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Calyxt co-invented the enzymes that can cut DNA, TALENs. In 2016, the company started growing soybeans commercially on about 100 acres of land.

Fortinet FortiSIEM flaw is under exploitation from threat groups, just days after release of a proof of concept. The flaw involves improper neutralization of special elements used in operating systems. Fortinet: Restrict administrative access to edge network devices via the Internet. Fortinet confirms new zero-day attacks against customer devices. Fortinet is working on fixing the new issue, which impacts not only FortiCloud SSO, but all SAML SSO implementations. Fortinets shares were up 5.17% at $81. Affected Fortinet customers shared logs showing that the attackers created admin users after an SSO login from cloud-init@mail.io on IP address 104.28.244.244.

Defence renewed its access to virtualisation vendor under a three-year, $178 million deal. Department had about $82 million in licence and services contracts with VMware that expired in mid-December. Increasing costs of VMware licensing have been closely watched since vendor was snapped up by Broadcom.

In 2024, UnitedHealth reported record revenue of $400.3 billion.

AON has risen 3.1% in the year-to-date (YTD) period, underperforming the industry average of 7.7%. The Zacks Consensus Estimate for Aon plcs 2025 earnings is pegged at $16.74 per share. Aon said more high-frequency storm losses have reshaped loss patterns for insurers and reinsurers with major US exposure.

Investors own about 3% of single-family homes in the South. Japanese Government Bonds exploded by 30 basis points today and by 42 basis points over the past two days. The “room” the two GSEs have to increase their retained mortgage investment portfolios under the Senior Preferred Stock Purchase Agreement with the US Treasury is right around $200 billion. The FHFA director Pules social media post saying “We are on it, Mr. Lawler” suggests that purchases will be front-loaded. Trump sues JPMorgan for $5B! Ledger prepares for $4B IPO! “Crypto Adoption is no longer reversible” says PWC!

Tesla has little to show for measurable growth as it relates to measurable growth. ICE vehicle sales dropped 28% from 2017 peak, while EV sales soared 648% over same period. Tesla has started limited, public robotaxi rides without a human safety monitor in the car.

Ingevity Corporation NGVT shares have gained 26.6% over the past six months. The Zacks Consensus Estimate for NGVTs 2025 earnings is pegged at $4.45, suggesting a 26.8% increase from the previous years tally. Long-term growth Initiatives are advancing initiatives to ensure long-term. Forward-looking statements may include the potential benefits of any transaction, including the sale of Ingevitys North Charleston CTO refinery assets.

Freddie Mac House Price Index Up 1.0% Year-over-Year in November. Punta Gorda House Prices Down 21% from Recent Peak, Austin Down over 17% CalculatedRisk by Bill McBride Dec 31, 2025 4 Share.

Official CPI-U is flat (technically a tiny deflation) since the USG shutdown. Central banks are hedging against Trumps ability to inject volatility. The ultimate goal is to close off peoples access to basic goods or services, including Internet websites, telecommunications services, public benefits and services.

Shares of GlobalFoundries (NASDAQ: GFS) sank on Tuesday, down 10.3% as of 3:20 p.m. Shares of specialty semiconductor manufacturer GlobalFoundry (NASdaq: Gfs) sank 10.2%.

Yi Fuxian: The decline in Chinas fertility rate was inevitable, like a boulder rolling down a hill. He says pushing the boulder back uphill will be exceedingly difficult, if not impossible, and will not happen quickly. Progressives constantly talk about “resources” — a language that clearly invokes a lump of wealth.

Sales of Existing Homes in 2025 Drop to Lowest since 1995, Sellers Massively Yank Listings off the Market, Waiting for Spring. Single-family home sales edged up in 2025, condo sales dropped further.

Abbott Laboratories shares were down 7.37% at $111.63 at the time of publication on Thursday. Abbott generated $11.5 billion in quarterly revenue, missing the Streets $11 billion forecast.

Chevron could see $700 million-a-year boost from venezuelan oil – orange county register. Chevron could grow its cash flow by as much as $700m a year from increasing oil production in Venezuela. Analyst says Chevron will likely boost production from existing assets rather than commit large amounts of new capital to the country. Chevron owns half of a 290,000-barrel-per-day refinery on Jurong Island, one of Asias most important refining and petrochemical hubs. The sale package also includes Chevrons Penjuru terminal, which has more than 400,000 cubic meters of oil storage capacity.

Chevron could see $700 million-a-year boost from venezuelan oil – orange county register. Chevron will likely boost production from existing assets rather than commit large amounts of new capital to the country.

Walmarts low prices will continue to drive shoppers during the next economic downturn. Shareholders have done well by investing in Walmart stock. Walmart stock trades at a price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio. Walmarts fiscal third-quarter global e-commerce sales grew 27% year over year. The company also called out 17% year-over-year growth in membership income, helped by a double-digit growth rate in Walmart+.

Stellantis is banking on Jeep, Ram, and hybrids to help push sales and revenues higher. Over the past three years, over the past 35% of its value has shed 35%.

Jabil posted its first-quarter fiscal 2026 figures. Pundits tracking Jabil stock were modeling $8 billion on the top line and $2.69 per share for core net income. CEO Mike Dastoor quoted CEO as saying that Our intelligent infrastructure segment remains a major growth engine

India recently passed a bill allowing up to 100% foreign ownership of insurance firms. Overseas venture capital funds are stepping up investment in Japanese startups.

Definitive Healthcare to present at the 28th annual needham growth conference. Chief Financial Officer Casey Heller will present at Needham Growth Conference. Definitive Healthcare Corp. to announce Q4 and full-year 2024 financial results on February 27, 2025. Following executive shakeup, Definitive Healthcare board member resigns. Definitive Healthcare CEO resigns, founder takes role on interim basis. Company lays off 4% of workforce, impacting more than 40 employees.

Motorola Solutions acquires RapidDeploy, a cloud-native Next Generation 911 solution provider for public safety. Motorola Solutions expects to integrate RapidDeploys technology into its VESTA 911 software. Motorola Solutions Completes Acquisition of Theatro Labs. Jim Cramer believes motorola could possibly “give axon a run for the money.

Advanced Micro Devices shares were up 3.73% at $263.20 at the time of publication on Friday. Options traders lean overwhelmingly bearish on AMD stock, per its Schaeffers put/call open interest ratio.

According to the annual Crypto Fundraising Report, 43.7% of that capital came from just 21 mergers and acquisitions. Brex expanded into expense management, banking features, and AI-powered tools designed to manage corporate spending. Civitas Resources facing shareholder lawsuits tied to its pending merger with SM Energy. Cenovus Energy weighing a potential sale of Alberta conventional oil and gas assets that could fetch more than $2 billion.

UnitedHealth Care, one of the largest insurance companies in the nation, and its subsidiaries, including Health Plan of Nevada and Sierra Health. The company announces its 2025 earnings next week. UnitedHealths stock has lost 33.1% in the past year compared with the industry s fall of 29.2%.

Home sales in Canada declined by 4.5% year-over-year in December. In markets where prices declined over the past two years, condos got hit harder than single-family properties. Trump has and likely will continue to undermine international law. Family of detainee detained at makeshift immigrant detention center in El Paso, Texas is preparing to file a wrongful death lawsuit. ICE can enter homes without a judicial warrant, consent, or an emergency. ICE separation of Head of State from Head of Government. UK government is trying to build an AI-enabled panopticon. Digital identity and central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) could be used to discipline members of the public. The ultimate goal, as weve been arguing for years now, is to close off peoples access to basic goods or services. Gasoline prices have plunged off the peak of the spike in mid-2022. Midwest Sees Worst Sales on Record, Northeast 2nd Worst. At fault are the ultra-low mortgage rates of 2020-2022. Barry Ritholtz: Recent developments suggest that US President Donald Trumps power is waning with some fellow Republicans. Julian Zelizer says the Davos order is now crumbling, says Julian Zeliziz. Richard Thaler says people are spending more money because the economy is doing well. From 1991 to 2013, Chinas per capita GDP (PPP) grew at an annualized rate of 9.4%. Thirteen years of growth at 7.2% would bring that to $29,878 — a little higher than where China is. The alternative to individual fairness under the law is group racial conflict. Third tourism is dispelling the previously common stereotype of Japan as a closed-off, xenophobic country. Young Japanese companies are struggling to continuously expand their revenues compared with their peers in the U.S. and Europe. A “Japan Life Pass” and a ‘Japan Investment Pass’ would help foreign entrepreneurs, investors, and workers. PGA Tour Rise, an officially licensed mobile golf game, is set to roll out in 2026. Irans water crisis has evolved from an environmental strain into a political fault line. IMF warned that stablecoins create competitive pressure on weak monetary and fiscal systems, turning adoption into a policy-enforcement lever. Bitcoin closed 2025 at $87, marking an 84 percent four-year gain that ranks in the bottom three. Bitcoin payments startup ZBD has raised $40 million in a Series C funding round. A forced liquidation of even a fraction of its 710,000 BTC would be a seismic event. Federal banking regulators have adopted explicit policies to address crypto leaders concerns. Nasdaq has steadily expanded its involvement in crypto markets in recent years. No company among the top ten public Bitcoin miners will generate more than 30 percent of its revenue from AI computing. Spot Bitcoin ETFs saw outflows of $1.62 billion across four working days. Bitcoin basis trade yield on Bitcoin basis trading is below 5%, down from 17% a year ago. Zcash is a cryptocurrency that promised something Bitcoin couldnt deliver: privacy. Bitcoin is showing neither strong buying momentum nor capitulation selling, but still suggests a slightly bearish mood among traders. Axie Infinity is pumping hard lately.

Barry Ritholtz is the co-founder, chairman, and chief investment officer of Ritholz Wealth Management. Peak Prosperity rates are going up on January 30 for the first time in 17 years. Yields at 4.24% is highest since September 2, 2025 – which was three Fed rate cuts ago. Wolf Richter: A country cannot have a sovereign debt crisis in debt issued in its own currency. Greece defaulted because it cannot control the euro and cannot print euros. China and Japan have lost appetite. Aaron Peterson established Dunham Owners runners575 moralitystslogin Citizen myriad cruc Vikings Consumer spending jumped by 0.5% in November from October and by 5.4% from a year ago. Savings rate declined to 3.5%, meaning consumers spent 96.5%. Savings rate is lower than before the pandemic but higher than before Financial Crisis. Richard Thaler: The higher the market goes, the wealthier people supposedly feel, and they all go out and spend money. Half of employees at a company with a 401k are not joining in the first year. John Defterios: Behavioral economics is the bedrock of the field of behavioral economics. Donald Trumps trade policies are unprecedented in post-war period from economic standpoint. Barry Ritholtz and Cory Doctorow discuss the power of large companies over the Internet. They discuss the end of Pax Americana and how Gen Z is making millennials look cool again. The divorce between the U.S. and WHO is final. $800 million has been set aside for bonuses at Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Some reportedly reaching $44,000 per employee. Over 90% of central banks are exploring CBDCs. Sakana AI, a Japanese AI startup, raised $214 million and valued at $1.5 billion. Sakana sends a signal that Japan is a viable destination for international investment in the software industry in general, well beyond AI. Japan should encourage greenfield platform FDI, in which foreign companies build factories or offices in Japan in order to create goods and services that are then exported. Equity-market volatility has roughly doubled from about 10% to 20%. Discrimination against White men rose significantly in America starting in the mid-2010s. China is aggressively contesting the innovative sectors where the U.S. has long been the leader. Abenomics aims to revitalize existing companies through changes in corporate governance, business strategy, and labor practices. Japan is already developing a robust private equity industry and a culture of domestic M&A. Sakana AI is one of Sakanas most recent funding rounds, valued at $1. UBS preparing to offer bitcoin trading to a select group of private banking clients in Switzerland. Oklahoma proposed a bill letting employees, vendors, private businesses, and residents in Oklahoma receive bitcoin payments within existing legal frameworks. A trader holds $88 million in BTC, $649.5 million in ETH, and $64.9 million in SOL on Hyperliquid, down $122.9m overall. Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse predicted crypto could hit new highs in 2026. Ledger preparing for $4B IPO, enlisting Goldman Sachs, Jefferies and Barclays for support. A frame-by-frame analysis of video footage of the killing of Renee Good raises questions about the accounts. Bitcoin IRAs for 2026, including fees, security, features, assets, and user experience. Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse predicted crypto could hit new highs in 2026. Ledger preparing for a $4B IPO, enlisting Goldman Sachs, Jefferies. Bitcoin dropped 6.7% over the past week and is currently trading at around $89,000. BitGo, valued at $1.75 billion, was listed at the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday morning. PGA Tour Rise is an officially licensed mobile game built around blockchain assets. USGS estimates 28.3 Tcf of technically recoverable gas and 1.6 billion bbl of oil in Permian. Merkle Manufactory, the company behind decentralized social protocol Farcaster, will refund investors the $180 million it raised. Zcash is designed to hide key transaction details, such as the sender, recipient and amount.

Block vs Visa: Which Stock Could Rally? Visa stock has lagged the S&P 500 in the past year, up just over 7%, compared to the markets 20%. Visa is positioning itself as the cashiers cage. Management knows this stock is cheap by two key measures. Visa has argued stablecoin transfer volumes contain “noise” BlackRock noted stablecoin transaction volume is adjusted to “strip out inorganic activity (e.g., bots),” citing Coin Metrics.

Amgen acquires Dark Blue Therapeutics in an $840 million deal. Amgen said the transaction is valued at up to $840m.

RBC Capital analyst Mark Fielding maintained a Hold rating on ABB Ltd today and set a price target of CHF55.00. ABB upgraded to Market Perform from Underperform at Bernstein ABB expands 2025 buyback program with additional 98,500 shares repurchased. ABB Ltd shares have been bought back from February 10, 2025, to and including May 28, 2025. ABB is a global technology leader in electrification and automation.

Kezar Life Sciences (KZR) Upgraded to Buy: What Does It Mean for the Stock? Zacks rating upgrade is essentially a positive comment on its earnings outlook.

Sherwin-Williams Company (SHW) delivers 10x total return since launch of s&p dividend aristocrats index - insider monkey. Epoch predicts the Clarity Act will not pass Congress.

Spending on services accounted for 66% of total consumer spending. Amazon, Microsoft and Google are profitable from their other services. Anything below 50 indicates a decrease in demand for architects services.

Walmarts low prices will continue to drive shoppers during the next economic downturn. Walmart consists of its namesake stores around the world and a membership warehouse club, Sams Club. Walmarts fiscal third-quarter global e-commerce sales grew 27% year over year. The company also called out 17% year-over-year growth in membership income, helped by a double-digit growth rate in Walmart+.

Luminar Technologies set to acquire lidar business unit currently belonging to bankrupt Luminar. Deal would see the bulk of Luminars operations transfer to QCi, which last month.

Analyst Price Forecast Suggests 26.77% Upside As of October 30, 2025, the average one-year price target for OptimizeRx is $19.89/share. The healthcare communication company has traded between $3.78 and $15.71 over the past 52 weeks.

Nvidia has seen $706 million in net retail inflows over the past five days, according to new data from Vanda Research. Wall Street analysts rate Nvidia as a Strong Buy. Apple, Microsoft, Nvidia, Amazon, and Google at the top of the list of the most valuable American companies.

McDonalds stock price gained 9.3% in 2013. McDonalds comps grew 3.6%, and the company had positive comps in the U.S.

China has a huge advantage in the energy aspect of AI. The population at large is subsidizing AI, both through said energy costs and also bearing the cost of additional pollution.

Woodside Energy Group Ltd (WDS) extends collaboration with WA museum for another 5 years. The Ike carrier strike group is in Sixth Fleet the eastern Med. Energy inflation for households has flattened out for the past three years.