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Carol A. Schneeberger, a director at Peoples Bancorp Inc (PEBO), sold 1,895 shares on March 11, 2026, for $31.37 apiece, netting $59,446. Following the sale she directly holds 19,309 shares. The bank reported a fourth-quarter 2025 net income increase and slightly beat EPS expectations, while DA Davidson reiterated a Buy rating with a $35.00 target.
The International Energy Agency has called the closure of the Strait of Hormuz the largest interruption to global oil supplies in history, estimating a roughly 8 million barrels per day reduction in March — about 8% of global output. IEA members agreed to release a record 400 million barrels from strategic reserves to steady markets. This article s…
Turkey's BIST 100 closed down 1.45% as losses concentrated in the Banking, Leasing & Factoring and Telecoms sectors weighed on the market. Declining issues outpaced advancers by a wide margin, while select industrial and insurance-related names outperformed. Commodity and currency markets showed mixed moves alongside a firmer US dollar.
Evergy, Inc. Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer Charles L. King sold 2,440 shares of company stock on March 12, 2026, generating proceeds of $200,532. The transaction occurred while the shares were trading close to their 52-week high, and follows recent company updates including an EPS shortfall for Q4 2025 and a raised price target…
China's foreign minister welcomed encouraging signals from the Netherlands' recently formed government during a Friday phone call with his Dutch counterpart, highlighting a desire to deepen communication and restore normal economic and trade exchanges between companies following recent bilateral friction tied to a corporate seizure in October 2025.
Sensible Meats (SSMTF) is an OTC-listed, early-stage cultured-meat company. FY25 margin erosion has pressured the story, but the core thesis - improving unit economics as production scales and regulatory progress unlocks commercialization - remains viable for patient, size-constrained speculators. This is a high-risk, asymmetric trade: small positi…
Timothy E. Delaney, a director of NBT Bancorp Inc (NASDAQ: NBTB), acquired 22,730 shares of the bank's common stock on January 28, 2026, at $42.97 per share, for a total of $976,708. The transaction was executed through Wesson Group LLC, where Delaney is President, and corrects an earlier filing that misclassified the ownership as direct. The purch…
Boeing shares are trading near $207 after headlines about a new 737 MAX problem. The company still shows strong delivery performance, but an elevated valuation (P/E ~82-85, P/B ~29.5) combined with negative free cash flow and a high debt-to-equity ratio makes the stock vulnerable to an earnings or delivery disappointment. This trade idea outlines a…
A Reuters poll of 33 economists conducted March 10-13 found unanimous expectation that the Bank of Canada will keep its overnight rate at 2.25% on March 18, with a strong majority forecasting no rate rises through 2026. Economists said Canada’s softer economy and sluggish labour and housing markets, together with trade uncertainty, make a near-term…
Morgan Stanley told clients that a narrow group of infrastructure-oriented software companies are positioned to outperform as artificial intelligence alters demand patterns across technology. The firm singled out firms with large, complex platforms that customers would find costly to rebuild, and identified Snowflake, Datadog, Akamai and JFrog as p…
Amazon.com and Cerebras Systems announced a partnership to integrate Cerebras AI accelerators into Amazon Web Services data centers and pair them with Amazon’s Trainium3 chips. The collaboration is designed to speed up inference - the runtime step for chatbots, coding assistants and other AI services - by dividing the work into prefill and decode s…
Primis Financial Corp director John Fitzgerald Biagas purchased 1,925 shares of the company at $12.80 each, a $24,640 transaction filed with the SEC. The purchase increases his direct holding to 91,944 shares. The company reported fourth-quarter 2025 EPS of $1.20 and revenue of $80.87 million, both well above analyst projections. InvestingPro data …
A new United Nations secretary-general will be chosen this year to begin a five-year term on January 1, 2027. Member states have nominated several candidates, and the Security Council will use secret straw polls to recommend one candidate to the General Assembly. The process includes newly adopted transparency measures, but ultimate selection depen…
Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel confirmed that Havana is engaged in talks with the Trump administration aimed at resolving bilateral disputes. Díaz-Canel emphasized that such negotiations are lengthy and require the right conditions and willingness to proceed. The announcement comes amid heightened U.S. rhetoric about Cuba's future and an ongoing…
Amazon looks set for a valuation re-rate as AWS benefits from AI infrastructure spending and retail efficiencies gradually improve. This trade idea outlines an actionable long with a clear entry, stop and target across a 45-trading-day horizon.
Citigroup raised its rating on Knight-Swift Transportation to Buy from Neutral, citing a roughly 17% slide in the stock since early March that, in the bank's view, improves the risk-reward. Citi set a $64 price target and highlighted structural capacity reductions and resilient truckload spot rates as drivers that could support freight pricing and …
An Italian foreign ministry source has denied reports that Italy is negotiating with Iran to guarantee safe transit for Italian ships or oil tankers through the Strait of Hormuz. The ministry reiterated Rome's focus on diplomatic efforts aimed at broad military de-escalation and rejected the notion of arrangements that would shield some merchant ve…
Horizon Kinetics Asset Management LLC, a roughly 10% holder of Texas Pacific Land Corp (NYSE: TPL), bought a single share on March 12, 2026 at $532.02. The acquisition leaves Horizon Kinetics with 3,469,114 directly held shares. The trade occurred as TPL stock traded close to its 52-week high and after fresh analyst optimism tied to power generatio…
Paul Arthur Farrell, BorgWarner's Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer, sold 12,012 shares on March 12, 2026, generating $628,320 in proceeds. The transaction occurred as the stock has risen sharply over the last year and after the company reported fourth-quarter 2025 results that exceeded consensus. Recent analyst upgrades cite the …
Murray Stahl, President and Co-Portfolio Manager of RENN Fund, Inc. (RCG), purchased 1,134 common shares on March 12, 2026, at $3.01 per share, a transaction valued at $3,413. The acquisition was executed across multiple direct and indirect holdings while the stock traded near its 52-week high of $3.09 and was quoted at $3.06, up 17.9% year-to-date…
Paraguayan anti-narcotics authorities reported that Sebastian Marset, a suspected leader of the First Uruguayan Cartel and listed among U.S. drug enforcement priorities, was arrested in Bolivia. Marset faces organized crime charges in Paraguay and Bolivia linked to cocaine trafficking to Europe, and was indicted in the United States on money launde…
Barclays identified prominent U.S. companies active in battery energy storage systems (BESS) that supply utility-scale, industrial and residential markets. The list ranges from EV-origin firms offering megawatt-scale systems to specialists in alternative chemistries and long-duration storage, and includes recent corporate financings, operational mi…
Lebanon’s recent offer to begin direct negotiations with Israel has not received a positive response, according to multiple sources. President Joseph Aoun signaled willingness to appoint a negotiating team and even discussed the possibility of normalizing relations, but Israeli officials and some U.S. interlocutors have treated the move as too late…
William Blair recommends investors accumulate shares of Dave Inc. after meetings with the company's CFO, Kyle Beilman. The firm points to a 185 million account total addressable market, forecasts mid- to high-20% organic revenue growth, and values the company at 7.5 times estimated 2027 EBITDA. Dave has returned 150% over the past 12 months but rem…
Trading on Friday produced notable price moves across market-cap tiers. Semiconductor-related names including Micron Technology (MU) and Lam Research (LRCX) were among the strongest performers, while consumer-facing and several small-cap companies recorded substantial declines. The day’s movers spanned mega-caps down to small-cap listings, with cor…
