Revel to Merge With EQT-Backed Voltera, Uniting EV Charging Networks
Private‑equity‑backed Voltera and Revel Transit have agreed to merge their electric‑vehicle charging businesses, creating a combined entity that will operate under the Voltera brand. The new company will manage more than 1,000 charging stalls across 11 U.S. markets and will be led by Revel CEO Frank Reig. EQT will be the majority owner while BlackRock’s Global Infrastructure Partners retains a minority stake. The merger expands services to ride‑hail cars, robotaxis, fleet management and energy‑storage solutions, following Revel’s pivot from rideshare to EV charging.
Mappedin Appoints Aaron Fullen as Chief Revenue Officer to Accelerate Growth of Indoor Intelligence Platform
Mappedin, the indoor‑mapping platform, appointed Aaron Fullen as chief revenue officer shortly after closing a $24.5 million Series B round. The funding will support its push from building‑level wayfinding to city‑wide indoor intelligence. Fullen brings two decades of go‑to‑market leadership, most recently...
HM Exploration Expands Lewis Pilley’s Project to ~60 Km²
HM Exploration Corp. has expanded its Lewis Pilley’s Project in Newfoundland by staking 67 new mineral claims, increasing the land package to roughly 60.25 km² and giving it full control of Pilley’s Island for the first time in recent history. The company...
Hassett Says Ending Iran War May Create Room for Fed Rate Cut
Kevin Hassett, the White House’s chief economic adviser, told Fox News that a negotiated settlement with Iran would likely cause oil prices to plunge, giving the Federal Reserve room to cut interest rates. He highlighted that recent inflation spikes are...
Latest ‘Star Wars’ Film ‘Mandalorian’ Debuts at $102 Million
The Mandalorian and Grogu opened with $102 million over the four‑day holiday weekend, making it the top‑grossing film in the United States and Canada. While the figure meets Boxoffice Pro’s $100 million forecast, it ranks among the weakest Star Wars openings since Disney...
Google Cloud Security Uses Instruqt Platform to Train 150+ Practitioners on Agentic AI at Google Next 2026
Google Cloud Security leveraged Instruqt’s hands‑on platform at Google Next 2026 to train over 150 practitioners in building agentic AI solutions on Vertex AI. Each participant received a dedicated sandbox environment, allowing them to create and test AI agents rather...
Bond Strategists Warn Yields to Stay High Even If Iran War Ends
Bond strategists at ING, Goldman Sachs and Barclays say long‑term US yields are being pushed higher by real yields rather than war‑driven inflation. A Bloomberg analysis shows that rising public‑debt burdens, the AI investment surge and the prospect of higher...
Russia Fired Oreshnik Missile at Ukraine as Part of Barrage
Russia launched a massive barrage on Kyiv early Sunday, firing 90 missiles and 600 drones, including a hypersonic Oreshnik ballistic missile that struck the regional city of Bila Tserkva. Ukrainian air defenses downed 55 missiles and 549 drones, though 19 missiles...
Keystone XL Pipeline Rises From the Grave and Other Oilpatch News
The Keystone XL pipeline, once cancelled after President Biden revoked its permit in 2021, is now back on the table as TC Energy reassesses the project. Energy leaders are weighing an Alberta‑Ottawa agreement that promises new jobs, investment inflows, and a clearer...
Charting the Global Economy: Factory Activity Sags on Inflation
Factory output across most regions slowed or contracted in May, with the euro‑zone and Germany registering the sharpest declines. Inflation pressures from the Iran‑war‑driven energy shock pushed long‑term yields on G7 sovereign bonds to their highest level in two decades....
The Newest Name on Nasdaq Wants to Help the Body Rebuild Itself
Conexeu Sciences Inc. (Nasdaq: CNXU) launched on May 21, 2026, offering a single CXU™ platform that can be formulated as injectable gels, 3D‑printed scaffolds, or wound‑care matrices. Its flagship investigational product, B.R.E.A.S.T.™—a resorbable breast tissue scaffold—targets the over‑100,000 U.S. mastectomies performed annually....
Quebec Millionaire Parlays Hockey Cards Into Ferrari Fortune
Luc Poirier, a Quebec real‑estate magnate, turned a teenage hockey‑card hustle into an $800 million fortune and now boasts one of North America’s largest Ferrari collections—38 cars valued at over $100 million. The collection includes a record‑price Daytona SP3 that sold for $26 million...
Traders Bet Fed Under Warsh Will Hike Rates by December
Bond traders now expect the Federal Reserve to raise its benchmark rate by at least 25 basis points by the end of 2026, reflecting confidence that incoming Chair Kevin Warsh will act swiftly against inflation. The shift followed Fed Governor Christopher Waller’s...
War Weighs on Global Growth With Inflation Worries Intensifying
Global growth is losing steam as the war‑driven energy crunch pushes inflation higher for a third month. Purchasing‑manager surveys show manufacturing contraction across Europe, with France and Germany leading the decline, while the UK’s output fell for the first time...
Copper Retreats as US and Iran Trade Threats on Peace Deal
Copper prices slipped 1.3% to $13,474 a ton as traders digested President Donald Trump’s mixed signals on a U.S.–Iran peace deal. While Trump said progress was being made, he warned that U.S. forces could resume attacks if negotiations stalled, prompting...
Euro-Zone Business Activity Shrinks at Fastest Since 2023
Euro‑area business activity contracted sharply in May, with the S&P Global composite PMI dropping to 47.5 from 48.8, the fastest slowdown in 2½ years. Manufacturing held steady thanks to precautionary inventory builds, while the services sector fell sharply. Input‑cost and price inflation...
Starmer Crisis and Iran Shock Combine to Shrink UK Private Sector
British private sector output fell for the first time in over a year as the S&P Global PMI slipped to 48.5 in May, well below the 51.6 forecast and the 50 growth threshold. The decline reflects a perfect storm of...
ValOre Provides Further Update on Sale of Hatchet Uranium Corp. To Future Fuels Inc.
ValOre Metals Corp. received conditional acceptance from the TSX Venture Exchange to sell its 51% stake in Hatchet Uranium Corp. to Future Fuels Inc. The parties are working to satisfy closing conditions, including TSXV consent, title opinions, and third‑party approvals....
Brookfield Office Properties Announces Redemption of Class AAA Preference Shares, Series CC
Brookfield Office Properties Inc., a subsidiary of Brookfield Property Partners, announced on May 19, 2026 that it will redeem all 7,982,204 outstanding Class AAA Preference Shares, Series CC on June 30, 2026. Each share will be bought back for C$25 (approximately $18.5 USD). In addition, a final...
Bombardier Completes Redemption of All Outstanding 7.50% Senior Notes Due 2029
Bombardier Inc. announced the full redemption of its $750 million 7.50% senior notes due 2029. The repayment was financed with proceeds from a new notes offering and $250 million of cash from the company’s balance sheet. Redemption was processed through the Depository...
POET Technologies Announces Closing of US$400 Million Investment
POET Technologies announced the closing of a registered direct offering that raised $400,000,020, pricing the shares at $21 each—a modest premium to the $20.57 market price. The capital will be used to expand wafer and optical‑engine production ten‑fold, accelerate R&D,...
Vietnam’s Largest Refinery Sees ‘Stable’ Operations Through June
Vietnam’s flagship Nghi Son Refinery is diversifying its crude supply and says it can keep operations stable through June. In Q1 it processed about 2.6 million tonnes of crude and delivered roughly 2.2 million tonnes of petroleum products. The refinery, a 200,000‑bpd...
Finance Chiefs to Consider World Order After Trump-Xi Reset
Global finance ministers gathered in Paris for a G‑7 meeting that follows President Donald Trump’s summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping. French President Emmanuel Macron framed the agenda around correcting three core imbalances: the United States’ soaring budget deficit, Europe’s...
Charting the Global Economy: Inflation Mounts as War Drags On
The ongoing war in Iran is reigniting global inflation, with the United States seeing its core consumer‑price index rise at the fastest pace since 2023 while wages slipped for the first time in three years. Elevated oil prices are pushing...
Rio2 Reports First Quarter 2026 Financial Results and Operations Update
Rio2 Limited posted its first‑quarter 2026 results, marking the start of production at the newly commissioned Fenix Gold mine in Chile and the early cash‑flow contribution from the recently acquired Condestable copper mine in Peru. Consolidated output reached 7,849 ounces...
Infoblox and GoDaddy Support Open Standards for AI Agent Discovery, Identity and Verification
Infoblox and GoDaddy announced joint support for two open standards—DNS‑AID and Agent Name Service (ANS)—that enable AI agents to be discovered, identified, and verified using the existing Domain Name System and public‑key infrastructure. DNS‑AID, advancing as an IETF draft, lets...
GTT EnvisionDX Accelerates Quoting for Secure Networking with Real-Time Pricing Available for 11 Million Global Locations
GTT Communications launched EnvisionDX, the next‑generation version of its Envision platform, adding real‑time quoting and ordering for networking and security services across more than 11 million validated business locations. The upgrade leverages GenAI‑driven address validation and an API‑first architecture to generate...
Taskrabbit Gears Up for Peak Moving Season as Relocation Demand Surges Globally
Taskrabbit is gearing up for the summer moving peak, reporting strong global demand. In the U.S., apartment‑moving requests nearly doubled (93% YoY), while Canada saw a 40% rise in loading assistance and the UK a 43% jump in heavy‑lifting tasks....
NetApp Collaborates with Red Hat to Help Advance Data Protection and Scale for Red Hat OpenShift Deployments
NetApp announced a suite of data‑management features tailored for Red Hat OpenShift and OpenShift Virtualization, aimed at accelerating backup, recovery, and disaster‑recovery operations. The updates introduce incremental‑forever backups with Change Block Tracking, a public‑preview DR‑as‑a‑service offering, and Trident Parallelism to remove...
AKROS Energy Inaugurates Pilot Plant for Salt-Based Hydrogen Storage
AKROS Energy inaugurated a pilot plant in Laage, Germany, to demonstrate its salt‑based hydrogen storage technology at industrial scale. The system converts potassium bicarbonate and hydrogen into stable potassium formate, which can be transported and later release hydrogen on demand....
Client Command® Appoints Automotive Industry Veteran Wally Burchfield as Chief Revenue Officer
Client Command has appointed automotive veteran Wally Burchfield as chief revenue officer to accelerate revenue growth. Burchfield brings experience from General Motors, Nissan North America and a recent role scaling a Tier 3 dealer network partnered with Amazon. He will oversee...
Behavox Extends Polaris Trade Surveillance to Prediction Markets, Expanding Risk Coverage to 10 Asset Classes
Behavox announced that its Polaris trade‑surveillance platform now includes prediction markets, expanding its out‑of‑the‑box coverage to ten asset classes. The new asset class is available in beta to existing customers, with general availability planned for summer 2026. The move responds...
Northern Saskatchewan Operations Update
Cameco reported that severe flooding in northern Saskatchewan has collapsed the Smoothstone River Bridge, the primary supply route to its McArthur River and Key Lake operations. While the mines themselves are untouched, the bridge loss forced a temporary shutdown of...
Australia’s Budget May Lead to Lower Bond Supply, Analysts Say
Australia’s upcoming budget is expected to signal a modest pullback in sovereign debt issuance, with Commonwealth Bank of Australia projecting FY27 bond sales of A$115 billion (about $83 billion) versus A$125 billion this year. Analysts say the Australian Office of Financial Management may...
Inflation Drumbeat Persists for Unnerved US Consumer
The Bloomberg consensus projects a 0.6% jump in the U.S. consumer price index for April, following March’s biggest monthly gain since 2022. Gasoline prices have surged more than 50% since the Iran‑related conflict began, now averaging $4.50 a gallon, adding...
Trump Punts Thorniest Iran Challenges in Push to Reopen Hormuz
President Donald Trump has shifted U.S. strategy in the Iran conflict to prioritize reopening the Strait of Hormuz, putting nuclear and missile negotiations on the back burner. The administration ordered warships to escort merchant vessels and temporarily halted the “Project...
Hamilton ETFs Launches Two New YIELD MAXIMIZER™ ETFs
Hamilton Capital Partners announced the launch of two Yield Maximizer™ ETFs—CMAX, a Canadian equity fund, and IMAX, an international equity fund—both designed to deliver monthly income through covered‑call strategies. The initial unit offerings have closed and the funds will begin...
Premier Health Announces Termination of Forbearance Agreements With Principal Lenders and the Continuance of Its Strategic Review Process
Premier Health of America announced that its forbearance agreement with principal lenders was terminated on April 10, 2026 after the company fell out of compliance with key financial ratios. The termination reopens negotiations with lenders to resolve the default. Simultaneously,...
SalesCloser Announces Collaboration with Twilio to Accelerate Customer Deployments
SalesCloser Technologies announced a collaboration with Twilio to streamline voice‑enabled AI sales deployments. The partnership creates a referral and onboarding pipeline that lets customers activate enterprise‑grade phone numbers and manage compliance through Twilio’s platform. By offloading telephony setup, SalesCloser expects...
Canada Is Funding the AI Workforce for Local Businesses. Vendasta Is Building It.
Vendasta has secured $1.4 million CAD (≈$1 million USD) from Canada’s Regional Artificial Intelligence Initiative (RAII) to accelerate its AI‑employee platform for small and medium‑sized businesses. The RAII program, part of the 2024 federal budget, allocates $33.8 million CAD (≈$24.7 million USD) over five...
Andersen Consulting Strengthens Organizational Transformation Capabilities with Afiniti
Andersen Consulting has entered a collaboration agreement with Afiniti, a UK‑based business transformation consultancy. The partnership expands Andersen’s ability to deliver end‑to‑end change programs that blend people‑focused methods with digital and AI capabilities. Afiniti brings deep experience in regulated, asset‑intensive...
Cycurion (CYCU) Acquires Halo Privacy and HavenX to Build Comprehensive Secure Communications and Digital Defense Platform
Cycurion (NASDAQ: CYCU) announced a binding agreement to acquire Halo Privacy and integrate its digital‑investigations unit, HavenX, within 45 days. Halo Privacy contributes roughly $7 million in revenue and $5.5 million in annual recurring revenue, with 80% of its sales recurring. The...
Two Blue Origin Operators Just Joined a MACH 2+ Air-Launch Platform
Starfighters Space (FJET) announced the appointment of two senior leaders from Blue Origin’s New Glenn program—Jose Arias as Vice President of Space Operations and Catrina L. Medeiros as Director of STARLAUNCH Operations. Arias previously slashed integration cycles from 76 to 13 days, while Medeiros...
Datavault AI Announces Board of Directors Has Requested Management’s Complete Plan for Dividend Spin-Out of Acoustic Sciences Division Into Stand-Alone...
Datavault AI’s board has asked management to draft a complete dividend spin‑out plan for its Acoustic Sciences division, which would become a stand‑alone public company called API Media under the ticker ADIO on NASDAQ. The company engaged Houlihan Lokey and Paul Hastings LLP...
Insurity Challenges AI Hype in Insurance Core Systems, Calls on Insurance Carriers to Demand Real Cost and Timeline Reductions From...
Insurity, a cloud‑software leader for P&C carriers, is pushing back against the wave of “agentic AI” hype from legacy core‑system vendors. It argues that most AI add‑ons merely sprinkle intelligence into narrow tasks while still demanding costly, multi‑year professional‑services engagements....
Megaport Launches Built-In DDoS Protection Enabling On-Demand Network Resilience
Megaport Limited announced Megaport DDoS Protection, a built‑in security layer that filters malicious traffic directly within its global network fabric. The service eliminates the need for external scrubbing centers, reducing latency and simplifying routing for enterprise cloud environments. Customers can...
Pan American Silver Reports First Quarter 2026 Financial Results; Strong Mine Operating Earnings Lead to Record Cash Balance and an...
Pan American Silver reported Q1 2026 results, generating $488 million in free cash flow and a record $1.8 billion cash balance. Revenue reached $1.2 billion, with net earnings of $456 million and attributable silver production of 6.44 million ounces. The board approved an enhanced shareholder return...
Aegis Resources Ltd. Provides Update on Exploration Activities Across Its Projects
Aegis Resources Ltd. provided an update on its exploration portfolio spanning Argentina, Colombia, Australia and Chile. In Argentina, partner Targa secured permits and will commence a 2,250‑meter drill program at El Zanjon, while planning work at Venidero. In Colombia, Andina’s...
‘Better than a Vacant Lot’: Toronto Developers Turn to Pickleball and Self-Storage as Condo Construction Chill Sets In
Toronto’s condo market has stalled, with zero new project launches in Q1 2026—the slowest pace in three decades. Developers face high carrying costs and are pausing dozens of projects, prompting a shift toward alternative land uses such as self‑storage, pickleball...
McEwen Q1 2026 Results Conference Call
McEwen Inc. (NYSE/TSX: MUX) announced its Q1 2026 earnings conference call for Thursday, May 7, 2026 at 11:00 AM EDT. Management will review the quarter’s financial performance and provide updates on its gold‑silver mines, the Los Azules copper development—valued at $456 million for McEwen’s 46.3% stake—and the...