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Lowe's has cut roughly 600 corporate and support jobs - under 1% of its roughly 300,000-strong workforce - concentrating reductions in back-office functions to prioritize frontline activities. The company said affected employees will receive financial help and career transition support. The move comes weeks ahead of its fourth-quarter earnings repo…
Werewolf Therapeutics Inc. (NASDAQ:HOWL) saw its stock fall 5.1% in after-hours trading following disclosure that its board approved a reduction of 64% of the company’s workforce. The company expects the bulk of the layoffs to be completed by February 13, 2026, will record an estimated $4.1 million one-time charge in Q1 2026 tied to employee separa…
Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot has increased its U.S. market share in recent months even as the tool faces global condemnation and regulatory attention after being used to create non-consensual sexualized images. Data from Apptopia show Grok’s share rose to 17.8% in the most recent month from 14% in December and 1.9% in January 2025. The growth supports …
Hyperscale Data disclosed an at-the-market offering of its 13% Series D Cumulative Redeemable Perpetual Preferred Stock for up to $35.4 million, naming Wilson-Davis & Co. as sales agent. The company said most net proceeds are intended for Bitcoin acquisitions and possible purchases of gold, silver and copper, with a smaller portion allocated to wor…
HCM IV Acquisition Corp. raised $287.5 million by selling 28,750,000 units at $10.00 each, including an over-allotment of 3,750,000 units. The units started trading on the NASDAQ Global Market on February 12, 2026 under the symbol HACQU. The company is a blank-check vehicle focused on technology or innovation in the financial services industry and …
Moody's Ratings has affirmed Flowers Foods' Baa3 long-term issuer and senior unsecured ratings but shifted the outlook to negative from stable. The agency cited elevated leverage following the Simple Mills acquisition, slower-than-expected deleveraging driven by category softness and margin pressures, and forecasts that leverage will remain elevate…
U.S. equity markets closed mixed on Friday with the Dow Jones Industrial Average edging up 0.10%, the S&P 500 eking out a 0.05% gain and the Nasdaq Composite retreating 0.22%. Sector rotation drove the split, as gains in Utilities, Basic Materials and Industrials were offset by losses in Technology, Telecoms and Consumer Services. Market breadth fa…
Mexico’s benchmark S&P/BMV IPC advanced 0.79% at Friday’s close, driven by strength in Industrials, Consumer Goods & Services and Consumer Staples. Leading individual winners included Grupo Carso, Grupo Financiero Inbursa and Alsea, while Coca-Cola Femsa, Orbia and Sigma were among the weakest performers. Commodities and FX showed mixed moves, with…
Moody's Ratings has affirmed PG&E Corporation and Pacific Gas & Electric Company's ratings while revising their outlooks from stable to positive, a change that touches roughly $44 billion of outstanding debt. The agency cited expected improvements in cash flow metrics through 2026-2027, progress on wildfire mitigation, and strengthened California l…
Canadian stocks closed higher on Friday, with the S&P/TSX Composite rising 1.87%. Gains were concentrated in the Materials, Consumer Discretionary and Healthcare sectors. Magna International and Trisura Group were among the session leaders, while Advantage Oil & Gas, Colliers and CAE were the largest decliners. Market breadth favored advancers and …
S&P Global Ratings has lowered its credit rating on Advantage Solutions Inc. and placed the company on CreditWatch negative following an announced exchange offer for outstanding term loan and note obligations. The rating action reflects uncertainty over lender participation and the potential for some creditors to be subordinated, alongside sector p…
Colombian equities finished higher on Friday with the COLCAP index up 1.73% as gains in Industrials, Services and Agriculture propelled the market. Top session movers included a modest rise for Grupo de Inversiones Suramericana SA and declines for several cement, fuel and financial names. Commodity and currency markets showed modest moves alongside…
S&P Global Ratings has shifted Lucky Strike Entertainment Corp.'s outlook to negative while maintaining its 'B' issuer credit rating, pointing to elevated leverage and weakening margins. The agency highlights downside risks to its base case tied to comparable-sales performance, the potential impact of cost cuts on profitability, and continued softn…
Russian equities rose at Friday's close, with the MOEX Russia Index finishing 0.42% higher. Telecoms, power and oil & gas names helped drive the advance. Market breadth favored gainers, the Russian Volatility Index plunged to a one-year trough, and key commodity and FX benchmarks moved modestly in mixed directions.
Shares of Sunrise New Energy Co Ltd, which does business as E-Power Inc., climbed 27.4% at Friday's close following the announcement of a long-term anode material supply contract with a global top-5 lithium-ion battery manufacturer and a mutual strategic intent to co-invest in a 30,000-tonne-per-year anode production plant in Indonesia.
Disc Medicine Inc.'s stock tumbled after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a Complete Response Letter for bitopertin, the company's investigational therapy for erythropoietic protoporphyria (EPP). The FDA said it requires results from the ongoing Phase 3 APOLLO study before it can rule on approval. Disc Medicine provided updated timing f…
The autoparts retail sector remains resilient as consumers keep older vehicles on the road. A recent comprehensive analysis by WarrenAI identifies five names that illustrate the sector’s split between richly valued growth franchises and more attractively priced value opportunities. Investors are urged to weigh quality against price, as differences …
Researchers from multiple institutions, with assistance from OpenAI’s GPT-5.2, report a result showing that tree-level scattering amplitudes for configurations with one negative-helicity gluon and the rest positive are nonzero in a constrained momentum alignment they call the half-collinear regime. The work, set out in a preprint titled "Single-min…
The Bovespa closed down 0.90% in Sao Paulo on Friday, led lower by declines in Basic Materials, Industrials and Financials. Market breadth favored advancers, but several heavyweight names fell. Commodities and FX showed divergent moves, while implied volatility on Bovespa options ticked higher.
Incyte issued a conservative sales projection for its topical drug Opzelura for 2026 that fell short of Wall Street forecasts, deepening investor concern about the company’s ability to replace revenue as its top product Jakafi approaches patent expiration. The company reported stronger-than-expected overall revenue for the quarter but missed on adj…
United Airlines has notified investors it is in a contractual dispute with Rolls-Royce over engines and maintenance services tied to a long-delayed order for 45 Airbus A350 aircraft. The carrier says the British engine maker breached terms of a 2010 agreement and is seeking return of a $175 million prepayment plus additional sums. Rolls-Royce denie…
A Philadelphia jury ordered Johnson & Johnson to pay $250,000 to the family of Gayle Emerson, who alleged long-term use of the company’s talc-based baby powder caused her ovarian cancer. The verdict, returned in a Pennsylvania state court, included $50,000 in compensatory damages and $200,000 in punitive damages. Emerson filed suit in 2019 and died…
Alphabet raised $31.51 billion in a global bond offering across U.S. dollar, sterling and Swiss franc markets, drawing heavy investor demand but prompting concern over the absence of standard covenants protecting existing and future bondholders. The issuance included a 100-year sterling 'century' bond and followed a wave of large debt placements by…
XFLH Capital Corporation completed an initial public offering of 10 million units at $10.00 apiece, raising $100 million. The Cayman Islands-based special purpose acquisition company began trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker XFLHU on February 12, 2026. The offering included an underwriter option to purchase up to 1.5 million add…
Homebuilder equities advanced Friday following cooler-than-expected inflation data, which lifted hopes for Federal Reserve interest-rate reductions and pushed the 10-year Treasury yield lower. The S&P 1500 Homebuilding Index rose roughly 2.1% as most constituents traded higher. Individual movers included Taylor Morrison, Meritage, Century Communiti…
