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Citadel Securities strategist Scott Rubner said Wednesday he is removing a short-term bearish stance on U.S. equities and now anticipates a bounce into mid-March as volatility normalizes. Rubner cited extreme bearish positioning, elevated retail activity through the selloff and a record March options expiration as factors that could support a rebou…
Xiaomi has begun testing its in-house humanoid robots inside its electric vehicle production facility. Company president Lu Weibing said the two robots completed 90% of assigned tasks within three hours and were able to match the factory's 76-second cycle time, but he cautioned that robot use in production remains early-stage and largely experiment…
Goldman Sachs Chairman and CEO David Solomon described financial market reactions to the Iran war as unexpectedly muted on the conflict's fifth day. Investors have been watching oil prices closely after Iran declared the Strait of Hormuz closed and threatened vessels transiting the waterway. Solomon said it will take weeks for markets to assess sho…
Energy Vault Holdings COO Akshay Ladwa bought 4,000 shares at $3.085 apiece on March 2, 2026, increasing his stake to 1,824,384 shares. The company recently reported a positive adjusted EBITDA for Q4 2025 and completed financings that substantially increased cash reserves. Energy Vault is set to release earnings on March 17.
Volkswagen executives told staff at the company’s first assembly of the year in Wolfsburg that cost-cutting work must persist as the automaker grapples with softer sales in China and tariff-related pressures in the U.S. Leadership is finalizing a trimmed five-year investment plan and faces demands from labor representatives for streamlined decision…
OpenAI is developing GPT-5.4, a follow-up model reported to include a context window exceeding 1 million tokens, stronger retention across extended tasks and a new extreme reasoning mode that allocates more compute and time to difficult queries. The information comes from a person familiar with the development.
KeyBanc Capital Markets adjusted its sector recommendations after the Iran conflict disrupted petrochemical output and pushed up crude prices. The firm upgraded Dow and LyondellBasell to Overweight, lowered Avient to Sector Weight, and flagged multi-quarter global tightness in ethylene and polyethylene driven by affected capacity, low inventories, …
Goldman Sachs warns that global equity markets face elevated correction risks driven by concerns over AI disruption, heavy tech spending and heightened geopolitical tensions in the Middle East, but says the likelihood of a prolonged bear market is limited due to robust earnings growth and the potential for solid economic expansion.
e.l.f. Beauty (ELF) has been punished by tariff uncertainty and acquisition-related noise even as underlying growth and cash generation remain intact. With the Rhode luxury skincare purchase beginning to layer into sales and a plausible legal path to tariff relief, the risk/reward looks favorable from current levels. Maintain Buy with a clearly def…
Poland's central bank cut its policy rate by 25 basis points to 3.75% this week, a move that came even after a spike in oil and gas prices earlier in the period. With inflation at 2.2% in January and wage growth softening, policymakers proceeded with the reduction while indicating that the easing cycle may be nearing its end.
Seven leading technology firms - Google, Microsoft, Meta, Oracle, xAI, OpenAI and Amazon - are set to sign a pledge intended to address public concerns that expanding AI data center operations could contribute to higher electricity bills. The companies are expected to commit to tighter energy-efficiency measures and to secure dedicated power suppli…
Edward Muransky, a director at Farmers National Banc Corp (FMNB), purchased 40,000 shares on March 3, 2026, for a total of $509,600. The purchase increases his direct holdings and comes as the company completes its merger with Middlefield Banc Corp and continues a multi-decade dividend program, while announcing a quarterly cash payout.
Box is showing signs of a durable operating recovery: remaining performance obligations (RPO) and billings have accelerated while adjusted profitability and free cash flow have improved. At a market cap near $3.7B and an attractive free cash flow yield, Box looks like a high-conviction swing-long with controlled risk.
Intelligence and military analysts warn that Iran has the capacity to sustain disruptive drone operations that could keep the Strait of Hormuz effectively closed to commercial shipping for months, even as uncertainty persists about how long Tehran could maintain a large-scale missile campaign. The situation has already throttled vessel movements th…
Bridgeline Digital director Michael Ketslakh bought 6,959 shares of company common stock in two transactions on March 2 and March 3, 2026, at $0.85 per share, bringing his direct holdings to 493,842 shares. The insider purchases come while the stock trades at $0.88 and the company reports mixed first-quarter fiscal 2026 results.
Anthropic's projected annual recurring revenue has jumped to more than $19 billion after a $6 billion increase in February, CEO Dario Amodei said at a Morgan Stanley TMT conference. The figure represents a sharp acceleration from the firm's prior run-rate estimates and reflects uptake of its AI models and tools, including Claude Code. The company f…
Brown-Forman reported third-quarter results that exceeded analyst forecasts, driven by steady demand for premium whiskey and ready-to-drink beverages. The company maintained its full-year guidance, saw U.S. net sales fall, and highlighted structural and regional headwinds that could pressure future performance.
Morgan Stanley analyst Shawn Kim says Samsung Electronics looks attractive after a recent sell-off, arguing the stock drop creates an entry point ahead of an expected shift in AI inference memory toward hybrid designs that combine SRAM and HBM. The firm highlighted potential benefits from HBM4 qualification, SRAM capabilities, foundry flexibility a…
Federal Reserve Governor Stephen Miran reiterated that he supports continuing the process of cutting interest rates, saying it remains premature to judge how recent attacks in the Middle East will affect the US economy. He cited unchanged forecasts for inflation and the labor market so far, while noting the labor market continues to need support. M…
British and U.S. financial regulators remain in broad agreement on the goals of a joint taskforce to foster cross-border digital asset activity, but they are divided over the mechanism to pilot blockchain-based securities. The U.S. expressed reservations about the UK-style regulatory 'sandbox', favouring an exemptive relief route preferred by the U…
Apple introduced the MacBook Neo, a new entry-level laptop priced from $599 and powered by the A18 Pro chip. The device targets users of Chromebooks and lower-end Windows machines, offers 8 gigabytes of unified memory, and is part of a wider product refresh that includes an iPhone 17e and updated MacBook Air and Pro models.
European Union officials say they have been reassured the United States will maintain a 10% universal tariff on EU exports, even though U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent indicated a 15% rate could be implemented this week. The EU's account is based on information from people familiar with the discussions who spoke on condition of anonymity. U.S…
Palantir (PLTR) is a volatility-as-opportunity trade. Recent U.S.-Iran escalation has lifted defense buy-intent and elevated risk premiums; combined with headline AI vendor shakeups, this creates a narrow window for a tactical long. I outline a concrete entry, stop, and targets for a long-term (180 trading days) position and the catalysts that coul…
General Dynamics (GD) trades near $364 with a $98B market cap, 23x earnings and nearly $4.0B in free cash flow. The stock looks appealing for a long-term trade: diversified businesses, healthy ROE, low leverage and upside if margins stabilize and multiples re-rate. This idea lays out an entry, stop and target for a 180-trading-day posture and highl…
AutoNation appears to be shifting its mix toward higher-margin after-sales and used-vehicle profitability while trading at a low-teens P/E and an EV/EBITDA around 10.4. We lay out a mid-term (45 trading days) trade: enter at $198, target $230, stop $182, and track catalysts including Q1 results, used-car margins and corporate disposals.
