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Senator Mark Warner, the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, has requested that the White House clarify whether investors in the Trump administration-brokered transaction for TikTok's U.S. operations will remit $10 billion to the U.S. Treasury. Warner cited a report that some investors have already paid $2.5 billion and that remainin…
Barnes & Noble Education CEO Jonathan Shar sold 81 shares of company stock on March 13, 2026, for $8.11 per share, raising $656 to cover withholding taxes tied to vested restricted stock units. The transaction leaves Shar with 362,836 shares directly owned. Separately, the company reported stronger results across its BNC First Day program, a return…
Barnes & Noble Education Inc. Chief Financial Officer Jason Snagusky sold 17 shares on March 13, 2026 to cover withholding taxes tied to restricted stock unit vesting. The transaction reduced no material ownership; Snagusky retains 81,209 shares. Separately, the company reported stronger revenue in the first half of fiscal 2026 and full-year fiscal…
A federal appeals panel has revived a whistleblower lawsuit asserting that four major pharmaceutical companies overcharged for medications intended for low-income and uninsured patients, causing financial harm to Medicare and Medicaid. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found the claims can proceed under the False Claims Act and sent the case ba…
James A. Mitarotonda, a director and ten percent owner of Eastern Co (NYSE: EML), bought 1,717 common shares on March 16, 2026, paying $20.93 per share for a total of $35,936. The purchase raised his direct stake to 44,511 shares while he also retains a significant indirect position through Barington Companies Equity Partners, L.P. The move comes a…
Michael J. Mardy, a director of Eastern Co (NYSE: EML), purchased 1,099 shares on March 16, 2026, at $20.93 per share for a total of $23,002, according to a Form 4 filing. The shares were issued under The Eastern Company Director’s Fee Program pursuant to rule 16b-3(d), with the share count calculated using the March 13, 2026 price. After the trans…
John Everets, a director at Eastern Company (NYSE:EML), bought 1,339 common shares on March 16, 2026, for $20.93 per share, a $28,025 transaction executed under The Eastern Company Director's Fee Program. The purchase occurs while the stock is trading below InvestingPro's Fair Value estimate and follows fourth-quarter 2025 results that missed analy…
The premier of Germany's Hesse, whose jurisdiction includes Frankfurt, has publicly asked Italy's UniCredit to present a concrete offer for Commerzbank and to spell out its objectives. The request comes after UniCredit increased pressure with a low-priced bid intended to lift its holding above 30%, prompting criticism from Commerzbank executives an…
Roivant Sciences (ROIV) looks set to re-rate as clinical readouts and corporate de-risking converge. With a market cap near $20.2B, clear near-term catalysts (Q3 2026 rheumatoid arthritis data and continuing progress in the ulcerative colitis program), and improving technicals around rising 50-day support, I view ROIV as a strong buy for a long-ter…
Eastern Co director Galbato Chan purchased 962 common shares on March 16, 2026, in a transaction disclosed on a Form 4 filing. The acquisition was executed under The Eastern Company Director’s Fee Program pursuant to rule 16b-3(d). The move comes as the company trades at a P/E of 20.92 and carries a $124 million market capitalization, following a f…
SoFi Technologies shares fell about 4% after Muddy Waters Research disclosed a short position and published a set of allegations that the fintech has misstated debt, inflated earnings and used off-balance-sheet structures that obscure borrowings. Muddy Waters quantified at least $312 million in unrecorded borrowings and said reported metrics includ…
Analysts have revised upward expectations for debt issuance by the largest hyperscalers after Amazon completed a near-record $54 billion investment-grade bond sale. Banks and research teams say elevated capital needs to build AI data center capacity will likely sustain heavy issuance from Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, Microsoft and Oracle through 2026 an…
Tuesday's session produced sizable swings across the market, with technology, healthcare and consumer stocks among the most active. Eli Lilly fell after a downgrade tied to obesity market concerns, while Micron rose on ramping shipments of HBM4 memory for Nvidia AI chips. Several large- and mid-cap names moved more than 10% on company-specific news…
Markets face a dense calendar on Wednesday, March 18, 2026, with the Federal Reserve's interest-rate decision, accompanying FOMC statement, economic projections and press conference taking center stage. Earlier in the day, the Producer Price Index and its core variant are due, and the Energy Information Administration will publish weekly crude oil …
Harrow is moving from niche compounding toward a broad ophthalmic platform. Management reaffirmed 2025 revenue of $270-$280M, is doubling multiple sales forces, and is integrating Melt Pharmaceuticals to extend procedural sedation reach. With heavy short interest and near-term technical oversold signals, this is a tradeable long targeting a re-rati…
Palantir has been punished by the market; underlying commercial traction and government backlog argue for a tactical long. This trade idea offers a mid-term swing plan with clear entry, target and stop while highlighting catalysts and the key risks that would flip the thesis.
Bernstein has identified a set of equipment and materials providers in the chip testing and advanced packaging ecosystem that it believes are well placed to capture rising demand tied to artificial intelligence chips and increasingly intricate semiconductor packaging methods. The research note emphasizes suppliers of grinding, dicing, bonding and t…
Halliburton Executive Vice President, Secretary and Chief Legal Officer Beckwith Van H. completed a sale of 19,618 Halliburton shares on March 16, 2026, generating $663,480 at $33.82 per share. The transaction, carried out under a Rule 10b5-1 plan adopted August 13, 2025, leaves Beckwith with a direct stake of 344,535.49 shares. The sale occurs as …
Jeffrey Shannon Slocum, Halliburton Co's director, executive vice president and chief operating officer, sold 5,441 shares on March 16, 2026, for $33.82 per share, totaling $184,014. Following the transaction, Slocum retains direct ownership of 187,422.952 shares and holds options on additional shares. The sale was carried out under a Rule 10b5-1 t…
German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul told a Berlin audience that a military solution to the Iran conflict is unrealistic and that engineered regime change would risk chaos harmful to Germany, the region and Iranians. Speaking at an event hosted by the ZEIT media group alongside his French counterpart, Wadephul also said now is not the time to li…
Avidbank Holdings director Mike Rosinus sold 56,882 shares on March 16, 2026, for $27.41 per share, a transaction valued at about $1.56 million. The stock trades near $27.17 and has risen roughly 24% over the last year. The sale follows mixed fiscal 2025 fourth-quarter results and comes as analysts maintain price targets between $33 and $37 and Inv…
Pono Capital Four, Inc. completed a SPAC initial public offering on March 16, 2026, raising $120 million through the sale of 12 million units at $10 per unit. Each unit includes one Class A ordinary share and a right to receive one-fifth of a Class A share upon completion of an initial business combination. D. Boral Capital LLC acted as sole bookru…
The U.S. House Oversight Committee has issued a subpoena for former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi to provide a sworn, closed-door deposition on April 14 as part of its investigation into the late Jeffrey Epstein. The panel alleges the Justice Department may have withheld material in its release of millions of Epstein-related documents. Bondi a…
The Space Force's Golden Dome missile defense initiative will require $185 billion under its stated objective architecture, $10 billion more than the prior budget, program director Space Force General Michael Guetlein said. The rise accompanies the addition of Lockheed Martin, RTX and Northrop Grumman as prime contractors and will accelerate develo…
Marvell just demonstrated that its role in AI infrastructure is more substantial than many investors realize. Strong fiscal Q4 results, aggressive FY2027 guidance, improving technicals, and a clean balance sheet support a mid-term long trade: entry $91.15, stop $80.00, target $120.00 over the next 45 trading days.
