Badger Meter increased its quarterly dividend by 10% to $0.44 per share (from $0.40) on August 14, 2026, extending its 34th consecutive year of annual dividend growth and bringing the annualized payout to $1.76.
Aug 19, 2026 ·
Yahoo Finance
Unitree shares surged more than five-fold in their Shanghai debut and closed at 845 yuan on the STAR Market, valuing the company at about $50 billion—460% above the IPO price of 150.8 yuan.
Aug 19, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Kimberly-Clark raised its quarterly dividend to $1.28 per share in January 2026 (from $1.26), bringing the annual payout to $5.12 and implying a roughly 4.6% yield on a stock price near $110.
Aug 19, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Medtronic has raised its quarterly dividend for 49 straight years and increased it to $0.72 per share in June 2026, putting it one increase away from 50 years as a Dividend King.
Aug 19, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
PepsiCo increased its annual dividend by 4% in 2026 to $5.92 per share (quarterly dividend $1.48), implying a forward yield of about 4.2% at around $141 a share.
Aug 19, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
P&G increased its dividend for the 70th consecutive year in April 2026, extending a streak that also includes 136 consecutive years of dividend payments.
Aug 19, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Google Australia YouTube ads for the Pixel 11 series and Pixel Watch 5 include an unreleased “mystery wearable” shown in fog white (and also in an olive green-themed ad), described as “The ultimate power trio for your wrist, ears and hands. Preorder Pixel devices now.”
Aug 19, 2026 ·
CNET
American Rare Earths appointed Nick Lissolo as chief commercial officer to broaden his role across the company’s Nasdaq listing plans, US investor relations, commercial partnership negotiations, and development progress for the Halleck Creek Rare Earths Project in Wyoming.
Aug 19, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
The 30-year U.S. Treasury yield jumped to 5.29%—its highest level since 2007—driving up borrowing costs for homebuyers, businesses, and the federal government.
Aug 19, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Cerebras’ CS-4 rack-scale system claims 30x the tokens per second per user versus GPUs for AI inference, using three wafer-scale WSE-3 Turbo processors with 4 trillion transistors total.
Aug 19, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Cerebras’ next-gen WSE-3T (“Turbo”) doubles wafer memory bandwidth to 43.2 PB/s (and 2.4 Tbps I/O bandwidth) by pushing the existing WSE-3 design harder rather than switching process or wafer/SRAM size.
Aug 19, 2026 ·
The Register
Kweichow Moutai’s net profit for the first half fell 1.95% to 44.5 billion yuan, the first six-month decline since 2014, as China’s wider economic slowdown and shifting consumption patterns weighed on premium baijiu demand.
Aug 18, 2026 ·
CNBC
Benchmark 30-year Treasury yields briefly topped a 19-year high at above 5.3% as worries grew about stalled war-ending talks with Iran, persistent inflation, monetary policy under new Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh, and U.S. borrowing that has the national debt approaching $40 trillion.
Aug 18, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Polaroid will sell a limited-edition Pokemon camera set for the franchise’s 30th anniversary, with a Pikachu Polaroid Go Gen 3 costing $100, a Sylveon Polaroid Go Gen 3 costing $100, and a Poké Ball Polaroid Now Gen 3 costing $140.
Aug 18, 2026 ·CNET
Avexitide reduced moderate-to-severe low-blood-sugar episodes by 55% versus placebo in a Phase 3 study of 78 patients, and Amylyx says it is moving to file an FDA new drug application by year-end for a planned 2027 commercialization.
Aug 18, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
OpenAI says stronger chain-of-thought and tool-safety monitoring for some inference and all RL training/evaluations at GPT-5.6 Sol capability level or higher will add about 20% compute overhead to the workloads being monitored.
Aug 18, 2026 ·The Register
Inc. 5000’s 2026 logistics and transportation category included 167 companies, with a median 114% three-year revenue growth rate and $23.1 billion in total revenue across 115,631 employees.
Aug 18, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Fortune Brands Innovations CEO Jesse G. Singh bought 39,285 shares of common stock on Aug. 6–7, 2026 for about $2.0 million at a weighted average price of $51.30, following a 10% trailing twelve-month stock decline as of Aug. 7, 2026.
Aug 18, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
An ICE memo warns that employees—including those beyond field agents—are not permitted to wear Meta Glasses or similar devices at work because they could unintentionally capture, record, or transmit sensitive information that could compromise privacy and legal protections.
Aug 18, 2026 ·
Engadget
Fairphone’s 6 Plus modular smartphone is now available in the US for $650 through Fairphone’s website and Amazon, and it lets users swap 12 parts with a screwdriver—such as the display and battery—while offering a five-year warranty and Android support until 2033.
Aug 18, 2026 ·CNET
