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KMD Brands, the parent of Kathmandu, Rip Curl and Oboz, has engaged Goldman Sachs to advise on a major recapitalisation of its assets. The move follows an early‑stage transformation plan and a recent trading update that lifted sales forecasts for Kathmandu. KMD is also in talks with lenders to refinance long‑term debt, though no terms have been finalised. The company will report half‑year results later this month, amid a 47% share‑price decline since October 2025.
The ETF market has surged from under 2,000 funds a decade ago to over 5,000 today, compressing development timelines and eroding white‑space for new issuers. VettaFi’s leaders emphasized that successful launches now require coordinated index design, product narrative, and distribution...
The recent 13% sell‑off in Indian equities has pushed more than half of BSE 500 constituents below their three‑ and five‑year average valuations, yet 60% remain above decade‑old levels. Banking and finance firms show resilience, with three‑quarters still trading above long‑term...
GCC dollar‑denominated bond and sukuk issuances have plunged since the Iran war erupted, despite the region’s strong credit fundamentals earlier in 2026. The GCC still represents roughly 40% of all emerging‑market dollar issuance this year, with outstanding DCM at $1.2 trillion....
Byrna Technologies reported Q4 2025 revenue of $35.2 million, a 26% increase year‑over‑year, and full‑year revenue of $118.1 million, up 38% driven by aggressive brick‑and‑mortar expansion. Gross margin fell to 60% as dealer and chain‑store mix and startup costs weighed on profitability,...
1stdibs.Com reported its first quarter of adjusted EBITDA profitability, posting $1.3 million in adjusted EBITDA with a 6% margin, a 1,300‑basis‑point improvement year‑over‑year. Net revenue rose 1% to $23 million while GMV slipped 5% to $90.2 million, landing at the...
MicroVision (MVIS) reported a dramatic Q4 revenue drop to $200,000, down from $1.7 million a year earlier, as a legacy agricultural contract wound down. Operating expenses surged to $25.3 million, driven by a $13.4 million asset impairment and added security‑defense staffing. The company...
Mach Natural Resources reported a dramatic year‑end reserve increase to 705 million BOE, more than double its March 2025 level. Q4 production hit 154,000 BOE/day with a 68% natural‑gas mix, generating $388 million in total revenue and $187 million adjusted EBITDA. The company maintained...
Docebo reported 9.5% subscription revenue growth in Q4 2025 and a net dollar retention rate of 99%, which would have been 101% without AWS churn. Gross bookings hit a four‑year high with a 60/40 split between new logos and expansions,...
KKR reported record fundraising in 2025, raising $129 billion and reaching over 80% of its $300 billion target for 2024‑2026. Fee-related earnings rose 15% year‑over‑year to $972 million, with a 68% FRE margin, while management fees grew 24% to $1.1 billion in Q4. The...
FinVolution Group reported fourth‑quarter net income of $3.9 million, a 26% year‑over‑year rise, driven by $1.6 billion in loan originations that beat guidance. Credit‑enhanced loan balances climbed to $118 million, lifting net interest margin to 11.42% and boosting non‑interest income. The quarter saw...
Ampco‑Pittsburgh (ATI) reported Q4 2025 revenue of $1.2 billion and full‑year sales of $4.6 billion, the highest since 2012. Adjusted EBITDA reached $232 million in the quarter and $859 million for the year, delivering a 19.7% margin and a 53% free‑cash‑flow increase. Management guided...
Visteon reported 2025 net sales of $3.77 billion, a 3% decline, but achieved record adjusted EBITDA of $492 million (13.1% margin) and strong free cash flow. Displays revenue grew roughly 20% while new business wins hit $7.4 billion, a 20% increase, with displays...
TriSalus Life Sciences reported a strong Q4 2025, posting $13.2 million in revenue—a 60% year‑over‑year increase—and $45.2 million for the full year, up 53%. Gross margin improved to 87% and the adjusted EBITDA loss narrowed to roughly $950,000, down from $5.7 million a...
Tuniu Corporation reported a strong Q4 2025, with net revenues rising 20% year‑over‑year to RMB123.5 million, driven largely by a 35% surge in packaged‑tour sales that now represent 83% of quarterly revenue. The company posted a modest GAAP net profit of...
Valori Capital announced that it expects to close its first asset‑backed finance transaction in the second quarter of 2026. The firm leverages securitisation technology to fund esoteric, asset‑heavy opportunities, positioning itself within the specialty finance and structured private credit space....
Optical Cable Corporation reported Q1 2026 net sales of $16.4 million, a 4.4% increase year‑over‑year, while gross profit rose 16.1% to $5.4 million, lifting the gross margin to 32.7%. The company narrowed its net loss to $398 k ($0.05 per share) and saw its...
Adecoagro reported Q2 2025 sales of $392 million, but adjusted EBITDA plunged 60% year‑over‑year to $55 million, reflecting lower sugarcane crushing volumes and weaker commodity prices. Crushing fell 20% to 3.4 million tons, while the farming segment grew 12% on record rice yields...
Northwest Natural Holding Company posted a record adjusted earnings per share of $2.93 for 2025, up from $2.33 a year earlier, driven by new Oregon rates, strong rate‑base growth, and robust organic customer additions. Sea Energy delivered 18% organic growth...
W&T Offshore reported a 10% sequential production increase to 33,500 barrels of oil equivalent per day in Q2 2025, staying within guidance. Adjusted EBITDA rose 9% to $35 million while unrestricted cash topped $120 million and net debt fell to $229 million, boosting...
The Bank of Thailand’s Monetary Policy Committee warned that micro‑SMEs are facing soaring finance costs as nano‑finance loans jumped 56% year‑on‑year to 94.5 billion baht, with interest rates hovering near the 28‑33% regulatory ceiling. Although traditional bank rates have fallen following...
Singapore’s Monetary Authority is weighing an expansion of the Equity Market Development Programme (EQDP) to include pre‑IPO private firms, a move seen as a catalyst for a stronger IPO pipeline. To date, MAS has allocated roughly S$4 billion to nine asset...
Bank Negara Malaysia has issued a new Technology Risk Management Policy for payment service providers, consolidating existing tech‑related requirements into a single framework. The policy introduces a tiered, proportional approach that aligns security and resilience obligations with the size and...
Asia investors are moving capital from money‑market funds into actively managed equities, fixed‑income and alternative strategies, according to Wellington Management’s APAC head Janet Perumal. In Singapore and Hong Kong, active‑fund net inflows have outpaced passive funds each month since September,...
The Philippines’ debt service bill surged to P2.1 trillion in 2025, a 4 percent increase over the previous year and 2.44 percent above the government’s P2.05‑trillion target. Interest payments jumped 11.8 percent to P854.1 billion, representing 19.4 percent of total revenues and 14.3 percent of expenditures. Domestic...
Surging energy prices are tightening cash flows for U.S. corporations, raising default risk across leveraged borrowers. Recent bankruptcies of auto‑industry firms Tricolor Holdings and First Brands illustrate how sector‑specific stress can spill into broader credit markets. Private‑credit manager Blue Owl...
Northern Funds’ Multi‑Manager Emerging Markets Debt Opportunity Fund matched its blended benchmark in Q4 2025, delivering an 8.63% return versus 8.62% for the index. The fund’s outperformance stemmed from a zero‑weight position in Egypt’s local‑currency debt and overweight exposure to sovereign...
Pig Floyd's Smokehouse LLC, an Orlando‑based barbecue chain, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the Middle District of Florida on March 13, 2026. The petition lists assets between $0 and $100,000 against liabilities ranging from $1 million to $10...
Maharlika Investment Corp (MIC) is keeping its investment strategy unchanged despite the escalating US‑Iran conflict, positioning the local mining sector as a hard‑currency buffer to protect the Philippine peso. The fund continues to pursue partnerships, including a renewable‑energy MoU with...
The Swiss Federal Council will decide in April how much additional capital UBS must hold, with proposals ranging up to US$26 billion. New regulations will require the bank to fully deduct software and deferred‑tax assets from its regulatory capital, a move...
The $20 billion club of the largest U.S. defined‑benefit sponsors has seen funded status rebound strongly since the 2008 crisis, driven by disciplined risk management and liability‑hedging tactics. Sponsors have embraced LDI overlays, derivatives, and a higher share of fixed‑income to...
UPL Ltd plans to spin off its integrated crop‑protection platform, UPL Global, via a scheme of arrangement expected to complete in 12‑15 months, with NCLT approval projected for Q2 FY2027. The demerger will create one of the world’s largest listed...
New research from ETH Zürich and PSI finds that electric vehicles paired with off‑grid solar can already be cheaper than petrol cars in many African markets, especially where financing conditions are favorable. Falling battery prices and expanding global EV production...
The Ethereum Foundation completed an over‑the‑counter sale of 5,000 Ether to BitMine Immersion Technologies, valued at roughly $10.2 million at $2,042.96 per ETH. Proceeds will fund core operations, protocol research, ecosystem growth initiatives, and community grant programs. This transaction is the...
Indonesia’s President Prabowo Subianto said his administration would only exceed the statutory 3% of GDP budget‑deficit limit in a short‑term emergency, such as a sustained oil‑price surge linked to the US‑Israel conflict in Iran. He compared any potential breach to...
The UK government is pushing legislation that would require defined‑contribution master trusts to reach a minimum £25 billion in assets by 2030, effectively forcing consolidation into a handful of large pension mega‑funds. The bill also grants ministers a reserve power to...
The SEC, via Commissioner Hester Peirce, announced it will not object to broker‑dealers treating proprietary payment stablecoins as having a ready market and applying only a 2 % haircut under Rule 15c3‑1. This guidance, though non‑binding, aligns stablecoins with low‑risk cash equivalents...
2026 is shaping up as a mega year for tech IPOs, with blockbuster listings such as SpaceX, Anthropic and OpenAI targeting valuations near $1‑1.25 trillion. Historical data shows tech IPOs have outperformed non‑tech offerings, delivering an average three‑year buy‑and‑hold return of...
JPMorgan Chase is preparing to place more than $30 billion of leveraged‑finance debt for upcoming buyouts, including Electronic Arts, Sealed Air and a pending Qualtrics transaction. The bank’s effort follows CEO Jamie Dimon’s warnings that the credit cycle could turn sour,...
IDB Invest closed a $3.5 billion capital increase, boosting its ability to finance and mobilize private investment across Latin America and the Caribbean. The new funding is expected to lift annual financing and mobilization from roughly $13 billion today to about $22 billion...
Southern California towing company owners Mark and Ahmed Hassan were arrested on multiple felony counts for a $6 million workers’ compensation fraud. They allegedly underreported payroll by more than $13 million, using a shell company, Courtesy Tow, to conceal employee wages and...
Jefferies cut its price target for Plug Power to $1.80 from $2.00, keeping a Hold rating, as it questions the durability of the company’s margin improvement. Plug reported Q4 2025 revenue of $225.2 million, up 17.6% year‑over‑year, and a full‑year 2025...
Brazilian corporations have re‑entered the spotlight as two major firms announced out‑of‑court restructurings covering roughly $13.5 billion of debt. The moves, reported by Bloomberg’s The Brink, signal a shift from judicial to market‑driven solutions amid Brazil’s lingering economic slowdown. Investment banks...
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The utilities sector posted an average price‑to‑earnings (P/E) ratio of 23.31 in 2025, with analysts forecasting a rise to 25.42 for the remainder of 2026. Both figures remain below the S&P 500’s roughly 28.5 multiple, indicating a valuation discount. Since 2019...
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The Federal Reserve sets the U.S. federal funds rate, an overnight benchmark that shapes domestic liquidity, inflation, and employment. LIBOR, by contrast, is a London‑based multi‑currency benchmark derived from bank submissions and has long guided global short‑term lending. While both...
New York City confronts a roughly $7 billion budget shortfall as Mayor Zohran Mamdani looks beyond taxing the wealthy. With 97% of its 3 million curbside spots offered free, officials are reviving the idea of charging for parking to tap a dormant...
The Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) has launched a Binary Order Entry API that represents a structural shift in how participants connect, moving performance‑critical paths to client‑side design rather than merely reducing latency. This change alters development skill requirements, certification processes, and...
Thames Water’s creditor consortium, London & Valley Water, has presented Ofwat with a "best and final" rescue package to avert a special administration regime. The deal adds roughly £3.4 billion of equity and £3.3 billion of new debt, while writing off about...
Service Properties Trust is accelerating its transition from a hotel‑centric REIT to a net‑lease model, selling hotels to cut a heavy debt load. While Q4 2025 results beat expectations, guidance for 2026 predicts normalized FFO could fall another 17% after...
Nvidia has pledged $2 billion in warrants to Nebius Group, which would translate into roughly a 7.7 % equity stake and make it the company’s second‑largest shareholder. The investment covers only about 10‑12.5 % of Nebius’s 2026 capital‑expenditure plan and less than 3 %...
