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JUMSF declares EUR 1.0 per share dividend with November 20 payment date

One euro per share is headed to shareholders of JUMSF this November. A dividend, in plain terms, is a cash payment a company sends directly to the people who own its stock, separate from any change in the shar

SEPTEMBER 3, 20261 MIN
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PMT sets $0.40 quarterly cash dividend, payment due October 23

A quarterly dividend, a cash payment sent to stockholders at regular intervals out of a company's funds, is heading to PMT investors at USD 0.40 per share. The payment date is October 23, 2026.

SEPTEMBER 3, 20261 MIN
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Two cannabis stocks, one sharp divide: Tilray Brands versus Canopy Growth

Canadian cannabis stocks have fallen hard this year, and net debt, the amount a company owes after subtracting its cash on hand, is the number that separates the two biggest names. Tilray Brands (NASDAQ: TLRY) holds roughly $700,000 in net…

SEPTEMBER 3, 20262 MIN
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IREN stock fell to half its May price. The $4 billion case for another look.

A data center company's shares fell to roughly half their late-May price after investors focused on a $684 million quarterly loss and a massive upcoming capital spend. Contracted annualized recurring r

SEPTEMBER 2, 20262 MIN
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Alienware AW2726DM gets its first discount, dropping to $319.99 at Dell

A 27-inch gaming monitor with a premium display type is on sale for the first time. QD-OLED, which stands for quantum dot organic light-emitting diode, layers color-filtering quantum dots over a self-lit OLED panel to produce deeper blacks…

SEPTEMBER 1, 20262 MIN
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IDT delays net2phone separation as three growth businesses expand their share

A spin-off, the process of turning a business unit into its own publicly traded company, is on hold at IDT Corporation (NYSE: IDT). The company told investors during a recent presentation that it wants net2phone to reach greater scale and…

AUGUST 31, 20262 MIN
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PURR gains 15% as Hyperliquid Strategies posts $1.9 billion HYPE treasury update

A cryptocurrency called PURR gained 15% after Hyperliquid Strategies updated the market on its holdings of a digital asset called HYPE. A corporate cryptocurrency treasury, the term the company use

AUGUST 27, 20261 MIN
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From sneakerhead destination to clearance problem: what Dick's Sporting Goods inherited when it bought Foot Locker

Foot Locker built its name as a destination for sneakerheads, a word the retail industry uses for dedicated collectors who follow limited-edition releases and brand drops rather than shopping by price. That identity is now a liability…

AUGUST 27, 20261 MIN
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Soda bans on food stamps cut purchases, study finds, but stigma concerns trail the result

A study finds that blocking food stamp recipients from buying sugary drinks does reduce soda consumption, which proponents of such restrictions have long argued it would. Food stamps is the everyday name for SNAP, the Supplemental…

AUGUST 27, 20261 MIN
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A nuclear ETF built for the AI era, with or without the boom

An exchange-traded fund, a basket of stocks that trades on an exchange like a single share, centered on nuclear power companies is drawing attention as an alternative to the semiconductor-heavy AI funds

AUGUST 26, 20262 MIN
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ZSTTF declares monthly dividend of CAD 0.106 per share, payment due September 2

A cash dividend is a direct payment from a company to its shareholders, drawn from available funds and separate from any change in the share price itself. ZSTTF has declared one at CAD 0.106 per share on a monthly schedule

AUGUST 23, 20262 MIN
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Munich Re to buy cyber insurtech At-Bay for $575 million

Cyber insurers, companies that sell coverage against losses from hacking and ransomware, are moving toward pairing policies with real-time security monitoring

AUGUST 23, 20262 MIN
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Gates Foundation swaps $818 million in Berkshire Hathaway for Home Depot shares

A required quarterly holdings disclosure, called a 13F filing, shows the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Trust opened a $352.7 million position in The Home Depot (HD) while trimming its Berkshire Hathaway stake by approximately $818…

AUGUST 22, 20262 MIN
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BAMGF sets September dividend at CAD 0.3395 per share

A cash dividend is a direct payment from company earnings, sent to shareholders based on how many shares they hold. BAMGF has declared one at CAD 0.3395 per share, with the money arriving September 29, 2026.

AUGUST 22, 20261 MIN
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Bessent faces Wall Street skepticism on long-term Treasury debt move

Bond vigilantes, the term for investors who sell government bonds to protest fiscal policy and force borrowing costs higher in the process, are the target Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is now taking aim at. His move is to buy more…

AUGUST 22, 20262 MIN
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AMD's stock surge masks a valuation gap that favors Nvidia

The stock market is pricing one chip company as if it will need to double its earnings again after next year just to justify today's share price, even though its larger rival is already growing faster. That pricing dynamic centers on the…

AUGUST 20, 20262 MIN
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Seven arrested after brawls close out Wisconsin State Fair

Crowd disorder on the fairgrounds, the catch-all term officials use for unplanned mass conflict inside a public venue, shut down the Wisconsin State Fair's closing hours on Sunday, August 16, and left seven people arrested. Law enforcement…

AUGUST 19, 20262 MIN
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Olympus chief Bob White adopts private equity methods to deflect buyout interest

A company can sometimes make itself too expensive to acquire by doing what an acquirer would eventually do to it. Private equity tactics, in their core form, mean a fund buys a company and runs it more intensively to surface value the…

AUGUST 17, 20261 MIN
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Caterpillar logs first $20 billion quarter as order backlog reaches record $72 billion

A record order backlog, the stack of customer orders placed but not yet shipped, reached $72 billion at Caterpillar (CAT) at the end of the second quarter of 2026. That is up 92% from the same quarter in 2025 and $9 billion above the prior…

AUGUST 16, 20262 MIN
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OpenAI buys presentation startup NextSlide to bolster ChatGPT

An acquisition, where one company purchases another and absorbs its team, brought the presentation startup NextSlide inside OpenAI earlier this year. The deal went undisclosed until this week, when Ne

AUGUST 15, 20261 MIN
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Cadeler pays €501m for Menck to bring foundation hammers in-house

Offshore wind installations depend on machines called hydraulic impact hammers, devices that drive steel foundation piles into the seabed so turbines have something to stand on. Cadeler, the Danish jack-up vessel operator, just paid €501m…

AUGUST 14, 20262 MIN
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FR declares quarterly cash dividend of 50 cents a share

A cash dividend is a direct payment from a company to its shareholders, and FR has set one at 50 cents per share. The payment is scheduled to reach eligible holders on October 19, 2026. FR has placed this dividend on a quarterly schedule

AUGUST 14, 20262 MIN
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Alfasigma acquires Nordic Group to deepen rheumatology reach across Europe and beyond

Specialty care, the pharmaceutical segment built around medicines for specific disease categories rather than broad consumer conditions, just got a notable consolidation in Europe. Alfasigma, a privately held Italian pharmaceutical company…

AUGUST 14, 20261 MIN
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What Berkshire Hathaway's $4.5 billion buyback quarter is actually telling investors

A share repurchase is when a company uses its own cash to buy its own stock off the open market because management believes the price is below what the business is actually worth. Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A, BRK.B) did that at sharply…

AUGUST 14, 20262 MIN
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Anthropic in talks to acquire Israeli AI startup Decart for $6 billion

A world model is software trained to simulate a physical or digital environment, letting an AI reason about what comes next rather than simply match patterns. Anthropic is in talks to pay roughly $6 billion for Decart AI, an Israeli…

AUGUST 14, 20262 MIN
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Goldman Sachs buys Neos Investments as "boomer candy" ETFs turn into Wall Street's growth business

A slice of the fund market Wall Street calls "boomer candy" is now large enough to draw acquisitions from the biggest banks. Goldman Sachs said Wednesday it agreed to buy Neos Investments,

AUGUST 12, 20261 MIN
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Arko Petroleum agrees to buy U.S. Petroleum Partners for $205 million

Throughput, the volume of fuel a distribution network moves over time, is about to rise sharply across the Great Lakes. Arko Petroleum has agreed to pay $205 million in cash, plus the cost of inventory, to acquire U.S. Petroleum Partners…

AUGUST 12, 20262 MIN
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Modiv Industrial Shareholders Clear the Way for Merger Into Global Net Lease Vehicle

A net-lease is a rental contract where the tenant, not the landlord, pays property taxes, insurance, and maintenance costs on top of base rent. That structure is the load-bearing element of Modiv Industrial's portfolio of light…

AUGUST 12, 20262 MIN
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Alpha Compute signs $55 million deal for Pennsylvania data center campus powered by natural gas

Getting power fast enough to run artificial intelligence workloads has pushed one infrastructure company to buy its own gas field. Alpha Compute signed a binding term sheet, a preliminary agreement that comm

AUGUST 11, 20262 MIN
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Davante Adams brought $17,000 cash to buy a jersey number. The rookie asked for $1 million instead.

A veteran wide receiver showed up to his new team's facility carrying $17,000 in cash, expecting to settle a jersey number quickly. Jersey number transactions, the informal cash agreements players make among themselves to swap digits, are…

AUGUST 10, 20262 MIN
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Archer Aviation to acquire Wisk Aero, SkyGrid, and Insitu from Boeing

Three aviation technology businesses built inside Boeing are moving to a smaller company focused on electric air taxis. Electric vertical takeoff and landing, or eVTOL, describes aircraft designed to lift off and land like helicopters but…

AUGUST 10, 20262 MIN
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BANCPRF declares $0.4845 quarterly cash dividend, payable September 1

A cash dividend, the kind where a company sends actual money to its shareholders rather than issuing more stock or other instruments, is arriving for BANCPRF investors at USD 0.4845 per sha

AUGUST 10, 20262 MIN
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LS Power to Acquire 606-MW Texas Gas Plant as Constellation Meets Antitrust Requirement

A power plant sale required by federal antitrust regulators is moving a 606-megawatt gas facility outside Houston into new hands. That kind of mandated asset sale is called a divestiture: a company sells a piece of itself as the price of…

AUGUST 6, 20262 MIN
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GSM declares quarterly cash dividend of $0.015 per share

A cash dividend, which is a payment a company makes to shareholders directly in money rather than in additional shares of stock, has been declared by GSM at USD 0.015 per share. The payout runs

AUGUST 6, 20262 MIN
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Allegiant Travel completes Sun Country merger as Legacy Ridge rolls over its stake

A stock-for-stock merger, where a buyer pays with its own shares rather than cash, brought two budget carriers together in the second quarter of 2026. Allegiant Travel Company (NASDAQ: ALGT) was the acqu

AUGUST 5, 20262 MIN
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HRZN declares a 3-cent dividend with a November ex-date and December payment

A dividend, the term for a cash distribution a company sends directly to the people who own its shares, of USD 0.03 per share has been declared by HRZN. Three dates in the announcement esta

AUGUST 5, 20262 MIN
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The $55 billion deal that took Electronic Arts off the stock market

One of gaming's biggest publishers has gone private, meaning its shares no longer trade on public stock exchanges and the company is no longer accountable to Wall Street investors. Electronic Arts officially closed that transition on…

AUGUST 5, 20262 MIN
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WUXIF sets HKD 0.589 per share dividend with September 4 payment date

A dividend, the cash payment a company sends directly to its shareholders, of HKD 0.589 per share is on its way to WUXIF investors. The ex-dividend date and the record date both fall on August 20,

AUGUST 4, 20262 MIN
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CKNHF declares GBP 0.35 semi-annual dividend with 28 August ex-dividend date

A cash dividend (a direct payment drawn from a company's profits and distributed to the people who own its shares) of GBP 0.35 per share has been declared by CKNHF. The cutoff for eligibility falls on 28 August 2026, and payment goes out…

AUGUST 4, 20262 MIN
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PEXUF declares THB 4.5 per share cash dividend, payment set for August 28

A cash dividend, meaning a direct payment from a company to its shareholders drawn from company earnings, has been declared by PEXUF at THB 4.5 per share. The cash reaches qualifying investors on A

AUGUST 2, 20261 MIN
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FPEFX declares monthly cash dividend of $0.09 per share, set for August 31

A cash dividend, meaning a direct payment of money distributed to shareholders rather than additional equity in the fund, is due to FPEFX holders at nine cents per share. The fund has set A

AUGUST 1, 20261 MIN
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ARESPRB sets $0.84375 quarterly cash dividend with a September 15 ex-date

A cash dividend, meaning a direct payment from a company to the people who own its shares, of USD 0.84375 per share has been declared for ARESPRB. The ex-dividend date and record date are b

AUGUST 1, 20261 MIN
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TWODF declares semi-annual cash dividend of GBP 0.012 per share ahead of October record date

A cash dividend, which is a direct per-share payment from a company to the people who own its stock, is coming to TWODF shareholders at a rate of GBP 0.012 per share. The company has confirmed October 9, 2026 as both the e

AUGUST 1, 20262 MIN
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OXSQ sets October dividend at 3.5 cents a share

Every month, a company can send its shareholders a direct cash payment from its earnings or reserves. That payment is called a dividend. OXSQ has declared one at USD 0.035 per share, with t

AUGUST 1, 20261 MIN
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NXP in talks to acquire $3.3bn camera-chip designer for self-driving cars

Camera chips, the sensors that allow self-driving vehicles to read the road the way a human eye processes a scene, are at the center of a potential $3.3 billion transaction. NXP Semiconductors is in talks to buy a company that designs…

JULY 31, 20262 MIN
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SHIP declares $0.35 quarterly cash dividend, ex-dividend date set for September 25

A cash dividend is a company paying money directly from its treasury to shareholders, with each person receiving a fixed dollar amount per share they own. SHIP declared one at USD 0.35 per share on a quarterly schedule. The shares go…

JULY 31, 20261 MIN
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Kelsey Grammer says conservative politics may have cost him Hollywood work

A 40-year run as an openly conservative actor in Hollywood has, by Kelsey Grammer's own account, probably kept him off the radar of some casting rooms altogether. Being "off the radar" means something specific here: not a formal decision…

JULY 29, 20262 MIN
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Core Scientific and AMD agree on 500 megawatts of U.S. AI data-center capacity, with a path to 2.5 gigawatts

Five hundred megawatts, a measure of the continuous electrical power a facility can draw from the grid at any given moment, will be committed to artificial intelligence data-center infrastructure

JULY 28, 20262 MIN
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Amazon files for U.S. approval to orbit 5,105 satellites in direct-to-device push

Federal regulators are reviewing a request from Amazon to place 5,105 satellites into orbit for a direct-to-device network. That term describes a service that routes data signals from space directly to phones and other consumer devices…

JULY 27, 20262 MIN
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A Halo remake arrives while Xbox scrambles to remember what it is

A remake of Halo, the shooter franchise that once gave Xbox its clearest reason to exist, has been released. A remake, as distinct from a port, means the game has been rebuilt using current technology rather than simply transferred to…

JULY 27, 20262 MIN
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AUSM declares $0.053 monthly cash dividend with July 28 payment date

A cash payment is headed to eligible AUSM shareholders before the end of July. The company has declared a cash dividend, meaning a per-share payment drawn directly from company funds, of USD 0.053 per shar

JULY 26, 20261 MIN
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How Stallone's all-or-nothing screenplay gamble gets its own movie

A first-time screenwriter turned down escalating offers for his script, choosing copyright ownership (the legal right that lets a creator control who buys their work and on what terms) over a guaranteed payday. That screenwriter was…

JULY 25, 20262 MIN