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SpaceX's Starlink updated its Global Privacy Policy on January 15 to permit the use of customer data for training machine learning and artificial intelligence models unless users actively opt out. The change coincides with talks to merge Starlink's parent with the AI company xAI ahead of a planned SpaceX IPO, and has drawn scrutiny from privacy adv…
Ameresco director Nickolas Stavropoulos sold 100 shares of Class A common stock at $34 per share on January 28, 2026, and on the same day exercised options to acquire 100 shares at an exercise price of $16.33. The sale was executed under a Rule 10b5-1 plan adopted September 8, 2025. The transactions leave Stavropoulos with 14,111 shares, while the …
President Donald Trump has nominated former Federal Reserve Governor Kevin Warsh to take over as chair from Jerome Powell. Warsh, who served on the Fed’s Board of Governors from 2006 to 2011, played a key intermediary role during the financial crisis. Markets moved quickly on the news, with equities sliding, the dollar strengthening, and sharp reve…
David N. Farr, a director at International Business Machines Corp., purchased 1,000 shares of IBM common stock on January 30, 2026, at $304.00 per share. The transaction increased his direct holdings to 9,258 shares. The purchase comes after IBM reported a stronger-than-expected fourth quarter and provided fiscal 2026 revenue guidance of more than …
Kevin Warsh, President Trump's nominee for Federal Reserve chair, has earned over $1 million since 2020 serving on the board of e-commerce firm Coupang, which is at the center of a South Korean regulatory probe and wider U.S.-South Korea trade disputes. Warsh's corporate ties, including a long-standing UPS board seat, raise compliance questions und…
Stanley Hills LLC, previously a roughly 10% holder of VisionWave Holdings, sold 603,334 shares between November 11, 2025 and January 15, 2026, generating about $8.28 million in proceeds. The transactions lowered the investor's stake to 3,390,171 shares. VisionWave, trading near the low end of the insider sale range, reported several technical and c…
Walt Disney CEO Bob Iger has informed close associates that he intends to step down from the chief executive role and reduce involvement in day-to-day management ahead of his contract's December 31 expiration, according to people familiar with the matter. The company's board is scheduled to meet next week at its Burbank headquarters to consider pot…
Lockheed Martin's Rotary and Mission Systems unit received two contract modifications from U.S. defense agencies totaling $37.9 million. One modification, valued at $18.8 million, adds production and production-management work for a three-dimensional expeditionary long-range radar and raises the underlying contract value to $572.9 million. A separa…
General Dynamics Mission Systems received a $255.1 million hybrid contract from the U.S. Navy to provide development, production, sustainment, modernization and related services for strategic weapon system fire control subsystems serving U.S. SSBNs, U.K. SSBNs and SSGNs. The award includes options valued at $485.3 million, funding across fiscal yea…
Northrop Grumman Systems Corp. has been awarded a $50 million U.S. Department of War task order to deliver commercial agile software development services, focused on sustainment and modernization of a suite of Strategy Mission Planning and Execution, Data Fusion, and Visualization applications. Work will be carried out in Bellevue and Offutt Air Fo…
The U.S. Transportation Department announced plans to propose scaling back fuel economy requirements for heavy-duty pickup trucks and vans that were finalized under the previous administration. Regulators argued the earlier targets were unattainable for larger vehicles and that the prior administration lacked authority to set civil penalties. The m…
Oracle America Inc. has received an $88,112,197 firm-fixed-price task order to deliver Oracle Cloud service offerings in support of the U.S. Air Force’s Cloud One program. The contract was announced by the U.S. Department of War, was awarded via a sole source acquisition, and assigns the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center at Hanscom Air Force B…
L3 Technologies Inc. secured a $283.3 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to provide ground control element support and sustainment services through January 29, 2031, while L3Harris Technologies Inc. received an $80.27 million modification to an existing agreement for National Space Defense Center and Distributed Space Command …
Boeing has secured a $2.8 billion contract to carry out upgrades on F-15K fighter jets for the Republic of Korea Air Force, according to a U.S. Department of War announcement. The award covers design and development of integrated aircraft systems for the F-15K fleet, with primary work to be completed in St. Louis, Missouri, and an expected program …
OnlyFans is in exclusive negotiations with Architect Capital for the sale of a controlling stake that would value the platform at approximately $5.5 billion including debt, according to a person familiar with the discussions. The proposed transaction would hand Architect nearly 60% ownership and places the company’s equity value at about $3.5 billi…
Federal Reserve Vice Chair for Supervision Michelle W. Bowman said the Fed is pivoting attention to protecting the labor market after payroll growth slowed sharply late last year. While the central bank paused on interest rates, Bowman warned the labor market is vulnerable and outlined her Summary of Economic Projections, which includes three cuts …
U.S. Federal Reserve Vice Chair for Supervision Michelle Bowman reiterated that she expects interest rates to be lowered this year, but she voted to hold policy steady at the Fed's most recent meeting in order to gather additional data. Bowman said she anticipates three quarter-percentage-point rate cuts this year and described the pause as a timin…
Valley National has spent 2024-2025 reshaping its balance sheet and loan mix. With a $~7B market cap, below-book valuation, a stable dividend and recent redemption of subordinated debt, the bank looks positioned for earnings and multiple re-rating. This trade proposes a tactical long with a defined entry, stop and two targets across a 45-to-180 tra…
Pinterest looks undervalued on headline metrics (P/E ~7.6, market cap ~$15B) but its business behaves more like a niche visual-commerce platform than a broad social network. That mismatch creates an asymmetric swing trade: buy near $22.12, stop at $19.50, target $35.00 over the next 45 trading days while watching AI/CTV execution and ad-revenue cad…
Executives from Exxon Mobil and Chevron outlined limited near-term opportunities in Venezuela's oil sector during quarterly earnings calls, but stressed that significant legal clarity and political stability are prerequisites for any long-term capital commitments. Chevron said it could increase processing of Venezuelan crude at U.S. refineries and …
Moloco, an advertising-technology company backed by Fidelity Management & Research Co. and Tiger Global Management, has begun preliminary conversations with potential advisers about a possible initial public offering. The company was valued at more than $2 billion following a secondary share sale in 2023. Reports indicate the talks are in early sta…
Alana K. Knowles, Chevron's controller, sold 3,200 shares of company stock on January 28, 2026, for $544,000 and exercised options to purchase an equal number of shares the same day. The moves follow a multi-year option grant that vested in installments. Chevron also reported fourth-quarter 2025 results that beat on EPS but missed on revenue, and m…
Donald Chad Carter, Executive Vice President of Correspondent Banking at Business First Bancshares, sold 3,778 shares on January 29, 2026 for a total of $103,026. The stock has since risen to $28.17 and the company reported fourth-quarter 2025 results that beat expectations, while analysts have raised forecasts and one firm lifted its price target.
Unity Software shares fell roughly 20% after Google announced Project Genie, which offers prototype access to an interactive world model and creation engine for Google AI Ultra subscribers. William Blair reiterated an Outperform rating, arguing the market reaction exaggerates competitive risk given Unity’s platform depth, monetization model and AI …
Moody's Ratings has revised Israel's sovereign outlook from negative to stable while keeping the Baa1 long-term rating intact. The shift reflects a material easing in geopolitical pressures following the end of specific regional conflicts, and Moody's highlights the country's economic resilience and improved fiscal trajectory even as risks persist.
