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The Kremlin described negotiations aimed at ending the war in Ukraine as on a "situational pause" following the outbreak of the Iran war, while Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Kyiv expects a new round of discussions in the United States this weekend. U.S. officials and Russian leaders have offered differing assessments of prospects for…
Brookfield Asset Management is seeing assets under management climb alongside a steady free cash flow profile and low leverage. The setup offers a mid-term opportunity to capture mean reversion toward prior valuation levels, with entry at $43.50, a stop at $40.00 and a $52.00 target over the next 45 trading days.
A 19-year-old Mexican national, identified by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement as Royer Perez Jimenez, died while detained at the Glades County Detention Center in Moore Haven, Florida. ICE has characterized the death as a presumed suicide and said the cause is under investigation. He was found unresponsive in the early hours and staff effo…
Jeff Bezos is engaged in preliminary discussions to raise roughly $100 billion for a fund that would acquire manufacturing businesses and deploy AI to accelerate automation. The vehicle, described in investor materials as a manufacturing transformation fund, is targeting industrial segments such as chipmaking, defense and aerospace. Bezos has also …
Kaltura INC director Naama Halevi-Davidov sold 93,624 shares on March 18, 2026 under a pre-established Rule 10b5-1 plan, realizing $112,685 at a weighted average price of $1.2036. The transaction occurred while the stock traded close to a 52-week low, even as the company reported quarterly results that beat EPS and revenue expectations.
A national poll of 1,545 U.S. adults finds 65% believe President Trump will order a large-scale ground war in Iran, while only 7% back such an outcome. The survey shows public approval of the war and presidential standing remain mixed, with notable partisan divides on strikes and limited special forces deployments. Proposed military options under c…
Goldman Sachs warns that oil prices may remain higher for an extended period due to supply shocks tied to the Iran conflict. The bank sees short-term upward pressure while flows through the Strait of Hormuz are constrained and highlights scenarios in which Brent could top its 2008 peak and remain above $100 if disruptions produce lasting production…
Yannis Stournaras, governor of the Bank of Greece and a member of the European Central Bank’s Governing Council, said the Middle East war is acting as an economic drag on Europe and should prompt deeper integration. He argued the bloc needs institutional change, notably joint debt issuance to reduce financing costs and to collectively fund high-pri…
Bernard M. Lesavoy, a director at Embassy Bancorp, Inc. (EMYB), purchased 1,750 shares of common stock in two trades on March 19, 2026, spending $34,415. The filing shows Lesavoy now directly holds 133,626.6342 shares. The stock has returned 29% over the past year, trades at a P/E of 11.03 and carries a 2.44% dividend yield after 14 consecutive ann…
NASA is considering a revised approach to its Artemis lunar missions that would scale back Boeing’s Space Launch System (SLS) role and elevate SpaceX’s Starship to the primary propulsion role for taking astronauts from Earth orbit to lunar orbit and down to the surface. The proposal preserves Orion as the crew capsule but shifts the critical propul…
Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) plans to initiate a series of smaller workforce reductions beginning in April, according to people familiar with the matter. The bank is shifting away from its usual single, firmwide spring head count review and will instead implement rolling cuts that are expected to continue through the summer and affect multiple business …
Murray Stahl, CEO and CIO of Horizon Kinetics Holding Corp (NASDAQ: HKHC), made a combined direct and indirect purchase of 27 shares on March 18, 2026, at $34.00 per share, totaling $918, according to a Form 4 filing. The disclosure arrives amid mixed fourth-quarter 2025 results, including a $0.78 per share net loss and $17 million in revenue, a 6.…
Patrizio Vinciarelli, Vicor Corp's chairman and CEO, reported the sale of 49,900 shares of common stock on March 18, 2026 under a Rule 10b5-1 trading arrangement, generating gross proceeds of about $9.8 million. The disposition occurred while Vicor shares have risen 252% over the past year and trade at $184.57, with InvestingPro analysis indicating…
General Francis Donovan, head of U.S. Southern Command, told a Senate panel that the U.S. military is not conducting rehearsals to invade Cuba or to seize control of the island. He said U.S. forces remain prepared to defend the U.S. embassy and the base at Guantanamo Bay, support government efforts to manage any mass migration, and respond to physi…
FactSet (FDS) is being punished in the market as investors extrapolate AI-driven disintermediation across financial services. That narrative discounts FactSet's subscription durability, 27.7% ROE, $647M in free cash flow and a sub-13x P/E. We recommend a tactical long for a mid-term rebound: enter at $207.49, stop $190.00, target $260.00 (45 tradin…
Gold has experienced a sharp pullback even as conflict in the Middle East deepens. Yardeni Research attributes the decline to profit-taking, stronger bond yields, and shifts in investor positioning, while noting technical breaks and heavy ETF outflows. The firm retains lofty multi-year targets but says it may trim its near-term forecast if gold fai…
Violent exchanges over the past 36 hours have escalated the U.S.-Iran confrontation, with Israel striking Iran’s South Pars gas field and Iran retaliating against Qatar’s Ras Laffan facility and targets in Saudi Arabia and the UAE. Washington approved and then constrained Israeli actions on gas assets, signaled major supplemental defense spending, …
A record $5.7 trillion in notional options contracts is scheduled to expire on Friday in the largest March options expiration on record, a quarterly event that could amplify volatility as traders adjust positions amid Middle East conflict and renewed inflation pressures tied to rising crude prices. The expiration covers index, ETF and single-stock …
Gaia director Paul Howard Sutherland acquired 1,514 Class A shares on March 17, 2026, spending $4,652 at $3.073 per share. The transaction raises his direct holdings to 304,457 shares. The move arrives while Gaia's stock is trading close to a 52-week low and after the company reported mixed fourth-quarter 2025 results, with an EPS beat but a slight…
Mexico has invited Spain's King Felipe VI to attend the opening match of the 2026 World Cup at Azteca Stadium, President Claudia Sheinbaum said. The invitation, sent by Mexico's 2026 World Cup government representative Gabriela Cuevas to all diplomatically recognised countries, comes after the king unexpectedly acknowledged colonial-era abuses and …
Equity markets moved unevenly on Thursday, with notable strength among semiconductor-related names and sharp declines across several commodity and tech stocks. Lam Research and Tower Semiconductor were among the best performers, while Alibaba, Alcoa and a host of miners and smaller issuers posted sizable drops. The following report catalogs the lar…
As markets head into the last trading day of the week, investors will receive a pair of regular data releases that can illuminate both physical drilling activity and speculative positioning across major asset classes. At 12:00 PM ET Baker Hughes will publish its weekly U.S. rig counts, followed by a comprehensive set of Commodity Futures Trading Co…
Alibaba reported a mixed quarter on 03/19/2026: revenue growth slowed to +2% while adjusted EBITA plunged 57%, but cloud intelligence revenue and AI product traction remain strong. The stock is trading oversold with a 14-day RSI ~26 and a market cap near $302B. I think this is a worthwhile long trade on weakness with defined entry, stop and a 180-t…
A fresh escalation in the Iran conflict that targeted energy infrastructure has driven oil to about $119 a barrel, sent European gas prices sharply higher and prompted broad selling across bonds, equities and gold. Traders have repriced rate expectations for the Bank of England and other central banks, heightening market volatility and raising the …
John T. Stout Jr., a director of The Andersons, Inc. (NASDAQ: ANDE), sold 2,500 shares of the company's common stock on March 17, 2026, at $70.30 per share, generating $175,750 in proceeds. The sale occurred while ANDE was trading close to its 52-week peak of $71.54 and after a roughly 62% share-price advance over the prior 12 months. The transacti…
