducing the QIAGEN Discovery Platform, which enables the integration of AI with QIAGEN’s biomedical knowledge base and molecular data to support drug discovery. The platform is designed to help researchers identify potential drug targets and biomarkers, generate research hypotheses and automate parts of the discovery process.
The launches are part of a broader rollout of AI across QIAGEN Digital Insights, including AI-powered translation in QIAGEN Clinical Insight (QCI) Interpret and machine learning combined with expert-reviewed information in Franklin by QIAGEN.
For more information about QIAGEN Digital Insights, visit: https://digitalinsights.qiagen.com/.
About QIAGEN
QIAGEN N.V., a Netherlands-based holding company, is a global leader in Sample to Insight solutions that enable customers to extract and analyze molecular information from biological samples containing the building blocks of life. Our Sample technologies isolate and process DNA, RNA and proteins from blood, tissue and other materials. Assay technologies prepare these biomolecules for analysis, while bioinformatics support the interpretation of complex data to deliver actionable insights. Automation solutions integrate these steps into streamlined, cost-effective workflows. QIAGEN serves more than 500,000 customers worldwide in the Life Sciences (academia, pharmaceutical R&D and industrial applications such as forensics) and Molecular Diagnostics (clinical healthcare). As of June 30, 2026, QIAGEN employed about 5,500 people across more than 35 locations. For more information, visit www.qiagen.com.
Forward-Looking Statement
Certain statements in this press release may constitute forward-looking statements within the meaning of the U.S. federal securities laws. These statements include, among others, statements regarding QIAGEN’s products, product development and launches, regulatory approvals, market opportunities and future business performance. Forward-looking statements are based on current expectations and assumptions and involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially. These risks include, among others, the development and commercial success of new products, regulatory approvals, competition, changes in customer demand and funding, economic and market conditions, supply chain disruptions, cybersecurity incidents, litigation and other risks described under “Risk Factors” in QIAGEN’s most recent Annual Report on Form 20-F and other filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. QIAGEN undertakes no obligation to update any forward-looking statement except as required by law.
Objem aktiv pod správou společnosti Franklin Templeton k 30. září 2026 meziměsíčně klesl o 1,9 % na 1,79 bilionu USD, přestože objem alternativních aktiv vzrostl na 303 miliard USD.
Key Takeaways Franklin's AUM fell 1.9% sequentially to $1.79 trillion as of Sept. 30, 2026.BEN's alternatives AUM rose to $303 billion in September, up from $301.3 billion in August.BEN's $6 billion in preliminary long-term inflows reflected continued client demand amid market volatility. Franklin Templeton, Inc. (BEN - Free Report) has been diversifying its assets under management (AUM) through alternatives, private markets and digital assets. Despite declines in fiscal 2022 and 2025, its AUM recorded a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 3.2% over the past five fiscal years (ended fiscal 2025), with the rising trend continuing in the first nine months of fiscal 2026. However, recent market weakness has weighed on its overall asset base. As of Sept. 30, 2026, preliminary AUM declined 1.9% to $1.79 trillion sequentially.
Market volatility remained elevated in September, as fluctuations across equity and fixed-income markets influenced asset values and investor activity. During the month, the company’s equity AUM declined 1.5% to $763.4 billion, while fixed-income AUM fell 2.9% to $427.6 billion sequentially. Its multi-asset AUM also decreased 1.5% to $221.1 billion, while cash-management assets declined 11.2% to $75.4 billion. Despite the challenging market environment, it generated $6 billion in preliminary long-term net inflows, reflecting continued client demand.
The company’s alternatives business continued to provide a source of resilience, with alternative AUM increasing to $303 billion in September from $301.3 billion in August and remaining well above the $263.9 billion recorded a year earlier. This growth reflects BEN's efforts to diversify its AUM mix across traditional and alternative asset classes. Its 2025 acquisition of Apera Asset Management strengthened its European private-credit capabilities, while its real estate investment management arm, Clarion Partners, is expanding its European real-assets platform through an agreement to acquire a majority stake in Stoneshield Capital. The transaction, expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2026, will further broaden BEN’s European real estate and infrastructure capabilities. The deal is also expected to support further growth in alternatives AUM and create additional opportunities to expand fee-earning AUM across institutional and wealth-management channels.
Beyond alternatives, digital assets represent another potential growth avenue for Franklin. In June 2026, the acquisition of 250 Digital and launch of Franklin Crypto expanded the company's capabilities across institutional crypto strategies, separately managed accounts and tokenization. Meanwhile, partnerships with MoonPay in June 2026 and Payward in May 2026 have further expanded access to tokenized money-market funds and institutional digital-asset services.
However, concerns surrounding private credit could moderately slow BEN’s near-term AUM growth amid investor concerns about liquidity, valuations and credit quality. Still, the company’s diversified asset mix, strategic acquisitions and expanding digital-asset capabilities are expected to support long-term AUM growth and offset weakness in traditional asset classes.
AUM Performance of BEN’s PeersApollo Global Management’s (APO - Free Report) AUM witnessed a CAGR of 19.6% over the past three years (2022-2025), with the rising trend continuing in the first half of 2026. AUM reached $1.05 trillion as of June 30, 2026, up 25% year over year, driven by strong capital formation and Retirement Services inflows.
The increase in APO’s AUM is also supported by fundraising across credit and equity strategies and continued growth from Athene.
Similarly, Lazard, Inc. (LAZ - Free Report) has been expanding its AUM base over the years. Although AUM declined in 2022, the metric recorded a CAGR of 2.8% during 2016-2025, with the upward trend continuing in the first half of 2026.
Strong net inflows and strategic acquisitions, including the addition of $1 billion in AUM from its acquisition of a controlling interest in Elaia Partners, are supporting LAZ’s efforts to expand its AUM base.
BEN’s Price Performance & Zacks RankThe company’s shares have gained 40.5% in the past six months compared with the industry’s 7.6% rise.
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Currently, the company carries a Zacks Rank #3 (Hold). You can see the complete list of today’s Zacks #1 Rank (Strong Buy) stocks here.
Akcie společnosti FuelCell Energy rostly díky partnerství s Fit Energy, jehož cílem je až 380 MW výroby energie pomocí plynových palivových článků pro datové centrum v Pensylvánii.
Buy FuelCell Energy (FCEL). The Fit Energy deal is a clear “time-to-power” wedge: behind-the-meter fuel cells for data centers that can’t wait on grid queues. The stock also reclaimed the 50- and 100-day moving averages, signaling momentum plus a real catalyst. Thesis: more hyperscale/AI power demand shifts from utility interconnects to distributed generation, and FCEL converts partnerships into megawatt deployments.
Key Risk: FCEL fails to convert these announcements into firm, high-margin contracts and deliveries—execution slips keep losses widening and the stock gives back the rally.
FCEL momentum hedge via short-term put spread
Sell short-dated downside protection against the rally by buying a put spread on FuelCell Energy (FCEL) while taking the long. The catalyst is strong, but the article flags execution and profitability risk; a put spread limits damage if the market reverses after the initial headline pop. Thesis: upside continues near-term, but volatility stays high until conversion metrics improve.
Key Risk: A sharp selloff driven by worsening financials or a failed project conversion overwhelms the technical/momentum support, making the put spread insufficient to protect the position.
FuelCell Energy FCEL stock gained on Tuesday due to renewed enthusiasm surrounding the firm’s strategic partnership with Fit Energy.
In a press release this morning, Fit Energy said it plans on powering a new data center development in Pennsylvania, using FCEL’s natural gas fuel cells.
The announcement arrives at a time when FuelCell shares are already regaining momentum – now up more than 40% versus their recent low.
The primary driver behind today’s price action is the market’s growing realization that electrical grid capacity bottlenecks are forcing tech giants right into the arms of distributed fuel cell makers.
With the rapid expansion of hyperscale cloud computing and artificial intelligence (AI) workloads requiring continuous baseline electricity, data center operators face multi-year queues for standard utility grid connections.
FCEL’s agreement with Fit Energy, which targets up to 380 MW of behind-the-meter generation, offers on-site, low-carbon power that bypasses grid interconnections.
This provides data center firms with a crucial “time-to-power” advantage.
Note that the sharp rally in FuelCell stock on October 6th drove it decisively above its 50-day and 100-day moving averages (MAs), indicating bullish momentum could sustain in the near term.
While today’s surge in FCEL stock highlights strong bullish sentiment, prospective investors must carefully assess the risk-reward profile before jumping in.
On one hand, FuelCell boasts a “growing backlog” of multi-megawatt projects and clean power purchase agreements that position it directly at the intersection of AI energy demand and grid decarbonization.
But on the other hand, the company faces ongoing financial and execution scrutiny.
Recent class-action shareholder litigation detailed a $17.0 million charge in Q3 related to Phase 0 contractual pricing and an annualized production rate that dropped to approximately 37.1 MW.
Plus, net losses stood at $45.3 million on $33.0 million in revenue for the quarter ending July 2026, suggesting that buying at current levels requires a high tolerance for operational friction.
Looking ahead, FuelCell Energy’s multi-year trajectory hinges on execution discipline rather than speculative demand.
Investors evaluating the clean energy stock today must look beyond headline momentum and focus on how efficiently the management team scales production capacity to meet its megawatt delivery commitments.
The critical metric to track over the coming quarters is not merely “non-binding project pipelines” or preliminary announcements – but the concrete conversion rate of those agreements into firm, high-margin commercial revenue.
For long-term investors seeking high-upside exposure to the global data center power crisis, FCEL shares present a compelling play, but short-term traders should prepare for sharp volatility as the market balances data center enthusiasm against near-term profitability targets.
Note that Wall Street currently rates FuelCell Energy at Moderate Buy.
Po nahrazení stanice Raw Comedy stanicí Sebastian Maniscalco’s Comedy Radio klesl počet komiků, jejichž tvorba se vysílá, z 812 v dubnu na 275 v září, což ohrožuje jejich tantiémy.
Sebastian Maniscalco is taking heat from fellow comedians over his SiriusXM comedy channel, which critics say has squeezed hundreds of working stand-ups out of a lucrative source of royalties.
SiriusXM replaced its long-running Raw Comedy channel in April with Sebastian Maniscalco’s Comedy Radio, a 24/7 channel the satellite-radio giant has described as “curated and headlined” by the arena-filling comic.
Now, comedians including Liz Miele and Greg Stone are calling on Maniscalco and SiriusXM to reverse course, arguing the revamped channel has sharply concentrated airplay among better-known performers.
Host Sebastian Maniscalco visits SiriusXM Studios, Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2026, in New York. Getty Images Stand Up for Stand Up, an advocacy group for comedians, says data supplied by XMPlaylist shows the number of distinct comics receiving spins plunged from 812 in April to 275 in September — a drop of roughly 66% — even as the overall number of monthly plays remained in roughly the same range.
“The problem is,” Miele said in an Instagram video, “Raw went from playing 800 working class comedians to now playing less than 300 celebrity comedians like Joan Rivers, Johnny Carson, Bob Hope, Norm Macdonald.”
Miele said the lost airplay has hit comics who relied on the royalty checks while touring.
“And it is devastating,” she said. “Because of this action, hundreds of comedians will no longer be able to have these royalties.”
Stone also appealed directly to Maniscalco, while allowing that the comic may not have realized the impact of the programming overhaul.
“I’m going to assume you didn’t notice [the effects of the rebrand],” Stone said in a video posted to Instagram.
“’Cause no Italian is going to take money out of the hardworking man’s pocket.”
Sebastian Maniscalco performs onstage during the Sebastian Maniscalco “Stay Hungry” Tour 2018 at Madison Square Garden in New York, Saturday, Jan. 19, 2019. Getty Images for Sebastian Maniscalco He urged listeners to call SiriusXM and demand that the company “Bring back Raw Dog,” referring to the predecessor channel’s longtime Raw Dog Comedy branding.
The backlash has also drawn attention from other comics, including Patton Oswalt, Michelle Wolf and Matthew Broussard.
SiriusXM defended the overhaul, saying it was part of a broader programming change.
“SiriusXM works together with our creative partners to program the best possible experience for our listeners,” a company spokesperson said.
In this photo illustration, a person holds a smartphone displaying the logo of Sirius XM Holdings Inc. Getty Images “The launch of Sebastian Maniscalco’s Comedy Radio introduced a new creative direction and a regularly evolving programming mix for the channel, and SiriusXM continues to invest in comedians more than any other audio platform to deliver a wide range of comedy offerings across our channels.”
Sources close to SiriusXM told Deadline that the company viewed the rebrand as necessary because the old channel was not meeting listenership expectations.
The company has not publicly released channel-level audience data, however.
It also remains unclear how much control Maniscalco personally has over individual selections.
Corteva (CTVA +12.27%), a pure-play crop protection provider, closed at $13.91, up 12.27% after JPMorgan upgraded Corteva in premarket trading. Investors are watching how the company will fare as a stand-alone company, now separate from its seed genetics business. Trading volume reached 38.9M shares, coming in about 285% above its three-month average of 10.1M shares.
How the markets moved todayThe S&P 500 (^GSPC +0.58%) closed at 7,820, up 0.59%, while the Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC +0.45%) finished at 27,600, up 0.45%. Among agricultural inputs peers, Bayer (BAYRY +0.24%) closed at $12.45, up 0.40%, and FMC (FMC +0.33%) closed at $9.02, up 0.22%; the group stayed on investors' radar as Corteva's upgrade and index reshuffling drew attention.
What this means for investorsIt looks like Corteva is quickly becoming a Joel Greenblatt "special" of sorts following its recent separation from Vylor. While Vylor split with the "more interesting" business of seed genetics and a century-old germplasm library, Corteva's discounted, pure-play crop protection operations are worthy of not being forgotten about -- at least according to an analyst at JPMorgan.
Setting a $19 price target on CTVA stock, JPMorgan's bullish outlook on Corteva helped the latter's share jump 12% today. While uncertainty surrounds Corteva due to PFAS and PFOA legal liabilities inherited from its past ties to DuPont, JPM believes these costs should peak at $1.3 billion, or roughly $2 per share for Corteva, according to its modeling.
JPMorgan's $19 price target on CTVA stock reflects this expected impact, implying it still sees 37% upside in the stock. Trading at just 5.7 times the company's estimated 2027 EBITDA, Corteva might be an interesting deep-value opportunity for investors comfortable operating in this industry, but the legal liabilities worry me too much, personally, even with the company's pristine balance sheet.
Šéf Skydance David Ellison slíbil úplnou redakční nezávislost CNN po převzetí společnosti Warner Bros. Discovery společností Paramount za 81 miliard USD.
Skydance CEO David Ellison reassured a nervous Anderson Cooper that CNN will retain its editorial independence in the wake of the blockbuster Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery merger.
Cooper interviewed Ellison and his new co-CEO Ynon Kriez about life under the newborn media behemoth at a Los Angeles town hall in front of CNN staff.
“I want to start with a smaller part of this company, but it’s going to cause you headaches: news,” Cooper shakily said to laughter, according to leaked audio of the sit-down. “Asking for a friend — or frenemies, I’m not sure.”
CNN anchor Anderson Cooper interviewed Skydance CEO David Ellison on Tuesday, asking him to pledge that the news network will remain editorially independent. Getty Images for CNN Cooper went on to lay out criticism from some observers, who have slammed CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss’ handling of the network — which was already owned by Paramount before the merger — along with the Ellison family’s Trump ties and War Secretary Pete Hegseth’s recent call for the exec to overhaul CNN.
“Are there changes you want to see in coverage at CNN, are there lessons you do or don’t want to apply from CBS News?” Cooper asked.
“I believe deeply in journalism,” Ellison replied. “In the world we live in today, having truth-based, fact-based, bi-partisan news that informs the public has never been more important.”
The exec added that both CBS News and CNN’s work is “vital to democracy” and that he supports it — while planning “to scale and transition the business digitally.”
Earlier Tuesday, Ellison and Kreiz reportedly gestured at layoffs in a memo to employees.
“Integrating two companies will bring change, including difficult decisions that affect our workforce. We are committed to handling this process thoughtfully and respectfully,” they wrote, according to Variety, though they did not detail any such plans at the town hall.
Skydance CEO David Ellison said he believes in “complete and total editorial independence.” AFP via Getty Images “As it relates to editorial, we believe in complete and total editorial independence,” Ellison said during the sitdown.
“We trust Mark, we trust the team,” he added, referring to CNN boss Mark Thompson, who will continue to lead the network.
“You’re pledging to not interfere with news coverage of CNN?” Cooper interrupted. He quit a side gig on “60 Minutes” earlier this year, purportedly to spend more time with family, though sources said he really left because he thought Weiss was biased.
“Correct,” Ellison said.
Mark Thompson, chairman and chief executive officer of CNN, will remain in his role at the newly-merged company. Bloomberg via Getty Images “Do you stand by CNN and our effort to restore access to completely cover President Trump?” Cooper asked, citing the cable network’s lawsuit against the Trump administration over the White House move to block it.
“Of course,” Ellison said.
CNN — along with co-plaintiffs MS NOW and Politico — has regained partial access to the White House thanks to a temporary federal court order, though some restrictions are still in place.
Cooper went on to tackle broader questions about the $81 billion merger that officially birthed Skydance on Tuesday.
Ynon Kreiz, Skydance’s co-CEO, touted the media giant’s vast entertainment portfolio and future growth prospects. AP Photo/Chris Pizzello Kreiz, the former CEO of Mattel, touted the company’s vast entertainment porfolio and future growth prospects.
“It is about engagement, it’s about fandom and we have everything it takes to be successful,” he said alongside Ellison.
The combined company will include two historic film studios and their Hollywood lots; major streaming services HBO Max and Paramount+; CNN and CBS News; live sports channels including CBS Sports and TNT Sports; and thousands of iconic movie titles.
Ellison said he supports CNN’s lawsuit to restore access to completely cover President Trump during the company’s townhall. Getty Images Paramount previously said it was aiming to cut $6 billion in costs over three years, partially from layoffs – which has left staff including CNN employees panicking over a potential “bloodbath.” In August, a report from Los Angeles County’s municipal government warned the merger could eradicate 4,500 film and TV jobs.
The deal crossed the finish line after settling an antitrust lawsuit brought by California Attorney General Rob Bonta and 11 other AGs, who warned the deal could crush competition, raise consumer prices, limit choices and hurt workers.
Ellison ultimately appeased Bonta with pledges to spend an additional $1.5 billion on domestic production over the next five years and release 30 high-quality theatrical films each year.
Skydance’s Class B shares started trading Tuesday on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol “SKYD,” the company said in a press release.
WBD shareholders have received an amount in cash equal to roughly $31.02 a share, as per the merger agreement. Its shares ceased trading on the Nasdaq on Tuesday.
Crocs ve třetím čtvrtletí očekává 7% pokles tržeb z přímého prodeje v Severní Americe, avšak po očištění o změnu ve vykazování tržeb analytici BofA odhadují růst o 5 %.
Crocs, Inc. (NASDAQ:CROX) (NASDAQ: CROX), the casual footwear company, is expected to report a 7% decline in North America direct-to-consumer sales for the third quarter, with Bank of America estimating 5% underlying growth excluding the revenue recognition change.
The bank forecasts North America direct-to-consumer sales of -7%, compared with a Visible Alpha consensus of -5%, with the difference reflecting a modeling discrepancy around the July revenue recognition change.
The change moved a large partner from direct-to-consumer to wholesale and is expected to reduce reported North America direct-to-consumer growth by 12 percentage points over the next four quarters.
The impact should be partly offset by stronger wholesale sales, with the benefit expected to be greater in the fourth quarter because of the timing of sell-in.
BofA said its underlying third-quarter direct-to-consumer growth estimate of 5% is consistent with the first half, and it expects the revenue restatement to be understood by investors.
The bank said an inflated sell-side consensus estimate for North America direct-to-consumer sales should not be problematic if Crocs provides enough disclosure to bridge restated trends on a like-for-like basis.
BofA and the broader market remain aligned with Crocs' third-quarter guidance for 1% growth in Crocs brand sales and earnings per share of $3.20 to $3.30.
The bank said momentum is broadening beyond sandals, with stabilization in classic clogs and growth across ballet flats, sport and fashion clog franchises, including Crocbrand, Echo and Crafted, as well as recovery in Mellow.
A strong pipeline of new products in the second half of 2026 and first half of 2027 should support momentum, although Bank of America expects North America direct-to-consumer growth to slow in the fourth quarter because of a tougher comparison.
BofA expects gross and operating margins to improve in the third quarter as Crocs laps tariff headwinds and cost savings increase, while higher oil prices could pressure fuel surcharges and raw material costs.
The bank maintains its buy rating, saying new products and stabilization in classic clogs could support a higher valuation multiple and further earnings-per-share upgrades.
Pomerantz LLP prověřuje EHang kvůli možnému porušení zákonů o cenných papírech poté, co společnost ve 2. čtvrtletí vykázala tržby ve výši 11,48 mil. USD, což představuje meziroční pokles o 31,3 %.
NEW YORK, Oct. 06, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Pomerantz LLP is investigating claims on behalf of investors of EHang Holdings Limited (“EHang” or the “Company”) (NASDAQ: EH). Such investors are advised to contact Danielle Peyton at [email protected] or 646-581-9980, ext. 7980.
The investigation concerns whether EHang and certain of its officers and/or directors have engaged in securities fraud or other unlawful business practices.
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On August 25, 2026, EHang issued a press release “announc[ing] its unaudited financial results for the second quarter of 2026. Among other items, EHang disclosed revenue of only $11.48 million, representing a 31.3% year-over-year decline and missing the $16.62 million consensus estimate. EHang’s management advised investors that “a major accident involving a piloted light-sport aircraft in China prompted greater caution around low-altitude aviation safety regulation and affected the pace of passenger commercial operation approvals in certain regions.”
On this news, EHang’s American Depositary Share (“ADS”) price fell $0.37, or 7.12%, to close at $4.83 per ADS on August 25, 2026.
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Objem plateb kryptokartami dosáhl 12,5 miliardy USD, což od počátku roku představuje růst o 140 %; hlavními tahouny jsou stablecoiny a platby pomocí QR kódů.
Crypto card payments have reached a record $12.5 billion, a 140% jump since the start of the year. The main drivers are stablecoins and QR code payments.
Jupiter Global’s card product, Jupiter Spend, is one of the players in that shift. The headline volume, though, reflects the broader market. Jupiter’s own slice is considerably smaller.
The numbers behind the record The $12.5 billion figure covers crypto card payment volume across the industry. Attributing that cumulative total to Jupiter Spend alone is not supported by the available data.
In July 2026, stablecoin card spending across the industry crossed $1 billion in a single month for the first time. The exact July tally was $1.03 billion, spread across more than 10 million transactions.
Jupiter’s own figures are more modest. The company’s card settlement volume came in at $7.6 million in September 2026. That was an 8% increase from the previous month.
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How Jupiter Spend works The card launched in January 2026. Users deposit USDC or USDT through the Jupiter app on the Solana blockchain. Those stablecoins convert into a USD balance that can then be spent at more than 150 million Visa merchants worldwide.
Deposits of USDC or USDT carry no fees when made via Solana. Non-USD transactions come with a foreign exchange fee of either 1% or 1.8%. Which rate applies depends on the card’s issuer.
The more distinctive feature is QR Pay. It allows fee-free payments in select markets across the Asia-Pacific region. QR Pay caps spending at $5,000 per day and $500 per transaction.
Cashback does the heavy lifting Jupiter offers a base cashback rate of 2% on card purchases. Users can push that to 4% through referrals.
Jupiter’s transaction volumes rose notably once a cashback promotion kicked in, compared with the period before it. The July milestone of over $1 billion was fueled mainly by QR Pay adoption and cashback incentives.
Background: stablecoins move from trading chips to pocket money Stablecoins like USDC and USDT are tokens designed to track the US dollar one-to-one. Card products like Jupiter’s turn them into something closer to a checking account balance, bridging on-chain money and the merchant’s point-of-sale terminal via Visa’s network of 150 million merchants.
Solana’s low-cost transfers make fee-free deposits practical, removing friction in moving funds onto the card.
What this means For Jupiter specifically, the product has the right ingredients: Visa reach, Solana rails, fee-free QR payments in APAC, and a cashback rate of up to 4%. But $7.6 million in monthly settlement volume shows it is still a smaller player in a crowded field.
The heavy reliance on cashback is the key risk to watch. Jupiter’s transaction volumes were notably lower before its cashback promotion commenced, raising the question of how much volume is organic versus rewards-driven.
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Avient zvýší čtvrtletní dividendu na 0,2825 USD na akcii, což představuje šestnácté meziroční zvýšení dividendy v řadě. Roční dividenda vzroste z 1,10 USD na 1,13 USD.
, /PRNewswire/ -- The Board of Directors of Avient Corporation (NYSE: AVNT), an innovator of materials solutions, has declared a quarterly cash dividend of twenty-eight and a quarter cents ($0.2825) per share on the common stock outstanding, representing the sixteenth consecutive annual increase.
The $0.2825 per share will be paid on January 7, 2027, to stockholders of record on December 11, 2026. On an annualized basis, the dividend will increase from $1.10 to $1.13 per share on the common stock outstanding.
"We are pleased to increase our dividend for the sixteenth consecutive year," said Dr. Ashish Khandpur, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, Avient Corporation. "Our consistent dividend growth reflects the strength of our business, our strong cash flow generation, and our commitment to returning value to shareholders through a disciplined and balanced capital allocation strategy."
About Avient
Our purpose at Avient Corporation (NYSE: AVNT) is to be an innovator of materials solutions that help our customers succeed, while enabling a sustainable world. Our local touch and customer engagement, combined with our global presence, allows us to serve customers with agility. We harness the collective strength of 9,000 employees worldwide to collaborate and build on each other's ideas. In doing so, we innovate solutions that help our customers overcome their challenges or capitalize on opportunities provided by the fast-changing world and secular trends. Our expanding portfolio of offerings includes colorants, advanced composites, functional additives, engineered materials, and Dyneema®, the world's strongest fiber™. By intersecting our broad portfolio of technologies with the product roadmaps of our customers, we help create differentiated and high-performance products that make the world better and more sustainable. Visit www.avient.com to learn more.
HCA Healthcare výrazně snížila celoroční výhled zisku poté, co změna struktury plátců ve 2. čtvrtletí snížila tržby zhruba o 400 mil. USD. Akcie společnosti 14. července klesly o 6,95 %.
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On July 14, 2026, HCA issued a press release reporting its preliminary financial and operating results for the second quarter of 2026. Among other items, HCA sharply lowered its full-2026 profit guidance, citing an unfavorable shift in the Company's payer mix, which impacted revenue by approximately $400 million in the quarter.
On this news, HCA's stock price fell $27.14 per share, or 6.95%, to close at $363.60 per share on July 14, 2026.
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Starknet pushed version 0.14.4 to mainnet on October 5, 2026, and the defining theme of the release is scale.
The upgrade also brings small gas-pricing adjustments, removes some legacy infrastructure, and sets a firm requirement for node operators to update their software.
What actually changed under the hood The release first went live on testnet, with activation on September 15, 2026. That gave builders and infrastructure providers a few weeks to kick the tires before the mainnet switch.
The centerpiece is an expansion of SNIP-36, a Starknet improvement proposal focused on proving off-chain work. Developers can run compute-heavy logic off-chain, then submit the result to Starknet as one proven transaction.
Instead of paying full execution fees for every step of that computation, developers pay proof fees.
With v0.14.4, the ceiling on that approach rises substantially. Proofs of eligible single-transaction virtual blocks can now reach up to 1.1B Layer 2 gas, which is approximately the scale of a full Starknet block.
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The second notable change concerns gas weights, which determine how much different operations cost. Starknet made minor adjustments designed to align transaction pricing with the actual economic costs borne by the sequencer and the broader network.
Based on recent traffic data, the adjustments are aimed at shifting costs by less than 1% for the majority of transactions.
The housekeeping that can still break things Starknet has deprecated and removed legacy feeder gateway endpoints, including call and get_storage_at. Any application or tool still leaning on those endpoints will need to migrate elsewhere.
The team also began internal sequencer improvements. One of these moves the block committer into Starknet’s Apollo processes.
The most urgent item belongs to node operators. Full nodes must run either Pathfinder v0.24.0 or Juno v0.16.6 to keep operating on the upgraded network.
Proofs generated under v0.14.3 are rejected by the new verifier, so outdated setups will not simply limp along.
Where this fits in Starknet’s roadmap Starknet is a Layer 2 network built on STARK technology, a cryptographic proof system that lets large amounts of computation be verified cheaply.
The network is working through a multi-year roadmap centered on three goals: improving performance, refining fee structures, and moving toward decentralization.
The previous release, v0.14.3, introduced dynamic L2 gas fees alongside performance enhancements. Version 0.14.4 builds directly on that foundation, with gas-weight tweaks fine-tuning what individual operations should cost within that system.
What this means for developers, operators, and STRK holders For developers, the expanded SNIP-36 capacity is the headline. Applications built around heavy computation now have a path to settle that work on Starknet in a single proven transaction, paying for the proof rather than every individual step.
For node operators and infrastructure providers, the takeaway is less abstract. Pathfinder v0.24.0 or Juno v0.16.6 is now a requirement, and any tooling built on the removed feeder gateway endpoints needs attention.
For holders of STRK, Starknet’s native token, the token has drawn market attention tied to the upgrade cycle and its link to how fees are structured.
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American Water zveřejní po uzavření trhu 28. října hospodářské výsledky za třetí čtvrtletí roku 2026, samostatný výhled hospodaření na rok 2027 a dlouhodobé finanční cíle.
American Water to Discuss Third Quarter 2026 Results and Initiation of 2027 Standalone Earnings Guidance on October 29, 2026PR Newswire
CAMDEN, N.J., Oct. 6, 2026
, /PRNewswire/ -- American Water Works Company, Inc. (NYSE: AWK) announced today that it intends to release its 2026 third quarter financial results and 2027 earnings guidance on a standalone basis, as well as its long-term financial targets, after the market closes on Wednesday, October 28, 2026.
John Griffith, President and Chief Executive Officer; David Bowler, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer; and Cheryl Norton, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, will host a conference call and webcast with investors, analysts and other interested parties on Thursday, October 29, 2026, at 9 a.m. Eastern Time. There will be a question-and-answer session as part of the call.
Interested parties may listen to an audio webcast of the conference call through a link on the Investor Relations website at ir.amwater.com. Presentation slides that will be used in conjunction with the earnings conference call will also be made available online in advance at ir.amwater.com. A replay of the audio webcast will be available for one year on American Water's investor relations website at ir.amwater.com/events. The company recognizes its websites as key channels of distribution to reach public investors and as a means of disclosing material non-public information to comply with the company's obligations under SEC Regulation FD.
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.
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ROCHESTER, N.Y., Oct. 06, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Constellation Brands, Inc. (NYSE: STZ), a leading U.S.-based total beverage alcohol company, today announced the acquisition of SpikedAde, a differentiated, consumer-led spirit-based ready-to-drink (RTD) beverage brand competing in the emerging sports drink-inspired "Ade" segment.
Constellation's strong brand building and go-to-market capabilities to help SpikedAde expand distribution across the U.S.Transaction includes a $75 million payment at close for 100% ownership of the business, as well as additional contingent consideration of up to $278 million payable over five years based on the future performance of the SpikedAde business, reflective of Constellation’s disciplined approach to capital allocation.The acquisition strengthens Constellation's position in the fast-growing RTD category and expands its portfolio into an emerging, consumer-led demand space.SpikedAde is well positioned to capitalize on the growing demand for flavorful, sessionable RTDs designed for modern social occasions and evolving consumer preferences.The spirit-based RTD category is one of the fastest-growing areas in beverage alcohol, with dollar sales increasing by 25% in the last year.1 About SpikedAde
SpikedAde is a spirit-based RTD beverage brand competing in the emerging "Ade" segment. The brand combines familiar sports drink flavors with a vodka base in a zero-sugar, 100-calorie, non-carbonated format. As a first mover in the space, SpikedAde has demonstrated strong early momentum through expanding distribution, rapid account growth, and high reorder rates. With an established presence across the eastern U.S. and significant runway for growth, SpikedAde represents a compelling opportunity to accelerate its expansion and extend its reach.
Message from Constellation’s President & CEO
“SpikedAde has successfully carved out a distinctive position in an emerging segment and built a brand that is clearly connecting with consumers,” said Nicholas Fink, Constellation’s President and Chief Executive Officer. “As consumer preferences evolve and new occasions continue to emerge, we're excited to build on the strong foundation the SpikedAde team has created and leverage our proven capabilities to accelerate growth, expand the brand's reach, and unlock new opportunities for the platform over time.”
Message from SpikedAde Founder and CEO
“When we created SpikedAde, it was with the goal of helping define a new era for RTDs – one that meets consumers where performance, lifestyle, and social energy intersect – and our team and distributor partners turned that vision into reality faster than we ever imagined,” said Jason Cohen, Founder and CEO of SpikedAde. “With Constellation's scale and expertise behind it, we're excited to see SpikedAde reach even more consumers with its distinctive positioning and continue its remarkable growth trajectory.”
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Why did Constellation acquire SpikedAde?
Constellation Brands acquired SpikedAde on October 6, 2026 to strengthen its position in the fast-growing RTD category and expand its portfolio into new consumer demand spaces aimed at sustainable consumer trends. What is SpikedAde?
SpikedAde is a spirit-based RTD beverage brand competing in the emerging "Ade" segment. The brand combines familiar sports drink flavors with a vodka base in a zero-sugar, 100-calorie, non-carbonated format. What is the “Ade” segment?
"Ade" is an emerging segment of spirit-based RTD beverages inspired by familiar sports drink flavors. SpikedAde was one of the first brands to establish a presence in the segment. Will SpikedAde continue to operate as its own brand?
The SpikedAde team will be integrated into Constellation’s Beer Division, and Constellation will assume production oversight, marketing, and distribution of the brand. The company intends to align SpikedAde distribution with Gold Network Distributor partners, in accordance with applicable law. 1Circana MULOC+ 52 weeks ending 8-30-26
ABOUT CONSTELLATION BRANDS
Constellation Brands (NYSE: STZ), a leading U.S.-based company, is an international producer and marketer of beer, wine, and spirits with operations in the U.S., Mexico, New Zealand, and Italy. Our mission is to build brands that people love because we believe elevating human connections is Worth Reaching For. It’s worth our dedication, hard work, and calculated risks to anticipate market trends and deliver for our consumers, shareholders, employees, and industry. This dedication is what has driven us to become one of the fastest-growing, large CPG companies in the U.S. at retail, and it drives our pursuit to deliver what’s next.
Every day, people reach for brands from our high-end, imported beer portfolio anchored by the iconic Corona Extra and Modelo Especial, a flavorful lineup of Modelo Cheladas, and favorites like Pacifico, and Victoria; our exceptional wine brands including The Prisoner Wine Company, Robert Mondavi Winery, Kim Crawford, Schrader Cellars, and Lingua Franca; and our craft spirits brands such as Mi CAMPO Tequila and High West Whiskey.
As an agriculture-based company, we strive to operate in a way that is sustainable and responsible. Our ESG strategy is embedded into our business and we focus on serving as good stewards of the environment, investing in our communities, and promoting responsible beverage alcohol consumption. We believe these aspirations in support of our longer-term business strategy allow us to contribute to a future that is truly Worth Reaching For.
To learn more, visit www.cbrands.com and follow us on LinkedIn and Instagram.
FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS
This news release contains forward-looking statements. All statements other than statements of historical fact are forward-looking statements. The word “expect” and similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements, although not all forward-looking statements contain such identifying words. These statements may relate to business strategy, future operations, prospects, plans, and objectives of management, including expanding SpikedAde’s distribution, the amount of contingent consideration, if any, that may be paid, strengthening Constellation's position in the fast-growing RTD category, emerging, consumer-led demand spaces, SpikedAde’s ability to capitalize on growing demand and connect with consumers, SpikedAde’s runway for and continuing growth, building on SpikedAde's foundation and unlocking new opportunities, and integration and distribution plans for SpikedAde, as well as information concerning expected actions of third parties. All forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those set forth in, or implied by, such forward-looking statements.
The forward-looking statements are based on management’s current expectations and should not be construed in any manner as a guarantee that any of the events anticipated by the forward-looking statements will in fact occur or will occur on the timetable contemplated hereby. All forward-looking statements speak only as of the date of this news release and Constellation does not undertake any obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise.
In addition to risks and uncertainties associated with ordinary business operations, the forward-looking statements contained in this news release are subject to other risks and uncertainties, including the accuracy of all projections and other factors and uncertainties disclosed from time-to-time in Constellation Brands’ filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended February 28, 2026, which could cause actual future performance to differ from current expectations.
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On September 24, 2026, Acadia issued a press release “announc[ing] Phase 3 enabling topline results from the Phase 2 portion of the ongoing RADIANT clinical trial program evaluating remlifanserin for the treatment of hallucinations and delusions associated with Alzheimer’s disease psychosis (ADP).” Among other data, the Company disclosed that remlifanserin at 60 mg “narrowly missed” the primary endpoint of a clinical tool designed to measure the severity of the disease.
On this news, Acadia’s stock price fell $3.25 per share, or 12.78%, to close at $22.18 per share on September 24, 2026.
Then, on September 25, 2026, multiple analysts downgraded Acadia, citing the disappointing trial results.
On this news, Acadia’s stock price fell $1.50 per share, or 6.76%, to close at $20.68 per share on September 25, 2026.
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Ministerstvo energetiky USA přislíbilo společnosti Vistra až 4,2 mld. USD na prodloužení životnosti a modernizaci tří jaderných elektráren, čímž zachová téměř 4 GW výkonu a přidá 433 MW kapacity.
Washington's latest nuclear deal adds new power without building a single new reactor. Energy Secretary Chris Wright made the pitch on Monday: run the existing nuclear plants in America longer to deliver cheaper, steadier power around the clock.
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced a loan commitment of up to $4.2 billion for Vistra (VST +10.77%) to extend and upgrade three of its nuclear plants -- Beaver Valley in Pennsylvania, and Davis-Besse and Perry in Ohio.
The DOE says the project will preserve nearly 4 gigawatts (GW) of existing power and add 433 megawatts (MW) of new capacity. That could power more than 3 million homes across Pennsylvania, Ohio, and the PJM region. The PJM region is the stretch of the eastern U.S. where PJM Interconnection runs the power grid, covering all or parts of 13 states and the District of Columbia.
Here's the big number: The investment will extend the plants' lives for another 20 years beyond their current licenses.
Zoom out, and Monday's deal is just a piece of a much bigger plan that should benefit more stocks than one.
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Trump's big nuclear betPresident Donald Trump's May 2025 executive order set an ambitious goal to jump-start America's nuclear energy industry and quadruple capacity to 400 GW by 2050.
Washington can add nuclear power mainly in three ways: new reactors, restarts, and uprates (increasing the capacity and output of existing plants). It is going after all three.
Here are some examples of the DOE's major recent nuclear deals.
New reactorsA conditional $17.5 billion loan to Westinghouse to deploy up to 10 new AP1000 reactors. Westinghouse is jointly owned by Brookfield Renewable Partners (BEPC +4.70%)(BEP +4.25%) and Cameco (CCJ +6.34%).
RestartsThe DOE closed a $1 billion loan to Constellation Energy (CEG +12.25%) to bring back the 835-megawatt Crane Clean Energy Center, the old Three Mile Island Unit 1, which shut in 2019. Tech giant Microsoft (MSFT +0.78%) had already signed to buy the power even before the DOE loan.
UpratesVistra's latest $4.2 billion loan commitment for three of its plants. Here's something else you must know: In January 2026, tech behemoth Meta Platforms (META -0.41%) already signed 20-year power purchase agreements with Vistra to buy 2,609 MW from those same plants.
What this means for investors in nuclear energy I see two emerging patterns.
First, the biggest federal loans or commitments are going to existing plants, because that solves the energy problem faster than building a new reactor.
Second, plants that already have a license, a grid connection, and a buyer are getting Washington's attention. While Constellation had already found a buyer for Crane output in Microsoft, Vistra found one in Meta.
All Washington is doing is adding money on top, so the companies that own these plants can restart or uprate more quickly and more affordably.
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The nuclear renaissance is real, and I strongly believe that owners of existing reactors, such as Constellation and Vistra, stand to win the most.
While Constellation operates the largest nuclear fleet in the U.S., Vistra owns the second-largest fleet among competitive power producers that sell electricity on the open market. Both hold scarce assets that the artificial intelligence (AI) boom needs but can't quickly replace: reactors that deliver clear, uninterrupted nuclear power around the clock.
Neha Chamaria has no position in any of the stocks mentioned. The Motley Fool has positions in and recommends Cameco, Constellation Energy, Meta Platforms, Microsoft, and Vistra. The Motley Fool recommends Brookfield Renewable and Brookfield Renewable Partners. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy.
Aurora Cannabis zahájí nezávislé posouzení zvýšené nepřátelské nabídky společnosti Curaleaf ve výši implicitního protiplnění 5,00 USD za akcii a doporučuje akcionářům, aby do zveřejnění stanoviska nepodnikali žádné kroky.
Aurora's Special Committee will commence a thorough and independent review of the revised Hostile Bid and the Board will provide a formal recommendation to shareholders once the review is complete. Shareholders are advised to TAKE NO ACTION pending a formal recommendation. Aurora shareholders will have until at least December 4, 2026, to consider their options. Questions about the Hostile Bid or would like to stay informed? Please contact Kingsdale Advisors toll-free at 1-800-749-9052 within North America, call or text 416-623-4172 or at [email protected]. , /PRNewswire/ -- Aurora Cannabis Inc. ("Aurora" or the "Company") (TSX: ACB) (NASDAQ: ACB), the Canadian-based leading global medical cannabis company, responded today to a press release issued by Curaleaf Holdings, Inc. ("Curaleaf") (TSX: CURA) (OTCQX: CURLF) regarding the filing of a Notice of Variation and Change to revise its hostile take-over bid (the "Hostile Bid") for all of the issued and outstanding common shares of the Company (the "Aurora Shares") to offer revised implied consideration of US$5.00 per Share, consisting of 0.4013 subordinate voting shares of Curaleaf plus US$1.00 in cash per Aurora Share.
"The filing of a revised Hostile Bid is simply the next step in the process, not a deadline to make a decision. Investors deserve the chance to review the revised Hostile Bid and decide for themselves whether it reflects the full value of the company they already own. Our Board and Special Committee are commencing their review, and until Aurora's formal recommendation is available, we urge investors to take no action," said Miguel Martin, Executive Chairman and CEO of Aurora.
"Once the review is complete, the Board will communicate its recommendation and provide the relevant information to shareholders to support them in considering their options," concluded Mr. Martin.
The Company will provide a comprehensive response to Aurora shareholders in a timely manner once the Special Committee has completed its review and the Board has made its recommendation with respect to the revised Hostile Bid.
Take No Action
Aurora shareholders are advised to TAKE NO ACTION on the Hostile Bid as previously recommended on September 2, 2026 and to wait for further communication from the Board of Directors. Aurora shareholders will have until at least December 4, 2026, to consider their options, being the revised expiry date of Curaleaf's Hostile Bid.
The Special Committee will consider the Hostile Bid with its advisors before making a recommendation to the Board. Aurora shareholders will be notified of the Board's formal recommendation through a news release and Directors' Circular.
Shareholder Assistance
Aurora shareholders with questions about the Hostile Bid or who would like to stay informed may contact Kingsdale Advisors, the Company's strategic advisor and information agent:
Toll-Free (within North America): 1-800-749-9052 Call or Text: 416-623-4172 Email: [email protected] Visit protectaurora.com About Aurora Cannabis
Aurora is a global leader in medical cannabis, dedicated to improving lives through scientific expertise, proven performance, and a deep commitment to patient care. Aurora serves medical markets across Canada, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand with a portfolio of trusted, leading brands including Aurora®, MedReleaf®, Pedanios®, IndiMed™, San Raf®, and Whistler Medical Marijuana Corporation®. With world-class GMP-certified manufacturing facilities in Canada and Germany, and a team of industry-leading professionals, Aurora continues to expand its global footprint and deliver consistent, high-quality cannabis products with the purpose of Opening the World to Cannabis™.
Learn more at www.auroramj.com and follow us on X and LinkedIn.
Aurora's common shares trade on the NASDAQ and TSX under the symbol "ACB".
Aurora has filed a Solicitation/Recommendation Statement on Schedule 14D-9F with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC"), which includes a Director's Circular, dated September 1, 2026. Investors are urged to read this document and any other relevant documents filed with the SEC, as well as any amendments or supplements to these documents, when they become available, before making any investment decision with respect to the Hostile Bid. The Hostile Bid is made for the securities of a Canadian issuer and while the Hostile Bid is subject to disclosure requirements of Canada, investors should be aware that these requirements are different from those of the United States. The enforcement by investors of civil liabilities under the U.S. federal securities laws may be affected adversely by the fact that the issuer is located in Canada, and that some or all of its officers and directors are residents of Canada.
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This news release includes statements containing certain "forward-looking information" within the meaning of applicable securities laws ("forward-looking statements"). Forward-looking statements are frequently characterized by words such as "plan", "continue", "expect", "project", "intend", "believe", "anticipate", "estimate", "may", "will", "potential", "proposed" and other similar words, or statements that certain events or conditions "may" or "will" occur. Forward-looking statements made in this news release include, but are not limited to, statements and information about Curaleaf's revised Hostile Bid, including the revised consideration, the Special Committee's planned review of the revised Hostile Bid and any recommendation with respect to the same.
These forward-looking statements are only predictions. Forward-looking information or statements contained in this news release have been developed based on the Company and its management's good faith assumptions relating to the financial, market, regulatory and other relevant environments that will exist and affect the Company's business and operations in the future. Forward-looking information and statements are not a guarantee of future performance and are based upon a number of estimates and assumptions of management at the date the statements are made including, among other things, assumptions about: development costs remaining consistent with budgets; the ability to manage anticipated and unanticipated costs; access to favorable equity and debt capital markets; the ability to raise sufficient capital to advance the business of the Company; favorable operating and economic conditions; political and regulatory stability; obtaining and maintaining all required licenses and permits; receipt of governmental approvals and permits; sustained labour stability; stability in financial and capital goods markets; favorable production levels and costs from the Company's operations; the pricing of various cannabis products; the level of demand for cannabis products; the availability of third-party service providers and other inputs for the Company's operations; and the Company's ability to conduct operations in a safe, efficient, and effective manner. The Company does not give any assurance that the assumptions on which forward-looking information or statements are based will prove to be correct, or that the Company's business or operations will not be affected in any material manner by these or other factors not foreseen or foreseeable by the Company or management or beyond the Company's control. Such forward-looking statements are estimates reflecting the Company's best judgment based upon current information and involve a number of risks and uncertainties, and there can be no assurance that other factors will not affect the accuracy of such forward-looking statements. These risks include, but are not limited to, the ability to retain key personnel, the ability to continue investing in infrastructure to support growth, the ability to obtain financing on acceptable terms, the continued quality of our products, customer experience and retention, the development of third party government and non-government consumer sales channels, management's estimates of consumer demand in Canada and in jurisdictions where the Company exports, expectations of future results and expenses, the availability of additional capital to complete construction projects and facilities improvements, the risk of successful integration of acquired business and operations, management's estimation that SG&A will grow only in proportion to revenue growth, the ability to expand and maintain distribution capabilities, the impact of competition, the general impact of financial market conditions, the yield from cannabis growing operations, product demand, changes in prices of required commodities, competition, and the possibility for changes in laws, rules, and regulations in the industry, epidemics, pandemics or other public health crisis, and other risks as set out under the heading "Risk Factors" in the Company's annual information form dated June 10, 2026 (the "AIF") and filed with Canadian securities regulators available on the Company's issuer profile on SEDAR+ at www.sedarplus.com and filed with and available on the SEC's website at www.sec.gov. The Company cautions that the list of risks, uncertainties and other factors described in the AIF is not exhaustive and other factors could also adversely affect its results. Readers are urged to consider the risks, uncertainties and assumptions carefully in evaluating the forward-looking statements and are cautioned not to place undue reliance on such information. The Company is under no obligation, and expressly disclaims any intention or obligation, to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as expressly required by applicable securities laws.
Ondo Finance spouští tokenizované směnky navázané na hodnotu nejmenované AI firmy před vstupem na burzu; výplata závisí na ceně akcií při události zajišťující likviditu. Směnky nenabízejí vlastnická ani akcionářská práva.
The notes pay out based on the company’s share value at a liquidity event, carry no shareholder rights and are open only to eligible investors outside the U.S.
Ondo's new tokenized notes track an unnamed pre-IPO AI company
Posted October 6, 2026 at 8:38 am ET.
Ondo Finance is extending its tokenization business from public stocks and Treasuries to companies that have not yet listed. The firm announced Ondo Private Markets on Tuesday, a product offering tokenized notes that track the value of individual private companies.
The first market references an unnamed pre-IPO AI company and is expected to begin secondary trading this week. Ondo said robotics, cybersecurity, biotech and infrastructure names will follow, and a company blog post also lists defense, energy and space. The product is open only to eligible investors outside the U.S., in jurisdictions where it is permitted.
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How the Notes Work Payouts depend on what the referenced company’s common stock is worth per share when a “qualifying liquidity event” occurs, according to Ondo. Buyers do not get stock. The notes are obligations of their issuer and come with no ownership or shareholder rights in the underlying company, the release states.
Holders can keep the tokens in self-custody wallets, send them to other eligible holders, trade them around the clock on secondary markets or deploy them in DeFi. Ondo said that tradability targets a long-standing problem in private markets, where investors can wait years for an IPO before they are able to sell.
“In the US, the majority of the investment options accessible for retail are public companies, yet 87% of companies with over $100m in revenue are private. That’s where many of the leaders defining the next era of our economy are emerging, and retail investors can’t access them today,” Ian De Bode, Ondo’s acting CEO and president, said in the release. “Ondo Private Markets is built to change that, bringing tokenized exposure to the world’s best companies with 24/7 trading on permissionless rails.”
A Different Structure From Ondo’s US Tokens Ondo said the infrastructure behind its tokenized stocks and Treasuries holds $3.7 billion in total value locked across more than 1 million cumulative holders.
The new notes work differently from the tokenized BlackRock ETF and Micron shares Ondo brought onchain in July inside the U.S. regulatory perimeter. Those tokens are backed one-for-one by custodied securities and give holders proxy voting rights.
Coinbase has offered pre-IPO exposure through a different instrument, derivatives. It listed SpaceX pre-IPO perpetual futures on its international exchange in June, also limited to users outside the U.S.
Ondo has not said which AI company the first notes reference or which trading venues will list them.
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ZRO od začátku září vzrostl přibližně o 125 % na 2,23 USD. Dne 20. října má být odemčeno 23,63 milionu tokenů ZRO, což představuje 5,93 % tokenů v oběhu.
LayerZero’s ZRO price has climbed more than 100% from its early-September levels to around $2.23 as traders assess its rising price channel, planned ATLAS buybacks, and an Oct. 20 token unlock.
Summary
ZRO price trades near $2.23, roughly 125% above its early-September price of $0.99. Daily resistance stands at $2.34, followed by $2.54, $2.73 and $2.93. The 4-hour RSI reaches 69.10 as ZRO holds above its $1.94 Supertrend support. About 23.63 million ZRO are scheduled to unlock on Oct. 20. TradingView’s Binance ZRO/USDT charts show LayerZero trading around $2.23 on Oct. 6, after reaching a daily high near $2.30. Compared with the roughly $0.99 level seen earlier in September, the token has gained about 125%.
The advance has included several pullbacks. ZRO broke above $1.40 in late September, moved through $1.60 and later recovered from the $1.72–$1.74 area to regain $2. The latest move places the token near price levels last seen during the first quarter.
At $2.23, ZRO would need another gain of roughly 35% to reach $3. Its daily chart places several resistance levels below that target, while the 4-hour chart shows the recovery continuing within an ascending channel.
ATLAS buybacks and bank stablecoins support the ZRO narrative LayerZero announced ATLAS in August as trading infrastructure built on its Zero blockchain. The system combines order matching, clearing, settlement, and risk management for trading venues.
Under the announced model, venues receive rebates of 20%–65%, depending on their trading volume and ZRO staking. Of the fees remaining after those rebates, 25% goes to market creators, and 75% goes toward buying and burning ZRO.
LayerZero also assigns ZRO a role as Zero’s gas and staking asset. Trading venues can stake the token to qualify for higher rebates, linking its planned use to both network operations and exchange activity.
Existing buybacks come through a separate revenue stream. In its June token update, LayerZero said 100% of Stargate revenue had funded ZRO purchases since April 2026. LayerZero Labs also disclosed a $10 million open-market purchase in November 2025, with future purchases dependent on its profitability.
The September institutional announcement came from Anchorage Digital, which selected LayerZero to connect stablecoins issued through Anchorage Digital Bank across blockchains. Anchorage identified Tether’s USAT as the first bank-issued stablecoin to launch with the integration.
The partnership connects LayerZero to a federally chartered U.S. crypto bank’s stablecoin issuance business. Anchorage said the integration would use LayerZero’s token standard to move assets across networks, including Ethereum and Solana.
ZRO price faces $2.34 before a move toward $3 On the daily TradingView chart, ZRO trades above the Murrey Math level at $2.148. The next marked resistance is $2.344, about 5% above the chart’s $2.227 price.
ZRO price daily chart — Oct. 6 | Source: TradingView A sustained move through $2.344 would put the next chart levels at $2.539 and $2.734 in focus. Above those sits $2.930, leaving another resistance test just below the $3 target.
The daily Chaikin Money Flow reads 0.10, above the zero line. That positive reading accompanies the price recovery and points to buying pressure under the indicator’s volume-weighted calculation.
The nearest marked downside level is $2.148. Below it, the daily chart places a pivot at $1.953, followed by $1.758 and $1.563. A retreat through $1.953 would return ZRO below $2 and interrupt its latest advance.
The 4-hour TradingView chart shows a sequence of higher highs and higher lows inside an ascending channel. Its Supertrend remains green at $1.943, close to the daily $1.953 pivot, making the $1.94–$1.95 area a shared technical reference across both timeframes.
ZRO price 4-hour chart — Oct. 6 | Source: TradingView The 4-hour relative strength index stands at 69.10, above its average of 62.43 and close to the conventional overbought threshold of 70. Momentum remains strong, although the reading leaves the rally near a level where short-term consolidation becomes a relevant scenario.
Liquidation bands sit below price as the unlock approaches CoinGlass’s 48-hour liquidation heatmap shows ZRO rising from below $2 toward $2.30 before pulling back toward $2.22. Visible liquidation bands above the latest price sit around $2.28–$2.32.
ZRO liquidation heatmap | Source: CoinGlass Below price, bands cluster near $2.17–$2.19 and $2.10–$2.12. A particularly bright band sits around $1.98, with additional concentrations near $1.88–$1.90. Those levels mark areas where leveraged positions could face liquidation if price reaches them.
The October supply calendar adds another event. DefiLlama lists an Oct. 20 release of approximately 23.63 million ZRO: 10.63 million for core contributors and 13 million for strategic partners. The tracker puts the release at about 5.93% of circulating supply.
Analysts favor the breakout, but $3 requires further gains In an Oct. 5 post, market commentator Pentoshi linked his bullish outlook to the weekly chart and ATLAS’s planned fee allocation. He described ZRO as having substantial upside potential, without giving a firm October price target.
Technical analyst Captain Faibik’s 3-day chart shows a breakout above a long descending channel. His accompanying post reported a 55% advance since that breakout, supporting his bullish assessment of the longer-term setup.
For an October move above $3, the daily chart’s bullish scenario requires ZRO to clear $2.344, $2.539, $2.734, and $2.930 while maintaining its rising 4-hour structure. A loss of the $1.94–$1.95 support area would weaken that scenario and bring $1.758 back into focus ahead of the scheduled unlock.
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Lamb Weston v 1. čtvrtletí fiskálního roku 2027 překonal odhady s upraveným ziskem na akcii (EPS) ve výši 0,75 USD a zvýšil celoroční výhled tržeb na nízký jednociferný růst.
Lamb Weston NYSE: LW has its share of issues, not least of all the lingering impact of the botched rollout of its enterprise resource planning (ERP) platform, which is now more of a mental hang-up than anything else. It also has an active turnaround strategy, supported by activist investors, that is starting to show results.
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While sales remain sluggish, margins are improving, setting the stage for accelerated earnings growth in upcoming quarters. The capital return capacity is healthy and improving quarterly, enabling dividends and share buybacks, the primary reason for owning consumer staples stocks.
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Trading at about 15x current-year earnings guidance, LW stock is a deep-value opportunity, with the market pricing in failure rather than recovery. What the market is missing is that this company isn't broken, but rather suffering from self-inflicted wounds that it can and will recover from.
Looking forward, investors can expect steady revenue growth, margin recovery, and accelerated earnings growth over time—and the capital returns that come with it.
Lamb Weston: An Early-Stage Dividend Growth MachineLamb Weston is a committed dividend payer and dividend growth machine, with eight consecutive annual increases since its spin-off and the ninth coming down the pipe. The opportunity for investors is to get on board now, while it's still early in the game, as history suggests the stock price will rise given the company's capital-return growth trajectory.
In this scenario, consistency, annual increases, and yield drive rising ownership, with ownership accelerating as periodic milestones are reached. These include the 10th, 15th, and 25th consecutive years of distribution increases; thresholds for inclusion in key indices like the Dividend Achievers, Dividend Aristocrats, and Dividend Kings; and triggers for index-related and buy-and-hold investing.
Lamb Weston did not buy back significant shares in Q1 of its fiscal 2027 (FY2027) but is on track to reduce the count this year. Trailing 12-month activity reduced the count by 1.2%, and $245 million remains under the remaining authorization, worth about 4% of the early October market cap. Balance sheet highlights reflect capacity for buybacks to continue, with cash and assets increasing, and liabilities and equity steady.
Among Lamb Weston’s risks is its debt. While not excessively high, it is a headwind that could quickly become a problem if the company makes further missteps. The offset is that strategy execution is driving results, providing better clarity into future profitability and debt coverage. As it is, the company’s cash flow is sufficient; the debt is merely a concern dragging on sentiment.
Lamb Weston Outperforms, Raises Guidance in Fiscal Q1Lamb Weston didn’t have a robust quarter but posted nearly 1% growth and outperformed estimates while improving operations. Growth was centered in North America, which grew by 5% and accounts for about 65% of the total business. Volume also rose 2%, offset by price/mix and weakness in the International segment. International business contracted by 8%, hurt by regional demand, high crop yields, and carrying costs linked to capacity utilization.
Margin was a bright spot, down year over year (YOY) due to rising cost pressures, but less than expected. Key takeaways include $280 million in adjusted EBITDA, $103 million in adjusted net income, flat YOY and sufficient for an approximate 50% dividend payout ratio. Other bullish factors include 75 cents in adjusted earnings per share, up 2 cents YOY (about 1%) and more than 15 cents above MarketBeat’s consensus forecast.
Looking ahead, the company expects the strengths to continue and has lifted its full-year guidance. Execs now expect low single-digit growth versus the prior outlook of flat to 1% growth, with adjusted earnings of $3.05 at the low end, nearly a nickel above forecasts and potentially cautious.
Lamb Weston Stock Sends Signal After Earnings ResultsThe market response following the earnings release highlights the strength of Lamb Weston's Q1 FY2027 results. The stock gained more than 10%, confirming support in the low-$40s and the potential for a complete reversal. The next hurdle is existing highs in the mid-$50s, likely reached before the year's end. A move above $50 would signal a shift in market dynamics and likely lead to a sustainable rally.
Risks for investors to be aware of include the status of the ERP rollout, which has been paused, and its long-term ramifications. Not only were client relationships damaged, but class-action lawsuits against the company and its executives can proceed. Investors allege the company misled the market about the inherent risks, including system failures. The next visible catalyst is the upcoming investor day scheduled for early in 2027. Execs are expected to give updates on Europe, ERP initiatives, and strategic progress.
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Po schůzce s vedením vidí Jefferies u PVH prostor pro růst tržeb i marží; e-commerce a džínová kategorie značky Calvin Klein rostou dvouciferným tempem.
PVH Corp. (NYSE:PVH) has a compelling opportunity within reach to improve both sales and margins, according to Jefferies, following a meeting with company management in New York.
The analysts described the session as "more like a catchup than turnaround," saying strong brand awareness and heritage give PVH a better starting point.
Management was upbeat about improved areas of growth across the business, though Jefferies noted meaningful work remains.
PVH said Calvin Klein's opportunity centers on monetizing existing brand equity. Brand awareness stands at 88% in the Americas, 87% in Europe and 65% in Asia-Pacific, and marketing is generating strong social engagement, particularly among younger consumers.
The company's framework is that social engagement drives traffic, traffic drives e-commerce revenue, and e-commerce supports broader direct-to-consumer growth and, later, wholesale.
Double-digit growth in e-commerce and denim points to the strategy working, Jefferies said.
Calvin Klein is being built around underwear, denim and fragrance. Denim is a particular focus, as the team believes consumer awareness and cultural relevance far exceed the category's current sales contribution.
Executives acknowledged the turnaround has taken longer than expected, but PVH views the investments as necessary to improve product consistency and support higher average unit retail prices.
The team pointed to underlying constant-currency revenue growth, double-digit growth in key Calvin Klein categories and pricing power gains as early evidence of results.
PVH described encouraging direct-to-consumer trends in Europe, including e-commerce growth, while acknowledging that wholesale remains softer amid a fragmented distribution landscape and uneven macro backdrop.
Jefferies expects Europe wholesale to remain more challenged, with improvement anticipated in the second half of next year.
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Ethereum L2 Blast ukončuje provoz, protože náklady převýšily příjmy. Coinbase 20. října 2026 zastaví obchodování s tokenem BLAST; výběry budou možné do 26. října.
Blast, the Ethereum Layer-2 network, is shutting down. Coinbase is pulling the plug on BLAST trading on October 20, 2026.
The exchange says users must withdraw their assets before October 26, 2026.
Blast announced on October 2, 2026, that it would wind down operations because the cost of running the network had climbed past the revenue it brought in.
The wind-down timeline Blast users can keep withdrawing through the standard Blast interface until October 26, 2026. That deadline lines up with the one Coinbase gave its own customers.
After that date, the easy route closes. Anyone still holding assets on the network will need to interact directly with Blast’s bridge contracts on Ethereum.
There is also a short pause baked into the plan. Blast said withdrawals through the bridge will follow a brief hiatus meant to allow staked assets to be extracted.
A token in freefall The BLAST token has fallen approximately 99% from its all-time high. Immediately after the shutdown announcement, the token dropped another 19-47%, depending on where and when you looked. It now trades around $0.00024.
Beyond Coinbase, multiple platforms including BTSE, Bitvavo, and Bybit have announced delistings or trading suspensions for BLAST.
From billions to a rounding error Total value locked on Blast peaked at over $2 billion in June 2024. Today that figure sits at approximately $24-32 million.
At its height, Blast was pulling in around $3.5 million in monthly revenue. Recently, monthly revenue has fallen to as low as $1,793.
What a Layer-2 is, and why this one failed Layer-2 networks sit on top of Ethereum and process transactions off the main chain. The goal is to make activity faster and cheaper while still leaning on Ethereum for security.
Blast’s problem was that costs exceeded what the Layer-2 earned, and there was no viable path to close the gap.
What this means for holders and the Layer-2 sector For anyone still holding BLAST or assets on the network, the priority is practical. Coinbase customers have until October 20, 2026, before trading stops and until October 26, 2026, to move their assets off the platform. Blast users outside Coinbase face the same October 26, 2026, cutoff for the standard interface. Missing it does not mean losing funds, but it does mean navigating bridge contracts directly after the planned pause for staked assets.
The coordinated wave of delistings from Coinbase, BTSE, Bitvavo, and Bybit leaves remaining holders with fewer ways to exit. The slide from around $3.5 million to as low as $1,793 a month in revenue illustrates how capital that arrives quickly can leave just as quickly, collapsing the revenue that keeps a network running.
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Hyperliquid has set a new benchmark as the number of open perpetual futures positions hit an all time high, reflecting robust growth in trader activity since the beginning of the year. Data from HyperTracker revealed that the platform recorded 435,564 open perpetual futures positions as of October 6, marking an increase of over 115% from the 202,943 positions at the start of 2023.
Active trader count nears recordThe number of active traders on Hyperliquid has grown at a similar rate, with the current figure reaching approximately 320,600. These active accounts are defined as wallets with either an open position or recorded perpetual futures volume in the last 30 days. In January, the number stood closer to 155,000, and the current total is only a few thousand short of its all time high.
This surge in participation has been mirrored by consistently positive trends in both key trading metrics and wallet onboarding. Most of the growth has come from new wallets, as the ratio of open positions per active wallet has barely changed. Analysis shows the average active wallet now holds around 1.36 open positions, up modestly from 1.3 in early January.
Existing traders have not dramatically increased their individual exposure, but a larger pool of participants is driving up the total number of positions. Each new arrival generally brings their own set of open trades, resulting in broad-based growth rather than concentrated risk-taking.
Volumes lag behind August highsDespite a sharp rise in open interest and trader counts, daily trading volumes have not matched earlier peaks. By the afternoon of October 6, Hyperliquid processed approximately $4.54 billion in perpetual futures volume, with most session totals in the past month ranging between $2 billion and $6 billion. This is down from late August, when daily volume surpassed $12 billion several times and nearly reached $16 billion on August 22.
This contrast suggests participants are opening positions but are less active in day-to-day trading. Instead of rotating in and out quickly, traders appear comfortable holding their positions longer, creating a more static but heavily invested market dynamic.
Open interest, which currently stands at $17.29 billion, is just $920 million shy of the record set on September 23. This sustained level underscores the willingness of traders to maintain exposure in anticipation of market events or trends.
Leverage concerns and market liquidityAs a result, leverage on Hyperliquid is nearing record highs at a time when liquidity appears to be thinning. With open interest at nearly four times daily trading volume, substantial leverage remains locked on books that are not seeing frequent turnover.
This environment introduces risks, as a sudden sharp price move could trigger rapid liquidations and outpace the ability of order books to absorb forced selling. Such events have the potential to exacerbate price swings, amplifying market volatility.
The consistent rise in both participating wallets and positions aligns with genuine platform adoption, but the growing gap between leverage and trading volume is a critical factor to monitor as the year draws to a close, especially if market volatility increases.
Technical analysts emphasize the need to closely track changes in open positions, leverage ratios, and trading behaviors. In this landscape, the meme token market offers a parallel lesson on the importance of timing and investor choices. In recent days, an internet meme called “Niu Lai” demonstrated the sector’s rapid pace, turning a $99 investment into about $370,000, according to data from Fomo App. Keeping track of not just prices but also what tokens attract investor attention and when they do so has become essential. Fomo App integrates token discovery and trading with features like social feeds, investor rankings, and real-time trade alerts, supporting those navigating the fast-moving world of meme tokens and investor dynamics.
Bloomberg Terminal nově nabízí nepřetržité ceny perpetuálních kontraktů Hyperliquid pro více než 100 akciových, komoditních a kryptoměnových trhů. Platforma neumožňuje obchodování ani úschovu aktiv.
Bloomberg has integrated 24/7 Hyperliquid perpetual prices for stocks, commodities, and cryptocurrencies into its Terminal platform. This development, reported by @DefiantNews, allows users to access real-time market-data monitoring for over 100 markets, enhancing the Terminal’s existing financial data offerings. The integration does not permit execution or asset custody through the Terminal but places Hyperliquid’s decentralized derivatives alongside traditional financial references like Bitcoin, Nvidia, and the S&P 500. This move is expected to increase visibility and confidence in Hyperliquid’s market presence.
Key Takeaways Bloomberg’s integration of Hyperliquid prices appears consistent with increased market visibility for the decentralized protocol. Market pricing suggests participants view this as supportive of a potential increase in Hyperliquid’s valuation. The introduction of round-the-clock pricing could indicate enhanced interest and confidence in Hyperliquid’s financial products. What to Watch Markets will likely reflect how this integration impacts Hyperliquid’s visibility and valuation in the coming months. Key indicators could include any major partnerships or increased institutional interest in Hyperliquid. Observers should watch for any changes in market confidence reflected in the Polymarket odds, particularly as the December 31, 2026, deadline approaches for Hyperliquid to reach $100.
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PANews reported on October 6 that on the evening of October 6, HTX DAO Ambassador Molly said at the HTX DAO "Future Night" event held in Singapore that HTX DAO is making sustained investments in three directions: ecosystem mechanisms, community building, and the on-chain ecosystem. By continuously optimizing the token economic mechanism, expanding ecosystem application scenarios, and advancing related ecosystem initiatives according to established mechanisms, HTX DAO is laying a solid foundation for the ecosystem's long-term development.
On community building, Molly revealed that HTX DAO plans to advance regional community node construction in the fourth quarter, supporting community members in organizing events, participating in exchanges, and co-building community culture. Currently, the number of active volunteers spontaneously participating in community building has approached 200, with plans to further expand the scale of community participation in the future. On the on-chain ecosystem, HTX DAO is attracting developers from universities around the world through hackathons and other means, with multiple projects currently in further incubation or advancement stages, while exploring integration with $HTX ecosystem application scenarios.
Molly emphasized that ecosystem building requires long-term investment, and HTX DAO will continue to improve infrastructure, cultivate an active community, and promote the implementation of ecosystem applications. She also stated that, as one of the participants in the HTX DAO ecosystem, Huobi HTX is also continuously optimizing user experience, including optimizing withdrawal fees, collecting user feedback, and improving the App user experience, in order to better respond to user needs and market changes.
South Africa’s second-largest bank is letting its customers buy Bitcoin without ever leaving the banking app. First National Bank (FNB) has unveiled a feature called “Crypto Investing” that opens digital asset trading to nearly 9 million retail clients.
FNB is the retail banking arm of the FirstRand group. It announced the service on October 6, 2026, and built it in partnership with VALR, a local crypto exchange. Clients can buy, sell and trade digital assets directly on the bank’s existing share-trading platform.
What FNB clients can actually trade The menu is short for now. The service supports five assets: Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), XRP, Solana (SOL) and the USDT stablecoin from Tether.
The barrier to entry is about as low as it gets. Trades start at a minimum of R10, which works out to about $0.60.
Trading runs 24/7, which matches how crypto markets operate. Clients fund their purchases directly from their FNB accounts. There is no need to wire money to a third-party exchange or juggle a separate login.
The feature plugs into FNB’s existing investment products. Those include Share Saver, Share Builder, Share Investor and Share Zero.
The walled garden approach There is one significant catch. Any crypto bought through FNB stays inside the bank’s ecosystem. Clients cannot send their coins out to an external wallet or another exchange.
FNB has two reasons for the restriction. The first is compliance with South African exchange-control regulations, which govern how money and value move across the country’s borders. The second is security. Keeping assets within a controlled environment reduces the risk of customers sending funds to scam wallets or fraudulent platforms.
FNB executives pointed to strong customer demand for alternative investments as the motivation. They framed the bank as a trusted gateway to these markets, one that comes with established risk management attached.
South African banks warm up to crypto FNB is not the first mover here. Discovery Bank struck a similar arrangement with crypto exchange Luno in November 2025.
The local numbers back that up. More than 6 million South Africans were estimated to hold crypto assets as of late 2025. Over that same period, more than R25 billion in crypto assets were reported under custody at major platforms.
What this means for investors and the banking sector For VALR, the partnership is a distribution win. Exchanges usually spend heavily to acquire customers one at a time. Plugging into a major bank’s client base offers reach that is hard to build independently.
FNB says it plans to expand the list of supported assets. The bank also intends to provide educational resources to help clients understand the complexities and risks of digital currencies.
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Michael Saylor rozlišuje Bitcoin jako přímou expozici, akcie Strategy ($MSTR) jako zesílenou expozici a STRC jako nástroj generující příjem. Jejich 30denní volatilita činila 39 %, 94 % a 9 %.
Michael Saylor, executive chairman of Strategy (NASDAQ: MSTR), has outlined a three-tier framework in which Bitcoin and instruments built around it can address distinct investor preferences.
In a recent post, he argued that the cryptocurrency itself suits those who want straightforward ownership of the asset, while Strategy’s common equity and a preferred security can serve people seeking either magnified market participation or steadier dollar-denominated cash flow.
The comparison he circulated places 30-day historical price volatility near 94 percent for Strategy’s common shares, roughly 39 percent for Bitcoin, and about 9 percent for the company’s Variable Rate Series A Perpetual Stretch Preferred Stock, known as STRC.
Those figures, drawn from market data through early October, position the preferred issue below the realized swings of every stock in the so-called Magnificent Seven group over the same window.
Large-cap technology names in that set ranged from the low 20s percent for Apple up toward the mid-40s for Meta, according to the same snapshot.
Strategy’s common stock sat well above Bitcoin and far above the preferred line.Saylor has framed the arrangement as layers resting on a single foundation.
He describes Bitcoin as digital capital, Strategy’s common stock as digital equity that carries amplified exposure to that capital plus any growth in the firm’s credit business, and STRC as digital credit aimed at income with compressed price movement.
Under this view, investors who simply want to hold the underlying asset can buy Bitcoin or a spot fund.
Those willing to accept larger swings in exchange for leverage on Bitcoin’s path, and on the expansion of related products, can hold the common shares.
Those prioritizing periodic dollar distributions and narrower short-term price ranges can look at the preferred stock.
STRC is structured as a perpetual preferred whose dividend rate adjusts monthly in an effort to keep the shares trading near a $100 par level.
Bitcoin can serve very different investors. $BTC offers direct ownership, $MSTR amplified exposure, and $STRC income with less 30-day price volatility than every Mag 7 stock. Digital Capital is the foundation for Digital Equity and Digital Credit. pic.twitter.com/Jvenbigni4
— Michael Saylor (@saylor) October 4, 2026
The design is intended to shift more of Bitcoin’s price variability toward the common equity, while the preferred claim sits higher in the capital structure and is supported by dollar liquidity reserves and active balance-sheet management.
Saylor has separately noted that the preferred’s recent 30-day volatility reading of 9 percent also came in just under the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust, which he presented as a milestone for the digital credit concept.
On the broader chart he shared, the preferred ranked above only a broad bond-market ETF and below gold, real-estate, and Nasdaq-100 trackers as well as Bitcoin and Strategy common stock.
The distinction matters because amplification cuts both ways.
Common shareholders capture more of the upside when Bitcoin rises and absorb more of the downside when it falls; the preferred is engineered to dampen that transmission for income-focused holders, though it remains exposed to credit, liquidity, and dividend-adjustment risks tied to the same treasury.
Strategy continues to adjust the mix by issuing or repurchasing the preferred and by adding to its Bitcoin holdings, treating the cryptocurrency as the capital base for both the equity and the credit instruments. Whether the volatility gap persists will depend on market conditions, the size of the preferred program, and how effectively the variable dividend and reserve policies keep the shares near par.
For now, Saylor’s framing offers investors a menu: direct Bitcoin ownership, leveraged equity exposure through Strategy common stock, or an income-oriented preferred whose recent price swings have been markedly smaller than those of either.
Španělská vláda znovu schválila dvě mimořádná nařízení o bydlení, včetně omezení růstu nájmů do konce roku 2027 a automatického prodlužování nájemních smluv.
Spain has just shown every property owner in Europe that the rules around their asset can be rewritten by decree. Bitcoin is the one asset where that cannot happen.
I direct the Masters in Bitcoin at the Universidad de las Hespérides. My field focuses on how people build wealth over decades, not weeks. In Spain, for generations, the answer to long-term family wealth was land and property until now.
Last week the government made that path close to impossible. I am not writing to dismiss real estate. I am writing because Spain has just threatened one of the few long-term wealth-building tools ordinary families had, and they will need another one.
Two decrees, one message On 29 September, the Spanish government approved two emergency decrees on housing. They took effect within days, and a planned hearing in Congress was on Friday, October 2, and the decree didn’t pass, though it was a very close vote.
Spain’s government did not pass these rules as a normal law. On 29 September, it approved two emergency decrees (reales decretos-ley). The Constitution reserves this tool for cases of “extraordinary and urgent need”. A decree-law takes effect immediately, and Congress then has thirty days to validate or repeal it. The government split the reforms into two so each could be voted on separately, rather than one controversial measure sinking everything.
The first decree capped rent rises until the end of 2027. A rent already above the maximum set by the official reference-price index could not rise at all. In every other case, the parties could agree to an update, and without a new agreement, the increase could not exceed 2%. Spain’s inflation in September was 4.9%, according to the national statistics institute, so an owner’s real income would shrink every year by law.
The second decree went further. At the end of the minimum term, if neither side has given notice, the lease renews compulsorily in successive five-year periods, or seven if the landlord is a legal entity. A landlord who ends a contract without a reason listed in the law must compensate the tenant. The payment is calculated, where possible, on the state rent-reference system, and can never be less than one month’s rent for each year the tenant has lived in the home. In practice, owners lose much of their freedom to recover their own property or re-let it at current prices.
The rules also apply to contracts that are already signed, from their next renewal date (Provivienda summary). This is why many consider the decrees unconstitutional. Critics argue that they retroactively rewrite private agreements that both sides signed under different rules, which Article 9.3 of the Constitution bars for measures restricting individual rights.
Congress never settled that question. On 2 October it rejected the first decree by 178 votes to 172 and the second by 184 to 166. Sánchez then called general elections for 29 November.
On Tuesday the Council of Ministers approved both decrees again, introducing only technical changes, and sent them to the Diputación Permanente of Congress, where Junts’s vote is not needed. This is the reduced body that replaces the full chamber once Congress is dissolved. Sánchez said the second decree, on automatic renewals, would only take effect if that body validates it, rather than on publication in the BOE. Jurists consulted by one newspaper consider the move borderline abuse of law.
Investors can live with strict rules. What they cannot price is a rule that changes after they have committed. That last point is the one every property owner in Europe should read twice.
The market answered in hours The owners did not wait for the vote. A Spanish TV programme reported that around 2,900 rental listings were pulled from property portals in roughly four hours (EDATV). In Madrid, listings reportedly fell about 20% in under 24 hours, from 11,815 to 9,398 (LaBandera). These are early, unaudited counts. The direction is still clear.
None of this is new. We have run this experiment many times, and it keeps giving the same result.
Berlin, 2020: the city froze rents for five years. Studies at the time found the supply of regulated flats roughly halved, while unregulated rents rose. The constitutional court struck the law down in 2021. San Francisco, 1994: a Stanford study by Diamond, McQuade and Qian found that expanded rent control helped sitting tenants stay, but landlords cut regulated supply by about 15% and citywide rents rose by about 5%. Catalonia, 2024: rent caps in stressed zones slowed price growth, but rental listings fell 22.2% in Barcelona, while they rose 3.9% in Madrid (Fedea, via idealista). Spain itself, 1946 to 1985: forced, near-permanent lease extensions froze old rents for decades. Owners stopped maintaining buildings and city centres decayed, until the 1985 Boyer decree ended the system. The new automatic-renewal decree is, in its logic, a return to that old Spanish model.
The real problem is not landlords Spain does not have a landlord problem. It has a housing shortage. In 2025, around 240,000 new households formed while only about 92,000 homes were completed. The Bank of Spain puts the accumulated deficit for 2021 to 2025 at roughly 750,000 homes (Cantabria Económica).
The same report names the obstacles: scarce buildable land, slow urban development, and rigid planning. Economists such as my colleague Daniel Fernández Méndez argue that restrictive land rules and ever-stricter building standards have made construction unprofitable, even at today’s prices (Hespérides).
So the state restricts what can be built, then caps what can be earned from what already exists. Supply shrinks from both ends.
The people who pay are not established owners. They have options: they can sell, wait, or leave a flat empty rather than risk a tenant who never leaves. Renters pay. With fewer flats on offer, the rent on the ones that remain will rise, and more people will end up in informal arrangements with no contract and no protection, on the edge of the grey economy.
Buying is no way out either. Spaniards cannot afford to buy for the same reason they cannot afford to rent: there are too few homes, and these decrees do nothing to change that. Some landlords will be pushed to sell, but that will barely move prices. Sales adjust far more slowly than rentals. An owner whose mortgage is larger than what the flat would fetch cannot sell at all. Many others will simply wait and hope for a change of government, leaving their apartments empty. The result is that more people will be unable to rent or buy. Tenants lose, small investors lose, and the housing shortage stays exactly where it was.
An asset no decree can rewrite The biggest risk in real estate is not the market. It is that the rules around your asset can be changed by a government at any time, and you cannot move the asset somewhere else. A building sits in one jurisdiction forever.
Bitcoin is the opposite on every one of those points.
Fixed rules: the supply is capped at 21 million, and that rule has not changed in seventeen years. Arguably all Bitcoin infrastructure is built precisely to avoid that from happening. No minister can cap its yield, freeze it, or extend someone else’s claim on it. Real ownership: held in your own wallet, it has no tenant who can stop paying, no squatter who can move in, and no court that has to approve its sale. Portable: it does not sit in any one country. If the rules where you live turn hostile, your savings do not have to stay there. Open to small savers: buying property takes a deposit, a mortgage, a notary and years of commitment. Bitcoin can be bought a few euros at a time, on a regular schedule, by anyone. For most Spanish families, property is almost all of their wealth. This week showed how much of that wealth depends on politics.
The long-term picture shows both the reward and the price of it. Bought just after the 2017 peak, a bitcoin stake lost almost three-quarters of its value within a year, then outgrew Spanish housing several times over.
Past performance does not predict future returns. Bitcoin is highly volatile, and its value can fall sharply. The housing line shows price change only and excludes rental income, taxes, maintenance, and purchase costs. This is not investment advice.
Long Live Bitcoin Families will always need a place to live, so they will keep buying or renting homes. What has changed is the second flat, property as an investment. For a small investor, the risk now outweighs the return, and that removes one of the few ways ordinary Spaniards had to build wealth over a lifetime.
Bitcoin can fill that gap, if it is treated the way property always was: as a long-term holding, not a lottery ticket. Its price is volatile and can fall sharply in the short term. Anyone who holds it should think in years, buy regularly instead of trying to time the market, and never put in money they will need next year.
Property gives you an asset whose rules can be rewritten. Bitcoin gives you price swings but rules that stay put. After this week, many more Spaniards will be asking which of those risks they would rather carry with their savings.
Whatever Congress decides, Spain’s property owners have learned that their contracts can be changed after they sign them. That lesson will not be voted away. The rental market as Spain knew it is gone. Long live bitcoin.
Šéf společnosti The Smarter Web Company Andrew Webley varuje, že společnosti s bitcoinovými rezervami investorům zesilují expozici vůči volatilitě BTC a jejich výkonnost navíc závisí na rozhodnutích managementu, která mohou výrazně ovlivnit výnosy akcionářů.
While Bitcoin is less volatile than it used to be, an analyst says a treasury company amplifies whatever swings remain in the asset.
Bitcoin treasury companies can give investors greater exposure to the cryptocurrency’s gains, but the amplification works in both directions, according to The Smarter Web Company CEO Andrew Webley.
In a recent interview with BTC advocate Stephen Livera, Webley also warned that unlike Bitcoin itself, these companies depend on management teams whose capital allocation decisions can materially affect shareholder returns.
Bitcoin Exposure Comes With Added Volatility Webley identified two risks investors need to understand, the first being volatility. Bitcoin is less volatile than it used to be, the CEO conceded, but it still swings more than many assets investors hold, and a treasury company “amplifies that volatility,” and investors cheer that on the way up and mostly dislike it on the way down.
“People don’t like it when I say it, but you can’t have it both ways,” Webley remarked. “You can’t have performance and no volatility.”
The second risk is management execution, which decides whether these companies work or not. According to Webley, executives have numerous decisions to make, particularly around capital structure, and choices that might allow a firm to grow faster could come at the expense of shareholders.
“Bitcoin has no management,” he stated. “A Bitcoin treasury company, the management could really, really mess it up.”
That leaves treasury-stock investors with a choice that Bitcoin holders do not face in the same form: accepting Bitcoin’s volatility while also trusting a management team to make the right financing and accumulation decisions.
Strategy and Strive Show the Trade-Off The scale of the current treasury operations helps explain why those decisions matter. As CryptoPotato reported yesterday, Strategy bought another 334 BTC for $28.7 million, taking its holdings to 848,000 BTC. The company has spent almost $64 billion accumulating Bitcoin at an average price of $75,441.
On the same day, Strive bought 2,000 BTC for $169 million at an average price of $84,422, bringing its holdings to 29,462 BTC. The company’s CEO Matt Cole argued that his firm can generate greater returns than their bigger rival through a higher amplification ratio, with Strive’s ratio at 51.4%, compared with roughly 25% for Strategy. Cole also projected that Bitcoin could reach $400,000 to $500,000 by late 2029.
You may also like: Altcoins Are Rallying, But Analyst Says Alt Season Has Yet to Begin Peter Schiff Predicts Bitcoin Will Drop If Tech Stocks Pull Back Strive CEO Says ASST Can Outrun Strategy in the Next Bitcoin Bull Market At the time of writing, the OG cryptocurrency’s price was still some way from that target. It was rejected at $87,000 on Monday morning after a weak US jobs report had pushed it above that level on Friday for the first time in ten days, but it fell below $84,000 within hours, leaving nearly $600 million in liquidations.
The latest CoinGecko reading has it within touching distance of $86,000, down half a percent in 24 hours but up nearly 7% across 30 days. However, it is still about 32% below its $126,000 all-time high.
VanEck CEO Jan van Eck has a simple thesis: approve more nuclear power, and two very different industries get a boost at once.
His argument is that greenlighting a nuclear plant would raise the value of AI and reduce Bitcoin sell pressure by delivering cheaper energy.
The reasoning rests on one shared constraint. AI and Bitcoin mining both run on enormous amounts of electricity, and whoever controls cheap, reliable power controls the economics of both.
The nuclear case, according to VanEck In a September 2025 interview, van Eck pointed to a major policy shift in favor of nuclear power. The driver, in his telling, is surging electricity demand from AI data centers and digital asset activity.
He highlighted substantial bipartisan support for nuclear energy in the US, referencing initiatives from both the current administration and the Trump administration. The headline effort is a plan aimed at quadrupling US nuclear output over the next 25 years.
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Van Eck cited the expedited restart of a reactor at Three Mile Island as evidence that the trend is real rather than theoretical. That restart comes through a deal between Microsoft and Constellation Energy, designed to bring a Three Mile Island unit back online ahead of its originally scheduled startup.
Why Bitcoin miners keep coming up Matthew Sigel, head of digital assets research at VanEck, has argued that Bitcoin miners sit in an unusually strong position. His point is that miners already hold extensive power contracts and the physical infrastructure to use them — exactly the assets AI and high-performance computing companies are scrambling to secure.
Sigel has noted that the market values Bitcoin miners at a discount compared with traditional data center operators. He described miners’ long-term power agreements as holding an “underappreciated optionality.”
Miners have traditionally sold a portion of the Bitcoin they produce to cover operating costs, especially electricity. If miners earn revenue from AI and computing contracts, they lean less on selling Bitcoin to pay the bills.
Sigel has also pointed to signs of seller fatigue among Bitcoin miners, observed in October 2026. He linked that to the structural value of miner power assets as AI demand rises.
VanEck’s own scorecard VanEck has a stake in both sides of this story. The firm runs Bitcoin investment products alongside a nuclear-focused fund.
The VanEck Uranium and Nuclear ETF, which trades under the ticker NLR, was reportedly up approximately 40% in the year. The fund drew around $2.8 billion in assets by the end of 2025.
Readers should weigh the commentary with that context in mind. A firm that sells nuclear and crypto exposure naturally has reasons to talk up the overlap between them.
What this means For Bitcoin, the most interesting part of van Eck’s argument is about who sells Bitcoin and why. If AI contracts and cheaper electricity turn miners into diversified power companies, a reliable source of supply could quietly shrink.
For the nuclear sector, the Microsoft and Constellation deal is the clearest real-world test so far. If that Three Mile Island restart arrives early and on budget, it strengthens the case that tech demand can actually accelerate nuclear timelines.
The things to watch are concrete: nuclear approvals and restart timelines, how many miners sign AI or computing contracts, and whether miner selling keeps tapering as Sigel suggests.
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ONEOK dokončil akvizici aktiv společnosti Brazos Midstream v Permské pánvi za přibližně 4,425 miliardy USD. Transakce více než zdvojnásobí zpracovatelskou kapacitu v oblasti Midland Basin na 2,3 mld. kubických stop denně.
TULSA, Okla., Oct. 06, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- ONEOK, Inc. (NYSE: OKE) today announced it has completed the acquisition of Brazos Midstream's Permian Midland Basin natural gas gathering and processing assets for total cash consideration of approximately $4.425 billion.
“The completion of this acquisition further strengthens our Permian Midland Basin position with a premier gathering and processing platform supported by high-quality acreage, long-term contracts and some of the basin's leading producers,” said Pierce H. Norton II, ONEOK president and CEO. “These assets provide significant opportunities for future growth and enhance our ability to connect increasing natural gas and NGL production across ONEOK's integrated system.”
The acquisition more than doubles ONEOK’s Midland Basin processing capacity to approximately 2.3 billion cubic feet per day, including facilities currently under construction. The system is supported by approximately 600,000 dedicated acres under long-term fixed-fee contracts, with a weighted-average remaining term of more than 12 years.
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Grayscale adds Anchorage Digital to its XRP ETF custody setup and enables in-kind GXRP creations and redemptions using XRP alongside cash orders.
Grayscale has expanded the operating setup of its XRP ETF, allowing certain institutional participants to move XRP directly into and out of the fund while also adding Anchorage Digital Bank as another custodian.
The changes give the Grayscale XRP Trust ETF (GXRP) more flexibility in how shares are created, redeemed, and backed by XRP.
Grayscale’s Oct. 5 prospectus update adds Anchorage Digital Bank as an additional custodian for GXRP and allows eligible Authorized Participants to create or redeem ETF shares directly with XRP. Source: Grayscale/SEC. The update appears in an Oct. 5 prospectus supplement and related SEC filing. The changes were put in place after agreements signed on Sept. 29. GXRP trades on NYSE Arca.
GXRP Can Now Accept XRP Directly The biggest change concerns how new ETF shares can be created and existing shares redeemed.
GXRP previously relied on cash orders. Under that structure, an Authorized Participant provided cash rather than delivering XRP directly.
Now, eligible Authorized Participants or their designated firms can submit in-kind orders. For a creation, XRP is transferred directly to the trust and corresponding GXRP shares are issued.
For a redemption, the process works in reverse, allowing XRP to leave the trust in exchange for redeemed shares. Cash orders remain available.
This does not mean ordinary GXRP shareholders can take their shares to Grayscale and withdraw XRP.
The in-kind mechanism operates through Authorized Participants. Grayscale’s filing names Macquarie Capital (USA) and Virtu Americas among firms whose agreements were amended to support the process.
For XRP, the change is notable because the primary-market process can now involve the asset itself rather than requiring every creation or redemption to begin with cash.
Anchorage Digital Added Alongside Coinbase Custody Grayscale also added Anchorage Digital Bank as an additional custodian for GXRP’s XRP holdings.
Coinbase Custody remains the fund’s primary custodian, so Grayscale is not replacing its existing custody arrangement. Instead, the sponsor can divide XRP between the two custodians at its discretion.
Grayscale has not yet disclosed how much XRP it intends to move to Anchorage.
The filing says XRP held with Anchorage is expected to remain in cold storage, although some tokens may temporarily move through hot wallets when needed for creations, redemptions, or trust expenses. Grayscale described the extra custodian as part of its risk-management approach as the trust grows.
The two changes affect different parts of GXRP’s infrastructure: Anchorage expands custody options, while in-kind creation and redemption changes how institutional participants can move XRP against ETF shares.
Objem futures na XRP v září dosáhl šestiměsíčního maxima; Binance vedla s 32,36 miliardy USD, následovaná Bybit s 12,5 miliardy USD a OKX s 11,32 miliardy USD.
XRP continues to gain momentum across both its spot and futures markets as trading activity across both markets is also on the rise.
As the trend progresses, the latest onchain data from CryptoQuant shows that the XRP futures market has recorded strong trading activity throughout September.
While this signals sustained interest from traders and liquidity in the derivatives market, it has drawn attention from market watchers as it paints a bullish picture for the asset.
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XRP futures hit 6-month highAccording to the data, XRP futures volume across all major exchanges has continued to increase since August. As such, its futures activity has remained among the highest levels recorded over the past six months.
While the strongest XRP futures growth was witnessed last month, the analyst revealed that September's increase compared with August suggests that traders remained highly active despite futures volumes gradually retreating from earlier record levels.
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With XRP seeing sustained activity in its derivatives market, it appears that demand for leveraged XRP exposure and active positioning among market participants has persisted.
While its futures volume has spiked notably over the past months, this propels XRP toward greater liquidity while positioning its price for upside momentum.
Binance takes dominance Amid the surge in futures activity, the data shows that Binance led all major exchanges in the XRP futures surge in September, recording about $32.36 billion in trading volume.
Meanwhile, Bybit followed closely with about $12.5 billion, while OKX also saw sustained activity, recording $11.32 billion during the month.
Ripple Custody nasazuje službu Gas Station, která automaticky odesílá XRP ze sponzorského účtu k úhradě transakčních poplatků klientů v síti XRP Ledger.
Institutions that hold stablecoins or tokenized assets on the XRP Ledger face a small but real problem: every transaction needs a little XRP to pay the fee. Ripple Custody’s documentation describes a tool built to remove that problem, and it treats XRP as the fuel for those accounts.
What the tool does
The feature is called Gas Station. According to the documentation, Gas Station pays transaction fees for “sponsored” accounts. A firm funds one sponsor account with the network’s native token. When a client account needs to transact but has no native token, the sponsor account sends it the required amount.
On the XRP Ledger, that native token is XRP.
Why institutions would want it
A bank or fintech may hold RLUSD or tokenized assets for thousands of clients. Without a tool like this, each client account would need its own XRP balance just to move funds.
Gas Station uses “just-in-time” funding. It sends XRP only when a fee is actually due, so firms do not have to pre-fund every account. The documentation says this cuts “operational friction” for users who hold non-native tokens.
How it works, step by step
The system detects that an account needs fee funding.It checks whether the account is sponsored, either directly or through its domain.It estimates how much native token is required.The sponsor account sends that amount to the client account.The activity is recorded for audit and monitoring.If no sponsor is found, the transaction waits for manual funding.
Not only XRP
Gas Station is not limited to the XRP Ledger. It also supports Solana, Tron and EVM-compatible networks, and uses each chain’s own token for fees. A sponsor account can only fund accounts on the same network.
What changed in the latest release
Earlier versions used a dedicated “bot user” to sign funding transactions. The current release switches to system-signed intents, where the service authenticates through the firm’s identity provider and holds no user signing key. Existing deployments must set this up or automated funding will stop.
What it means for XRP
The tool gives XRP a working role inside Ripple’s institutional custody product. Every sponsored XRPL transaction needs XRP, and XRPL fees are burned when paid.
The effect on demand should be kept in perspective. A standard XRPL transaction costs a fraction of a cent, so the amount of XRP involved is small. The feature shows how XRP is used in practice more than it changes the token’s supply and demand.
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Společnosti Ripple, Circle, QRT a SC Ventures investovaly do burzy OKX při ocenění před investicí ve výši 25 miliard USD. Výše nových investic nebyla zveřejněna.
Ripple, a blockchain firm, has continued its string of investments in the crypto space, becoming part of the consortium of big names investing in crypto exchange OKX.
OKX revealed on Tuesday that the firm had secured investments from Ripple, stablecoin behemoth Circle, quant investment firm Qube Research and Technologies (QRT), and SC Ventures, the VC arm of Standard Chartered. It did this at a valuation of $25 billion (pre-money). Details on the latest investment in the exchange are, however, not disclosed.
The exchange's new round of investment is an extension of its previous funding round. This previous round was led by Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), the parent company of the New York Stock Exchange. In March, ICE had invested about $200 million in OKX. The valuation then was $25 billion.
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OKX CEO and founder Star Xu revealed that the company did not look for new investors due to a shortage of funds. The company had sought strategic investors aligned with its vision in stablecoins, payments, institutional markets, and financial infrastructure.
OKX is trying to move beyond being a crypto exchange and become a financial technology platform. This platform links crypto markets to traditional finance.
Ripple's investment blitzRipple's investment in OKX is the latest in a string of strategic investments the firm has been making in its bid to expand into the institutional financial market and tokenization.
In August, for instance, the firm announced an investment in two firms: ZILO and Licuido. These firms are focused on digital capital market infrastructure.
