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The decentralized prediction market now supports Binance Coin deposits and withdrawals, following recent Bitcoin integration and new partnerships.

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Polymarket added BNB deposits and withdrawals, extending its multi-chain capabilities after Bitcoin integration.
The platform is expanding through partnerships with the NHL and the World Foundation to attract more users.

Polymarket, a decentralized prediction market platform, today added support for Binance Coin (BNB) deposits and withdrawals to its platform. BNB is the native cryptocurrency of the BNB Chain.

The integration expands Polymarket’s multi-chain accessibility following the recent addition of Bitcoin deposits. The platform continues to broaden its reach through new partnerships and technical integrations.

Polymarket recently became the official partner of the NHL for trading on sports outcomes. The platform also partnered with the World Foundation to launch a mini app, offering bonuses for new deposits to attract a broader user base.

Prediction markets like Polymarket are incorporating real-time data feeds from oracles such as Chainlink to support short-term crypto price prediction markets, enhancing the platform’s trading capabilities across different asset classes.

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Mercer Park Opportunities Corp., a Cayman Islands-based special purpose acquisition company (SPAC), has announced a definitive business combination agreement with Cube Group, Inc. The deal positions the merged entity as a key player in bridging traditional finance (TradFi) and decentralized finance (DeFi) using Cube's hybrid digital asset exchange platform.

Hong Kong has approved the city’s first spot Solana ETF, a move that positions it once again at the front of regulated digital asset access in Asia. The product, launched by ChinaAMC, the Hong Kong arm of Chinese fund manager China Asset Management, begins trading on Oct. 27 across HKD, USD, and RMB counters on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. It will hold physical SOL backed by the CME CF Solana-USD Index and charge a total expense ratio near 2%.

For the first time, institutional investors will be able to buy Solana exposure through a regulated wrapper without managing wallets or private keys, a threshold that has historically limited participation outside crypto-native circles.

Solana ETF: A regulated on-ramp and a test for liquidityThis ETF is more than a headline about regulatory progress. It’s an experiment in whether altcoins can sustain real institutional flows. Solana has become the sixth-largest blockchain by market cap, but its base has remained largely crypto native. With the ETF, Solana joins Bitcoin and Ethereum in Hong Kong’s spot product lineup, giving the city a first-mover edge over the US, where only BTC and ETH spot ETFs are approved. If inflows materialize, Hong Kong could become a price discovery venue for SOL in the same way the CME shaped Bitcoin futures.

Forecasts are measured but constructive. JP Morgan expects first-year inflows in the range of $1–1.5 billion across Hong Kong’s new altcoin ETFs, which may sound small next to the $140 billion spot Bitcoin ETF complex in the US, but would still represent a structural increase in institutional demand for Solana. Even a few hundred million dollars of creation volume could lift Solana’s circulating supply off exchanges; an effect already visible in Bitcoin and Ethereum after their ETF launches.

Institutional demand could redefine Solana’s market dynamicsThe critical observation window begins on Monday. ETF market-makers will source physical SOL for basket creation, pulling liquidity from exchanges into custodial accounts. Early-day volumes will reveal whether appetite extends beyond seed investors. If primary-market creations exceed $50–100 million in the first week, it would signal strong institutional follow-through rather than speculative churn. Hong Kong’s prior Bitcoin and Ethereum spot ETFs together drew just under $600 million in the first five trading days, though much of that was recycled liquidity from Asian funds rather than new allocations.

Solana’s price, hovering around $183 at press time, may not react immediately. The ETF’s effect will depend on whether net inflows persist beyond launch week. Historically, ETF-related rallies follow with a lag: US Bitcoin ETFs saw their largest price impulse nearly two months after listing, once AUM crossed $10 billion. A similar thing could happen for Solana if Hong Kong’s institutional investors treat the product as a strategic allocation rather than a trade.

The ETF could also narrow the spread between Asian and US trading hours. Solana’s liquidity often thins during the Hong Kong morning session; a local ETF adds a regulated mechanism for hedging and arbitrage, potentially improving market depth.

That may stabilize price discovery across regions and reduce volatility spikes that have characterized SOL’s order books. Over time, this structure could pull part of Solana’s volume out of offshore exchanges and into a more transparent framework, making it useful for funds that must meet custody and audit standards.

For now, the approval stands both as a symbolic and practical milestone. Symbolic, because it validates Solana’s maturation from a high-beta DeFi asset into a network with credible institutional infrastructure. Practical, because every share created in Hong Kong represents direct buying pressure on SOL.

The key development isn’t whether price jumps on day one, but whether the ETF succeeds in turning speculative enthusiasm into regulated, sustained ownership. If it does, Solana’s path toward mainstream portfolio inclusion may accelerate, and Hong Kong could once again set the benchmark for how far altcoins can move inside the world’s financial system.

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Google’s Willow chip achieved a verified quantum speed-up confirmed by experiment.
Verified results mark a step toward fault-tolerant quantum systems with real-world impact.
Experts warn that such progress could eventually threaten Bitcoin’s elliptic-curve encryption.
Google’s latest quantum processor has achieved what physicists have pursued for decades: a verified speed-up over the world’s best supercomputers. And that makes the anticipated threat against Bitcoin appear even bigger than ever.

In a study published in Nature on Wednesday, the company’s 105-qubit Willow chip ran a physics algorithm faster than any classical machine could simulate—a first experimentally confirmed quantum advantage achieved with real hardware.

The peer-reviewed results are narrow, but consequential. It confirms that quantum processors are inching toward the reliability needed for practical use—and with it, the possibility that one day, they could break the encryption protecting Bitcoin and other digital assets.

While that threat remains distant, every verified leap in quantum performance brings the “quantum threat” timeline closer into focus for crypto builders and investors alike.

Last year, we introduced Willow, our quantum chip, and cracked a key challenge in quantum error correction.

Today, @GoogleQuantumAI announced a new breakthrough algorithm on that chip which paves a path towards potential future uses in drug discovery and materials science.🧵 pic.twitter.com/7z3BSExVku

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According to the report, Google’s Quantum Echoes algorithm ran about 13,000 times faster on Willow than classical simulations could achieve, completing a task in just over two hours that would take roughly 3.2 years on Frontier—one of the world’s fastest publicly benchmarked supercomputers.

“The result is verifiable, meaning its outcome can be repeated by other quantum computers or confirmed by experiments,” Google CEO Sundar Pichai wrote on X. “This breakthrough is a significant step toward the first real-world application of quantum computing, and we’re excited to see where it leads.”

How the experiment workedResearchers tested Willow by running a series of time-reversal experiments and watching how quantum information spreads and refocuses across the chip’s qubits. They first drove the system forward through a set of quantum operations, then disturbed one qubit with a controlled signal, and finally reversed the sequence to detect whether the information would “echo” back.

That echo appeared as constructive interference, where quantum waves reinforced one another instead of canceling out—a clear sign of quantum behavior. The circuits involved were too complex for classical computers to simulate exactly.

Willow’s superconducting transmon qubits held up through the process, showing median two-qubit gate errors around 0.0015 and coherence times above 100 microseconds. Those stability levels allowed researchers to run 23 layers of quantum operations across 65 qubits, pushing beyond what classical models can currently reproduce.

What is Willow?Unveiled in December 2024, Willow is Google’s latest superconducting quantum processor, built to demonstrate more stable, verifiable quantum behavior than its predecessors. It follows the 2019 Sycamore experiment, which showed that a quantum processor could outperform classical supercomputers but couldn’t be reliably reproduced.

Willow closes that gap: its improved error correction keeps qubits coherent for longer, allowing experiments that can be repeated and verified within the same device.

While the work remains at a research scale, it shows that quantum interference can persist in systems too complex for classical simulation—a measurable advance in the long-running effort to make quantum computing both reproducible and practical.

Toward real-world useGoogle said its next goal was to move quantum computing from controlled demonstrations to practical science, including modeling how atoms and molecules interact—simulations far beyond the reach of classical computers, noting a recent proof-of-principle experiment with the University of California, Berkeley.

In a statement, Google described the work as an early step toward a potential tool for mapping molecular structures, designing new drugs, and developing advanced materials for batteries and quantum hardware itself.

“Just as the telescope and the microscope opened up new, unseen worlds, this experiment is a step toward a ‘quantum-scope’ capable of measuring previously unobservable natural phenomena,” they wrote.

Why it matters for BitcoinFor now, Willow’s achievement doesn’t endanger encryption. But its verification marks steady progress toward the kind of quantum machine that could.

Bitcoin and other digital systems depend on elliptic-curve cryptography—mathematical functions that are effectively impossible for classical computers to reverse-engineer, but theoretically vulnerable to a sufficiently powerful quantum computer.

“Quantum computation has a reasonable probability—more than five percent—of being a major, even existential, long-term risk to Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies,” Christopher Peikert, professor of computer science and engineering at the University of Michigan, told Decrypt. “But it’s not a real risk in the next few years; quantum-computing technology still has too far to go before it can threaten modern cryptography.”

Peikert said Bitcoin isn’t immune to quantum attacks, though the threat remains distant. Transitioning to post-quantum signature schemes, he added, would also bring trade-offs in size and performance.

“Keys and signatures are much larger,” Peikert said. “Because cryptocurrencies rely on many signatures for transactions and blocks, adopting post-quantum or hybrid schemes would significantly increase network traffic and block sizes.”

The quiet countdownSimulating Willow’s circuits with tensor-network algorithms would take more than 10⁷ CPU-hours on Frontier, the world’s fastest supercomputer. That gap—two hours of quantum computation versus several years of classical simulation—stands as the clearest experimental proof yet of device-level quantum advantage.

Even with replication still pending, Willow marks a shift from theory to testable engineering: a system performing a real calculation beyond the reach of classical machines. For cryptographers and developers alike, it’s a reminder that post-quantum security isn’t a distant problem anymore—it’s a clock that’s already started ticking.

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As markets melted on October 10, and many centralized exchanges stuttered, Aave didn’t flinch.

The protocol automatically liquidated over $200 million in collateral, preserving solvency without disruption, as Aave founder Stani Kulechov told a DAS London audience last week during a panel on DeFi rate markets.

“It was scary because of the size of the protocol today,” Kulechov said. “But things ended up well. DeFi really proved itself.”

That resilience followed from a Q3 marked by steady deposits, healthy lending demand, and normalized rates. But looking ahead, Kulechov sees an even bigger shift coming: global rate cuts could reignite yield flows — and widen the rate spread between TradFi and DeFi.

The quarter ended with Aave’s lending machine looking sturdy and, increasingly, boring — in the good way. The protocol’s revenue stack was led once again by net interest income, with flash loans and liquidations a comparatively small slice. That’s exactly how the system is supposed to behave in a normalized rate regime. 

Blockworks Research financials dashboard makes it easy to see the mix in one view | Source: Blockworks Research

A calmer rate backdrop also showed up in stablecoin supply APYs on Ethereum, which settled into the 3%–5% range after the late-2024 spikes.

Source: Blockworks Research

That normalization coincided with a steady climb in total deposits and outstanding loans, pushing Aave’s footprint back toward cycle highs across deployments.

“What’s powerful about DeFi is transparency — you can actually see where the yield is coming from,” Kulechov said.

All together, that added up to a record quarter for the protocol, topping Q4 2024 and reversing a two quarter slide.

Source: Blockworks Research

Kulechov was pleased with how DeFi dapps handled the bout of extreme volatility.

“They get stress tested based on the parameters and risk assessments done before events like this,” he said. “We liquidated over $200 million worth of collateral — that’s the native way the protocol keeps solvency in turbulence.”

Liquidation fee revenue, while modest, hit a 4-month peak | Source: Blockworks Research

Euler, by contrast, saw fewer liquidations, CEO Michael Bentley explained on the panel, citing a difference in the typical borrower mix.

“People build bespoke credit markets [on Euler] — some use just-in-time liquidity to market make or provide instant redemption for RWAs [and] every market on Euler has a unique use case,” Bentley said.

On product roadmap and Q4 direction, Bentley pointed to “more integrations with fintechs — and new products coming online.”

“We’ve been working a lot on fixed rate products, so we’re going to keep innovating and pushing out new products for integrators using Euler,” he said.

Kulechov’s focus heading into year-end is on macro.

“I’m super eager for central bank rates to go down. Historically, when that happens, financial innovation accelerates. Rate cuts could create big arb opportunities between TradFi and DeFi. If DeFi remains safe, we’ll see more traditional participants — neobanks, fintechs — plugging in for yield.”

When policy rates drift lower, spreads between on-chain funding and TradFi tend to widen, setting up the kind of basis-style flows that supported lending during prior easing cycles.

The quarter is also expected to see the launch of Aave V4, which aims to streamline the protocol’s architecture and expand its product surface for both crypto-native and institutional users.

Armed with granular data, DeFi watchers can track the same protocol levers Kulechov highlighted — deposits vs. loans, revenue composition, liquidation activity, and rate volatility — and judge whether the coming macro shift turns into the “arb opportunities” he expects.

If it does, Aave’s metrics should tell the story quickly: spreads widen, utilization grinds higher, and net interest continues to climb alongside deposits.

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Solana price continues to struggle below the 200 Exponential Moving Average (EMA), with repeated rejections signaling building downside pressure and a potential move toward $145 support.

Summary

Solana faces repeated rejections at the 200 EMA resistance zone.
Weak volume and momentum confirm ongoing bearish pressure.
Downside target remains $145 unless the 200 EMA is reclaimed.

Solana’s (SOL) price action remains weak as the asset continues to trade below the 200 Exponential Moving Average (EMA), a key dynamic level watched by both traders and investors. Multiple failed attempts to reclaim this level have confirmed it as a strong zone of resistance.

The inability to break and hold above this technical barrier indicates that sellers are still in control, with downside pressure mounting as Solana tests lower support regions.

Solana price key technical points:

Major Resistance: The 200 EMA continues to cap Solana’s upside momentum.
Repeated Rejections: Multiple failed attempts above this level confirm strong selling pressure.
Next Support Level: $145 stands as the next key high-timeframe support if downside continuation persists.

From a technical standpoint, Solana’s current structure highlights growing weakness as price remains consistently below the 200 EMA. Over the past few sessions, multiple breakout attempts have failed, each followed by mild sell-offs, a clear indication that supply remains active around this region.

The 200 EMA, which also aligns with a psychological resistance zone near the $200 level, has proven to be a major technical ceiling. This area acts as a convergence point for both dynamic and static resistance, amplifying its significance. Each failed retest reinforces the bearish bias in the market, suggesting that buyers lack the conviction to sustain a rally above this zone.

As long as Solana remains below this key average, the probability of revisiting the value area low continues to rise. A breakdown from current levels would likely lead price action toward the $145 support, where a prior swing low was established. This level represents an important structural demand zone that could temporarily halt selling pressure, but if it fails, the bearish continuation could accelerate further.

The broader market structure for Solana remains bearish, with lower highs forming consecutively since its rejection at the $200 region. The repeated inability to reclaim the 200 EMA has turned this level into a strong confirmation of trend direction.

Until Solana can produce a decisive daily close above this line with accompanying volume expansion, any bullish attempts are likely to remain corrective in nature rather than trend-changing.

What to expect in the coming price action
If Solana fails to reclaim the 200 EMA in the near term, the bearish scenario remains the most probable outcome. A continuation below this level could lead to a full retest of the $145 support, marking the next key inflection point.

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Vancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - October 22, 2025) - Nexus Uranium Corp. (CSE: NEXU) (OTCQB: GIDMF) (FSE: 3H1) ("Nexus" or the "Company") is pleased to announce a non-brokered private placement offering (the "Offering") for total gross proceeds of a minimum of $810,000 and up to a maximum of $910,000, consisting of a minimum of 3,240,000 units of the Company (each, a "Unit") up to a maximum of 3,640,000 Units at a price of $0.25 per Unit.

Each Unit will consist of one common share in the capital of the Company and one transferrable common share purchase warrant (a "Warrant"). Each Warrant will entitle the holder to acquire an additional common share at a price of $0.55 for a period of 24 months following the closing of the Offering. The Warrants will be restricted from exercise until the 61st day following the closing of the Offering.

The Company intends to use the proceeds from the Offering for permitting, South Dakota relations, drilling bonds, marketing and investor relations, working capital and general corporate purposes.

The Company does not intend to pay any finder’s fees in connection with the Offering.

The Units will be offered by way of the listed issuer financing exemption under Part 5A of National Instrument 45-106 – Prospectus Exemptions ("NI 45-106") in all of the provinces and territories of Canada, excluding Quebec. Pursuant to NI 45-106, the securities forming part of the Units issued to Canadian residents under the Offering will not be subject to resale restrictions. The Company is relying on the exemptions in Coordinated Blanket Order 45-935 – Exemptions from Certain Conditions of the Listed Issuer Financing Exemption (the "Order") and is qualified to distribute securities in reliance on the exemptions included in the Order.

There is an offering document related to the Offering that will be made available under the Company's profile on SEDAR+ at www.sedarplus.com. The offering document will also be made available on the issuer's website at www.nexusuranium.com. Prospective investors should read this offering document before making an investment decision.

The Offering is expected to close on or about November 7, 2025, or such other date that is within 45 days from October 22, 2025, as the Company may decide. The Offering remains subject to certain conditions, including, but not limited to, the receipt of all necessary approvals, and compliance with the policies of the Canadian Securities Exchange (the "CSE").

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Google is flattening management layers in one of its most important business divisions.
It's eliminating a middle management layer in US ad sales, per an internal memo.
Google has been reducing managerial roles in an effort to speed up decision-making.

Google is once again stripping back management layers, this time by flattening teams in its core US ad sales unit, Business Insider has learned.

US employees in the Google Customer Solutions (GCS) division were informed last month that several changes to the leadership structure would take effect in January, in a memo sent by its vice president, John Nicoletti.

This latest restructuring shows how even the most profitable corners of Big Tech are moving to run leaner and faster. Google's ad business, which still accounts for the bulk of its revenue, is flattening management layers to speed up decisions and reduce bureaucracy as growth slows and competition from AI-driven rivals intensifies. In an all-hands meeting in August, Google leaders told staff that the company had reduced the number of managers overseeing small teams by 35% over the previous year.

The changes inside GCS, which serves midsize advertisers, reflect a wider trend across the tech industry: the end of cushy managerial hierarchies in a cost-conscious era.

One change will be to remove the layer of "Managers of Managers," or MoMs, across several teams, Nicoletti said in the memo, which was reviewed by Business Insider. No layoffs were mentioned. The exact number of manager roles being removed could not be learned

"Unlocking our next stage of growth means building our team strategy and structure for the long term," Nicoletti wrote.

A Google spokesperson confirmed the changes to Business Insider.

"Our teams have continued to make changes to operate more efficiently, remove layers, and better serve our customers," the spokesperson said.

Nicoletti said the changes in ad sales in January would "Empower our teams, with a focus on agility to accelerate decision-making, and keeping leadership close to the work by simplifying our organizational structure."

Ad sales is a critical part of Google's business, and GCS — which focuses on midsize clients — is the central engine. In the September memo to staff, Nicoletti described GCS as "managing a portfolio the size of a Fortune 100 company."

As part of the upcoming January changes for GCS, Nicoletti said all managers across select teams would become "Heads of business" and report directly to directors with no management layer in between. This would include removing a layer within its mid-market sales group — a role known as account strategy management — that previously stood between account executives and managers, and the heads of business.

He also told staff that Google would reopen account executive roles "to continue investing in capacity for deep customer partnerships."

"One of the reasons that we've been so successful is that we're outstanding at driving momentum through continuous change," Nicoletti wrote. "This will be no different."

Google is not alone in reducing management layers. In recent years, tech giants such as Intel, Amazon, and Microsoft have also flattened their management structures in an effort to become more efficient.

GCS was the only division mentioned in Nicoletti's memo, but it's not the only team in ad sales. It also has teams working on Large Customer Sales (LCS), which focus on the biggest and most complex customers.

In January 2024, Google's chief business officer, Philipp Schindler, told staff that GCS would become the "core channel for scaling growth" as the company pared back teams on LCS.

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(4.93% Y/Y)

beats by $183.81M

Lithia Motors, Inc. (NYSE:LAD) Q3 2025 Earnings Call October 22, 2025 10:00 AM EDT

Company Participants

Jardon Jaramillo - Senior Director of Finance & Investor Relations
Bryan DeBoer - CEO, President & Director
Tina Miller - Senior VP & CFO
Charles Lietz - Senior Vice President of Finance

Conference Call Participants

Ryan Sigdahl - Craig-Hallum Capital Group LLC, Research Division
Federico Merendi - BofA Securities, Research Division
Michael Ward - Citigroup Inc., Research Division
Rajat Gupta - JPMorgan Chase & Co, Research Division
Glenn Chin - Seaport Research Partners
Christopher Bottiglieri - BNP Paribas Exane, Research Division
Jeffrey Lick - Stephens Inc., Research Division
Bret Jordan - Jefferies LLC, Research Division
Daniela Haigian - Morgan Stanley, Research Division
Michael Albanese - The Benchmark Company, LLC, Research Division
Mark Jordan - Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., Research Division
Colin Langan - Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, Research Division

Presentation

Operator

Greetings, and welcome to the Lithia & Driveway's 2025 Third Quarter Earnings Call. [Operator Instructions] It is my now my pleasure to introduce your host, Jardon Jaramillo. Thank you. You may begin.

Jardon Jaramillo
Senior Director of Finance & Investor Relations

Good morning. Thank you for joining us for our third quarter earnings call. With me today are Bryan DeBoer, President and CEO; Tina Miller, Senior Vice President and CFO; and Chuck Lietz, Senior Vice President of Driveway Finance.

Today's discussion may include statements about future events, financial projections and expectations about the company's products, markets and growth. Such statements are forward-looking and subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to materially differ from the statements made. We disclose those risks and uncertainties we deem to be material in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

We urge you to carefully consider these disclosures and not to place undue reliance on forward-looking statements. We undertake no duty to update any forward-looking statements

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WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, announces the filing of a class action lawsuit on behalf of purchasers of common stock of MoonLake Immunotherapeutics (NASDAQ: MLTX) between March 10, 2024 and September 29, 2025, both dates inclusive (the “Class Period”). A class action lawsuit has already been filed. If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than December 15, 2025.

SO WHAT: If you purchased MoonLake common stock during the Class Period you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out of pocket fees or costs through a contingency fee arrangement.

WHAT TO DO NEXT: To join the MoonLake class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=45681 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email [email protected] for information on the class action. A class action lawsuit has already been filed. If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than December 15, 2025. A lead plaintiff is a representative party acting on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation.

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BENSALEM, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Law Offices of Howard G. Smith announces an investigation on behalf of United Homes Group, Inc. (“UHG” or the “Company”) (NASDAQ: UHG) investors concerning the Company's possible violations of federal securities laws. IF YOU ARE AN INVESTOR WHO SUFFERED A LOSS IN UNITED HOMES GROUP, INC. (UHG), CONTACT THE LAW OFFICES OF HOWARD G. SMITH ABOUT POTENTIALLY PURSUING CLAIMS TO RECOVER YOUR LOSS. Contact the Law Offices of Howard G. Smith to discuss your legal rights.

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, /PRNewswire/ -- Ecovyst Inc. (NYSE: ECVT), a leading integrated and innovative global provider of advanced materials, specialty catalysts and services, announced today that it will conduct a conference call and audio-only webcast on Tuesday, November 4, 2025 at 11:00 a.m. Eastern Time to review its third quarter 2025 financial results.

Investors may listen to the conference call live via telephone by dialing 1 (800) 245-3047 (domestic) or 1 (203) 518-9765 (international) and use the participant code ECVTQ325.

An audio-only live webcast of the conference call and presentation materials can be accessed at https://investor.ecovyst.com. A replay of the conference call/webcast will be made available at https://investor.ecovyst.com/events-presentations.

About Ecovyst Inc.

Ecovyst Inc. and subsidiaries is a leading integrated and innovative global provider of advanced materials, specialty catalysts, virgin sulfuric acid and sulfuric acid regeneration services. We support customers globally through our strategically located network of manufacturing facilities. We believe that our products and services contribute to improving the sustainability of the environment.

We have two uniquely positioned specialty businesses: Ecoservices provides sulfuric acid recycling to the North American refining industry for the production of alkylate and provides high quality and high strength virgin sulfuric acid for industrial and mining applications. Ecoservices also provides chemical waste handling and treatment services, as well as ex-situ catalyst activation services for the refining and petrochemical industry. Advanced Materials & Catalysts, through its Advanced Silicas business, provides finished silica catalysts, catalyst supports and functionalized silicas necessary to produce high performing plastics and to enable sustainable chemistry, and through its Zeolyst Joint Venture, innovates and supplies specialty zeolites used in catalysts that support the production of sustainable fuels, remove nitrogen oxides from diesel engine emissions and that are broadly applied in refining and petrochemical process. On September 11, 2025 Ecovyst announced that it had entered into a definitive agreement to sell its Advanced Materials & Catalysts segment to Technip Energies. The closing of the sale is anticipated in the first quarter of 2026, pending regulatory approvals and satisfaction of customary closing conditions.

For more information, see our website at https://www.ecovyst.com.

Investor Contact:

Gene Shiels
(484) 617 1225
[email protected]

For more information, see our website at https://www.ecovyst.com.

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Key Takeaways
CHRW's Q3 earnings estimate stands at $1.29 per share, down 0.77% in 60 days.
Revenues are projected at $4.29B, a 7.6% drop from the year-ago quarter.
Q2 EPS rose 12.2% year over year, but sales fell 7.7% due to divestiture and weak ocean pricing.
C.H. Robinson Worldwide, Inc. (CHRW - Free Report)  is scheduled to report third-quarter 2025 results on Oct. 29, after market close.

The Zacks Consensus Estimate for the third-quarter 2025 earnings has been revised southward by 0.77% over the past 60 days to $1.29 per share. The consensus mark has risen 0.78% from third-quarter 2024 actuals. The Zacks Consensus Estimate for revenues is pegged at $4.29 billion, indicating a 7.6% decrease from third-quarter 2024 actuals. 

C.H. Robinson has an encouraging earnings surprise history. The company’s earnings outpaced the Zacks Consensus Estimate in each of the trailing four quarters, delivering an average beat of 11.83%.

Let’s see how things have shaped up for C.H. Robinson this earnings season.

Factors Likely to Have Influenced CHRW's Q3 PerformanceCHRW's performance in the to-be-reported quarter is expected to have been significantly impacted by the divestiture of CHRW’s Europe Surface Transportation business, lower volume in its North America truckload services and lower pricing in the ocean services.

Our estimate for the third quarter for North American Surface Transportation revenue is pegged at $2.96 billion, indicating a 0.8% increase from the year-ago reported figure. For Global Forwarding’s third-quarter revenues, our estimate is pegged at $799.6 million, indicating a 29.9% decrease from the year-ago reported figure. The downside is expected to have been caused by lower pricing in CHRW’s ocean services.

Our estimate for All Other and Corporate (Robinson Fresh, Managed Services and Other Surface Transportation) third-quarter revenues is pegged at $460.6 million, indicating a 19% decline from the year-ago reported figure. The downside is likely to have been due to lower transaction volume and the divestiture of CHRW’s Europe Surface Transportation business.

What Our Model Says About CHRWOur proven model does not conclusively predict an earnings beat for CHRW this time around. The combination of a positive Earnings ESP and a Zacks Rank #1 (Strong Buy), 2 (Buy) or 3 (Hold) increases the odds of an earnings beat. But that’s not the case here. You can uncover the best stocks to buy or sell before they’re reported with our Earnings ESP Filter.

CHRW has an Earnings ESP of -0.56% and a Zacks Rank #3.

Highlights of CHRW's Q2 EarningsC.H. Robinson reported mixed second-quarter 2025 results, wherein earnings surpassed the Zacks Consensus Estimate while revenues missed the same.

Quarterly earnings per share of $1.29 outpaced the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $1.17 and improved 12.2% year over year. Total revenues of $4.13 billion missed the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $4.22 billion and fell 7.7% year over year, owing to the divestiture of CHRW’s Europe Surface Transportation business, lower pricing in the ocean services and lower fuel surcharges in the truckload services.

Stocks to ConsiderHere are a few more stocks from the broader Zacks Transportation sector that investors may consider, as our model shows that these have the right combination of elements to beat on earnings this reporting cycle.  

Expeditors (EXPD - Free Report) has an Earnings ESP of +1.43% and a Zacks Rank #3 at present. EXPD is scheduled to report third-quarter 2025 earnings on Nov. 04. You can see the complete list of today’s Zacks #1 Rank stocks here.

The Zacks Consensus Estimate for third-quarter 2025 earnings has been revised 2.94% upward over the past 60 days. EXPD's earnings beat the Zacks Consensus Estimate in each of the preceding four quarters, the average beat being 15.30%. 

Ryanair Holdings (RYAAY - Free Report) is scheduled to report second-quarter fiscal 2026 (ended Sept. 30, 2025) earnings on Nov. 3. RYAAY has an Earnings ESP of +3.13% and a Zacks Rank #3 at present.  

The Zacks Consensus Estimate for second-quarter fiscal 2026 earnings has been revised 2.6% upward over the past 60 days. RYAAY’s earnings outpaced the Zacks Consensus Estimate in three of the trailing four quarters (missed the mark in the remaining quarter), the average beat being 61.2%. 

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TeamViewer SE (OTCPK:TMVWY) Q3 2025 Earnings Call October 22, 2025 2:00 AM EDT

Company Participants

Bisera Grubesic - Vice President of Investor Relations
Oliver Steil - Chairman of the Management Board & CEO
Mark Banfield - CCO & Member of Executive Board
Michael Wilkens - CFO & Member of Management Board

Conference Call Participants

George Webb - Morgan Stanley, Research Division
Hin Fung Cheng - BofA Securities, Research Division
Alice Jennings - Barclays Bank PLC, Research Division
Ben Castillo-Bernaus - BNP Paribas Exane, Research Division
Mohammed Moawalla - Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., Research Division

Presentation

Bisera Grubesic
Vice President of Investor Relations

Thank you, operator. Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to TeamViewer's Q3 '25 Earnings Call. I am Bisera Grubesic, Head of Investor Relations here at TeamViewer. And today, I am joined by our CEO, Oliver Steil; CFO, Michael Wilkens; and CRO, Mark Banfield. We rescheduled this call to today from the originally planned date of 4 November in the financial calendar following the publication of our ad hoc statement yesterday evening. We wanted to provide you with a comprehensive overview of our Q3 performance and the updated full year guidance today. Today, Oliver and Mark will run you through the quarterly business update, and Michael will present the financials. The presentation will be concluded by a Q&A session. Same as in previous quarters, we will present non-IFRS pro forma top line and adjusted EBITDA performance. And also, please note, you can find the important notice and the APM disclosure on Slides 2 and 3. With this, I hand it over to Oliver to kick off our presentation.

Oliver Steil
Chairman of the Management Board & CEO

Thank you, Bisera. Good morning, everyone. Also welcome from my side. Thank you for joining our call today, which we had to organize in short notice, as Bisera just mentioned. Apologies for that short notice. But

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Key Takeaways Regency Centers will release its third-quarter 2025 results on Oct. 28, after the closing bell.Revenue is expected to rise 6.9% year over year to $385.3 million for the third quarter.FFO per share is projected to grow nearly 7.5%, supported by grocery-anchored retail centers.
Regency Centers Corp. (REG - Free Report) is slated to report third-quarter 2025 results on Oct. 28, after the closing bell. The company’s quarterly results are likely to display year-over-year growth in revenues and funds from operations (FFO) per share.

In the last reported quarter, this Jacksonville, FL-based retail real estate investment trust (REIT) reported NAREIT FFO per share of $1.16, outpacing the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $1.12. Results reflected healthy leasing activity and a year-over-year improvement in the same property's net operating income and base rent.

Over the trailing four quarters, the company’s FFO per share exceeded the Zacks Consensus Estimate on all occasions, with the average beat being 2.30%. This is depicted in the graph below:

In this article, we will dive deep into the U.S. retail real estate market environment and the company's fundamentals and analyze the factors that may have contributed to its third-quarter 2025 performance.

U.S. Retail Real Estate Market in Q3 2025Per a Cushman & Wakefield (CWK - Free Report) report, there has been a positive shift in net absorption for the U.S. shopping center market in the third quarter of 2025. Asking rents for the U.S. shopping center market grew from the year-ago quarter. While the national vacancy rate increased year over year, it remained flat compared to the previous quarter.

Demand for retail space improved in the third quarter of 2025, with the overall U.S. shopping center market witnessing positive net absorption totaling 323,000 square feet against the negative 6.5 million square feet (msf) reported in the previous quarter. The increase was due to positive net absorption observed in the southern region of the country.

Asking rents for the U.S. shopping centers came in at $25.01 per square foot in the third quarter, up 1.8% from a year ago. However, the pace of rent growth slowed from early 2024, when it was trending at 4%.

The national vacancy rate for the U.S. shopping center markets remained at 5.8% in the third quarter, unchanged from the previous quarter but up by 50 basis points compared to a year before. The rate held steady thanks to the market rebounding from negative absorption earlier in the year, although the risk of more store closures and hesitancy among both consumers and retailers looms.

The lack of new construction is also contributing to the scarcity, as only 7.9 million square feet (msf) of new shopping center space was delivered from the beginning of the year through Oct. 14, 2025. As of the third quarter of 2025, there are only 11.7 msf under construction with an inventory of 4.28 billion square feet.

Factors at Play for RegencyRegency has a high-quality open-air shopping center portfolio, with more than 85% grocery-anchored neighborhood and community centers. These centers are necessity-driven by nature and attract dependable traffic. Moreover, the company has a good tenant mix, with several industry-leading grocers. These factors are likely to have helped it generate stable rental revenues during the third quarter.

The Zacks Consensus Estimate for REG’s third-quarter revenues is pegged at $385.3 million, which indicates an increase of 6.9% from the year-ago quarter’s reported figure.

The company’s activities during the to-be-reported quarter were adequate to garner analysts’ confidence. The Zacks Consensus Estimate for quarterly FFO per share has increased a cent to $1.15 in the past month. The figure implies growth of nearly 7.5% from the prior-year quarter’s reported number.

However, higher e-commerce adoption and elevated interest expenses are expected to cast a pall on its quarterly performance to some extent.

What Our Quantitative Model Predicts for RegencyOur proven model predicts a likely surprise in terms of FFO per share for Regency this season. The combination of a positive Earnings ESP and a Zacks Rank #1 (Strong Buy), 2 (Buy) or 3 (Hold) increases the chances of an FFO beat, which is the case here.

Regency currently has an Earnings ESP of +0.41% and carries a Zacks Rank of 3. You can uncover the best stocks to buy or sell before they’re reported with our Earnings ESP Filter.

Other Stocks That Warrant a LookHere are two other stocks from the retail REIT sector — EPR Properties (EPR - Free Report) and Federal Realty Investment Trust (FRT - Free Report) — that you may want to consider, as our model shows that these have the right combination of elements to report a surprise this quarter.

EPR, scheduled to report quarterly numbers on Oct. 29, has an Earnings ESP of +1.29% and carries a Zacks Rank of 2. You can see the complete list of today’s Zacks #1 Rank stocks here.

FRT, slated to release quarterly numbers on Oct. 31, has an Earnings ESP of +0.26% and carries a Zacks Rank of 2 at present.

Note: Anything related to earnings presented in this write-up represents funds from operations (FFO), a widely used metric to gauge the performance of REITs.

WidePoint (WYY - Free Report) shares soared 12% in the last trading session to close at $6.36. The move was backed by solid volume with far more shares changing hands than in a normal session. This compares to the stock's 6% gain over the past four weeks.

WidePoint is benefiting from its strong position as a 2-time incumbent, FedRAMP authorized status, and strategic investments in high-impact initiatives like CWMS 3.0, DaaS, and MobileAnchor.

This information technology services provider is expected to post quarterly loss of $0.05 per share in its upcoming report, which represents a year-over-year change of -25%. Revenues are expected to be $39.47 million, up 14% from the year-ago quarter.

Earnings and revenue growth expectations certainly give a good sense of the potential strength in a stock, but empirical research shows that trends in earnings estimate revisions are strongly correlated with near-term stock price movements.

For WidePoint, the consensus EPS estimate for the quarter has remained unchanged over the last 30 days. And a stock's price usually doesn't keep moving higher in the absence of any trend in earnings estimate revisions. So, make sure to keep an eye on WYY going forward to see if this recent jump can turn into more strength down the road.

The stock currently carries a Zacks Rank #3 (Hold). You can see the complete list of today's Zacks Rank #1 (Strong Buy) stocks here >>>>

WidePoint is part of the Zacks Computer - Services industry. PDF Solutions (PDFS - Free Report) , another stock in the same industry, closed the last trading session 0.7% higher at $28.5. PDFS has returned 25.5% in the past month.

For PDF Solutions, the consensus EPS estimate for the upcoming report has remained unchanged over the past month at $0.25. This represents no change from what the company reported a year ago. PDF Solutions currently has a Zacks Rank of #3 (Hold).

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