August 2026 — page 3
Retail Leads Broad ATS Mix Shift in Off-Exchange Volume
Five of six tracked industries saw ATS venues take a larger slice of stored off-exchange volume the week of July 6, led by a 17.5-point jump in Retail & Consumer.
HIVE Swings to $142.9 Million Loss on Swedish Tax Charge, Cash Jumps
HIVE Digital Technologies posted a $142.9 million net loss driven by an $84.7 million non-cash provision for contested Swedish VAT assessments, even as revenue rose 73.5% to $79.1 million.
WhiteFiber to Buy North Carolina Industrial Properties in $60 Million Cash Deal
The company intends to use a retrofit-first development strategy to convert the industrial sites into AI data center campuses.
Universal Health Services Completes Acquisition of Talkspace
The deal creates the nation's first full continuum of behavioral healthcare, linking virtual, outpatient and inpatient services under one roof.
TTM Technologies to Buy Epiq Solutions in $1.1 Billion Cash Deal
The deal pushes TTM further up the defense value chain, adding signals-intelligence and electronic-warfare technology to a company built on circuit boards and RF hardware.
Universal Health Services Completes Acquisition of Talkspace
The deal creates a full continuum of behavioral healthcare services by integrating a virtual health platform with a network of physical facilities.
Sonida Senior Living to Acquire CHP in $1.8 Billion Mixed Deal
The combination creates a $3.3 billion pure-play senior housing platform and the eighth-largest owner of U.S. senior living assets.
Pilgrim's Pride to Acquire Walkers Deli & Sausage Company
The acquisition aims to expand the company's presence in the United Kingdom's value-added premium pork categories.
Nvidia to Buy SB Energy in $1.5 Billion Deal
The acquisition secures critical power and land capacity to host exclusive AI factories amid surging global demand for compute infrastructure.
HomeTrust Bancshares to Buy Blue Ridge Bankshares in $448.1 Million All-Stock Deal
The acquisition expands HomeTrust's footprint into Virginia markets to create a regional commercial bank with over $7 billion in assets.
Banner to Acquire Pacific Financial in $177 Million All-Stock Deal
The combination deepens Banner's footprint across Western Washington and Oregon, adding a 55-year-old community bank with $1.29 billion in assets.
AvalonBay to Buy Equity Residential in $70 Billion All-Stock Deal
The merger of equals creates Vivmark Residential, a rental housing giant aimed at leveraging scale to drive structurally superior earnings growth.
SOL Strategies Adds Houdini Business as Staking Income Drops
The digital asset infrastructure company reported $1.2 million in swap aggregator fees from its new Houdini subsidiary during a single month of operations.
FDA Downgrades Oncology ISH Test Systems to Class II
The agency's final order shifts certain in situ hybridization devices from premarket approval to the 510(k) pathway.
EPA Exempts Calcium Carbonate From Pesticide Tolerance Rule
A new rule removes the need for a maximum residue limit on all food commodities.
Rates Pinch Credit as Backlogs Signal Uneven Demand
Companies across 14 industries flagged rising borrowing costs and mixed demand signals in their latest disclosures.
Flexsteel's Year-Over-Year Sales Growth Slows to 0.7%
Fourth-quarter net sales were $115.4 million, the eleventh straight year-over-year gain, as IEEPA tariff refunds lifted gross margin to 30.0%.
SOL Strategies Revenue Drops as Intangible Asset Impairments Hit
The Solana-focused infrastructure company reported a nine-month operating income of 5.04 million Canadian dollars against 16.11 million Canadian dollars in impairment losses.
Sempra's Cameron Interstate Pipeline Locks In Steady Revenue on LNG Backbone
Cameron Interstate Pipeline held rates flat and construction quiet in 2024, leaning instead on a $410 million backlog of fixed-fee contracts tied to Sempra's Cameron LNG export venture.
MPLX's Twelve FERC Carriers Show Ozark Rate Win, THPP Standoff
MPLX's oil-pipeline subsidiaries closed out 2024 with a court victory on Ozark's market-based rates and an unresolved tribal-land dispute still idling part of the Tesoro High Plains system.
Dominion Energy Expands Gas and Wind Capacity Across Mid-Atlantic
The holding company is balancing a massive offshore wind build-out with new combined-cycle natural gas stations to meet regional demand.
New Proxy for Uniswap v3 Volatility Limits Option Pricing
A new fee-based volatility proxy provides an oracle-free activity measure but cannot fully replicate Black-Scholes implied volatility.
Net Disagreement and the Limits of Long-Term Bond Pricing
New research suggests that unbounded disagreement over growth forecasts can make long-term bonds mathematically non-existent.
Scalable Demand Transfer Modeling for Massive Retail Assortments
A new restricted logit approach allows retailers to estimate substitution effects across inventories of over one million items.
Multi-Agent AI Automates Retail Price Taxonomies
A new framework uses specialized LLM agents to maintain pricing consistency across millions of retail items.
New Bounds on Yield Curve Shape Predictability
Mathematical classification of the Hull-White model limits the possible shapes of future yield curves.
Nationwide Satellite Mapping for West African Cashew Orchards
A new remote sensing approach uses active learning to map cashew production at a national scale with 94% accuracy.
Strategic Queueing Rules Can Steal Market Share
New research shows that modifying service order can capture a majority of demand from competitors using standard first-come-first-served rules.
Simple decay beats complex signals in customer-return timing
New certification tools show that adding behavioral and geographic signals to customer-return models provides little to no predictive gain.
Crypto Markets Retain Distinct Dynamics Despite Statistical Maturity
New structural diagnostics show cryptocurrencies behave more randomly than equities during quiet periods but exhibit sharper, more irreversible spikes during volatility.
The AI Expertise Trap in Modern Newsrooms
Research on Norwegian newsrooms during the 2025 election suggests a systemic risk where AI reliance erodes the very human expertise needed to police it.
Correction to New Keynesian Policy Counterfactual Method
A new technical note identifies a calibration error in a widely used semistructural methodology for predicting policy outcomes.
New Choice Model Fixes Asymmetric Price Elasticity
A skewed multinomial probit model allows firms to better predict how consumers react differently to price hikes versus price cuts.
New Framework Translates Climate Nowcasting into Supply Chain Risk
A data-driven approach converts short-term meteorological observations into actionable risk signals for agricultural logistics.
New Framework Refines How Wage Gaps are Attributed
A generalized decomposition method shows that nonlinear controls significantly shift the perceived drivers of wage dispersion.
New metric links AI readiness to national economic output
The Effective Cognitive Population unit integrates human capital and AI infrastructure to better predict country-level productivity.
New Causal Framework Exposes Gaps in Motor Insurance Pricing
A multiscale DAG model shows that annual rating factors often mask the actual mechanisms that cause road crashes.
Simplifying Financial Models for Regulatory Approval
New research provides a framework to convert complex predictive equations into the simple scorecards and rules required by financial regulators.
LEO Satellite Demand Lags Capacity Growth
New demand estimates for Starlink suggest the mega-constellation internet market is less lucrative than forecasted.
AI Pipeline Automates Industrial Device Commissioning
A new RAG-based system eliminates manual parameter extraction from technical manuals for industrial fieldbus devices.
Toehold stakes fail to deter rivals in multi-round auctions
New computational modeling suggests that buying a preliminary stake in a target company does not frighten off competing bidders.
New framework exposes flaws in strategy capacity estimates
Research shows that standard methods for measuring how much capital a trading strategy can absorb often ignore the compounding effects of crowding.
Aviva declares 14 pence interim dividend for 2026
The diversified insurer reported total Group assets under management of £479 billion as of 30 June 2026.
Supply Chain Disruptions Spread Beyond Tariffs Into Labor and Tech
Six U.S. companies across disparate industries report intensifying multi-modal supply chain constraints spanning tariffs, skilled labor shortages, component bottlenecks, and logistics disruptions.
KT&G expands global tobacco and health footprints
The tobacco manufacturer maintains a consolidated network of 33 subsidiary companies.
Hybe expands global label network
The entertainment company now operates 17 independent labels across Korea, Japan, and the United States.
Mirae Asset Securities operating profit hits 3.86 trillion won
The financial services firm reported consolidated total assets of 195.6 trillion won as of June 2026.
Hyundai Mobis boosts first half revenue to 31.9 trillion won
The automotive parts maker saw consolidated operating profit rise 8% to 1.78 trillion won in the first half of 2026.
Mirae Asset Securities Expands Global and Pension Assets
The company reported a consolidated return on equity of 29.07% for the first quarter of 2026.
Doosan expands wind power and Middle East energy projects
The company secured 1,203MW of wind turbine supply for various projects.