August 2026 — page 6
Teledyne to Buy Varex Imaging in $1.1 Billion All-Cash Deal
The transaction would add complementary X-ray technologies to Teledyne’s portfolio and support faster development of advanced imaging products.
Zymeworks to Buy Theravance Biopharma in $929 Million Cash Deal
The acquisition, structured with a contingent value right tied to ampreloxetine, caps a multiyear strategic review at the COPD-focused biopharmaceutical company.
RUM Group to Acquire Northern Data AG in Strategic AI Infrastructure Deal
The acquisition combines scaled AI compute with a video creator community to establish a new cloud and AI-infrastructure business unit.
Rocket Lab to Buy Iridium in $8 Billion Cash-and-Stock Deal
The acquisition would create a vertically integrated space company spanning launch, satellite manufacturing, spectrum, and on-orbit communications services.
Ryman to Buy Grande Lakes Orlando in $1.38 Billion Asset Deal
The resort would extend Ryman’s luxury-hotel network and deepen its presence in the nation’s top meetings market.
Quantum Computing to Buy NHanced Semiconductors in $73.1 Million Mixed Deal
The acquisition launches QCi's second fabrication facility years ahead of schedule, adding advanced packaging and photonic integration capacity to the company's commercialization roadmap.
Ondas to Buy Cyberhawk in $125 Million Mostly Cash Deal
The acquisition would extend Ondas from autonomous data collection into software-enabled inspection and AI-driven infrastructure intelligence.
Jazz Pharmaceuticals to Buy Actio Biosciences in $820 Million Mixed Deal
The acquisition of ABS-1230 aims to expand Jazz's rare epilepsy portfolio and build upon the success of Epidiolex.
Safe Harbor to Buy MarineMax in $1.5 Billion All-Cash Deal
Blackstone-backed Safe Harbor Marinas agreed to take the yacht retailer and marina operator private at a 96% premium, capping a competitive strategic review of the company's future.
HBT Financial to Buy Tri-County Financial Group in $204.6 Million Deal
The mixed cash-and-stock deal deepens HBT's roots in central Illinois and pushes further into the Chicago metro area, echoing the bank's own acquisition playbook.
California Resources to Buy Crimson Midstream Pipeline Assets for $63 Million
The all-cash deal for Crimson's California pipeline and storage network extends CRC's push to knit its upstream production together with the infrastructure that moves it.
AbbVie to Buy Apogee Therapeutics in $10.9 Billion Cash Deal
AbbVie's all-cash purchase of the clinical-stage biotech adds a late-stage IL-13 antibody and a broader inflammatory-disease pipeline to its immunology franchise as Humira sales continue to erode.
Amneal Completes Acquisition of Kashiv BioSciences
The deal knits Kashiv's biosimilars manufacturing and pipeline into Amneal's commercial network, giving the company a platform aimed at more than $300 billion in biologics set to lose patent protection over the next decade.
Archer Aviation to Acquire Boeing's Wisk Aero, Insitu and SkyGrid Units
The deal folds a $200 million-plus defense revenue stream and autonomy software from three Boeing subsidiaries into Archer's air-taxi platform, betting on physical AI as its next growth leg.
Standard Lithium Increases Capital Contributions to Smackover Projects
The company directed $27.2 million toward projects held by Smackover Lithium during the first half of 2026
Emera Net Income Drops to 124 Million for Second Quarter
The energy and services company reported a net income of 124 million for the three months ended June 30, 2026, compared to 154 million in the prior year
Draganfly reports record second quarter revenue growth
The drone solutions developer saw revenue rise 26.0% to $2,664,237 for the period
Draganfly Net Loss Widens as Financing Boosts Cash Reserves
The company reported a net loss of 17.66 million Canadian dollars for the six months ended June 30, 2026
Woori's Provisions Jump 42% as Profit Falls 15%
Woori Financial Group (WF) booked KRW 1,162,903 million in credit-loss provisions for 2025, up 41.6% from a year earlier, dragging net income attributable to owners down 14.8% to KRW 2,589,646 million even as net interest income and deposits both grew.
UBS Profit Surges 53% as Investment Bank Posts Record Revenue Year
The Swiss lender's full-year net profit reached $7.8 billion as underlying return on CET1 capital climbed to 13.7%, up from 8.7% a year earlier.
Truist Cuts Funding Costs as Full-Year Lending Expands
Deposit interest expense fell 10.2% to $7.05 billion in 2025, supporting higher net interest income.
Shinhan Financial Group Raises Treasury Stock Acquisitions to KRW 1.25 Trillion
The South Korean financial holding company increased treasury stock acquisitions to KRW 1,250,001 million in FY 2025.
Schwab's Funding Costs Fall, Driving Record Revenue and Margin
Charles Schwab's net interest margin expanded 62 basis points to 2.74% in 2025 as funding costs fell to 0.88%, powering record net revenues of $23,921 million.
Santander NII Rises 3.7% as Falling Deposit Costs Offset Lower Interest Income
The Spanish lender's net interest income reached €11.0 billion in Q1 2026, up 3.7% year-over-year, as a 6.9% drop in interest expense more than countered a decline in interest income.
NatWest Widens Margin as Lending Accelerates
Net interest margin expanded 21 basis points to 2.34% as customer lending increased.
KB Financial Group Boosts Fee Income as Loan Base Expands
Net fee and commission income rose to W 1,359,329 million for the period ended March 31, 2026.
Itaú's Client Margin Growth Outpaces Guidance as Capital Ratio Slips
Itaú Unibanco's financial margin with clients grew 12.1% in 2025 to R$121.1 billion, beating the top of its own guided range even as the CET1 ratio fell 140 basis points to 12.3%.
CIBC Posts 17% Adjusted Earnings Growth in Fiscal 2025
Canada's fifth-largest bank reported adjusted earnings of $8.5 billion for fiscal 2025, a 17% increase over the prior year.
Scotiabank Expects CAD $77 Million Q2 Contribution From KeyCorp Stake
The Canadian lender's roughly 14.9% ownership in KeyCorp is projected to contribute approximately CAD $85 million on an adjusted basis in the second quarter of 2026.
Bradesco Capitalizes R$6.67 Billion Legal Reserve, Strengthens Equity Base
Brazil's largest private-sector bank allocated R$14.5 billion to interest on shareholders' equity for fiscal 2025 while boosting share capital to R$93.77 billion.
Oneok Maintains Steady Footprint via Coronado Midstream Operations
The company reported a period of operational stability with no major rate adjustments or system extensions across its New Mexico and Texas transmission assets.
Toyota FY2026 operating profit falls 21.5% as costs rise
Tariff effects and higher overheads weighed on earnings, partly offset by commercial measures and stronger financial-segment profit.
Group Revenue and Profit Rise in Fiscal Year Ended March 20, 2026
The consolidated group recorded higher revenue, operating profit, ordinary profit and profit attributable to owners of the parent during the fiscal year.
Sony posts higher annual profit as music expands
Higher attributable profit, expanding music sales and broadly steady film earnings marked Sony’s fiscal 2024 results.
Kinder Morgan Manages Regulatory Contingencies Across Diversified Pipeline Fleet
The energy infrastructure giant navigated a complex web of commitments and contingencies across five key operating subsidiaries in 2024.
CenterPoint Energy Secures Recovery for Storm Costs and Rate Adjustments
The Houston-based utility moves to amortize winter storm bad debt and securitize $1.1 billion in Hurricane Beryl restoration expenses.
Open Information Framework for Carbon Pricing
A new conceptual category for web-sourced data suggests that social media and portals create a distinct information class for pricing EU carbon allowances.
Deep Learning Cuts Noise in Global Wind Farm Tracking
New benchmarking of SAR data models improves the accuracy of tracking offshore wind turbine deployment timelines across global regions.
The Structural Flaw Driving Leveraged ETF Volatility
New research identifies a feedback loop where arbitrageurs exploit the closing rebalance of leveraged ETFs to manufacture volatility.
AI Framework Turns Fragmented Chemical Data Into Upcycling Guides
A new physics-calibrated learning model allows chemical engineers to design plastic upcycling processes using incomplete historical data.
The Technical Hurdle to 5G Spectrum Sharing
New research outlines the critical radar-detection requirements needed to keep commercial 5G networks from interfering with government systems.
Visual AI now predicts real estate pricing and liquidity
A new open-source metric extracts objective quality scores from images to forecast housing prices and time-on-market.
Conformal Prediction Intervals for Portfolio Sizing
New research integrates conformal prediction with fractional Kelly sizing to dynamically scale positions based on forecast uncertainty.
New Hyperspectral Model Boosts Fruit Ripeness Accuracy
Fruit-HSNet improves ripeness prediction by 12% using a specialized spatio-spectral feature extraction architecture.
Position Disclosures Filed for Schroders Plc
Multiple entities, including Barclays Capital Securities Ltd and Societe Generale SA, have disclosed interests in the securities of Schroders Plc.
Isotope Bidco Limited Identified as Party to Intertek Group Plc Offer
Barclays Capital Securities Ltd discloses positions and dealings in Intertek Group Plc securities.
Braveheart Bio prices IPO at $18 a share
The offering is expected to deliver $351.2 million in net proceeds.
Attovia Therapeutics Prices IPO at $17 a Share
The offering gives the company an estimated $265.1 million in net proceeds.
Insiders Buy Into Boston Scientific Restructuring
Three Boston Scientific executives added $9.3 million in shares as the company accelerates cost reduction initiatives.
EPA Exempts Syngenta Corn Protein From Pesticide Tolerance
The Environmental Protection Agency has removed the requirement to establish maximum residue levels for a specific plant-incorporated protectant in corn.