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With equities dominating the portfolio, this quiet bond allocation says more about risk control than return chasing.

Illinois-based LaSalle St. Investment Advisors established a new position in the iShares 0-5 Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF (SLQD +0.08%), adding 135,360 shares valued at approximately $6.88 million during the third quarter, according to a November 13 SEC filing.

What HappenedAccording to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission dated November 13, LaSalle St. Investment Advisors reported a new investment in the iShares 0-5 Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF (SLQD +0.08%). The firm disclosed ownership of 135,360 shares, reflecting an estimated $6.88 million position as of September 30.

What Else to KnowThe new position accounts for 1.23% of the fund’s reportable assets under management.

Top holdings after the filing: 

NYSEMKT:VTI: $78.15 million (14.0% of AUM)NASDAQ:SHV: $33.35 million (6.0% of AUM)NASDAQ:NVDA: $19.68 million (3.5% of AUM)NYSEMKT:VUG: $19.55 million (3.5% of AUM)NYSEMKT:VTV: $17.25 million (3.1% of AUM)As of Monday, SLQD shares were priced at $50.75, up 2% over the past year.

ETF OverviewMetricValueAUM$2.36 billionYield4.1%Price (as of Monday)$50.751-Year Total Return5%ETF SnapshotSLQD's investment strategy focuses on tracking a market-weighted index of U.S. dollar-denominated, investment-grade corporate bonds with maturities between 0 and 5 years.The portfolio primarily consists of short-term, high-quality corporate debt securities, offering broad exposure to investment-grade issuers across multiple sectors.It's structured as an exchange-traded fund, with SLQD providing access to the short-term corporate bond market.The iShares 0-5 Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF (SLQD) offers institutional investors targeted exposure to short-duration, investment-grade U.S. corporate bonds.

Foolish TakeIn a portfolio still anchored by broad equity exposure and growth names like Nvidia, this allocation reads less like a conviction call and more like proper diversification. Short-duration investment-grade corporate bonds don’t promise upside surprises. They’re designed to behave, especially when rates, inflation expectations, and equity volatility refuse to cooperate.

SLQD's structure reinforces that point. The ETF holds U.S. dollar-denominated corporate bonds with maturities under five years, keeping interest-rate sensitivity low and credit quality high. With an expense ratio of just 0.06% and an effective duration of a little over two years, it’s built to preserve capital first and generate steady income second. As of late 2025, the fund was yielding just over 4% on a trailing basis, which looks respectable without stretching for risk.

More broadly, this position sits well below core equity holdings and even beneath ultra-short Treasury exposure elsewhere in the portfolio. That suggests the goal isn’t macro timing, but smoothing outcomes. In other words, this is a reminder that risk management often shows up quietly, and not every meaningful move is about chasing returns.

GlossaryETF (Exchange-Traded Fund): An investment fund traded on stock exchanges, holding assets like stocks or bonds.
Investment Grade: A credit rating indicating a relatively low risk of default by bond issuers.
Corporate Bond: A debt security issued by a corporation to raise capital, typically paying interest to investors.
Assets Under Management (AUM): The total market value of assets a fund or investment manager oversees.
Dividend Yield: Annual dividends paid by an investment, expressed as a percentage of its current price.
Market-Weighted Index: An index where each component is weighted according to its market value.
Short-Duration: Refers to bonds or funds with short maturities, typically less sensitive to interest rate changes.
Reportable Assets: Assets that must be disclosed in regulatory filings, such as those reported on a 13F form.
13F Filing: A quarterly report required by the SEC from institutional investment managers detailing their holdings.
Annualized: A figure (such as return or yield) converted to a yearly rate, regardless of the actual period measured.
Trailing: Refers to performance measured over a past period, such as the last year.
Issuer: The entity, such as a corporation or government, that creates and sells securities like bonds or stocks.

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CENTER VALLEY, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Shift4 Payments, Inc. (“Shift4” or the “Company”) (NYSE: FOUR), announced today, in connection with the 10,000,000 shares of 6% Series A Mandatory Convertible Preferred Stock issued on May 5, 2025, consistent with the terms laid out in the offering, the Board of Directors has declared a dividend of $1.50 per share to be paid in cash on February 2, 2026 to holders of record as of the close of business on January 15, 2026.

Subject to the terms of the Mandatory Convertible Preferred Stock, and as described further in the prospectus supplement filed by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission on May 2, 2025, the declaration and payment of future quarterly dividends, if any, will be at the sole discretion of the Board of Directors based on its consideration of various factors, including the company’s operating results, financial condition and anticipated capital requirements.

Additional information regarding the Series A Mandatory Convertible Preferred Stock can be found within the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on May 5, 2025, which can be accessed via the Company’s website investors.shift4.com.

About Shift4

Shift4 (NYSE: FOUR) is boldly redefining commerce by simplifying complex payments ecosystems across the world. As the leader in commerce-enabling technology, Shift4 powers billions of transactions annually for hundreds of thousands of businesses in virtually every industry. For more information, visit shift4.com.

Forward-Looking Statements

This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Shift4 intends such forward-looking statements to be covered by the safe harbor provisions for forward-looking statements contained in Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. All statements contained in this press release that do not relate to matters of historical fact should be considered forward-looking statements, including statements regarding Shift4’s expectations associated with the declared dividends and future dividend payments. These statements are neither promises nor guarantees, but involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other important factors that may cause our actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements, including, but not limited to the substantial and increasingly intense competition worldwide in the financial services, payments and payment technology industries; our ability to continue to expand our share of the existing payment processing markets or expand into new markets; additional risks associated with our expansion into international operations, including compliance with and changes in foreign governmental policies, as well as exposure to foreign exchange rates; and our respective ability to integrate and interoperate each of our services and products with a variety of operating systems, software, devices, and web browsers, and the other important factors discussed under the caption “Risk Factors” in Part I, Item 1A in Shift4’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2024, as updated by our Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2025 and our other filings with the SEC. Any such forward-looking statements represent management’s expectations as of the date of this press release. While we may elect to update such forward-looking statements at some point in the future, Shift4 disclaims any obligation to do so, even if subsequent events cause our views to change.

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, /PRNewswire/ -- Extra Space Storage Inc. (NYSE:EXR) (the "Company") announced today that the Board of Directors of Extra Space Storage has promoted Noah Springer, the Company's current Executive Vice President, Chief Strategy and Partnership Officer, to President, effective January 5, 2026. Mr. Springer currently is responsible for the Company's third-party management program, joint ventures, human resources department and other strategic initiatives. With Mr. Springer's promotion to President, the Company's operations function will also report to Mr. Springer.

"Noah has been an exceptional leader and a significant contributor to our Company's strategy, growth and culture for nearly 20 years," commented Joe Margolis, Chief Executive Officer. "Noah brings a deep understanding of storage operations, structured transactions and employee engagement. His vision, creativity and leadership have helped Extra Space Storage become a high performing large cap REIT, and I am confident he is ready for additional responsibilities in the Company." 

Mr. Springer joined Extra Space Storage in 2006 after several years in the banking industry. During his time at the Company, he has served in various roles in acquisitions, asset management and third-party management. Mr. Springer helped develop, lead and grow the Company's third-party management platform, Management Plus, which today is the storage sector's largest third-party management platform with over 1,800 locations. In addition, Mr. Springer has overseen the Company's asset management, construction, and human resources departments. Mr. Springer has been a member of the Company's senior management team since 2014, and a member of the Company's executive team since 2020. Mr. Springer holds a B.A. in Finance and an M.B.A. from the University of Utah.

The Extra Space Storage team, including Mr. Margolis, Mr. Springer, and Zach Dickens, EVP and Chief Investment Officer, will be attending and presenting at the KeyBanc Capital Markets Self Storage Investor Forum in New York, NY on January 8th, 2026.

About Extra Space Storage Inc.:

Extra Space Storage Inc., headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah, is a fully integrated, self-administered and self-managed real estate investment trust, and a member of the S&P 500. As of September 30, 2025, the Company owned and/or operated 4,238 self-storage properties, which comprise approximately 2.9 million units and approximately 326.9 million square feet of rentable storage space operating under the Extra Space brand. The Company offers customers a wide selection of conveniently located and secure storage units across the country, including boat storage, RV storage and business storage. It is the largest operator of self-storage properties in the United States.

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With the changing of the calendar also comes myriad index rebalances for many popular funds and fund categories. The popular income ETF category offers current income to investors, from newbies to those on the cusp of retirement. The closed end fund-focused income ETF PCEF is one of those funds to rebalance, making some key moves in its underlying index, CEFX.

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The Invesco CEF Income Composite ETF (PCEF) charges 271 basis points (bps) fee for its services. CEFX, the SNET Composite Closed-End Fund Index, provides an intriguing spin on the income ETF model by investing in closed-end funds. That has helped the fund return 12.3% over one year and 12.8% over three years, beating its ETF Database Category averages in those time frames. The strategy’s most recent pay date produced a $0.13017 per share distribution, as well.

What changed after the closed end fund-focused income ETF rebalanced, then? The top five holdings by weight remain the same. Two Eaton Vance funds and two Nuveen funds continue to sit in the top five holdings, with one from BlackRock. 

The Eaton Vance Tax-Managed Global Diversified Equity Income Fund (EXG), the top holding, saw its weight drop from 4.4 to 4.2 basis points (bps). The Nuveen Preferred & Income Opportunities Fund of Benefit Interest (JPC) grew in weight from 2.7 to 2.9 bps in the fund’s portfolio. It takes the second-highest weight in the fund. Intriguingly, the BlackRock Science and Technology Term Trust (BSTZ) dropped to fourth place by weight at 2.5 bps. It now sits below a different Nuveen fund.

CEFX dropped one closed-end fund from its holdings and added a new one to replace it. The index dropped the Barings Participation Investors Fund (MPV) and added the Guggenheim Strategic Opportunities Fund (GOF). GOF comes in at a 2 bps weight in the fund. 

Tracking CEFX, PCEF may continue to provide an efficient route into a traditionally more complex space in closed-end funds. For those looking to add income to their portfolios with an intriguing income ETF, PCEF may appeal.

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Shares of The Walt Disney Company (NYSE:DIS) have been relatively flat over the last year, with a current 2.7% gain in the last 52 weeks. But strong box office results in the last two calendar months of 2025 could help the company's first-quarter financial results.

Disney's Box Office BillionsDisney ended calendar 2025 with two of the most anticipated films of the year in "Zootopia 2" and "Avatar: Fire and Ash."

Both films have grossed over $1 billion worldwide, making Disney the only American studio to have a billion-dollar global film in each of the last two years.

"Zootopia 2" grossed $1.59 billion worldwide in 2025. It ranks second, trailing only the Chinese film "Ne Zha 2," which grossed over $2 billion in China.

"Avatar: Fire and Ash" has grossed $1.083 billion worldwide in its first 18 days of release, a notable milestone for the film industry. The film has grossed $306 million domestically and $777.1 million internationally.

The film from James Cameron is the third installment in the Avatar franchise and a potential blockbuster for Disney. While the film is tracking to potentially hit the $2 billion milestone hit by the previous films in the franchise, it is currently pacing behind, according to Variety.

The 2009 "Avatar" film hit the $1 billion global box office milestone in 17 days and went on to hit $2.9 billion in worldwide box office. The sequel "Avatar: The Way of Water," released in 2022, hit the $1 billion milestone in 14 days and went on to hit $2.3 billion in worldwide box office.

"Avatar: Fire and Ash" ended 2025 as the 10th highest-grossing film domestically and a top 10-grossing film worldwide despite the December release. This gave Disney four of the top 10 grossing films in 2025 domestically and three of the top 10 highest grossing films worldwide.

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Disney's First Quarter Financial Results On DeckWhile the story for Disney's fourth-quarter financial results was streaming, the story for the upcoming first-quarter results could focus more on box office success.

Disney's first quarter covers the months of October, November and December. This year's first-quarter results will include the success of "Zootopia 2" and the early success of "Avatar: Fire and Ash."

Those two films will likely show strong year-over-year growth versus a period from last year that included "Moana 2."

Disney could also provide early expectations for whether the company believes the third Avatar film could reach the $2 billion milestone. Only seven films have reached $2 billion or more in worldwide box office, with two of them being the first two Avatar films and three others from Disney.

Analysts expect Disney to report first-quarter revenue of $25.65 billion, up from $24.69 billion in last year's first quarter, according to data from Benzinga Pro. Analysts expect earnings per share of $1.57 for the quarter, down from $1.76 in last year's first quarter.

Disney beat analyst estimates for earnings per share in 10 straight quarters. Its revenue, however, has been more of a struggle, with the company beating estimates in only four of the last 10 quarters.

Disney Stock Price ActionDisney shares were up 2% to $114.07 on Monday versus a 52-week trading range of $80.10 to $124.69. Disney shares are up 2.7% over the last 52 weeks.

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Today at the Consumer Electronics show, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang officially launched the company’s new Rubin computing architecture, which he described as the state of the art in AI hardware. The new architecture is currently in production and is expected to ramp up further in the second half of the year.

“Vera Rubin is designed to address this fundamental challenge that we have: The amount of computation necessary for AI is skyrocketing.” Huang told the audience. “Today, I can tell you that Vera Rubin is in full production.”

The Rubin architecture, which was first announced in 2024, is the latest result of Nvidia’s relentless hardware development cycle, which has transformed Nvidia into the most valuable corporation in the world. The Rubin architecture will replace the Blackwell architecture, which in turn, replaced the Hopper and Lovelace architectures.

Rubin chips are already slated for use by nearly every major cloud provider, including high-profile Nvidia partnerships with Anthropic, OpenAI, and Amazon Web Services. Rubin systems will also be used in HPE’s Blue Lion supercomputer and the upcoming Doudna supercomputer at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab.

Named for the astronomer Vera Florence Cooper Rubin, the Rubin architecture consists of six separate chips designed to be used in concert. The Rubin GPU stands at the center, but the architecture also addresses growing bottlenecks in storage and interconnection with new improvements in the Bluefield and NVLink systems respectively. The architecture also includes a new Vera CPU, designed for agentic reasoning.

Explaining the benefits of the new storage, Nvidia’s senior director of AI infrastructure solutions Dion Harris pointed to the growing cache-related memory demands of modern AI systems.

“As you start to enable new types of workflows, like agentic AI or long-term tasks, that puts a lot of stress and requirements on your KV cache,” Harris told reporters on a call, referring to a memory system used by AI models to condense inputs. “So we’ve introduced a new tier of storage that connects externally to the compute device, which allows you to scale your storage pool much more efficiently.”

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As expected, the new architecture also represents a significant advance in speed and power efficiency. According to Nvidia’s tests, the Rubin architecture will operate three and a half times faster than the previous Blackwell architecture on model-training tasks and five times faster on inference tasks, reaching as high as 50 petaflops. The new platform will also support eight times more inference compute per watt.

Rubin’s new capabilities come amid intense competition to build AI infrastructure, which has seen both AI labs and cloud providers scramble for Nvidia chips as well as the facilities necessary to power them. On an earnings call in October 2025, Huang estimated that between $3 trillion and $4 trillion will be spent on AI infrastructure over the next five years.

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The Rubin platform harnesses extreme codesign across hardware and software to deliver up to 10x reduction in inference token cost and 4x reduction in number of GPUs to train MoE models, compared with the NVIDIA Blackwell platform.NVIDIA Spectrum-X Ethernet Photonics switch systems deliver 5x improved power efficiency and uptime.New NVIDIA Inference Context Memory Storage Platform with NVIDIA BlueField-4 storage processor to accelerate agentic AI reasoning.Microsoft’s next-generation Fairwater AI superfactories — featuring NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 rack-scale systems — will scale to hundreds of thousands of NVIDIA Vera Rubin Superchips.CoreWeave among first to offer NVIDIA Rubin, operated through CoreWeave Mission Control for flexibility and performance.Expanded collaboration with Red Hat to deliver a complete AI stack optimized for the Rubin platform with Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat OpenShift and Red Hat AI. LAS VEGAS, Jan. 05, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- CES -- NVIDIA today kickstarted the next generation of AI with the launch of the NVIDIA Rubin platform, comprising six new chips designed to deliver one incredible AI supercomputer. NVIDIA Rubin sets a new standard for building, deploying and securing the world’s largest and most advanced AI systems at the lowest cost to accelerate mainstream AI adoption.

The Rubin platform uses extreme codesign across the six chips — the NVIDIA Vera CPU, NVIDIA Rubin GPU, NVIDIA NVLink™ 6 Switch, NVIDIA ConnectX®-9 SuperNIC, NVIDIA BlueField®-4 DPU and NVIDIA Spectrum™-6 Ethernet Switch — to slash training time and inference token costs.

“Rubin arrives at exactly the right moment, as AI computing demand for both training and inference is going through the roof,” said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA. “With our annual cadence of delivering a new generation of AI supercomputers — and extreme codesign across six new chips — Rubin takes a giant leap toward the next frontier of AI.”

Named for Vera Florence Cooper Rubin — the trailblazing American astronomer whose discoveries transformed humanity’s understanding of the universe — the Rubin platform features the NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 rack-scale solution and the NVIDIA HGX Rubin NVL8 system.

The Rubin platform introduces five innovations, including the latest generations of NVIDIA NVLink interconnect technology, Transformer Engine, Confidential Computing and RAS Engine, as well as the NVIDIA Vera CPU. These breakthroughs will accelerate agentic AI, advanced reasoning and massive-scale mixture-of-experts (MoE) model inference at up to 10x lower cost per token of the NVIDIA Blackwell platform. Compared with its predecessor, the NVIDIA Rubin platform trains MoE models with 4x fewer GPUs to accelerate AI adoption.

Broad Ecosystem Support
Among the world’s leading AI labs, cloud service providers, computer makers and startups expected to adopt Rubin are Amazon Web Services (AWS), Anthropic, Black Forest Labs, Cisco, Cohere, CoreWeave, Cursor, Dell Technologies, Google, Harvey, HPE, Lambda, Lenovo, Meta, Microsoft, Mistral AI, Nebius, Nscale, OpenAI, OpenEvidence, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Perplexity, Runway, Supermicro, Thinking Machines Lab and xAI.

Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI: “Intelligence scales with compute. When we add more compute, models get more capable, solve harder problems and make a bigger impact for people. The NVIDIA Rubin platform helps us keep scaling this progress so advanced intelligence benefits everyone.”

Dario Amodei, cofounder and CEO of Anthropic: “The efficiency gains in the NVIDIA Rubin platform represent the kind of infrastructure progress that enables longer memory, better reasoning and more reliable outputs. Our collaboration with NVIDIA helps power our safety research and our frontier models.”

Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Meta: “NVIDIA’s Rubin platform promises to deliver the step-change in performance and efficiency required to deploy the most advanced models to billions of people.”

Elon Musk, founder and CEO of xAI: “NVIDIA Rubin will be a rocket engine for AI. If you want to train and deploy frontier models at scale, this is the infrastructure you use — and Rubin will remind the world that NVIDIA is the gold standard.”

Satya Nadella, executive chairman and CEO of Microsoft: “We are building the world’s most powerful AI superfactories to serve any workload, anywhere, with maximum performance and efficiency. With the addition of NVIDIA Vera Rubin GPUs, we will empower developers and organizations to create, reason and scale in entirely new ways.”

Mike Intrator, cofounder and CEO of CoreWeave: “We built CoreWeave to help pioneers accelerate their innovations with the unmatched performance of our purpose-built AI platform, matching the right technology to the right workloads as they evolve. The NVIDIA Rubin platform represents an important advancement for reasoning, agentic and large-scale inference workloads, and we’re excited to add it to our platform. With CoreWeave Mission Control as the operating standard, we can integrate new capabilities quickly and run them reliably at production scale, working in close partnership with NVIDIA.”

Matt Garman, CEO of AWS: “AWS and NVIDIA have been driving cloud AI innovation together for more than 15 years. The NVIDIA Rubin platform on AWS represents our continued commitment to delivering cutting-edge AI infrastructure that gives customers unmatched choice and flexibility. By combining NVIDIA’s advanced AI technology with AWS’s proven scale, security and comprehensive AI services, customers can build, train and deploy their most demanding AI applications faster and more cost effectively — accelerating their path from experimentation to production at any scale.”

Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and Alphabet: “We are proud of our deep and long-standing relationship with NVIDIA. To meet the substantial customer demand we see for NVIDIA GPUs, we are focused on providing the best possible environment for their hardware on Google Cloud. Our collaboration will continue as we bring the impressive capabilities of the Rubin platform to our customers, offering them the scale and performance needed to advance the boundaries of AI.”

Clay Magouyrk, CEO of Oracle: “Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is a hyperscale cloud built for the highest performance, and together with NVIDIA, we’re pushing the boundaries of what customers can build and scale with AI. With gigascale AI factories powered by the NVIDIA Vera Rubin architecture, OCI is giving customers the infrastructure foundation they need to push the limits of model training, inference and real-world AI impact.”

Michael Dell, chairman and CEO of Dell Technologies: “The NVIDIA Rubin platform represents a major leap forward in AI infrastructure. By integrating Rubin into the Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA, we’re building infrastructure that can handle massive token volumes and multistep reasoning while delivering the performance and resiliency that enterprises and neoclouds need to deploy AI at scale.”

Antonio Neri, president and CEO of HPE: “AI is reshaping not just workloads but the very foundations of IT, requiring us to reimagine every layer of infrastructure from the network to the compute. With the NVIDIA Vera Rubin platform, HPE is building the next generation of secure, AI-native infrastructure, turning data into intelligence and enabling enterprises to become true AI factories.”

Yuanqing Yang, chairman and CEO of Lenovo: “Lenovo is embracing the next-generation NVIDIA Rubin platform, leveraging our Neptune liquid-cooling solution as well as our global scale, manufacturing efficiency and service reach, to help enterprises build AI factories that serve as intelligent, accelerated engines for insight and innovation. Together, we’re architecting an AI-driven future where efficient, secure AI becomes the standard for every organization.”

Engineered to Scale Intelligence
Agentic AI and reasoning models, along with state-of-the-art video generation workloads, are redefining the limits of computation. Multistep problem-solving requires models to process, reason and act across long sequences of tokens. Designed to serve the demands of complex AI workloads, the Rubin platform’s five groundbreaking technologies include:

Sixth-Generation NVIDIA NVLink: Delivers the fast, seamless GPU-to-GPU communication required for today’s massive MoE models. Each GPU offers 3.6TB/s of bandwidth, while the Vera Rubin NVL72 rack provides 260TB/s — more bandwidth than the entire internet. With built-in, in-network compute to speed collective operations, as well as new features for enhanced serviceability and resiliency, NVIDIA NVLink 6 switch enables faster, more efficient AI training and inference at scale.NVIDIA Vera CPU: Designed for agentic reasoning, NVIDIA Vera is the most power‑efficient CPU for large-scale AI factories. The NVIDIA CPU is built with 88 NVIDIA custom Olympus cores, full Armv9.2 compatibility and ultrafast NVLink-C2C connectivity. Vera delivers exceptional performance, bandwidth and industry‑leading efficiency to support a full range of modern data center workloads.NVIDIA Rubin GPU: Featuring a third-generation Transformer Engine with hardware-accelerated adaptive compression, Rubin GPU delivers 50 petaflops of NVFP4 compute for AI inference.Third-Generation NVIDIA Confidential Computing: Vera Rubin NVL72 is the first rack-scale platform to deliver NVIDIA Confidential Computing — which maintains data security across CPU, GPU and NVLink domains — protecting the world’s largest proprietary models, training and inference workloads.Second-Generation RAS Engine: The Rubin platform — spanning GPU, CPU and NVLink — features real-time health checks, fault tolerance and proactive maintenance to maximize system productivity. The rack’s modular, cable-free tray design enables up to 18x faster assembly and servicing than Blackwell.
AI-Native Storage and Secure, Software-Defined Infrastructure
NVIDIA Rubin introduces NVIDIA Inference Context Memory Storage Platform, a new class of AI-native storage infrastructure designed to scale inference context at gigascale.

Powered by NVIDIA BlueField-4, the platform enables efficient sharing and reuse of key-value cache data across AI infrastructure, improving responsiveness and throughput while enabling predictable, power-efficient scaling of agentic AI.

As AI factories increasingly adopt bare-metal and multi-tenant deployment models, maintaining strong infrastructure control and isolation becomes essential.

BlueField-4 also introduces Advanced Secure Trusted Resource Architecture, or ASTRA, a system-level trust architecture that gives AI infrastructure builders a single, trusted control point to securely provision, isolate and operate large-scale AI environments without compromising performance.

With AI applications evolving toward multi-turn agentic reasoning, AI-native organizations must manage and share far larger volumes of inference context across users, sessions and services.

Different Forms for Different Workloads
NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 offers a unified, secure system that combines 72 NVIDIA Rubin GPUs, 36 NVIDIA Vera CPUs, NVIDIA NVLink 6, NVIDIA ConnectX-9 SuperNICs and NVIDIA BlueField-4 DPUs.

NVIDIA will also offer the NVIDIA HGX Rubin NVL8 platform, a server board that links eight Rubin GPUs through NVLink to support x86-based generative AI platforms. The HGX Rubin NVL8 platform accelerates training, inference and scientific computing for AI and high-performance computing workloads.

NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD™ serves as a reference for deploying Rubin-based systems at scale, integrating either NVIDIA DGX Vera Rubin NVL72 or DGX Rubin NVL8 systems with NVIDIA BlueField-4 DPUs, NVIDIA ConnectX-9 SuperNICs, NVIDIA InfiniBand networking and NVIDIA Mission Control™ software.

Next-Generation Ethernet Networking
Advanced Ethernet networking and storage are components of AI infrastructure critical to keeping data centers running at full speed, improving performance and efficiency, and lowering costs.

NVIDIA Spectrum-6 Ethernet is the next generation of Ethernet for AI networking, built to scale Rubin-based AI factories with higher efficiency and greater resilience, and enabled by 200G SerDes communication circuitry, co-packaged optics and AI-optimized fabrics.

Built on the Spectrum-6 architecture, Spectrum-X Ethernet Photonics co-packaged optical switch systems deliver 10x greater reliability and 5x longer uptime for AI applications while achieving 5x better power efficiency, maximizing performance per watt compared with traditional methods. Spectrum-XGS Ethernet technology, part of the Spectrum-X Ethernet platform, enables facilities separated by hundreds of kilometers and more to function as a single AI environment.

Together, these innovations define the next generation of the NVIDIA Spectrum-X Ethernet platform, engineered with extreme codesign for Rubin to enable massive-scale AI factories and pave the way for future million-GPU environments.

Rubin Readiness
NVIDIA Rubin is in full production, and Rubin-based products will be available from partners the second half of 2026.

Among the first cloud providers to deploy Vera Rubin-based instances in 2026 will be AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft and OCI, as well as NVIDIA Cloud Partners CoreWeave, Lambda, Nebius and Nscale.

Microsoft will deploy NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 rack-scale systems as part of next-generation AI data centers, including future Fairwater AI superfactory sites.

Designed to deliver unprecedented efficiency and performance for training and inference workloads, the Rubin platform will provide the foundation for Microsoft’s next-generation cloud AI capabilities. Microsoft Azure will offer a tightly optimized platform enabling customers to accelerate innovation across enterprise, research and consumer applications.

CoreWeave will integrate NVIDIA Rubin-based systems into its AI cloud platform beginning in the second half of 2026. CoreWeave is built to operate multiple architectures side by side, enabling customers to bring Rubin into their environments, where it will deliver the greatest impact across training, inference and agentic workloads.

Together with NVIDIA, CoreWeave will help AI pioneers take advantage of Rubin’s advancements in reasoning and MoE models, while continuing to deliver the performance, operational reliability and scale required for production AI across the full lifecycle with CoreWeave Mission Control.

In addition, Cisco, Dell, HPE, Lenovo and Supermicro are expected to deliver a wide range of servers based on Rubin products.

AI labs including Anthropic, Black Forest, Cohere, Cursor, Harvey, Meta, Mistral AI, OpenAI, OpenEvidence, Perplexity, Runway, Thinking Machines Lab and xAI are looking to the NVIDIA Rubin platform to train larger, more capable models and to serve long-context, multimodal systems at lower latency and cost than with prior GPU generations.

Infrastructure software and storage partners AIC, Canonical, Cloudian, DDN, Dell, HPE, Hitachi Vantara, IBM, NetApp, Nutanix, Pure Storage, Supermicro, SUSE, VAST Data and WEKA are working with NVIDIA to design next-generation platforms for Rubin infrastructure.

The Rubin platform marks NVIDIA’s third-generation rack-scale architecture, with more than 80 NVIDIA MGX™ ecosystem partners.

To unlock this density, Red Hat today announced an expanded collaboration with NVIDIA to deliver a complete AI stack optimized for the NVIDIA Rubin platform with Red Hat’s hybrid cloud portfolio, including Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat OpenShift and Red Hat AI. These solutions are used by the vast majority of Fortune Global 500 companies.

Learn more by watching NVIDIA Live at CES and reading the “Inside Vera Rubin” technical blog.

About NVIDIA
NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA) is the world leader in AI and accelerated computing.

For further information, contact:
Kristin Uchiyama
NVIDIA Corporation
+1-408-313-0448
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Certain statements in this press release including, but not limited to, statements as to: Rubin arriving at exactly the right moment; with our annual cadence of delivering a new generation of AI supercomputers — and extreme codesign across six new chips — Rubin taking a giant leap toward the next frontier of AI; the benefits, impact, performance, and availability of NVIDIA’s products, services, and technologies; expectations with respect to NVIDIA’s third party arrangements, including with its collaborators and partners; expectations with respect to technology developments; and other statements that are not historical facts are forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, which are subject to the “safe harbor” created by those sections based on management’s beliefs and assumptions and on information currently available to management and are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause results to be materially different than expectations. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially include: global economic and political conditions; NVIDIA’s reliance on third parties to manufacture, assemble, package and test NVIDIA’s products; the impact of technological development and competition; development of new products and technologies or enhancements to NVIDIA’s existing product and technologies; market acceptance of NVIDIA’s products or NVIDIA’s partners’ products; design, manufacturing or software defects; changes in consumer preferences or demands; changes in industry standards and interfaces; unexpected loss of performance of NVIDIA’s products or technologies when integrated into systems; and changes in applicable laws and regulations, as well as other factors detailed from time to time in the most recent reports NVIDIA files with the Securities and Exchange Commission, or SEC, including, but not limited to, its annual report on Form 10-K and quarterly reports on Form 10-Q. Copies of reports filed with the SEC are posted on the company’s website and are available from NVIDIA without charge. These forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and speak only as of the date hereof, and, except as required by law, NVIDIA disclaims any obligation to update these forward-looking statements to reflect future events or circumstances.

Many of the products and features described herein remain in various stages and will be offered on a when-and-if-available basis. The statements above are not intended to be, and should not be interpreted as a commitment, promise, or legal obligation, and the development, release, and timing of any features or functionalities described for our products is subject to change and remains at the sole discretion of NVIDIA. NVIDIA will have no liability for failure to deliver or delay in the delivery of any of the products, features or functions set forth herein.

© 2026 NVIDIA Corporation. All rights reserved. NVIDIA, the NVIDIA logo, BlueField, ConnectX, NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD, NVIDIA MGX, NVIDIA Mission Control, NVIDIA Spectrum, NVIDIA Spectrum-X and NVLink are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of NVIDIA Corporation in the U.S. and other countries. Other company and product names may be trademarks of the respective companies with which they are associated. Features, pricing, availability and specifications are subject to change without notice.

Burlington, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - January 5, 2026) - Rapid Dose Therapeutics Corp. (CSE: DOSE) ("RDT" or the "Company") announced today that pursuant to the terms of its amended and restated secured convertible notes dated December 1, 2025 (the "Notes"), the Company intends to issue common shares ("Common Shares") in satisfaction of the accrued interest payable on December 31, 2025. The Company expects to issue the Common Shares no later than January 15, 2026.

The Notes were issued as a result of an extension to the promissory notes that were originally issued by the Company pursuant to its private placement financing (the "Financing") that closed in 2023. The Financing was an offering of units (the "Units") at a price of $1.00 per Unit. Each Unit consisted of $1.00 principal amount of Notes and five common share purchase warrants of the Company (the "Warrants"). The Company closed all four tranches of the Financing in 2023, issuing an aggregate of $3,134,445 principal amount of Notes and 15,672,225 Warrants.

As previously disclosed, the Company agreed with noteholders holding an aggregate of $3,084,445 of promissory notes to extend the maturity date for one year on their respective notes to November 30, 2026, and extend the expiry date for one year on their accompanying 15,422,225 Warrants to November 30, 2026. The Notes bear interest at 18% per annum, calculated and compounded monthly, and added to principal and payable quarterly in arrears in Common Shares at a price per share equal to the closing market price of the Common Shares on the Canadian Securities Exchange (the "CSE") on the last trading day of each calendar quarter. The Company is permitted to prepay the Notes on 10 days' advance notice without notice or bonus.

Therefore, in accordance with the terms of the Notes, the Company intends to issue a total of 362,708 Common Shares to the holders of the Notes at a deemed issue price of $0.13 per Common Share, being the closing market price of the Common Shares on the CSE on December 31, 2025 (the last trading day of the quarter), in satisfaction of the aggregate of $47,153.98 of accrued interest owing on the Notes.

All Common Shares issued as payment for accrued interest will be subject to a hold period expiring four months and one day from the date of issue of the Common Shares.

About Rapid Dose Therapeutics Corp.
Rapid Dose Therapeutics is a Canadian biotechnology company revolutionizing drug delivery through innovation. The Company's flagship product QuickStrip™ is a thin, orally dissolvable film, that can be infused with an infinite list of active ingredients, including nutraceuticals, pharmaceuticals and vaccines, that are delivered quickly into the bloodstream, resulting in rapid onset of the active ingredient. For more information about the Company, visit www.rapid-dose.com.

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Certain information in this news release may contain forward-looking information within the meaning of applicable securities laws. Any statements that are contained in this news release that are not statements of historical fact may be deemed to be forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are often identified by terms such as "intend", "may", "should", "anticipate", "expect", "potential", "believe", "intend", "will", "could", "are planned to", "are expected to" or the negative of these terms and similar expressions. Statements containing forward-looking information, including, without limitation, in respect of the delivery of equipment and products using the QuickStrip™ product delivery method, the generation of recurring revenues, the plans, estimates, forecasts, projections, expectations or beliefs of RDT management as to future events or results and are believed to be reasonable based on information currently available to RDT management. Forward-looking statements necessarily involve known and unknown risks, including, without limitation, risks associated with general economic conditions; adverse industry events; marketing costs; loss of markets; termination of WLM agreements; future legislative and regulatory developments involving cannabis; inability to access sufficient capital from internal and external sources, and/or inability to access sufficient capital on favourable terms; the cannabis industry in Canada generally, income tax and regulatory matters; the ability to implement its business strategies; competition; currency and interest rate fluctuations and other risks. Readers are cautioned that the foregoing list is not exhaustive. There can be no assurance that statements of forward-looking information, although considered reasonable by RDT management at the time of preparation, will prove to be accurate as there can be no assurance that the plans, intentions or expectations upon which they are based will occur. Actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such forward-looking statements. Readers should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements contained in this news release are expressly qualified by this cautionary statement. The forward-looking statements contained in this news release are made as of the date of this news release, and the Company expressly disclaims any obligation to update or alter statements containing any forward-looking information, or the factors or assumptions underlying them, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by law.

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, /PRNewswire/ -- Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) will webcast live its fourth-quarter and full-year 2025 earnings results conference call (listen-only mode) on Thursday, Jan. 29, 2026, at 8:30 a.m. ET. Jim Taiclet, chairman, president and CEO; Evan Scott, chief financial officer; and Maria Ricciardone, vice president, Treasurer and Investor Relations, will discuss fourth-quarter and full-year 2025 results, provide updates on key topics and answer questions. Fourth-quarter and full-year 2025 results will be published prior to the market opening on Jan. 29.

The live webcast will be available at www.lockheedmartin.com/investor and the accompanying presentation slides and relevant financial charts will also be available on the same website prior to market open.

An on-demand replay of the webcast will be available through Thursday, Feb. 12, 2026, at www.lockheedmartin.com/investor, and a podcast will be available here.

For additional information, visit the company's website: www.lockheedmartin.com.

About Lockheed Martin
Lockheed Martin is a global defense technology company driving innovation and advancing scientific discovery. Our all-domain mission solutions and 21st Century Security® vision accelerate the delivery of transformative technologies to ensure those we serve always stay ahead of ready. More information at LockheedMartin.com.

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NVIDIA BlueField-4 powers NVIDIA Inference Context Memory Storage Platform, a new kind of AI-native storage infrastructure designed for gigascale inference, to accelerate and scale agentic AI.The new storage processor platform is built for long-context-processing agentic AI systems with lightning-fast long- and short-term memory.Inference Context Memory Storage Platform extends AI agents’ long-term memory and enables high-bandwidth sharing of context across clusters of rack-scale AI systems — boosting tokens per seconds and power efficiency by up to 5x.Enabled by NVIDIA Spectrum-X Ethernet, extended context memory for multi-turn AI agents improves responsiveness, increases throughput per GPU and supports efficient scaling of agentic inference. LAS VEGAS, Jan. 05, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- CES—NVIDIA today announced that the NVIDIA BlueField®-4 data processor, part of the full-stack NVIDIA BlueField platform, powers NVIDIA Inference Context Memory Storage Platform, a new class of AI-native storage infrastructure for the next frontier of AI.

As AI models scale to trillions of parameters and multistep reasoning, they generate vast amounts of context data — represented by a key-value (KV) cache, critical for accuracy, user experience and continuity.

A KV cache cannot be stored on GPUs long term, as this would create a bottleneck for real-time inference in multi-agent systems. AI-native applications require a new kind of scalable infrastructure to store and share this data.

NVIDIA Inference Context Memory Storage Platform provides the infrastructure for context memory by extending GPU memory capacity, enabling high-speed sharing across nodes, boosting tokens per seconds by up to 5x and delivering up to 5x greater power efficiency compared with traditional storage.

“AI is revolutionizing the entire computing stack — and now, storage,” said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA. “AI is no longer about one-shot chatbots but intelligent collaborators that understand the physical world, reason over long horizons, stay grounded in facts, use tools to do real work, and retain both short- and long-term memory. With BlueField-4, NVIDIA and our software and hardware partners are reinventing the storage stack for the next frontier of AI.”

NVIDIA Inference Context Memory Storage Platform boosts KV cache capacity and accelerates the sharing of context across clusters of rack-scale AI systems, while persistent context for multi-turn AI agents improves responsiveness, increases AI factory throughput and supports efficient scaling of long-context, multi-agent inference.

Key capabilities of the NVIDIA BlueField-4-powered platform include:

NVIDIA Rubin cluster-level KV cache capacity, delivering the scale and efficiency required for long-context, multi-turn agentic inference.Up to 5x greater power efficiency than traditional storage.Smart, accelerated sharing of KV cache across AI nodes, enabled by the NVIDIA DOCA™ framework and tightly integrated with the NVIDIA NIXL library and NVIDIA Dynamo software to maximize tokens per second, reduce time to first token and improve multi-turn responsiveness.Hardware-accelerated KV cache placement managed by NVIDIA BlueField-4 eliminates metadata overhead, reduces data movement and ensures secure, isolated access from the GPU nodes.Efficient data sharing and retrieval enabled by NVIDIA Spectrum-X™ Ethernet serves as the high-performance network fabric for RDMA-based access to AI-native KV cache. Storage innovators including AIC, Cloudian, DDN, Dell Technologies, HPE, Hitachi Vantara, IBM, Nutanix, Pure Storage, Supermicro, VAST Data and WEKA are among the first building next-generation AI storage platforms with BlueField-4, which will be available in the second half of 2026.

Learn more by watching NVIDIA Live at CES.

About NVIDIA
NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA) is the world leader in AI and accelerated computing.

For further information, contact:
Alex Shapiro
Corporate Communications
NVIDIA Corporation
1-415-608-5044
[email protected]

Certain statements in this press release including, but not limited to, statements as to: AI revolutionizing the entire computing stack and storage; AI no longer about one-shot chatbots but intelligent collaborators that understand the physical world, reason over long horizons, stay grounded in facts, use tools to do real work, and retain both short- and long-term memory; with BlueField-4, NVIDIA and its software and hardware partners reinventing the storage stack for the next frontier of AI; the benefits, impact, performance, and availability of NVIDIA’s products, services, and technologies; expectations with respect to NVIDIA’s third party arrangements, including with its collaborators and partners; expectations with respect to technology developments; and other statements that are not historical facts are forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, which are subject to the “safe harbor” created by those sections based on management’s beliefs and assumptions and on information currently available to management and are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause results to be materially different than expectations. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially include: global economic and political conditions; NVIDIA’s reliance on third parties to manufacture, assemble, package and test NVIDIA’s products; the impact of technological development and competition; development of new products and technologies or enhancements to NVIDIA’s existing product and technologies; market acceptance of NVIDIA’s products or NVIDIA’s partners’ products; design, manufacturing or software defects; changes in consumer preferences or demands; changes in industry standards and interfaces; unexpected loss of performance of NVIDIA’s products or technologies when integrated into systems; and changes in applicable laws and regulations, as well as other factors detailed from time to time in the most recent reports NVIDIA files with the Securities and Exchange Commission, or SEC, including, but not limited to, its annual report on Form 10-K and quarterly reports on Form 10-Q. Copies of reports filed with the SEC are posted on the company’s website and are available from NVIDIA without charge. These forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and speak only as of the date hereof, and, except as required by law, NVIDIA disclaims any obligation to update these forward-looking statements to reflect future events or circumstances.

© 2026 NVIDIA Corporation. All rights reserved. NVIDIA, the NVIDIA logo, BlueField, NVIDIA DOCA and NVIDIA Spectrum-X are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of NVIDIA Corporation in the U.S. and other countries. Other company and product names may be trademarks of the respective companies with which they are associated. Features, pricing, availability and specifications are subject to change without notice.

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, /PRNewswire/ -- CreateAI Holdings Inc. (OTCMKTS: TSPH) ("CreateAI" or the "Company"), a global leader in applied artificial intelligence, today announced shareholder voting results for its annual meeting of stockholders held on December 29, 2025 (the "Annual Meeting").

As of October 31, 2025, the record date for the Annual Meeting, there were a total of 241,471,060 shares of common stock outstanding and entitled to vote at the Annual Meeting, comprised of 217,471,060 shares of Class A Common Stock (each with one vote per share) and 24,000,000 shares of Class B Common Stock (each with ten votes per share). At the Annual Meeting, holders of 156,301,731 shares of common stock, representing 372,301,711 votes, entitled to vote at the meeting were represented in person or by proxy and, therefore, a quorum constituted of the majority of the voting power of the shares of common stock issued and outstanding and entitled to vote at the Annual Meeting was present.

The following is a brief description of each matter voted upon at the 2025 Annual Meeting and the numbers of votes cast for, withheld, or against, the number of abstentions, and the number of broker non-votes with respect to each other, as applicable.

Election of six nominees to serve on the Board of Directors (the "Board") for a term which will expire at the 2026 annual meeting of stockholders. Based on the final results of voting received from First Coast Results, Inc., the independent Inspector of Election for the Annual Meeting (the "Inspector of Election"), the six directors elected at the Annual Meeting are Cheng Lu, Mo Chen, James Lu, Zhen Tao, Albert Schultz, and Jianan Hao.

For

Withheld

Company's Board of Director Nominees

Cheng Lu

333,454,405

1,859,605

Mo Chen

333,452,522

1,861,433

James Lu

333,454,552

1,859,303

Zhen Tao

333,456,627

1,857,422

Albert Schultz

333,485,232

1,837,782

Jianan Hao

333,461,328

1,857,683

Dissident Group's Nominees

Carson Mitchell

23,331,347

795,176

Gen. Douglas E. Lute

23,472,382

654,141

Danil Kerimi

23,472,382

654,141

Abbott Cooper

23,331,347

795,176

Ben Appel

23,339,347

787,176

Ratification of the appointment of UHY LLP as the Company's independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2025. The selection was ratified by the votes as indicated below:

For

Against

Abstain

Broker Non-Votes

369,803,045

2,448,889

49,777

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About CreateAI

CreateAI is a global applied artificial intelligence company with offices in the US, China, and Japan. The Company is developing leading AI technology for a number of end-use applications and pioneering the future of digital entertainment content production, seamlessly blending cutting-edge generative AI technology with the creativity of world-class talent. Our mission is to redefine the boundaries of what's possible in digital storytelling by developing immersive, captivating, and visually stunning experiences that resonate with audiences on a global scale.

Investor Relations Contact:

[email protected]

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ABBOTT PARK, Ill., Jan. 5, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Abbott (NYSE: ABT) will announce its fourth-quarter 2025 financial results on Thursday, Jan. 22, before the market opens.

The announcement will be followed by a live webcast of the earnings conference call at 8 a.m. Central time (9 a.m. Eastern) and will be accessible through Abbott's Investor Relations website at www.abbottinvestor.com. An archived edition of the call will be available later that day.

About Abbott:

Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 114,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

Connect with us at www.abbott.com, and on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, X and YouTube. 

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Innovative, ready-now technologies will enhance safety, reduce operational complexity and increase efficiency for all airspace users

, /PRNewswire/ -- Collins Aerospace, an RTX (NYSE: RTX) business, has been awarded a $438 million contract by the Federal Aviation Administration to support the Radar System Replacement program, a cornerstone of the agency's effort to modernize the U.S. National Airspace System. The program is a key part of the Department of Transportation's Brand New Air Traffic Control System.

Collins will deliver next-generation cooperative and non-cooperative radar systems, giving air traffic controllers reliable and secure information to support operations. These new radars will simplify operations by replacing multiple legacy systems with a unified, cost-effective and adaptable architecture.

"As a trusted supplier to the FAA for more than 70 years, Collins is ready to rapidly deploy next-generation radar systems that replace outdated technology with a single, modern and interoperable solution," said Nate Boelkins, president of Avionics at Collins Aerospace. "These systems integrate seamlessly with existing infrastructure, enhance safety and efficiency for air traffic controllers, reduce long-term costs and ensure the system is prepared for the future of the National Airspace."  

Systems will include the Condor Mk3, a cooperative surveillance radar capable of communicating directly with aircraft transponders, and the ASR-XM, a non-cooperative radar that detects aircraft using reflected signals. Both are qualified to meet FAA surveillance requirements through prior test-site certification activities.

More than 550 RTX radar systems are already operating within the national airspace today, providing a proven foundation for large-scale modernization. RTX's Condor Mk3 and ASR-XM radar systems provide precise aircraft tracking, especially at lower altitudes.

About Collins Aerospace
Collins Aerospace, an RTX business, is a leader in integrated and intelligent solutions for the global aerospace and defense industry. Our 80,000 employees are dedicated to delivering future-focused technologies to advance sustainable and connected aviation, passenger safety and comfort, mission success, space exploration, and more.

About RTX
RTX is the world's largest aerospace and defense company. With more than 185,000 global employees, we push the limits of technology and science to redefine how we connect and protect our world. Through industry-leading businesses – Collins Aerospace, Pratt & Whitney, and Raytheon – we are advancing aviation, engineering integrated defense systems for operational success, and developing next-generation technology solutions and manufacturing to help global customers address their most critical challenges. The company, with 2024 sales of more than $80 billion, is headquartered in Arlington, Virginia.

For questions or to schedule an interview, please contact [email protected]

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LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Zevia PBC (“Zevia”) (NYSE:ZVIA), the Company that provides naturally delicious, zero sugar better-for-you beverages, today announced its participation in the 28th Annual ICR Conference to be held January 12-14, 2026.

Amy Taylor, President and Chief Executive Officer, and Girish Satya, Chief Financial Officer, will participate in a fireside chat on Monday, January 12, 2026 at 8:00 am ET and management will meet with investors throughout the conference. A live webcast of the presentation will be available on the Investor Relations section of Zevia’s website at https://investors.zevia.com/ or directly here during the event. Shortly following the event, a replay of the webcast will be available for approximately thirty (30) days.

About Zevia

Zevia PBC, a Delaware public benefit corporation designated as a “Certified B Corporation,” is focused on addressing the global health challenges resulting from excess sugar consumption by offering a broad portfolio of zero sugar, zero calorie, naturally sweetened beverages. All Zevia® beverages are made with a handful of simple, plant-based ingredients, contain no artificial sweeteners, and are Non-GMO Project verified, gluten-free, Kosher, and vegan. Zevia is distributed in more than 39,000 retail locations in the U.S. and Canada through a diverse network of major retailers in the grocery, drug, warehouse club, mass, natural, convenience and ecommerce channels.

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LOWELL, Ark.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--J.B. Hunt Transport Services, Inc., (NASDAQ: JBHT) announced today that it expects to issue fourth quarter 2025 earnings at the close of the market Thursday, January 15, 2026. It will hold a conference call from 4:00-5:00 p.m. CST on the same day to discuss the quarterly results and answer questions from the investment community. An online, real-time webcast of the quarterly conference call will be available at investor.jbhunt.com on January 15, 2026 at 4:00 p.m. CST. An online replay of the earnings call webcast will be available a few hours after the completion of the call.

This press release may contain forward-looking statements, which are based on information currently available. Actual results may differ materially from those currently anticipated due to a number of factors, including, but not limited to, those discussed in Item 1A of our Annual Report filed on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2024. We assume no obligation to update any forward-looking statement to the extent we become aware that it will not be achieved for any reason. This press release and additional information will be available immediately to interested parties on our web site, www.jbhunt.com.

About J.B. Hunt

J.B. Hunt’s vision is to create the most efficient transportation network in North America. The company’s industry-leading solutions and mode-neutral approach generate value for customers by eliminating waste, reducing costs and enhancing supply chain visibility. Powered by one of the largest company-owned fleets in the country and third-party capacity through its J.B. Hunt 360°® digital freight marketplace, J.B. Hunt can meet the unique shipping needs of any business, from first mile to final delivery, and every shipment in-between. Through disciplined investments in its people, technology and capacity, J.B. Hunt is delivering exceptional value and service that enable long-term growth for the company and its stakeholders.

J.B. Hunt Transport Services Inc. is an S&P 500 company and a component of the Dow Jones Transportation Average. Its stock trades on NASDAQ under the ticker symbol JBHT. J.B. Hunt Transport Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of JBHT. The company’s services include intermodal, dedicated, refrigerated, truckload, less-than-truckload, flatbed, single source, last mile, transload and more. For more information, visit www.jbhunt.com.

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COLUMBUS, Ohio--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mettler-Toledo International Inc. (NYSE: MTD) today announced it will present at the 44th Annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference in San Francisco, California on Monday, January 12, 2026 at 4:30 p.m. Pacific Standard Time. A live webcast of the presentation will be available on the Company’s investor relations website at investor.mt.com.

METTLER TOLEDO (NYSE: MTD) is a leading global supplier of precision instruments and services. We have strong leadership positions in all of our businesses and believe we hold global number-one market positions in most of them. We are recognized as an innovation leader and our solutions are critical in key R&D, quality control, and manufacturing processes for customers in a wide range of industries including life sciences, food, and chemicals. Our sales and service network is one of the most extensive in the industry. Our products are sold in more than 140 countries and we have a direct presence in approximately 40 countries. With proven growth strategies and a focus on execution, we have achieved a long-term track record of strong financial performance. For more information, please visit www.mt.com.

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Shares of newly public Versant Media fell on the first day of trading as an independent public company, closing down 13% at $40.57.

Executives led by CEO Mark Lazarus were on hand at the Nasdaq market for the debut of the newly standalone entity that houses TV networks and complementary digital businesses, including CNBC, MS NOW formerly MSNBC), USA Network, Golf Channel, Oxygen, E!, SYFY, Fandango, Rotten Tomatoes, GolfNow, GolfPass and SportsEngine. Comcast announced about a year ago plans to separate declining linear cable assets its core broadband business and the rest of NBCUniversal.

The spinoff delivered Comcast stockholders with 1 share of Versant for every 25 shares of Comcast in hand. A downturn in Versant stock was expected as index funds and other investors primarily interested in holding Comcast cycle out and it could take a few weeks or more for the shareholder base to turn over and the stock to settle.

At a recent investor day, CEO Mark Lazarus and his team described plans to grow the new company beyond cable. Versant initially expects to generate $6.7 billion in revenue with 62% coming from linear distribution, 23% from advertising, 13% from its digital platforms and 3% from content licensing and other. It also expects $2.3 billion in EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization) and $1.5 billion in free cash flow

It debuts with $3 billion in gross debt, $750 million in cash on hand and 1.5 billion in total liquidity.

The spin is being closely watched as a statement on the future of cable, which throws off significant cash but has been in rapid decline as viewers migrate to streaming. Versant is also particularly interesting as a proxy for Discovery Global, another new linear television company Warner Bros. Discovery is planning to cut loose in the third quarter of 2026 as it sells its Warner Bros. studios and streaming assets to Netflix. David Ellison’s Paramount is attempting to derail that deal, announced late last year, and acquire all of WBD.

A takeover battle between the two bidders has largely come down to Discovery Global, which Par values at about $1 a share but WBD and some Wall Streeters say is worth significantly more.

Share price is generally calculated using a multiple of projected EBITDA and other metrics which, for Discovery Global, have not yet been nailed down, including the amount of debt that will be layered on the new company.

Meanwhile, Versant has settled on its new digs and unveiled in late December that it is making the historic New York Times building its permanent home. It had settled temporarily into three floors there but Lazarus told staff in a memo that it is taking another three and renovating all six as well as a lobby and cafeteria at 229 West 43rd Street.

“After careful consideration and hearing from many of you about how this location makes your commute more manageable, we have decided to remain here. We are excited to become a fixture in this hub of media, entertainment and finance,joining our neighbors – Paramount Global, Snap Inc., TikTok, Roku, Nasdaq, Morgan Stanley and Bank of America,” he wrote.

“Leaving 30 Rock and settling into this unique space was not always easy, but it has also become a special moment in our company’s history. Now, we look forward to setting down roots and transforming this space into our own permanent VERSANT New York Headquarters together.” 

The Trump administration has spoken to multiple oil companies about Venezuela, a White House official told CNBC on Monday.

President Donald Trump said Saturday said that U.S. oil companies would invest billions of dollars to rebuild Venezuela's energy sector after the overthrow of President Nicolas Maduro.

The White House official did not say which companies the administration has spoken to or when the conversations took place.

"All of our oil companies are ready and willing to make big investments in Venezuela that will rebuild their oil infrastructure, which was destroyed by the illegitimate Maduro regime," White House spokeswoman Taylor Rogers said.

Reuters reported earlier that Chevron, Conoco and Exxon have not spoken to the administration about Maduro's overthrow.

Energy Secretary Chris Wright is scheduled attend an energy conference hosted by Goldman Sachs in Miami this week. Executives from Chevron and ConocoPhillips are also expected to attend.

Chevron is the only U.S. oil major operating in Venezuela. CNBC has reached out to Chevron, Conoco and Exxon for comment.

, /PRNewswire/ -- Brightstar Global Solutions Corporation, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Brightstar Lottery PLC (NYSE: BRSL) ("Brightstar"), and Scientific Games, LLC ("Scientific Games") today announced that the two global lottery companies have newly formed SP Loterias SPE S.A. ("SPL") and executed a concession agreement with the Government of the State of São Paulo to operate a new lottery in São Paulo State, Brazil.

Terms of the 15-year agreement provide SPL with an exclusive state license for lottery operations in São Paulo, including draw-based, instant and eInstant games through retail and digital channels, as well as passive lottery games, to entertain players and generate funding for healthcare investments across São Paulo. Together, Brightstar and Scientific Games will provide technology to power an omnichannel play experience, each providing content across retail and digital channels in effort to deliver a seamless player journey.

"Brightstar is very pleased to expand our operations in Brazil and partner with Scientific Games through SPL to introduce new, exciting lottery options for Sao Paulo's 44 million residents," said Marco Tasso, Brightstar Chief Operating Officer, Italy and International Lottery Operations. "Leveraging our 40-plus years' experience operating some of the world's largest lotteries, this agreement enables Brightstar to deliver our best-in-class technology and engaging games to players throughout the country, while creating new, convenient opportunities through the ability to deploy our comprehensive iLottery system and offer eInstant games."

"The SPL joint venture with Brightstar is the result of months of collaboration to ensure this new state lottery in Brazil met the needs of all stakeholders," said Michael Conforti, President of International for Scientific Games. "We are honored to have the opportunity to bring our trusted, secure systems technology and high-performance lottery games to São Paulo with the goal of helping fund healthcare in the state."

About Brightstar Lottery PLC
Brightstar Lottery PLC (NYSE: BRSL)  is an innovative, forward-thinking global leader in lottery that builds on our renowned expertise in delivering secure technology and producing reliable, comprehensive solutions for our customers. As a premier pure play global lottery company, our best-in-class lottery operations, retail and digital solutions, and award-winning lottery games enable our customers to achieve their goals, entertain players and distribute meaningful benefits to communities. Brightstar has a well-established local presence and is a trusted partner to governments and regulators around the world, creating value by adhering to the highest standards of service, integrity, and responsibility. Brightstar has approximately 6,000 employees. For more information, please visit www.brightstarlottery.com.

About Scientific Games 
Scientific Games is a global leader in retail and digital products, technology, analytics and services that drive profits for government-sponsored lottery and sports betting programs. From enterprise gaming platforms to exciting entertainment experiences and trailblazing retail and digital solutions, we elevate play every day. We are industry pioneers in instant games, data analytics, retail solutions and iLottery. Built on a foundation of trusted partnerships since 1973, Scientific Games combines relentless innovation, performance and unwavering security to responsibly propel the industry forward. For more information, visit scientificgames.com.

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Bragar Eagel & Squire, P.C. Litigation Partner Brandon Walker Encourages Investors Who Suffered Losses In Nutanix (NTNX) To Contact Him Directly To Discuss Their Options

If you purchased or acquired Nutanix stock and would like to discuss your legal rights, call Bragar Eagel & Squire partner Brandon Walker or Melissa Fortunato directly at (212) 355-4648.

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Bragar Eagel & Squire, P.C., a nationally recognized stockholder rights law firm, is investigating potential claims against Nutanix, Inc. (“Nutanix” or the “Company”) (NASDAQ:NTNX) on behalf of Nutanix stockholders. Our investigation concerns whether Nutanix has violated the federal securities laws and/or engaged in other unlawful business practices.
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On November 25, 2025, after the market closed, Nutanix published first quarter fiscal 2026 revenue results that landed at the bottom end of the Company’s prior guidance. Management attributed the decline to a late quarter “revenue shift from Q1 to future periods” caused by increased customer demand for flexible start dates and the growth of the company’s business through third-party OEM partners. As a result, Nutanix slashed its full-year revenue projection from $2.9B – $2.94B down to $2.82B – $2.86B. On this news, the price of Nutanix shares declined by $10.43 per share, or approximately 17.8%, from $58.77 per share on November 25, 2025 to close at $48.34 on November 26, 2025.
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Home Finance News Bitcoin Price Pushes Toward $98,000 Amid Neutral Market Sentiment

Sydney TheCMO

January 5, 2026

Bitcoin’s price experienced a modest increase over the weekend, closing the week at approximately $91,489. This marked a slight move beyond a short-term resistance level of $91,400. If buyers can maintain the price above this threshold, they may target the $94,000 resistance level, a barrier that has capped gains since mid-November. Additionally, the potential to reach $98,000 is in focus for the week ahead.

Key Resistance and Support Levels

Investors are eyeing a push past the $94,000 mark, which could pave the way toward $98,000. Resistance is expected to strengthen from $98,000 up to around $103,500. A significant ceiling remains at $109,000, presenting a formidable challenge for upward movement. Conversely, should the bears drive the price downward, support is anticipated at $87,000, with $84,000 offering additional support. However, repeated testing of $84,000 could weaken its ability to hold, prompting attention to a support zone between $72,000 and $68,000.

Current Market Dynamics

Recent market activity shows a reduction in bearish pressure, creating an opportunity for bulls to press toward higher resistance levels. The primary goal for the week is likely to surpass the $94,000 resistance. If bulls fail to maintain the price above $91,400, efforts will likely focus on defending $87,000, aiming for another attempt to breach $94,000.

The market sentiment remains neutral, with bulls gaining momentum after successfully holding support levels in recent weeks. Despite this upward inclination, a long-term bearish outlook persists. The weekly chart has shown fluctuation between the broadening wedge’s upper trend line and the 100-week simple moving average (SMA). Resistance has softened, giving buyers a chance to advance. However, the long-term bearish trend suggests any upward moves may encounter resistance, potentially retesting support levels between $87,000 and $84,000.

Potential Market Movements

A sustained price above $100,000 on a weekly basis could signal a shift in the long-term trend. Conversely, closing below $84,000 may empower bears to push prices toward the lower $70,000 range. Market participants remain cautious, observing these key levels for potential shifts in momentum. As the market navigates these dynamics, future movements remain uncertain, with focus on upcoming resistance levels and the ability to maintain key support zones.

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Grayscale ETHE has become the first exchange-traded product in the U.S. market to distribute staking rewards to investors. That also marks the first time on-chain staking yield is being distributed through regulated crypto investment products. 

On Monday, Grayscale affirmed that Ethereum Staking ETF (ticker: ETHE) issued proceeds earned in Ethereum staking as a result of new shareholder distributions. The rewards were accrued by the fund between October 6, 2025, and December 31, 2025, marking the first time a U.S.-traded spot crypto ETF has distributed staking income directly to investors.

First U.S. Ethereum ETP to pass through staking income
The company states that shareholders included in the record as of Jan. 5, 2026, shall be entitled to collect $0.083178 per share of ETHE. The distribution date is January 6, 2026. The payout was financed by the sale of staking rewards that the fund had earned during the covered period, rather than any reduction or increase in the principal Ether holdings of the fund.

Although staking has been an essential part of Ethereum’s proof-of-stake system since its inception, it had only been included in U.S.-listed ETFs as of late 2025. Grayscale enabled staking on its Ethereum products in October 2025.

Today, Grayscale Ethereum Staking ETF (Ticker: $ETHE) became the first U.S. Ethereum ETP to distribute staking rewards back to investors.

Note: $ETHE is trading ex-dividend today as of the open.

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— Grayscale (@Grayscale) January 5, 2026

ETHE and ETH are formally organized as exchange-traded products and are not registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940. Consequently, they are not regulated under the same regulations as 40 Act-registered ETFs and mutual funds. Grayscale has indicated that investing in these products is a high-risk venture, which may result in a loss of the amount invested. 

Grayscale’s fund structure, record dates, and distribution mechanics
The staking issuance is only levied on the proceeds realized within the accrued period, and it has no certain payout schedule. Grayscale issued no press release regarding its future distribution rate or yield expectations for future staking activity.

ETHE was ex-dividend at the beginning of the market on Monday. Thus, investors who purchase shares between the market opening on Monday and after the market opens will not receive their payout at this time.

Grayscale added that the distribution will be in accordance with the tradition of the financial markets, and the staking income will be deposited in the form of exchange-traded securities. The company further guaranteed that holdings of Ether of the funds remain unchanged, except that staking rewards were required to be sold to cover the distribution.

Product renaming and staking-enabled lineup
In conjunction with the staking distribution, Grayscale has also undertaken a naming exercise for its staking-enabled products based on its new organizational structure. Grayscale Ethereum Trust ETF was changed to Grayscale Ethereum Staking ETF, under the same ticker, ETHE. Similarly, the Grayscale Ethereum Mini Trust ETF is currently trading under the name Ethereum Staking Mini Ethereum ETF, and the ETF is listed under the ticker symbol “ETH”.

The latter also confirmed that its Solana-based product is now known as the Grayscale Solana Staking ETF (ticker: GSOL) and that its staking products adhere to a set of naming conventions.

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A Whale Hunt report claims Venezuela may hold up to 660,000 BTC off the books, allegedly controlled by Maduro ally Alex Saab.

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Following the US capture of Nicolás Maduro, speculation has surged over a hidden Venezuelan Bitcoin reserve reportedly worth up to $60 billion.
Sources allege the stash was accumulated through sanctions-evasion tactics and managed by Maduro ally Alex Saab, who may still control access to the private keys.

Bitcoin may have entered a new arc after former Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro was taken into US custody over the weekend. As geopolitical tensions rise between the US and Venezuela, speculators are turning their attention to rumors of a secret state-controlled Bitcoin stash.

A new report from The Whale Hunt suggests that Venezuela may control a hidden Bitcoin stockpile worth as much as $60 to $67 billion, dramatically higher than the 240 BTC (roughly $23 million) currently listed on BitcoinTreasuries data.

The report claims these off-the-books assets were systematically accumulated by Maduro’s inner circle over years of looting Venezuela’s oil revenue, gold reserves, and state wealth.

According to sources with direct knowledge of the operation, these assets were converted into crypto to bypass US sanctions. The conversion process allegedly relied on mechanisms such as gold swaps, oil-for-USDT settlements, and seizures from domestic mining operations, with the funds later moved into Bitcoin for long-term storage.

The report cites Alex Saab as a key figure in the operation, a longtime Maduro associate widely regarded as the architect of Venezuela’s crypto finance network. Saab is believed to have managed the wallet infrastructure and held access to the private keys associated with the alleged reserves.

Although he was extradited to the US in 2021, Saab was later released in a 2023 prisoner swap, raising renewed questions over whether he or other regime loyalists still retain access to the assets.

Adding to the speculation, CNBC reporter MacKenzie Sigalos appeared on air Monday, noting that Venezuela has been mining Bitcoin and Ethereum since 2017 amid the collapse of its national currency.

She cited reports of the government using oil revenue to acquire Tether, later converting it to BTC. “Even the possibility that the US might seize and hold these assets is a bull case for Bitcoin,” she said.

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