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  • New Zealand parliament approved bilateral free trade agreement with India, clearing final domestic hurdle.
  • The pact eliminates or substantially lowers duties on about 95% of New Zealand exports to India.
  • Reduced duties are likely to support New Zealand exporters and could lift demand for export-linked assets.
  • Reliance Worldwide shares jumped after Brookfield proposed an A$4.75-per-share cash takeover.
  • The offer values Reliance Worldwide at roughly A$4.1 billion including debt.
  • The bid may spur M&A interest in Australian manufacturing peers and support dealmaking sentiment.

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Where Food Comes From, Inc. Reports Second Quarter Financial Results

Where Food Comes From, Inc. Reports Second Quarter Financial Results

Where Food Comes From, Inc., a Nasdaq-listed company providing third-party verification of food production practices, reported second quarter and six-month 2026 financial results. The company saw a slight 1% increase in total revenue year-over-year and a 9% rise in gross profit in Q2, driven by cost efficiencies across its service segments. Operati…

Philips expands open patient monitoring ecosystem to help health systems keep sight of patients beyond the bedside

Philips expands open patient monitoring ecosystem to help health systems keep sight of patients beyond the bedside

Royal Philips announced new collaborations with multiple health tech companies to expand its open patient monitoring ecosystem. This initiative integrates wearable and remote monitoring devices into Philips' platform, enabling continuous patient visibility and supporting transitions from hospital to home care. The partnerships enhance Philips' abil…

Kyntra Bio to Report Second Quarter 2026 Financial Results

Kyntra Bio to Report Second Quarter 2026 Financial Results

Kyntra Bio, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company, announced it will release its second quarter 2026 financial results on August 13, 2026, followed by a conference call with investors to discuss its corporate and financial performance. The company is focused on novel oncology and rare disease therapies, including the approved drug Roxadustat and the de…

Alpha Pro Tech, Ltd. Announces Second Quarter 2026 Financial Results

Alpha Pro Tech, Ltd. Announces Second Quarter 2026 Financial Results

Alpha Pro Tech, Ltd. reported a 12% increase in net sales to $18.7 million and a 47% increase in net income to $1.8 million for Q2 2026 compared to the same period in 2025. Growth was driven by gains in both the Building Supply and Disposable Protective Apparel segments, including higher sales volumes and selling prices influenced by tariffs. The c…

Broadcom Enables Enterprises to Strengthen Multi-Layer Cyber Defense and Operational Efficiency with New vDefend and Avi Load Balancer Capabilities

Broadcom Enables Enterprises to Strengthen Multi-Layer Cyber Defense and Operational Efficiency with New vDefend and Avi Load Balancer Capabilities

Broadcom Inc. announced significant updates to VMware vDefend and Avi Load Balancer, delivering enhanced multi-layer cyber defense, AI-powered automation, and improved performance for private cloud infrastructures. The new capabilities enable rapid deployment of advanced threat prevention, on-premises malware sandboxing, comprehensive API protectio…

Italy Elevates Major Cities to Red Alert as Heatwave Intensifies

Italy Elevates Major Cities to Red Alert as Heatwave Intensifies

Italy's Health Ministry on Thursday placed all major cities under the highest health alert level as an intense heatwave continues to affect the country. Red alerts were declared from Palermo in the south to Bolzano in the north, signaling a potential public health emergency tied to prolonged high temperatures. Measures to help vulnerable residents …

Ghana's Inflation Falls to 4.6% in July as Food Price Gains Slow

Ghana's Inflation Falls to 4.6% in July as Food Price Gains Slow

Ghana's headline inflation declined to 4.6% in July from 5.3% in June, driven in part by slower food and non-alcoholic beverage price gains and contained import costs. Officials highlighted exchange-rate stability as a factor restraining imported inflation, while the Bank of Ghana kept its policy rate unchanged as it monitors the potential inflatio…

Alphabet plans up to $25 billion bond sale as AI spending pressures mount

Alphabet plans up to $25 billion bond sale as AI spending pressures mount

Alphabet is seeking as much as $25 billion from a new U.S. bond offering, according to reports, selling notes in up to 10 tranches with maturities spanning two to 40 years. The debt move follows a higher capital expenditure outlook and the company’s first recorded negative free cash flow in a quarter, and comes amid a broader wave of tech-sector fu…

LPL and Private Advisor Group Welcome Paxel Financial Consulting

LPL and Private Advisor Group Welcome Paxel Financial Consulting

LPL Financial announced that the advisors from Paxel Financial Consulting have joined its broker-dealer and Registered Investment Advisor platform, leveraging Private Advisor Group's infrastructure to accelerate growth. Paxel brings approximately $300 million in client assets and an integrated approach to financial and estate planning, focusing on …

ANI Pharmaceuticals: Buy the Next Chapter, Not the Last Quarter

ANI Pharmaceuticals: Buy the Next Chapter, Not the Last Quarter

ANI Pharmaceuticals (ANIP) looks like a buy for patient traders. The market is focused on recent execution - which has been solid - but may be underpricing the commercial and rare-disease optionality from ILUVIEN and continued rare-disease tailwinds. With a market cap near $1.82B, FCF of $179M and management guiding to north of $1B in revenue for 2…

Czech central bank holds two-week repo rate at 3.75% after June increase

Czech central bank holds two-week repo rate at 3.75% after June increase

The Czech National Bank left its key policy rate unchanged at 3.75% on Thursday, maintaining the two-week repo rate after a June rate increase — the first in four years. The bank cited ongoing monitoring of domestic inflation pressures, rapid credit expansion, and wage growth as reasons for its more restrictive stance compared with regional peers. …

S&P Global Keeps Australia's AAA Rating, Cites Modest Deficit and Stabilizing Debt

S&P Global Keeps Australia's AAA Rating, Cites Modest Deficit and Stabilizing Debt

S&P Global Ratings has upheld Australia’s AAA long-term and A-1+ short-term sovereign ratings and kept a stable outlook, pointing to what it sees as modest general government deficits and stabilizing net debt over the coming years. The agency projects a general government deficit near 1.6% of GDP for the next two years, expects net debt to settle a…

Silo Pharma Subsidiary QwikAgents Collaborates with Amazon Web Services Premier Tier Partner Caylent to Advance Enterprise AI Platform

Silo Pharma Subsidiary QwikAgents Collaborates with Amazon Web Services Premier Tier Partner Caylent to Advance Enterprise AI Platform

Silo Pharma announced that its AI subsidiary, QwikAgents, has engaged AWS Premier Partner Caylent to develop a new AWS-native platform designed to improve scalability, performance, and security for enterprise adoption. This collaboration aims to accelerate commercialization and innovation of the AI platform, supported by anticipated funding from AW…

Toast Expands Google Maps Integration to Enable AI-Driven Ordering

Toast Expands Google Maps Integration to Enable AI-Driven Ordering

Toast shares ticked higher after the company disclosed a deeper integration with Google that lets customers place orders at Toast-powered restaurants using Ask Maps, Google Maps' conversational AI feature. Orders placed through Ask Maps will be routed into Toast’s first-party ordering platform, avoiding third-party commission fees. A promotional of…

Western Digital Plunges After Results — Valuation Reset or Peak of Cycle?

Western Digital Plunges After Results — Valuation Reset or Peak of Cycle?

Western Digital shares fell about 15.5% in premarket trading despite an earnings and revenue beat. Strong quarterly execution and long-term customer contracts underpin the HDD supercycle thesis, but guidance that only modestly cleared consensus, HAMR transition costs, insider selling and sector-wide conservatism left investors wanting more. The mov…