Despite a 4.7% portfolio contribution from Alphabet (GOOG), Giverny Capital Asset Management's 2025 returns trailed the broader market, highlighting the challenges of a strategy focused on niche leaders amid a tech-dominated rally.
CIBC reaffirms its Outperform rating on Thomson Reuters (TRI) as the information giant accelerates its strategic push into AI-driven compliance and legal tools, launching new products in the US and UK markets.
Goldman Sachs initiates coverage on Workday with a Neutral rating, citing a crowded core market and a slower-than-expected AI strategy rollout. The firm identifies 2026 as a pivotal year for the HR and finance software giant to prove its technological evolution.
A combination of deep political polarization, economic pressures, and a growing brain drain is challenging Israel's viability as a secure and prosperous state, according to experts within and outside the country.
The Islamic State group has claimed a surprise attack on the international airport in Niger's capital, Niamey, causing material damage and wounding soldiers, according to a monitoring group. The assault marks the latest in a series of high-profile strikes by the jihadist network in the Sahel nation.
The medical aid group Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has refused to comply with an Israeli order to hand over detailed staff lists as a condition for continuing its work in Gaza and the West Bank, warning the demand jeopardizes the safety of its personnel and could cripple humanitarian operations.
TD Cowen has launched coverage of Constellation Energy (CEG) with an optimistic Buy rating and a $440 price target, highlighting strategic benefits from its recent Calpine acquisition and a favorable outlook for power market dynamics through 2026.
Wells Fargo has upgraded Broadcom (AVGO) to Overweight and increased its price target to $430, pointing to the chipmaker's significant AI revenue trajectory and a robust software pipeline as key growth drivers through 2027.
B. Riley initiates coverage of Adamas Trust (ADAM) with a Buy rating and a $9 price target, citing the REIT's strategic portfolio pivot towards higher-quality Agency RMBS as a key driver for potential revaluation.
The Bancorp (TBBK) capped off fiscal 2025 with robust earnings, driven by surging fintech payments and improved credit quality. Management outlined a bullish multi-year forecast, projecting significant profit growth anchored by three core digital initiatives and sustained capital returns to shareholders.
Billionaire Mark Cuban champions Bitcoin's digital utility over gold's physical heft for crisis scenarios, but institutional flows and central bank demand tell a different story, highlighting a deepening divide in safe-haven strategies.
The Trump administration's AI Action Plan sets a strategic direction, but analysts argue its success hinges on aggressive private sector investment in workforce training to avoid leaving millions of workers behind in the coming technological shift.
OGE Energy Corp. posts a return on equity in line with industry peers, but a deeper dive reveals a reliance on debt that could signal heightened risk for investors in the evolving utilities sector.
Europe relies on China for the rare earth elements essential in transition technologies, but it's making a late bid to end dependency.
Germany's inflation rate ticked higher at the start of 2025, driven by rising food costs and persistent service price increases, even as energy prices provided some relief.
Millions of sole traders and landlords face a fundamental change in how late tax submissions are penalized, as HMRC prepares to replace automatic fines with a points-based regime starting in 2026.
The Eurozone economy expanded by 1.5% in 2025, outpacing forecasts despite ongoing trade tensions with the US, as a recovery in Germany and robust growth in Spain helped offset a slowdown in France.
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has concluded that a pre-announcement leak of the 2025 Peace Prize laureate's name was likely the result of digital espionage, raising serious questions about the security of the prestigious award and the motives behind the breach.
In a significant shift, Israeli military officials have privately told journalists that approximately 70,000 Palestinians have been killed in the Gaza war, a figure that largely corroborates the enclave's health ministry data, according to local media reports.
As Nike shares face pressure, CNBC's Jim Cramer points to the company's ongoing turnaround and potential in the Chinese market as key catalysts for recovery, despite recent analyst downgrades.
