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• Warner Bros. is providing Paramount a seven-day window ending February 23, 2026 to seek clarity for Warner Bros. stockholders and provide Paramount the ability to make its best and final offer.

  80% confidence

• General Mills is making meaningful progress in strengthening its remarkability to position the business for long-term sustainable growth, but this progress has come amid a more challenging backdrop.

  80% confidence

• AI is fundamentally increasing electricity demand across the technology sector, and geothermal power is uniquely positioned to deliver the reliable, carbon-free power required to support that growth.

  80% confidence

• Key investor topics for Nvidia earnings: higher component costs impacting expected mid-70s percentage gross margins; updates on Anthropic/OpenAI investments; inference competition; and impact of the Groq licensing agreement on Nvidia's product roadmap.

  80% confidence

• Despite short-term softness, the structural drivers supporting gold remain firmly in place, with central bank buying, geopolitical fragmentation, and portfolio diversification as key factors driving gold's safe-haven appeal amid currency debasement concerns.

  80% confidence

• Iran and the US reached a general agreement on a set of guiding principles, based on which they will proceed and move toward drafting a potential agreement.

  80% confidence

• The Netflix merger is in the best interests of WBD shareholders due to the tremendous value it provides with a clear path to achieve regulatory approval.

  80% confidence

• It remains to be seen whether wages and salaries recoup some of their lost ground relative to corporate profits. But for now, higher profits relative to wages are yet another driver of a K-shaped economy, as higher-income consumers tend to be more exposed.

  80% confidence

• The Americans say to negotiate over Iran's nuclear energy, with the result supposed to be that Iran does not have this energy. If that's the case, there is no room for negotiation.

  80% confidence

• The recent worry and sell-off in Apple Inc.'s shares is unwarranted, as the focus is on Apple getting its AI strategy right and releasing its advanced AI features by the summer timeframe, which still appears to be on track.

  80% confidence

• Weak consumer sentiment, heightened uncertainty, and significant volatility have weighed on category growth and impacted consumer purchase patterns.

  80% confidence

• Corporate profits are rising while labor income keeps falling, with the split between profits and income being consistent and reinforced by the rally in financial and real assets. Higher profits relative to wages are yet another driver of a K-shaped economy.

  80% confidence

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