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Willis Lease to Buy 12 Aircraft, 13 Engines in Asset Deal
The transaction strengthens the company’s aftermarket and leasing capabilities across the aviation asset lifecycle.
Ligand Completes $739 Million All-Cash Acquisition of XOMA Royalty
The deal adds more than 120 royalty assets to Ligand's portfolio, including seven commercial-stage products, and includes contingent value rights tied to pending litigation.
First Bancorp to Buy First Carolina Bancshares in $166 Million Deal
The mixed cash-and-stock deal pushes First Bancorp's First Bank into the top 10 for deposit share in both Carolinas, betting on a target it says shares its relationship-banking playbook.
Apollo Funds Completes $1.5 Billion Buyout of Emerald Holding
The all-cash deal unites two B2B events platforms under private ownership to capture demand for in-person industry gatherings.
Diodes to Buy ElevATE Semiconductor in $250 Million Cash Deal
The acquisition expands Diodes' analog and mixed-signal portfolio to target growth in the automated test equipment market.
Companies Warn AI Threatens Their Own Business Models
Across four industries, companies are flagging AI as both an operational necessity and a competitive and legal menace in their latest annual reports.
Lynrock Lake LP Secures Board Seat at Yext
The investor is transitioning its reporting status as Ms. Paul joins the board of directors.
Wells Fargo Loan Growth Outpaces NIM Erosion as Fee Income Surges
Wells Fargo & Company (WFC) grew average loans 12% year over year to $1,026.5 billion even as its net interest margin compressed to 2.43%, while noninterest income jumped 13% on capital-markets strength.
Tactile Medical Lifts Guidance as Lymphedema Sales Accelerate
The medical-device maker raised its full-year revenue outlook by $3 million at both ends of the range after first-quarter sales rose 23%.
Northern Oil & Gas Boosts Buyback as Permian Curtailments Trim Output
The oil and gas producer repurchased nearly 3 million shares in the second quarter while Waha-region shut-ins cut estimated oil production to as low as 67,500 barrels a day.
Klaviyo customer base tops 196,000 as AI drives revenue
The marketing-automation platform reported 13.5% year-over-year growth in revenue from repeat customers during last year’s Black Friday weekend.
JPMorgan Chase Markets Revenue Surges as Investment Banking Rebounds
Net interest income rose 10% year-over-year to $25.6 billion in the second quarter.
Cleanspark locks $6.6 billion data-center lease
The bitcoin miner-turned-infrastructure firm swung to a $378.3 million quarterly loss as it pivoted to AI hosting.
Bitmine Boosts ETH Holdings as Staking Yields Dip
The crypto infrastructure firm now holds 5.77 million ETH tokens, or 4.8% of total supply.
Bank of America Revenue Growth Accelerates to 15%
Second-quarter revenue reached $31.6 billion, up 15% from a year earlier, as operating leverage widened to 6.6% and Global Markets sales and trading hit a 17th straight year-over-year gain.
Astrana Health Posts Record ACO Savings as Revenue Growth Holds at 56%
Astrana Health's affiliated accountable care organizations generated $120.4 million in gross shared savings for the 2024 performance year, with all eight ACOs turning a net profit for the first time.
Williams to Sell $5.34 Billion Stake in Power Innovation Projects to Blackstone
The pipeline giant partners with Blackstone, Apollo and KKR to fund its energy-infrastructure buildout while preserving balance-sheet capacity.
Energy Fuels to Buy VAC in $1.25 Billion Mine-to-Magnet Deal
The acquisition would create a fully integrated rare earth supply chain outside China, securing critical midstream metal and alloy capabilities.
Tactile Systems to Buy MyoSleeve Distribution Rights in $3 Million Deal
The asset purchase adds a wearable compression device to the company’s portfolio for earlier-stage chronic swelling patients.
Construction Partners to Acquire Ellsworth Construction
The acquisition expands the civil infrastructure company's footprint in Oklahoma's fastest-growing metropolitan areas.
Ferguson to Buy FloWorks in $1.6 Billion All-Cash Deal
The acquisition adds industrial distribution capabilities and geographic reach that Ferguson plans to extend across its non-residential customer base.
Supreme Court ruling sparks tariff refund wave
Companies begin reclaiming IEEPA tariffs after the Court’s decision, though recovery remains uneven and uncertain.
Gary Friedman reduces RH stake
The RH executive sold shares to fund personal residence improvements and debt repayment.
Capex Push Cuts Across Banking, Industrials, Health and Retail
Eight companies disclosed economic commentary this week across five industries, and seven of them, from banking to biotech to storage, pointed to capital deployment as the throughline.
First Hawaiian to Buy TriCo in All-Stock Deal
The combined Pacific bank is expected to have about $34 billion of assets, with TriCo shareholders receiving 2.095 First Hawaiian shares, or $63.12 a share.
Plug Power Turns to Asset Sales as Cash Position Slides
Plug Power's unrestricted cash fell to roughly $162 million at quarter-end, down from $223 million three months earlier, pushing the company to lean on asset sales for liquidity.
First Hawaiian's NIM Hits Five-Quarter High as TriCo Deal Reshapes Footprint
Net interest margin expanded 6 basis points to 3.25%, the strongest in five quarters, as the Hawaii lender agreed to acquire TriCo Bancshares in a $63.12-a-share all-stock deal.
Babcock & Wilcox Bookings Jump 1,971% on Project Volume
The energy technology provider reduced net debt to $42.4 million as of March 31, 2026, down from $349.3 million a year earlier.
First Hawaiian to Buy TriCo Bancshares in $2.02 Billion All-Stock Deal
The combination creates the leading Pacific banking franchise and gives First Hawaiian its long-sought scale on the California mainland.
Plug Power to Buy Texas, New York Projects in $218.5 Million Asset Deal
The transactions advance Plug’s infrastructure optimization plan targeting over $275 million in liquidity improvement.
First Hawaiian to Buy TriCo Bancshares in $2.02 Billion All-Stock Deal
The transaction aims to create a leading Pacific banking franchise by accelerating First Hawaiian's growth on the U.S. mainland.
DT Midstream expands interstate footprint via ONEOK acquisition
The company secured a 55% revenue increase for its Viking Gas Transmission unit through a FERC-approved settlement.
HF Sinclair Maintains Midstream Structure Across Delaware Pipeline Entities
The company's regulated pipeline operations remained centered on its Delaware-incorporated limited liability subsidiaries during the 2024 reporting cycle.
Ameren accelerates coal retirement and expands MISO transmission footprint
The holding company utilized securitized bonds to fund the closure of the Rush Island Energy Center while pursuing long-range transmission projects in Illinois and Missouri.
Occidental Petroleum Income Rises on Higher Crude Prices
The energy company reported oil and gas pre-tax income of $1.0 billion for the first quarter.
Invesco Flows Stall as Passive Demand Cools
Net long-term inflows collapsed to $8.0 billion in the second quarter, down from $18.9 billion in the prior period.
New AI Module Turns 3D Pose Data Into Biomechanical Insights
BioModule enables standard 3D skeletal tracking to predict how the body loads and activates without requiring new hardware.
RL Agent Optimizes Bitcoin Lightning Network Liquidity
A new graph reinforcement learning approach maximizes routing capacity by strategically placing liquidity under fixed budget constraints.
Stablecoins Fail as Uniform Safe Havens During Market Stress
New registry-based data from Austrian service providers reveals a sharp divide in how retail and institutional actors move assets during financial shocks.
New Framework Fixes Value Forecasting in Recommender Systems
PIT-SUN improves the accuracy of high-value metrics like LTV and GMV by solving a fundamental mathematical conflict in target transformation.
MiLSD Brings Line Detection to Low-Cost Microcontrollers
A new micro-detector enables high-accuracy line segment detection within a sub-megabyte memory budget for edge AI.
TopoBrick Enables Zero-Shot IoT Forecasting via Topology Sampling
A new training-free framework uses building knowledge graphs to select the most relevant exogenous variables for sensor forecasting.
U.S. Economic News Sentiment is Becoming More Persistent
Analysis of 45 years of newspaper data shows sentiment shocks now linger longer and resist short-term correction.
Physics-Based Model Shows Proportional Taxes Fail to Redistribute
New research using the Fokker-Planck framework suggests only progressive taxes can shift wealth distributions within policy-relevant timescales.
New Model Quantifies Coordination Risks in Regime Change
Researchers have developed an estimable framework to separate the feasibility of a coup from the perceived benefits of overthrowing a government.
AdaStop Cuts AI Testing Costs via Dynamic Stopping
A new cost-benefit framework allows developers to stop labeling test data once the marginal value of finding faults drops below the cost of labor.
High-Frequency Data Can Mask Massive Forecasting Errors
New research reveals a 'Granularity Paradox' where finer time-series data improves in-sample fit while compounding out-of-sample failure.
New Sinhala Dataset Enables Fine-Grained Market Sentiment Analysis
The SalAngaBhava dataset allows NLP models to move beyond general sentiment to specific product aspects in a low-resource language.
US Private Ag R&D Shifts Toward State-Level Dispersion
New patent-based data reveals that private agricultural innovation is highly persistent and closely tied to the size of state agricultural economies.
IMF Growth Impact May Be Statistically Negligible
A rigorous reanalysis suggests that the perceived positive effect of IMF programs on economic growth lacks robustness.