The SEC issued a five-year order—an “Innovation Exemption”—allowing trading venues to offer tokenized representations of company shares with 24/7 trading, provided they preserve traditional securities rights like dividends and voting.
Sep 18, 2026 ·
Yahoo Finance
Among 401(k) plan participants in their 40s, those with student loan debt had median retirement account balances about 45% lower than those without, according to the Employee Benefit Research Institute.
Sep 18, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
The 10-year Treasury yield climbed to 5% from 4.94% late Thursday, while Brent crude settled at $103.87 per barrel (down 0.9%) after swinging between about $102 and nearly $110 early this week, weighing on stocks.
Sep 18, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
James Hardie lifted its full-year outlook after reporting Q2 net sales of $1.475 billion (up 64% year over year) and adjusted EBITDA of $422.1 million (up 79%), both ahead of its original guidance.
Sep 18, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Ecopetrol elected Carlos Augusto Suárez Rojas as chairman of its board on September 17, replacing Luis Felipe Henao Cardona while Henao remains on the board and chairs the Corporate Governance and Sustainability Committee.
Sep 18, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
APA raised full-year US oil guidance to 123,000 barrels per day while keeping its Permian drilling to four rigs (down from an estimated eight), and reported Q2 adjusted production of 347,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day that beat its own guidance.
Sep 18, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Longer hotel seasons only become an investment advantage when the extra shoulder-season revenue exceeds incremental operating costs (labor, energy, maintenance, and other expenses), turning additional trading days into durable, repeatable cash flow rather than just higher occupancy/RevPAR.
Sep 18, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Mastercard predicts that by 2030, more than 300 million online shoppers could routinely use AI agents to shop and pay, and in some retail categories those agents could negotiate prices through machine-to-machine counteroffers.
Sep 18, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Exxon Mobil CFO Neil Hansen said the bigger threat from a Strait of Hormuz oil supply shock is refining capacity—about 3 million barrels per day offline from the closure, plus 2 million barrels per day of lost China refined-product exports, and about 1 million barrels per day knocked out by Ukraine strikes on Russian refineries.
Sep 18, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Amer Sports raised full-year 2026 guidance to about 24% reported revenue growth, 60.5%–61.0% gross margin, 14.2%–14.5% operating margin, and diluted EPS of $1.27–$1.30 after Q2 revenue rose 32% to $1.63 billion and diluted EPS hit $0.18.
Sep 18, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Jazz Pharmaceuticals paid $820 million upfront to acquire Actio Biosciences, adding ABS-1230 (a KCNT1-related epilepsy drug) to its pipeline after FDA granted Orphan Drug, Rare Pediatric Disease, and Fast Track designations.
Sep 18, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Millicom’s net profit attributable to company owners fell 83.9% to $109 million in Q2 2026, even as equity free cash flow hit a quarterly record of $327 million (up 50.1% year over year) and Adjusted EBITDA rose 58% to $1.01 billion.
Sep 18, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Evolution Petroleum’s fiscal fourth-quarter 2026 results showed a rebound with revenue up 20% sequentially to $24.2 million, adjusted EBITDA rising to $6.5 million, and operating cash flow reaching $6.8 million—helped by oil and NGL realizations and the roll-off of a prior-period transportation adjustment.
Sep 18, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
ASPI warns Venezuela is set to adopt Chinese-built AI systems in 2025 to enhance its existing state-sponsored surveillance, potentially making it “one of the first countries outside China” to use LLM-based surveillance tech and control systems in the Western Hemisphere.
Sep 18, 2026 ·
The Register
Waymo plans to launch a robotaxi ride-hailing service in Singapore in 2028, after beginning mapping and autonomous testing there with human safety drivers in 2027 and with vehicles arriving in the “coming months.”
Sep 18, 2026 ·
The Verge
Guggenheim analyst Michael Ciarmoli initiated coverage of Applied Aerospace & Defense (NYSE:AADX) with a Buy rating and estimated about 50% upside to a roughly $30 price target, versus the Sept. 15 close (up about 150% from that level).
Sep 18, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Collectibles revenue rose 57% year over year to about $356.3 million, reaching 45.1% of GameStop’s total sales and lifting gross margin to 43.7% from 29.1% a year earlier.
Sep 18, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Two late-stage trials showed AstraZeneca’s tozorakimab cut moderate-to-severe COPD flare-ups by 29%–34% (about 30%) across patients regardless of eosinophil counts, with a 43% reduction in the highest-eosinophil subgroup.
Sep 18, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
A UK Competition Appeal Tribunal consent order requires Microsoft to disclose and explain a historic internal “Second-Hand Software” (SHS) presentation—described as a “known adverse document”—in a £270 million ValueLicensing antitrust lawsuit, with Microsoft due to respond by October 31.
Sep 18, 2026 ·
Computerworld
UNFI reported fiscal fourth-quarter adjusted EPS of $0.69 on revenue of $7.64 billion and guided fiscal 2027 net sales of $31.2 billion to $31.8 billion, with adjusted EBITDA rising 27% to $701 million and record free cash flow of $323 million for fiscal 2026.
Sep 18, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
